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Day Two at RSAC™ 2025

Editorial-led video interviews with industry thought leaders
Day 1
Monday April 28
Day 2
Tuesday April 29
Day 3
Wednesday April 30
Day 4
Thursday May 1
8:00 AM PT
Marriot Marquis: Dean Sysman
Broadcast Alley: Dan Streetman
Marriot Marquis
Dean Sysman

Co-Founder and CEO, Axonius

As the CEO of Axonius, Sysman helps organizations detect hard-to-spot exposures, misconfigurations and operational challenges across their entire technology footprint. He is also focused on streamlining the end-to-end life cycle of all enterprise assets through Axonius‘ Network Discovery adapter. 

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Dan Streetman

CEO, Tanium

Streetman leads Tanium’s customer-facing technical operations as well as product strategy and development. He has more than 20 years of experience in enterprise software and IT. He has led global customer operations, sales, marketing and professional services for both public and private companies.

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Rama Sekhar

Partner, Menlo Ventures

As a partner at Menlo Ventures, Sekhar is focused on investments in cybersecurity, AI and cloud infrastructure. He joined Menlo after spending 15 years at Norwest Venture Partners, where he invested in several successful companies, including Algorithmia, Dremio, Harness and InfluxData. 

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Lisa Plaggemier

Executive Director, National Cybersecurity Alliance

Plaggemier, Interim Executive Director at the National Cybersecurity Alliance, is a leading voice in security awareness, empowering businesses and employees to protect their data through impactful education and engagement.

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Sumedh Thakar

President and CEO, Qualys

A product fanatic and engineer at heart, Thakar has been instrumental in expanding the Qualys platform’s scope, integrations and automation. Previously, he was an engineer at Intacct and also worked at Northwest Airlines developing complex algorithms for its yield and revenue management reservation system.

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Kayle Giroud

Director, Common Good Initiatives, Global Cyber Alliance

Giroud, based in Brussels, is a project management professional with UN and Swiss FDFA experience. Now Director at Global Cyber Alliance, she focuses on cybersecurity and tech’s societal impact. She’s also pursuing a PhD and holds multiple degrees and certifications.

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Rafael Narezzi

Managing Director, Cyber Energia

Narezzi is an OT security expert with more than two decades of experience as a business and technology leader for global enterprises. He has spearheaded the transformation of Cyber Energia from incubation within CPF Energy to a leading managed service provider with international clients.

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Ken Huang

Chief AI Officer, DistributedApps.AI

Huang has more than 25 years of experience in security, identity management and cloud computing. At DistributedApps.ai, he provides training and consulting services for generative AI security. He is the co-chair of the AI Organizational Responsibility Working Group at the Cloud Security Alliance. 

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Kevin Simzer

Chief Operating Officer, Trend Micro

At Trend Micro, Simzer is responsible for all field operations including global sales, marketing, business development, strategic alliances and corporate development. Previously, he was part of the founding team for Entrust, a pioneer in encryption and authentication security solutions.  

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Stacy Bostjanick

Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, U.S. Department of Defense

Bostjanick leads the CMMC program at DoD. A senior executive with deep acquisition experience, she’s held leadership roles across DIA, MDA, and ODNI. Her work has earned numerous national awards for excellence in cybersecurity and acquisition. 

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Jim Routh

Chief Trust Officer, Saviynt

Routh serves on the boards of Supply Wisdom, GrammaTech, Savvy, ADIA, and GRF. A former CSO/CISO at American Express, Aetna, CVS, and others, he’s also a past board chair of H-ISAC. He brings deep expertise in business, tech, and cybersecurity leadership.

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Alex Doll

Founder and Managing General Partner, Ten Eleven Ventures

Doll brings deep expertise in venture and growth-stage cybersecurity. He co-founded PGP Corp. in 2002, later becoming an angel investor, independent director, and security deal team consultant to private equity firm KKR.

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Jon France

CISO, ISC2

Jon, CISO at ISC2 and a CISSP, champions security, risk management, and tech awareness across industries. With 25+ years of experience, he’s led global security teams, driven strategy, and previously headed industry security at GSMA, serving the mobile ecosystem.

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John Pirc

VP & Head of Product Management, NetWitness

Pirc is a cybersecurity expert with more than 20 years of global experience across established firms and venture-backed startups. He has advised Fortune 500 companies, governments and SMBs, driving strategy, product development and security innovation. 

  

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Sean Atkinson

CISO, Center for Internet Security

Atkinson is Chief Information Security Officer of CIS. He uses his broad cybersecurity expertise to direct strategy, operations, and policy to protect CIS’s enterprise of information assets. His job responsibilities include risk management, communications, applications, and infrastructure.

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DJ Sampath

Vice President, AI Sofware and Platform, Cisco

Sampath is VP of Product, AI Software and Platform at Cisco, leading AI product management. He joined via Cisco’s acquisition of Armorblox, where he was Founder & CEO. A former tech leader at StackRox, DJ holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering and has led projects backed by major government agencies.

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John Kindervag

Creator of Zero Trust, Chief Evangelist, Illumio

Kindervag, creator of Zero Trust, is Chief Evangelist at Illumio. With 25+ years in cybersecurity, he’s held key roles at ON2IT, Palo Alto Networks, and Forrester. An advisor to top orgs, he drives adoption of Zero Trust Segmentation to stop breaches and boost resilience.

