Speaker Directory
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    Rhia Dancel
    Technical Manager, Information Security, NSF International

    As Technical Manager, Information Security, at NSF, Rhia Dancel supports clients with risk management within the information security landscape to achieve effective security objectives and goals. Dancel is an Lead CCA, ISO/IEC 27001, 20000-1 and 9001 Lead Auditor for NSF and is the Technical Lead for Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification...

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    Fredrick Dande, PhD
    Sr. ITIL Project Manager, Circle

    Dr. Fredrick Dande is a senior IT platform manager and doctoral scholar with more than 15 years of leadership experience deeply rooted in highly regulated financial services environments spanning modern fintech, global tax, wealth management, and banking. Currently serving as the Sr. Manager of IT Platform Services at Circle Internet Financia...

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    Rich Dandliker
    Chief Strategist, Veza

    Rich is Chief Strategist at Veza, where his responsibilities span high-level messaging and positioning, competitive market analysis, product strategy, go-to-market strategy, and evangelism. Prior to Veza, Rich led product management across the entire portfolio at Okta for over 4 years through their IPO, with overall responsibility for product...

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    Kristopher Dane
    Director of Digital Design, Thornton Tomasetti

    Kristopher is the Director of Digital Design based out of the Seattle office of Thornton Tomasetti, an international structural engineering firm. Kris has 11 years of experience managing teams, administering technology, and developing custom tools to support the design of over 5 million square feet of structures around the world. In collabora...

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    Adel Danesh
    CISO, Analytics 4 Life

    Adel Danesh has over 20 years of experience in IT and information security. Over the course of his professional career, he has been holding information security leadership roles in various organizations and spearheaded mission critical security and infrastructure projects. In his current job, Adel is a CISO at Analytics For Life, a medical re...

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    Justin Daniels
    Attorney, Baker Donelson

    Justin Daniels is a thought leader in cybersecurity who believes cybersecurity must be treated by the c-suite as a strategic enterprise business risk. He provides strategic advice to companies to help them understand cyber risk and create a comprehensive approach to address it. Justin is general counsel to one of the largest enterprise data c...

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    Jodi Daniels
    Founder & CEO & Privacy Consultant, Red Clover Advisors, LLC

    Jodi Daniels, founder of Red Clover Advisors, is a Certified Informational Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) with more than 20 years of experience helping a range of businesses from solopreneurs to multi-national companies. Red Clover Advisors has helped hundreds of companies create privacy programs, achieve GDPR compliance, and establish a secu...

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    Bethan Daniels
    West Zone Regional Manager, Cyber Practice, Marsh

    Bethan Daniels is a West Zone Regional Manager, managing Seattle and Salt Lake Offices, based in Seattle, WA. Bethan’s current responsibilities include managing team members, driving the national strategy and advising clients on placing primary and excess Cyber, Technology, Media and Errors and Omissions insurance.

    Previously she spe...

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    Ricoh Danielson
    Enterprise CISO, Corro Health

    Ricoh Danielson is a decorated U.S. Army Combat Veteran, CISO, ransomware negotiator, and digital forensics expert who has spent his career on the front lines of cybersecurity. Ricoh pivoted to cybersecurity, earned his law degree from Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and built a career responding to some of the most complex cyber incidents in...

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    Tim Danks
    VP, Risk Management & Partner Relations, Huawei Technologies (USA)

    As VP Risk Management & Partner Relations Mr. Danks is responsible for understanding and managing business risks in the context of cybersecurity and privacy across Huawei USA businesses and toward external stakeholders. Further, he is responsible for developing and enhancing partner relationships towards key external stakeholders across acade...

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    Stella Danso, CISM, CRISC, CDPSE
    Cybersecurity & Privacy Executive | Associate C-CISO | Boardroom Certified QTE

    Stella is a distinguished risk management executive with a proven track record of transforming global organizations to drive meaningful risk reduction, optimize operational costs, and enable sustainable growth in an increasingly data-driven world. With deep expertise in aligning business strategy with technology, security, and privacy, she en...

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    Greg Dányi
    CTO, P0 Security

    Gergely (aka Greg) Dányi is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at P0 Security, where he leads the development of the first unified identity governance and privileged access management platform purpose-built for the cloud. Gergely’s work at P0 centers on eliminating privilege sprawl and enabling just-in-time, policy-driven controls th...

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    Mark Dargin
    Director, Security & Architecture, Qualfon

    Mark Dargin is the Director of Security Architecture at Qualfon Inc., an organization with over 16,000 employees across North America, South America, and Asia. Mark has over 19 years of experience designing, managing, and securing complex WAN and LAN infrastructures. He is a member of the Michigan Cybersecurity Civilian Corps, FBI citizen’s a...

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    Davin Darnt
    CISO, Americas, Louis Vuitton

    With a dynamic career spanning 20 years, including seven years at prestigious luxury retail company, Louis Vuitton. Davin Darnt currently excels as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Americas region. His journey in the company has been marked by significant leadership roles, including Head of IT Operations and Head of Tech...

