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Ginger Armbruster

Chief Privacy Officer, City of Seattle

As the City of Seattle's Chief Privacy Officer, Ginger Armbruster leads a team of privacy specialists in the execution of the City's Privacy Program, following a principles-based approach to the City's management of the public's personal and sensitive information. Prior to this role, she worked for Microsoft on an international team of privacy specialists to resolve issues associated with multi-million-dollar marketing initiatives. Before moving into privacy, she spent the first 20 years of her career working in sales and marketing for Fortune 500 companies such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Johnson & Johnson, as well as several medical technology startup companies.

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Sadia Mirza

Attorney, Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Privacy Practice Group, Troutman Pepper

Sadia Mirza is part of the Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Privacy practice group at Troutman Sanders, and is also part of the Financial Services Litigation practice group. She provides strategic privacy compliance counseling, and defends, counsels and represents companies on matters relating to data privacy, data use, and incident response and investigation, with an eye towards helping clients avoid litigation. Additionally, she has experience with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), as well as various other laws concerning privacy and cybersecurity. Mirza's in-house background allows her to understand the issues and concerns clients have and guide them toward resolution in a clear and efficient way. She has worked with clients from a variety of industries, including financial institutions, consumer reporting agencies, insurance companies, healthcare providers, and data and analytics providers. Prior to becoming an attorney, Mirza worked for JPMorgan Chase and Washington Mutual Bank. Her ongoing interest in the financial services industry led her to pursue an LL.M. in banking and finance after graduating from law school.

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Randy Sabett

Special Counsel, Cyber/Data/Privacy Practice Group, Cooley LLP

A former NSA crypto-engineer, Sabett brings to Cooley LLP his extensive experience in data security, privacy, licensing and IP. Sabett has managed numerous data breach responses involving major retailers, financial and healthcare organizations, and on-line service providers. He served on the Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency and has been recognized as a leader in privacy and data security in the 2007-2014 editions of Chambers USA. Sabett is a member of the board for the Georgetown Cybersecurity Law Institute and the Northern Virginia chapter of ISSA. He also is a frequent lecturer and author, and has appeared on or been quoted by a variety of national media sources.

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Howard Whyte

CISO Boeing

Howard Whyte is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of The Boeing Company and vice president of Boeing's Information Security organization.

Whyte, who started with Boeing in March 2020, is responsible for the protection of Boeing's information and computing resources globally. He manages the function's overall strategy and operation, including cyber controls; threat and identity management; cyber security services; security assessments, architecture and integration - enhancing the security of Boeing's products, services and infrastructures.

Prior to Boeing, Whyte worked for more than 20 years as an executive leader of information technology and security in the federal government, military and private sector.

He came to Boeing from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), where he was the Chief Information Officer and Chief Privacy Officer. He served as an advisor to the chairman, board members and senior executives on all strategic issues relating to information technology, including governance, investments, program management, strategic planning and security. Earlier, he was the CISO at FDIC and worked to reduce cybersecurity risk by implementing an around-the-clock security operations center and incorporating threat intelligence into security operations.

Previously, he led the Threat Management Center at Goldman Sachs, focusing on cybersecurity detection, protection, response and recovery on a global scale. He also served as the CISO and deputy CISO at NASA, where he provided direction and future vision on a wide range of information technology solutions for mission and corporate systems.

Earlier in his career, he was a senior information officer in the U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command and the Defense Information Systems Agency; a telecommunications manager at Interim HealthCare; and an information management officer in the U.S. Army.

Whyte holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Studies from the University of Maryland and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix.

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Jasbir Singh Solanki

CEO - Homeland & Cyber Security, Mahindra Defence Systems Limited

Jasbir is the Chief Executive Officer of Mahindra Defence System Limited (Division - Homeland & Cyber Security), a Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd company.

He is an Armed Forces Veteran and global business leader with extensive experience in business development, new product & concept creation, collaboration & strategic partnership, sales & project management team development in Defence, Homeland Security & Smart Cities industry.

His lead from front style of leadership, combined with sharp focus on customer experience has helped Mahindra Defence emerge as one the leading Defence & Security solution providers in India.

In a career spanning 18+ years, Jasbir has held several leading & challenging positions with Indian Navy & Mahindra group. He was the youngest head of technical department who prepared Indian Navy sail ship INS Tarangini for the first circumnavigation voyage and sailed onboard it for seven months. Among few in the world who have been fortunate to sail across Atlantic Ocean on a sail ship. He was awarded on the spot Chief of Navy Staff commendation for saving/salvage operations of INS Agray, Anti Submarine Warfare ship at sea. He lead Mahindra team to win & deliver the World's Largest Integrated Police Emergency Management system catering to 220 Million population from a single command & control centre which include our vehicles, people & technology.

