Speaker Directory
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    Owen Pickford
    Sr. Solutions Engineer, Snyk

    Owen Pickford is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Snyk based in Seattle. Owen has 15 years of experience helping enterprise customers identify and implement software solutions that help them solve their most complex challenges.

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    David Pier
    Solution Engineer, Red Canary

    David is a Security and Privacy evangelist with over a decade of experience working in the industry. Prior to his work directly on Security, David was an IT Analyst for multiple large enterprise organizations and has experience working in the NOC of a 24/7 environment. When not at his computer, David loves the outdoors, taking any chance to k...

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    Tony Pierce
    Field CTO, Cyber Security & Infrastructure, Splunk

    As Field CTO for Cyber Security and Infrastructure, Tony focuses primarily on Client Cyber and Infrastructure Resilience mapping, Cybersecurity strategy, Data Strategy and Data to outcome goals for Cisco and Splunk clients across all sectors in AMER (Canada, LATAM and US). He partners heavily with internal teams in Product development, Intern...

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    Dr. Christopher Pierson
    Founder & CEO, BlackCloak

    Dr. Chris Pierson is the Founder & CEO of BlackCloak, a pioneer of personal digital protection for corporate executives, high-profile and high-net-worth individuals and their families. Chris has been on the front lines of cybersecurity, privacy protection, and fighting cybercrime in both the public and private sectors over 20 years. At the De...

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    Ken Piggott
    Program Director, Baker College of Auburn Hills
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    Adam Pike
    Solutions Architect, 1Password

    Adam Pike is a solutions architect at 1Password (and former 1Password account administrator in a previous life) with two decades of IT experience focused on privacy and security, working at the intersection of people and technology. He spends most of his workdays helping customers integrate 1Password into their tech stack. When he’s not at hi...

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    Myla Pilao
    Director, Technology Marketing, Trend Micro
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    Robertson Pimentel
    Product Manager, Centrify

    Robertson Pimentel is a product manager and evangelist at Centrify Corporation. He has held security-related positions at Ford Motor Company and Intel Corporation. His focus is primarily in Centrify Server Suite and Privilege Service and his goal is to balance product capability and operational efficiency.

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    Chris Pin
    VP, Security and Privacy, PKWARE

    Chris Pin serves as PKWARE’s VP, Security and Privacy. In this role, Chris drives value and awareness for all PKWARE customers regarding the various challenges that both privacy and security regulations bring to the data-driven world. He works closely with all customers and potential customers to help them better understand how PKWARE solutio...

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    Cecil Pineda
    SVP & CISO, R1 RCM

    Cecil Pineda is Senior Vice President and CISO for R1 RCM, Inc. He was previously the Senior Director and Program Leader for the VCISO and Consulting Practice at Critical Start. He also served as the CISO of DFW International Airport and also held leadership positions at GameStop, TXU Energy, Boeing and CVS Health.

    He is an active memb...

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    Daniel Pinsky
    CSO, CDW Canada

    Daniel is an accomplished cybersecurity professional with more than two decades of experience, serving diverse clients across North America and Europe across the financial, public, and technology sectors. His expertise encompasses technical roles and leadership positions, including leading the implementation and certification of essential sec...

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    John Pirc
    Director - Security Solutions, Forsythe Technology

    John’s current role is that of Director- Security Solutions for the West area at Forsythe Technology. John brings over 19 years outstanding security industry accomplishments and credibility. John was most recently the Co-Founder and CSO of Bricata, LLC and prior to that was the CTO at NSS Labs. Previously, John had responsibility for all Sec...

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    Zaira Pirzada
    Vice President, Hive Pro

    Zaira Pirzada is the VP of Product Marketing at Hive Pro. Prior to joining Hive Pro, she was a Security Analyst with Gartner, Inc., covering the DLP, File Analysis, and Data Masking markets. Zaira was also featured on CBS as a main actress in the prime-time television show “Hunted”, Wired for her technical acumen, and is currently a popular-s...

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    Neda Pitt
    CISO, Belk
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    Chris Pittman
    Senior Manager, Sales Engineering, BlackBerry

    Chris Pittman has worked in enterprise information technology since 1993 and has specialized in cyber security for the last 14 years. He worked in security and controls and incident response for the Ford Motor Company before moving to the security vendor space in 2008. As a sales engineer at BlackBerry Cylance, he provides technical and secur...

