Alec’s career highlights as a technology implementer include IT infrastructure support for bioinformatics research and data center operations manager for an FBI software development facility.

Jason Garman is a Principal Security Specialist at Amazon Web Services (AWS) with over 30 years of cybersecurity experience in both the public and private sectors.

Dr. Allan Friedman is “the SBOM guy.” He is Senior Technical Advisor and Strategist at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

John Mark is the founder and Director of Fannie Mae’s Open Source Program Office.

John is SVP of Strategy at Eclypsium. John has extensive history in hardware and firmware supply chain threats from experience at Intel and the United States government. At Intel he served as the Director of Advanced Threat Research, Platform Armoring and Resiliency, PSIRT, and was a CHIPSEC maintainer. Prior to this, he was Technical Team Lead for Specialized Platforms for the federal government.

Nico Popp is a Senior Operating Partner and Advisor at Crosspoint Capital. Nico joined Crosspoint from Tenable, where he served as Chief Product Officer (CPO) and launched Tenable One, the first Exposure Management platform. Prior to his tenure at Tenable, Nico was the CPO at Forcepoint, where he spearheaded the development of Forcepoint's human-centric SASE. He also held the position of Senior Vice President for Cloud and Data Security at Symantec.

Michiel Prins is a Co-Founder and Senior Director of Product Management at HackerOne, the leader in human-powered security. He is an information security expert, researcher, hacker, and developer. Michiel has been finding critical software vulnerabilities in technology for over 10 years.

Jefferson Jones is a DevOps expert specializing in GitLab implementations. With expertise in networking, systems engineering, data analytics, and cybersecurity, he optimizes CI/CD pipelines and enhances cloud security. As a neurodiverse individual Jefferson offers a unique perspective, championing diversity and innovation. Passionate about partnership and discoverability.

Arti Raman is the Founder and CEO of Portal26. She specializes in responsible use frameworks for enterprise consumption of Generative AI. She is also an expert in advanced data protection techniques, including high-performance encryption-in-use. Before Portal26, she was a senior product leader and head of UX and competitive intelligence for Symantec’s enterprise business. Arti holds a number of patents.

Roi Abitboul is a serial cybersecurity entrepreneur with over a decade of experience. As the co-founder and CEO of Raven.io, he is currently leading efforts to revolutionize runtime cloud security. Previously, Roi co-founded Javelin Networks, a pioneering Active Directory security company acquired by Symantec, where he also served as VP of Engineering. Roi also served for eight years in the Ofek unit of the Israeli Defense Force, where he gained invaluable experience and honed his skills in advanced cybersecurity operations.

Dr. Jeremy Straub is the Director of the Institute for Cyber Security Education and Research and an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, both at North Dakota State University.  He holds a Ph.D. in Scientific Computing, an M.S., an M.B.A. and two B.S degrees.  He previously worked in the software and electronics industry where he held executive, strategic leadership and software and technology development management positions at multiple firms. 

Cassie Crossley, Vice President, Supply Chain Security in the global Cybersecurity & Product Security Office at Schneider Electric, is an experienced cybersecurity technology executive in Information Technology and Product Development and author of “Software Supply Chain Security: Securing the End-to-End Supply Chain for Software, Firmware, and Hardware.”

Mario founded ReversingLabs in 2009. He serves as CEO driving all aspects of the company's strategy, operations and implementation. Mario has held senior technical positions at Bit9 (now Carbon-Black), Microsoft, Groove Networks, and PictureTel (now Polycom). He is the author of numerous research studies, speaking regularly at FS-ISAC, RSA, Black Hat and other leading security conferences. Mario is a graduate of Boston University and Swarthmore College.

Erez Yalon is the VP of Security Research at Checkmarx and oversees Checkmarx’s research team, which is comprised of analysts, pentesters, security engineers, and bug bounty hunters. Erez brings vast experience to his position and his efforts to empower today’s developers and organizations to deliver more secure applications.

Aeva Black is an open source hacker, advocate, and international public speaker with 25 years of experience building digital infrastructure and leading open source projects at successful technology companies. They serve as the Section Chief for Open Source Software Security at CISA, volunteer their time to serve as the Secretary of the Board of the Open Source Initiative, and spend any free moments riding motorcycles and supporting local LGBTQ+ community.

Ashok is the Chief Technology Officer at Trellix. As part of his mission Ashok leads technology and vision for  XDR Products, Threat Research and Intelligence, AI (generative, predictive,edge) across prevention, detection, investigation, remediation and forensics. This is applied across XDR, SecOps, Endpoint, Network, Email.

Over 20 years of experience in the development and implementation of new and emerging technology solutions.  Nick has experience leading cloud security, application security and cyber initiatives at multinational corporations and Government.  Also led technical architecture efforts to implement the US Federal Government Data Consolidation program, FedRAMP and HealthCare.gov “fix it” initiatives supporting DoD, GSA and CMS respectively. Recipient 
of the Ken Ernst North America Innovators Award.

Over 30 of years in cybersecurity, led development of multiple AI-based security solutions 
and built one of the first antimalware/antivirus technologies which is still on the market today. He holds over 14 patents in cybersecurity.  As a Fellow and CTO of McAfee, he led dozens 
of cybersecurity innovations from concept to commercial products. Recently he developed and launched the Lineaje AI platform.

Over 30 years of experience in cybersecurity product management. He has built and scaled successfully, over 50 high-growth cybersecurity products, created Symantec's Central Console for all products in the cloud: ICDM (Integrated Cyber Defense Manager) and led Symantec’s SaaS business launch for Endpoint Security the largest SaaS endpoint protection product globally.

Seasoned product leader and innovator, Indermeet Gandhi, has joined Lineaje to spearhead product and strategy initiatives for their software supply chain security portfolio.
Indermeet brings a wealth of experience from his leadership roles at Cisco, Starent Networks, and IBM, where he focused on AIOps, connectivity solutions, and security.