A mechanical graduate with distinction from Pune University, Marine Engineer certification from Indian Naval Institute, Lonavla, Master in Financial Management from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management, Mumbai, Armed Force Management Certification, MDI Gurgaon are some of his key educational qualification.

Jasbir has been a key note speaker at some of the leading defence & security conferences such as Counter Terror Expo- London, Oil & Gas summits-Singapore, Smart Cities - Delhi, Port Security- Mumbai. He is a distinguish member of FICCI Homeland Security committee and plays active role in industry collaboration bodies & Government committees on National Security domain.

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Sunil Chand

Canada Security Leader, CGI

Sunil Chand is a security management professional with more than 20 years of experience. Prior to joining Grant Thornton LLP, he held the role of Director, Information Security Consulting Services for TELUS Security and Chief Information Security Officer for a number of other organizations. Furthermore, he has developed and executed go-to market strategies for Governance, Risk and Compliance and Threat and Vulnerability Assessment services, corporate information security strategies aligned to organizations' business goals, among other recognized accomplishments.

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Olivera Zatezalo

CSO, Huawei Canada

Olivera Zatezalo is the Chief Security Officer at Huawei Canada, and her responsibility is to ensure Huawei Canada's operations is compliant with Canadian cyber security laws and regulations. With over 20 years of experience in the telecommunication industry, Zatezalo is best known for creating value through collaborative leadership style, agile execution, and for her global cyber security expertise. Up until joining Huawei Canada, she was responsible for cyber security governance, management and operations within an international communication provider operating in Canada, US, UK and France, and was a member of Canadian Security Telecommunication Advisory Committee.

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Yaz Alattia

Managing Director, Accenture Security Canada

Yaz Alattia leads Accenture Security's Canadian practice, overseeing the full spectrum of Accenture's end-to-end cybersecurity offerings, including cyber strategy and risk, cyber defense, digital identity, cloud security and managed security services. Yaz has nearly two decades of experience in building, assessing, transforming and executing enterprise security programs and solutions that balance protection with agility. Prior to joining Accenture, Yaz held various cyber security leadership positions including most recently as Chief Information Security Officer at Canada's largest payment provider. Prior to that, Yaz delivered cybersecurity and technology risk consulting services to security and technology teams in over 11 countries and across various industries. Based in Toronto, Yaz holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University holds a number of security, technology and management certifications including CISSP, CCSP, PMP, CISM, CISA, SABSA SCF and ISO27001 LA.

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Avi Rembaum

Vice President of Security Solutions, Check Point Software Technologies

Avi Rembaum currently serves as Vice President of Security Solutions for Check Point. In this role, he is responsible for the company's solution center, incident response team, strategic alliance program and security architecture function. Previously, Rembaum was responsible for the company's business relationships with the Tier-1 Telcos in North America. Rembaum first began working in the information and network security industry in 1997, when he joined RADGUARD's marketing team. He also held product management positions at RedCreek and SonicWALL and practice manager roles at RedCreek and Getronics, now CompuCom.

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Jeff Dant

Managing Director, Fraud Operations & Intelligence - Enterprise Fraud Management, BMO Financial Group

Jeff Dant currently serves as the Managing Director, Fraud Operations and Intelligence - Financial Crimes Unit at BMO Financial Group. Previously, he was the Director of Citi Global Consumer Bank's Fraud Fusion Center. He is responsible for the strategy and operations of the Fusion Center in the support of Fraud and Financial Crime management. Prior to this role, Dant served as the Digital Forensics Program Manager for Citi Security and Investigative Services Cyber Investigations group.

Before joining Citi, Dant served 12 years with the United States Secret Service in a variety of roles. He began his Secret Service career as a Uniformed Officer at the White House, and later carried several other roles including Special Agent in Washington Field Office, Newark Field Office, and Presidential Protection Division - Transportation Section. He specialized in financial crime investigations, specifically electronic crimes leveraged by Organized Eastern European Criminal Groups, leveraging intelligence and digital forensics in successful prosecutions, including the capture and suppression of the most prolific ATM skimming organization in the United States. Dant served as a Liaison officer to Europol's European Cyber Crime Centre (EC3), continuing the targeting of international financial crime rings.

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Yassir Abousselham

CISO, Splunk

Yassir Abousselham is the Chief Information Security Officer at Splunk. In this capacity, he oversees the delivery of the cyber security mandate across the organization and supports Splunk customers in deploying data-driven security programs. Prior to Splunk, Yassir served as Chief Information Security Officer at Okta where he managed the Information Security function and chaired investments to position Okta as a leading security company. Before Okta, Yassir acted as the Chief Information Security Officer for SoFi, in addition to holding various security leadership roles at Google and EY. Yassir is also an active member in the cybersecurity industry, from co-chairing the San Francisco Evanta CISO Summit, to acting as an advisor to cybersecurity startups. Yassir also holds two U.S. patents in trusted network communication.