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    Lisa Plaggemier
    Executive Director, National Cybersecurity Alliance

    Lisa Plaggemier is Executive Director at the National Cybersecurity Alliance. She is a recognized thought leader in security awareness and education with a track record of engaging and empowering people to protect themselves, their families, and their organizations. Lisa is a University of Michigan graduate (Go Blue!) and while she wasn’t b...

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    Chris Plesiuk
    Sr. Consultant, Mandiant

    Chris Plesiuk, M.Sc., a Senior Consultant specializing in strategic cybersecurity services at Mandiant, brings over 15 years of comprehensive expertise to the critical infrastructure sector. Chris's experience spans both IT and ICS/OT environments, addressing the unique challenges of diverse critical infrastructure industries. His core specia...

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    McClellan 'Mac' Plihcik
    Senior Special Agent, U.S. Secret Service, North Carolina Cyber Fraud Task Force (CFTF), Charlotte Field Office
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    Tom Plummer
    Cybersecurity Fellow, Lockheed Martin

    Cybersecurity Fellow to provide architecture guidance across products and programs. BS Computer Engineering. CISSP.

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    Michael Podemski
    Senior Manager in the Risk Advisory Services Practice, Ernst & Young LLP

    Michael Podemski, CISA, CISM, CRISC, CIPM, CIPT, is a Senior Manager in the Risk Advisory Services practice of Ernst & Young LLP. He focuses on managing and delivering high-quality IT assurance and advisory engagements, including financial statement audits/internal controls over financial reporting (SOX 404), pre- and post-implementation syst...

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    Anatoly Podstrelov
    VP, Global Head IT & Security, EDETEK Inc.

    Anatoly oversees global technology, cloud, security, and product operations, and he is dedicated to delivering and managing EDETEK’s innovative suite of clinical platforms. As a technology leader, Anatoly brings more than 25 years of experience which spans multiple industries and business verticals. Prior to joining EDETEK, Anatoly worked in ...

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    Tom Pohl
    Member, InfraGard Iowa Members Alliance
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    Jim Pointer
    Manager, Information Security, Helzberg Diamonds
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    Jeff Polczynski
    VP, Solutions Architecture, 11:11 Systems

    Jeff T. Polczynski is the VP of Solutions Architecture at 11:11 Systems. Previously, he was a key member of the Network Engineering team, where he helped design and build the network infrastructure for the 11:11 Cloud. Jeff has more than 20 years of experience in data center, networking, and security roles across government, financial service...

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    Adam Politsch
    CISO, KP LLC
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    Daniel Pollack
    Sales Specialist, Harmony Enterprise, Check Point

    Daniel is a 25-year veteran within the Security, Mobile Services, and Networking industry. Daniel helps businesses understand the risk and impact of cyberthreats that enterprises face in today’s always changing environment. As security risks continue to evolve from signature-based attacks to behavioral attacks, it is imperative that organizat...

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    Dr. Larry Ponemon
    Chairman and Founder, Ponemon Institute

    Dr. Larry Ponemon is the Chairman and Founder of the Ponemon Institute, a research "think tank" dedicated to advancing privacy and data protection practices. Dr. Ponemon is considered a pioneer in privacy auditing and the Responsible Information Management (RIM) framework.

    Ponemon Institute conducts independent research, educates leade...

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    Jon Poon
    VP of Security Services, Novacoast

    Jon's background is in Computer Science and was a software developer building web and mobile applications before moving into the security industry. He has been working with SIEM technologies for over a decade and has worked with hundreds of customers over that time building out SOC and SOC teams.

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    Ashish Popli
    Director of Product Security, Privacy & Compliance, UiPath

    Ashish thrives on pragmatism, innovation and building teams that deliver a promise. He started his career over 20 years ago, as a computer scientist in upstate NY, and since then has been learning the 'art of impossible', by wearing multiple hats, including writing code, conducting pen tests, finding and fixing security bugs, building and shi...

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    Louise Popyk
    Senior Technical Marketing Manager, Centrify
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    Thomas Pore
    Director, Solutions Engineering, Pentera

    Thomas Pore is the Director of Product Marketing at Pentera. He is a network security expert with a 20-year background utilizing NetFlow and packets for network detection & response (NDR), encrypted traffic analysis, ethical hacking, and incident response. His expertise is rooted in diverse experience with product marketing, product managemen...