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    Piyali Das
    Founder & Principal of Kinfolk LLC; Former FinServ Executive

    Piyali Das is a highly-accomplished cyber risk leader with two decades of experience driving enterprise-wide technology and cyber risk initiatives. Certified with CRISC, CCSK, CCAK, and PMP, she aligns risk management with strategic business objectives. Her expertise covers information security risk and compliance frameworks, cloud security, ...

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    James Dasher
    CISO, Jack in the Box

    James Dasher is Chief Information Security Officer at Jack in the Box, Inc. (Nasdaq: JACK), where he leads enterprise cybersecurity strategy, risk management, and security operations for a publicly traded quick-service restaurant brand of roughly 2,200 predominantly franchised locations. His remit spans PCI DSS and SOX compliance, board and a...

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    Prabir Datta
    VP, Seceon

    Prabir Datta is a strategic business and cybersecurity leader at Seceon with global operational expertise in Cybersecurity and IT Networking. Over his career, he has helped organizations bridge complex business and technology challenges spanning successful startups, global enterprises, service providers, and private equity firms. His mantra i...

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    Santosh Datta Bompally
    Cloud Security Engineering Team Lead, Humana

    Santosh Bompally is a dedicated cybersecurity professional with a degree in Computer Science and a Master’s in Cybersecurity. He holds several certifications, including CISSP and CCSP, and currently leads cloud security engineering initiatives at Humana, focusing on security controls for multi-cloud environments. Before joining Humana, Santos...

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    Meenaxi Dave
    Information Security Instructor/Consultant, Gwinnett Technical College

    Meenaxi Dave is an experienced Information Security educator with proven success developing, delivering and evaluating IT security training programs. She holds her Masters in Computer Science from the University of Memphis and a Diploma in Cybersecurity from GTC. She also holds professional certifications in CISSP, CEH, COMPTIA Security+, Net...

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    Scott David
    Director of Technology, Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity, University of Washington

    Scott L. David, J.D., LL.M., is the Director of Policy at the Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity (CIAC) at the University of Washington. Scott is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Futures Council on Digital Economy and Society, and the WEF Initiative on Ethics of AI and Machine Learning. Previously, Scott worked as...

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    Alex Davidov
    Sr. Solutions Engineer, Oasis

    Alex Davidov is a Senior Sales Engineer at Oasis where he helps customers with a new era of Non Human Identity management. He has over 15 years’ of experience with Cyber Security including Application Security Posture Management at Apiiro, Privilege Access Management at Cyberark and Web Application Security at Akamai.

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    Rob Davidson
    CISO, Pacific Blue Cross & PBC Solutions

    Rob Davidson brings many years of experience to his role as Chief Information Security Officer at Pacific Blue Cross and Pacific Blue Cross Solutions. His career started with Dell Canada and has progressed though several senior strategic and leadership positions at industry-defining organizations such as Microsoft and Hootsuite. Prior to his ...

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    John Davies
    Sr. Presales Systems Engineer, Arctic Wolf
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    Sergeant Michael Davis
    Cyber Investigator at the Houston Police Department, Criminal Intelligence Division and Fusion Center Unit

    Sgt. Davis is assigned to the Houston Police Department Criminal Intelligence Division – Fusion Center Unit a total of 10 ½ years both as an officer and supervisor. He has worked Financial Crimes, Human Trafficking, Counter-Terror, Violent Crimes, and Cyber cases. He is currently the Cyber/Analysis and Open Source Unit supervisor for the Ho...

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    Chuck Davis
    Adjunct Professor of Computer Foresnics and Ethical Hacking, University of Denver

    Chuck Davis teaches ethical hacking and computer forensics graduate courses in the University of Denver's computer science program. Mr. Davis holds the CISSP-ISSAP, he has co-authored two books, has 8 patents, 3 patents-pending and 9 invention disclosures. Mr. Davis is frequently interviewed by various media on the subject of cybersecurity. ...

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    Nicholas Davis
    Technical Product Manager, Rapid7

    Nick Davis began his career at Rapid7 in 2013 as a Software Engineer building InsightIDR. In this role, he was focused on building key detections and establishing scalability across the platform to keep up with a growing user base. Now, as the Technical Product Manager for InsightIDR, Nick works closely with engineering, SOC Analysts, and cus...

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    Jonathan Davis
    Director, Field & Product Strategy, Silverfort

    Jonathan is the Director of Field and Product Strategy at Silverfort. He has spent the last 12 years in the identity space. Prior to Silverfort, he was with Onelogin, an SSO provider purchased by One Identity. The last seven years he has held several roles within Silverfort, from leading the go-to market initiatives to leading strategy around...

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    Donna Davis
    Secretary / Treasurer, MCISSE Cyber Patriot Program

    Donna Davis has more than 30 years of experience across various public sector disciplines including cybersecurity, environmental protection, grant and project administration, emergency management planning, housing, and economic development. In 2023, Donna joined Michigan CyberPatriot and currently serves in a leadership capacity as the organi...