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Partha Sarathy

Global Fraud Architect, Shape Security

Partha has run Fraud Risk for JPMC Canada and led Fraud Analytics projects for FICO, supporting FALCON product. Partha has a wealth of experience in data analytics and ML, and has leveraged these analytical insights to drive fraud, marketing and business strategy for several large banks, B2B Product and consulting firms. His cross industry experience combined with managing fraud across different fraud types and helping save $MMs has uniquely positioned him to understand the fraud detection and prevention mechanics and help organizations mitigate fraud while enhancing customer experience, and drive business results.

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Michael Geraghty

CISO, State of New Jersey

Michael Geraghty is New Jersey's Chief Information Security Officer and the first Director of the New Jersey Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Cell (NJCCIC). Director Geraghty is responsible for providing strategic vision, leadership, and oversight for cybersecurity across the Executive Branch of NJ State Government to ensure information security initiatives are aligned with the State's business goals and objectives. The Division of Cybersecurity focuses on identifying threats to State systems and assisting Departments and Agencies in managing risk to acceptable levels.

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Alberto Yepez

Co-Founder and Managing Director, ForgePoint Capital

Alberto Yepez is one of the pioneers of the cybersecurity industry and has played significant roles as entrepreneurial and public company CEO, board member, angel and venture capital investor. He currently focuses on cybersecurity investments. He serves on the boards of 4iQ (Chairman), AlienVault (Chairman), Attivo Networks, Bayshore Networks, BehavioSec, CyberCube Analytics, HyTrust, Mocana (Chairman), Mojo Networks, ReversingLabs (observer) and Uptycs. Past boards include BlueCat (acq Madison Dearborn), enCommerce (acq Entrust), Entrust (ENTU taken private), Neohapsis (acq Cisco), Qualys (QLYS), Solera Networks (acq BlueCoat), Third Brigade (acq TrendMicro), Thor Technologies (acq Oracle) & Vitria (VITR). He was angel investor in Apigee (acq Google), Palerra (acq Oracle) & Securant (acq Cisco). Yepez has previously held senior leadership roles at Apple & Oracle, was consultant to the US Department of Defense (DeVenCI), member of the Board of Trustees of the University of San Francisco and of the Technology Pioneers Global Community of the World Economic Forum. He is a member of the Board of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) & Chairman of the Board of the Hispanic IT Executive Council (HITEC).

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Ran Shahor, Brigadier General (Ret.)

CEO & Founder, HolistiCyber

Ran Shahor is a Brigadier General (Ret.) who founded the leading edge Cyber Security program of the Israeli Defense Forces Intelligence branch and is considered one of the worlds top Cyber Security experts . After 27 years of military service, Shahor took upon himself multiple senior leadership roles in the private sector. Prior to co-founding HolistiCyber, he was the founder and the Co-CEO of Focal energy as well as Managing Partner of Star Ventures, a $1 billion global venture capital group. He started his career in the elite IDF special forces unit "Sayeret Matkal" which he also commanded.

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Jennings Aske

CISO, New York-Presbyterian

Aske is the CISO for New York-Presbyterian. Prior to this he was VP Information Security & Chief Security Officer of Nuance Communications as well as Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer of Partners HealthCare. Prior to Partners, Aske was the Chief Information Security Officer for UMass Memorial Hospital. Aske was also the Chief Information Security Officer for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts's Executive Office of Health and Human Services, responsible for coordinating information security across the 16 state agencies. Aske is a licensed attorney in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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Erik Decker

Privacy Chief and CISO, University of Chicago Medicine

Erik Decker is the Assistant Vice President – Chief Information Security Officer at Intermountain Healthcare. Previously Erik was the Chief Security and Privacy Officer for the University of Chicago Medicine, where he was responsible for its Cybersecurity, Identity and Access Management and Privacy Program. Erik has over 25 years of experience within Information Technology, primarily focused on Information Security. The majority of his career has been focused on Academic Medical Centers, where he established two information security programs and an identity and access management program.

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Ran Shahor, Brigadier General (Ret.)

CEO & Founder, HolistiCyber

Ran Shahor is a Brigadier General (Ret.) who founded the leading edge Cyber Security program of the Israeli Defense Forces Intelligence branch and is considered one of the worlds top Cyber Security experts . After 27 years of military service, Shahor took upon himself multiple senior leadership roles in the private sector. Prior to co-founding HolistiCyber, he was the founder and the Co-CEO of Focal energy as well as Managing Partner of Star Ventures, a $1 billion global venture capital group. He started his career in the elite IDF special forces unit "Sayeret Matkal" which he also commanded.

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