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    Christopher Porter, PhD
    Head of International Security Cooperation, Google Cloud
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    Heather Post
    Sr. Sales Engineer, Torq
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    Matt Postinger
    Cyber Fusion Center Director, Trinity Health

    Matt is a seasoned cybersecurity leader with more than a decade of experience in healthcare and manufacturing. As Cyber Fusion Center Director at Trinity Health, he oversees operational cybersecurity including incident response, threat intelligence and monitoring. Matt specializes in executive-level incident response leadership, cyber resilie...

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    Davitt J. Potter
    Director, MSSP and Channels, Americas, Digital Shadows

    Born and raised in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Davitt has over 25 years of experience in the OEM, VAR & MSSP channels realm. From starting as a field services engineer fresh from school at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, and eventually defining and managing IT operations and strategy for numerous companies in a CTO capac...

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    Bruce Potter
    CISO, Expel

    Bruce Potter is the CISO at Expel. Previously, Bruce co-founded Ponte Technologies, a cybersecurity research and engineering company. He also served as the senior technical advisor to the members of President Obama’s Commission on Enhancing National Cyber Security, and co-founded the Shmoo Group in 1996.

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    Chris Poulin
    Director, Technology & Strategy / Deputy CTO, BitSight

    Chris is Director of Technology & Strategy, as well as the Deputy CTO, at BitSight Technologies, guiding enterprises in assessing risk metrics and managing third-party relationships. He's been in cybersecurity for over 35 years, in both technical roles as a developer for the DoD intelligence community, and in executive positions, such as CSO ...

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    Matt Pour
    Director, Solution Engineering, Island

    Matthew Pour is a seasoned leader in Information Technology and Information Security, currently leading Island's North America Solutions Engineers. With decades of experience, he has successfully established ITIL practices and InfoSec programs for Fortune 500 companies and engineered solutions for complex business challenges at leading techno...

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    Steven Powers
    VP, Product Security, LPL Financial

    Steven is a VP at LPL Financial leading the BISO team. Steven has been a part of the BISO department since inception 5 years ago. Steven has 20 years of experience across banking and utilities industries within Governance, Risk, Control, and Audit functions and holds CPA, CISA, CRISC, CISSP, and CCSP certifications.

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    John C. Powers
    Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation

    FBI Agent in the Counter Intelligence and Insider Threat group.

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    Professor Kevin R. Powers, J.D.
    Professor; Founder and Director, Master of Science in Cybersecurity Policy & Governance Program, Boston College

    Kevin is the founder and director of the Master of Science in Cybersecurity Policy and Governance Program at Boston College, and an Assistant Professor of the Practice at Boston College Law School and in Boston College’s Carroll School of Management’s Business Law and Society Department. Along with his teaching at Boston College, Kevin is a C...

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    Tejas Pravinbhai Patel
    Sr. Software Development Engineer, Amazon

    Tejas Pravinbhai Patel is a Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon and Chair of the Irving ACM Chapter. He holds Fellowship designations from SCRS, BCS, and IET, and has delivered 14+ international keynotes at IEEE and ACM conferences. He has 30+ IEEE Xplore publications in AI systems and inference optimization (h-index 4, 77 citation...

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    Dave Presuhn
    Sr. Security Engineer, Boston Scientific

    Dave has been working in IT since the last millennium. In his current role, he manages the device management system for medical devices. He has worked primarily in healthcare throughout his IT career.

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    John Prewett
    Principal Engineer - Enterprise Security, UnitedHealth Group

    John Prewett is a security technologist with over 20 years’ experience helping private sector, government agencies, and educational institutions identify risk and improve their security postures. John's latest passion is code writing, software engineering best practice, and otherwise improving the overall relationship between security practit...

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    TJ Preyear
    Cyber Security Analyst, Ethical Hacker Enthusiast

    TJ Preyear is a Cyber Security Analyst that is currently employed by Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), the company of ethical hackers known for hacking IoT devices, web applications, and password managers. TJ got into cybersecurity because of his limitless curiosity and his accidental hacking of an educational website. This opened a new ...

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    Brett Price
    vCISO, Lead Cybersecurity Consultant, Risk Advisory Services, AccessIT Group

    Brett Price is a Lead Cybersecurity Consultant for the Risk Advisory
    Services practice at AccessIT Group (AITG). Brett’s Cybersecurity journey
    spans over two decades in the mid to large Enterprise space, where he
    seamlessly transitioned from systems administrator and network architect
    roles into esteemed cybersecurity ...