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John Pelton

Senior Director, Security Operations, Optiv

John has eight years of experience leading teams within MSSPs and spearheading Detection and Response teams across a diverse range of SIEM, EDR, SOAR, and MDR tools. His teams support many industries, including Financial Services, Tech, Media, Healthcare, and Manufacturing. His teams are focused on 24/7/365 coverage of alert monitoring, threat hunting, playbook development, content development, and gap assessments mapped to common frameworks.

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Jesse Trucks

Minister of Magic, Splunk

Jesse Trucks has worked in IT and Security operations for over 20 years. In that time, he has worked for the US Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and D. E. Shaw Research (DESRES) supporting HPC clusters and supercomputers and at multiple telecoms and managed service providers as well. Trucks has extensive experience in designing and implementing risk mitigation and security programs, compliance auditing processes and systems, and defensive security operations. He has developed multiple bespoke monitoring and automation systems, and he has implemented a multitude of commercial monitoring, SIEM, and automation systems. Trucks has worked for Splunk for over six years and is also co-founder and Principal of a small elementary school. He resides in Knoxville, TN, where he adores family life, roasting coffee, raising poodles, and amateur radio (callsign N9MOM)

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Rob Jansen

Chief Executive Officer, TekStream

As Chief Executive Officer and President, Rob leads daily business operations and oversees the development and execution of the Company’s growth strategy and initiatives. Rob has been in the information technology sector for over 25 years providing leadership, consulting, and implementation services to leading Fortune 1000 clients. Working with his team of industry-leading executives, Rob oversees all TekStream practice areas and functional disciplines including sales, solution development, and client delivery.

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Bruce Johnson

Senior Director, Enterprise Security, TekStream

Bruce Johnson has over 38 years of experience in the information technology industry, including security, infrastructure architecture, software development, and management of multiple portfolios. He has experience in Splunk, security solutions, cloud migration, portal, content workflow, integration, and project management. As the senior director of enterprise security for TekStream, he works to implement security and compliance solutions leveraging Splunk for customers in a variety of environments and industries, as well as a variety of cloud migration and broader Splunk consulting solutions.

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Jeff Reichard

Vice President, Solution Strategy, Veeam

Jeff Reichard is Vice President Solution Strategy in the Office of the CTO at Veeam. Jeff drives strategic product and go-to-market engagement with alliance partners and enterprise customers, with a particular focus on risk and compliance. He has 25 years of experience in data protection/availability, business continuity, and regulatory compliance solutions. His previous roles have ranged from designing SAN and data backup solutions to systems engineering and engineering leadership serving public sector and enterprise customers. Prior to Veeam, Jeff most recently led Commvault’s federal civilian SE team. At Veeam, Jeff works with partners, customers and industry analysts to evangelize Veeam's vision for modern data protection at key events worldwide.

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Ray Umerley

Field CISO, Coveware

Ray Umerley is the Field CISO for Coveware. With more than 20+ years of experience in a variety of security functions in the enterprise arena, Ray is helping to bring a wealth of knowledge to our clients’ security programs. Prior to Coveware, Ray was the Chief Information Risk Officer for a Fortune 500 company leading the global cybersecurity risk, privacy and data protection, and crisis management programs.

He has been twice recognized as a Top 100 CISO by Security Current and CISOs Connect, a Top Global CISO by Cyber Defense Magazine, and is a frequent speaker on cybersecurity and data protection topics at industry panels and events including the RSA Conference. Ray holds a Masters degree in Computer Information Systems from Boston University, numerous industry certifications including the ISC(2) Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and is a recognized Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP) by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

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Josh Haslett

Strategic Technology Partner Manager, Google Cloud

Joshua Haslett is a Strategic Technology Partner Manager at Google. He has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry, and has held various roles in sales, marketing, product and sales engineering leadership. Prior to joining Google, he worked at Palo Alto Networks in strategy and technology partnerships, and for Mitel in sales, marketing, product and sales engineering leadership roles. Prior to joining Mitel, his experience included leading an innovative technology integrator and business processing consulting for Arthur Andersen. Joshua graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.S. in Finance from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.

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Munish Khetrapal

Vice President, Google Cloud Engagement, Palo Alto Networks

Technology leader with 25+ years of building and growing Industry solutions business. Pioneered digital transformation across multiple industries. Led distributed teams with 300+ people across the globe. Delivered market-leading growth through trusted advisor relationships with customers, partners, and market influencers.

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Chris Bourke

Regional Director, Unstructured Data, Rubrik

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Srujana Puttagunta

Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Rubrik

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Dave Roche

Director, Software Trust, DigiCert

Dave Roche is the Director of Software Trust for DigiCert. Dave has been with the company since 2011 and joined DigiCert as part of the Symantec Website Security acquisition in 2015. Dave has 7 years’ experience leading product innovation efforts related to software security and code-signing solutions. Dave has certification in CISSP since 2017 and is based in Ireland.