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    Tim Davis
    Head of Solutions Consulting, DoControl
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    Ryan Davis
    Sr. Director, Enterprise Sales, Acronis

    Ryan brings over a decade of storage and data management experience to Acronis leading a commercial enterprise sales organization. Acronis’ enterprise sales team is focused on helping organizations improve their business continuity plans and reduce cyber exposure in historically difficult computing areas such as the edge, endpoints, industria...

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    Ryan Davis
    CISO, NS1, an IBM Company

    Ryan Davis is the CISO at NS1, an IBM Company, which delivers premium DNS and traffic steering solutions. With two decades of experience in information technology and security, he leads and unifies corporate security strategy. He previously served as CISO and CIO at software security firm Veracode, where he led global IT operations, security ...

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    Auston Davis
    CISO, Stanford Children’s Health | Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
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    Edward Davis
    President & CEO, Edward Davis, LLC

    Davis has been in law enforcement for 35 years. He served as the Police Commissioner of the City of Boston from December 2006 until October 2013. He administered 6 world championship celebrations and led the highly successful response to the Boston Marathon bombing. Prior to that, Davis was the Superintendent of the Lowell Police Department, ...

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    Terrence Davis
    Solutions Architect, Armis
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    Mike Davis
    CISO, ExactlyIT Inc.; former CISO, alliantgroup
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    Erica Davis
    SVP, Head of Specialty Products E&O, Zurich

    Erica Davis is Senior Vice President of Specialty Errors & Omissions at Zurich. She has national oversight of the Professional Liability, Security & Privacy and Employed Lawyers lines of business with a specialization and industry thought leadership position in network security and privacy risk transfer solutions.

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    Dr. Shaneé Dawkins
    Computer Scientist, Visualization and Usability Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

    Dr. Shaneé Dawkins is a Computer Scientist in the Visualization and Usability Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). She performs research focusing on human centered design and leads the NIST Phish Scale research effort. Shaneé received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science at Auburn University, and B.S. in Compu...

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    Philip Dawson
    Head of AI Policy and Assurance, Armilla Assurance
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    Dr. Maurice Dawson Jr.
    Director, Center for Cyber Security and Forensics Education and Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology

    Maurice Dawson is a faculty member in the School of Applied Technology to serve as Director of Illinois Institute of Technology's Center for Cyber Security and Forensics Education, which is accredited by the National Security Agency. Maurice has earned a Doctor of Computer Science from Colorado Technical University in 2009 and a Ph.D. in Cybe...

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    Aaron De Boer
    Director of Cybersecurity, CHS Inc.

    Aaron is the Director of Cyber Security for CHS Inc., where he leads the security engineering and security operations teams that work to secure the enterprise. Aaron has more than two decades of experience in technology, security engineering, and leadership roles in insurance, manufacturing, agriculture, and energy.

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    Aaron Deacon
    Founder & Managing Director, KC Digital Drive

    Aaron Deacon is the founder and managing director of KC Digital Drive, a nonprofit civic organization with a mission to make Kansas City a digital leader and help cities adapt to disruptive technology change. He works with mayors, entrepreneurs and civic leaders in Kansas City and around the world to help build ecosystems that connect infrast...

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    Leland Dean
    VP, Global Corporate Security, Bank of New York Mellon

    Leland is the Vice President of Global Corporate Security for Bank of New York Mellon. He is responsible for physical protection and investigations of the southwest part of the United States, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil (LaTAM).

    Leland graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science degree from Sam Houston State University in Criminal ...

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    Erika Dean
    Former CSO, Robinhood

    Erika Dean is Chief Security Officer of Robinhood Markets. She oversees the Security, Privacy and Corporate Engineering organizations, which include the information security and productivity functions. Erika has over 20 years of experience in the security industry. Prior to joining Robinhood, she spent over 20 years at Capital One Financial, ...

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    Dylan DeAnda
    Field CTO, Doppel

    Dylan DeAnda is the Field CTO at Doppel, where he works with enterprise and federal organizations to defend against modern social engineering threats. A former U.S. Army Military Intelligence Signals Intelligence Analyst and Korean Linguist, Dylan combines deep cybersecurity expertise with applied AI to help organizations combat phishing, dee...

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    Orus Dearman
    Managing Director, Grant Thornton
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    Matthew DeChant
    CISO, Tempus, Inc.
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    Deneen DeFiore
    VP & CISO, United Airlines

    Deneen brings more than 15 years of experience in the digital technology and project management space. She has developed advanced capabilities in Cyber Security Operations, Cyber Intelligence, Threat Management, IP Protection, Data Loss Prevention & Regulatory Risk Management. In 2015, Deneen was named GM, Global Chief Technology and Risk for...

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    Ralph DeFrangesco
    Professor, Drexel University

    Ralph is a professor at Drexel University and a cybersecurity consultant.