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Stephanie McReynolds

VP, Portfolio and Product Marketing, OneTrust

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Sam Tawfik

Principle Tech Product Marketing Manager, OneTrust

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Perry Carpenter

Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer, KnowBe4

Perry Carpenter is the Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer at KnowBe4. He is the author of "Transformational Security Awareness: What Neuroscientists, Storytellers, and Marketers Can Teach Us About Driving Secure Behaviors" and coauthor of "The Security Culture Playbook: An Executive Guide To Reducing Risk and Developing Your Human Defense Layer." He previously led security awareness, security culture management, and anti-phishing behavior management research at Gartner Research, in addition to covering IAM strategy, CISO program management mentoring, and technology service provider success strategies.

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Dan Conrad

Field CTO/Principal Technologist, Commvault

Dan Conrad is the Field CTO and Principal Technologist at Commvault. With a rich background in Active Directory engineering, solutions architecture, and identity strategy, Dan has served as a CTO and systems administrator for organizations ranging from 10,000 to over a million users. His journey began in the U.S. Air Force, where he worked in information management. After retiring from the Air Force in 2004, he transitioned to government IT as a contractor for the U.S. Army, focusing on complex solutions for large enterprises. Dan holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems Management from Wayland Baptist University and a Master of Science in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance from Western Governors University. His credentials include CISSP, CEH, MCITP, and MCSE/MCSA certifications.

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Scott Dowsett

CISSP, CISA, CRISC, CDPSE Global Field CTO (OCTO), Anomali

Scott holds the position of Global Field CTO at Anomali. Formerly Vice President of Global Sales Engineering at Anomali. He has over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity and computer networking. Scott frequently speaks at SANS, Anomali Detect, and numerous industry conferences. Scott holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification from the International Information System Security Certification Consortium and the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) certification from the Information Systems Audit and Control Association. In addition, he is also certified in Risk and Compliance and Data Privacy. Memberships include OASIS Open Member, Advisory Board member CSU, Chico Cybersecurity for Executives program.

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Elodie Hutson

Presales Consultant at Stibo Systems

Elodie is a Pre-Sales Consultant who utilizes her extensive experience in carbon accounting and sustainability assessments to drive impactful solutions at Stibo Systems. As the subject matter expert in Sustainability within the Pre-Sales team, Elodie's passion for sustainability and expertise in data management contribute significantly to shaping meaningful strategies for clients. She has been instrumental in configuring unique solutions for clients and successfully getting them on board with Stibo Systems’ Sustainability data management solution. Elodie has worked closely with customers and prospects to address and solve their sustainability challenges and demonstrates how our solution can harness their existing MDM data or highlight the need for MDM data to achieve compliance and sustainability goals.

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Michael Hwang

Director of Sustainability GTM Strategy, Microsoft

Michael brings 14 years in tech on sustainability, environmental engineering, supply chain, and sales strategy. He now architects the ISV partner GTM strategy for the Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability after gaining key insights as a practitioner and industry leader, experiencing first hand how to solve issues in ESG reporting, climate, water, chemical compliance, and combatting forced labor & conflict minerals.

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René Meijers

Senior MDM Consultant at Stibo Systems

René is a seasoned data management expert who has successfully combined his extensive data management experience with the upcoming topic of sustainability. In the past few years, he has been working with many companies to assess how their sustainability ambitions can best be supported with effective and efficient master data management. Based on his experience in supply chain and other business areas, his focus is on working with clients to highlight the potential business value of sustainability data management. He also seves as one of the evangelists of the Stibo Systems master data management approach towards sustainability.

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Filipe Lousa

Global Data Protection Officer, Getronics

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Pedro Vieira

IT & innovation Director, Águas do Porto, EM

Since 2009, Pedro Vieira e Moreira has been with Águas do Porto, the municipal water utility that manages the city's full urban water cycle. He has also been, for the past 4 years, Assistant Professor in Project Management at ISEP Polytechnic of Porto School of Engineering, and also co-founder and chief strategist of a startup. Since 2015, he has been assigned as Director of IT & Innovation Department. He is responsible for the major IT revolution inside Águas do Porto, by transforming the way technology is provided for workers and clients, as part of a broader strategy, in order to accelerate the pace of change needed in the utilities sector, assisting the decision-making process and thus the strategy choices of decision makers. He's leading the transformation into a smart utility and intelligent city accelerator, using innovation as mean to achieve it, and defines a change management direction that must be implemented across the organization, considering the multiple stakeholders involved and the effort that should be asked to the affected people and the processes that must be adapted into new realities.

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Sergio Gramaca

Chief Inspector, Fraud Risk Inspection and Monitoring, Novo Banco

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