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Darron Antill

CEO, Device Authority

 Antill is the CEO of Device Authority Ltd. Currently, he is also the CEO of Cryptosoft Ltd. Before this, he was an advisor to the board at Sipcom and Effectus Consultancy, a non-executive director at FMXA, and more. Darron holds a Bachelor’s degree in Geography. 

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Avivah Litan

VP, Distinguished Analyst, Gartner

Litan is a member of Gartner Research’s TRiSM and ITL application innovation teams, covering blockchain, AI and IoT. She specializes in blockchain innovation, securing and protecting AI, trustworthy AI, and how to detect fake content and goods using a variety of technologies and methods. 

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Stefano Zanero

Professor, Politecnico di Milano

At Politecnico di Milano, Zanero leads cybersecurity research with a focus on cyber-physical systems security, trustworthy AI, malware analysis and binary exploitation. He has also founded and co-founded multiple tech ventures in security, mobile ticketing and fraud detection. 

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Liran Grinberg

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Team8

Grinberg focuses on cybersecurity and enterprise infrastructure investments. He co-founded Team8 in 2014, focusing on the design of Team8’s company-building model. He worked closely with founding teams on the ideation of Team8’s first companies, including Curv, Portshift, Sygnia and Claroty. 

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Sanjay Virmani

Special Agent in Charge, FBI, SF

A veteran leader in cyber and counterterrorism, Virmani was named special agent in charge of the FBI San Francisco field office in January 2025. Since 2003, he has held key domestic and international roles, including leadership at Interpol and FBI HQ. 

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Eric Trexler

SVP, Public Sector, Palo Alto Networks

Trexler has 25 years extensive experience in architecture and strategic selling of complex services and products including storage, security, networking, compute, Cloud, database and applications

Colin Soutar

Managing Director, Deloitte Risk and Financial Advisory, Cyber & Strategic Risk

Soutar, Managing Director at Deloitte, leads its US and Global quantum cyber readiness program. A former CTO in biometrics, NASA fellow, and key contributor to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, he drives innovation in emerging tech, risk, and regulation in public sector cybersecurity.

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Sage Wohns

CEO, Jericho Security

Wohns is 10-year AI entrepreneur. Founder & CEO. Ex-CEO/Co-Founder of Agolo, pioneer in NLP summarization and graph creation, backed by Google & Microsoft. UChicago & Columbia Business School alum.

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Art Coviello

Managing Partner, SYN

Coviello, former executive chairman of RSA Security, is a prominent cybersecurity leader with 30+ years in tech strategy and operations. He has advised government and public-private cybersecurity initiatives and played key roles in national cyber policy efforts.

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Dmitri Alperovitch

Chairman, Silverado Policy Accelerator

With more than two decades of experience in information security, Alperovitch is an inventor of 36 patented technologies and has conducted extensive research on reputation systems, spam detection, public-key and identity-based cryptography, malware and intrusion detection and prevention. 

 

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Martin Zugec

Technical Solutions Director, Bitdefender

Zugec has more than 20 years of experience in cybersecurity and has worked as an architect on virtualization projects globally. He is a regular speaker at major industry conferences, covering topics such as the tactics of threat actors, the evolving ransomware landscape and efficacy within security operations. 

Marriot Marquis
Adam Meyers

SVP, Counter Adversary Operations, CrowdStrike

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PJ Hamlen

WW Leader, Global Partner Security Initiative, Amazon Web Services

PJ Hamlen leads the Global Partner Security Initiative at AWS, driving innovation in cyber resilience with strategic partners. A 19-year IBM veteran, he has a strong record in strategy and operations. Hamlen holds a BA from Hamilton and an MBA from UT Austin.

Julie Bernard
Principal, Cyber and Strategic Risk, Deloitte & Touche LLP

Bernard is a global ConvergeSECURITY leader with more than 30 years advising financial services clients. She brings deep expertise in cyber risk, IT strategy and governance, and has led complex programs across banking, asset management and insurance. 

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Chris Rouland

CEO, Phosphorus Cybersecurity

Rouland is a renowned leader in cybersecurity innovation and has founded several multi-million dollar companies, including Bastille, the first to enable assessment and mitigation of risks of the Internet of Radios, and Endgame, the leader in endpoint security.

Marriot Marquis
Manoj Srivastava

Chief Technology and Product Officer Blackpoint Cyber

Currently, as CTPO at Blackpoint Cyber, Srivastava drive and execute on Blackpoint’s product and technology vision and strategy. He also lead Product Marketing and the post-Sales functions of Customer Success and Technical Support.

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Bruce Johnson

Senior Director, Enterprise Security, TekStream

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. 

Aly Shivji

GVP, Global Partner Sales, Splunk

At Cisco, Shivji is focused on systems integration, MSP and hyperscaler businesses. His team encompasses sales and technical functions, including partner development managers and partner solutions engineers. Prior to joining Cisco, he spent 18 years at Microsoft, where he led partner sales teams. 

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Alberto Yépez

Managing Director, Forgepoint Capital

Yépez is a seasoned investor and serial entrepreneur with a track record of building global businesses and successful exits. He held leadership roles at Trident Capital, enCommerce (acquired by Entrust), Entrust, and Thor Technologies (acquired by Oracle).

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Derek Manky

Chief Security Strategist and Global VP Threat Intelligence, Fortinet

Derek Manky, with 20+ years in cybersecurity, leads FortiGuard Labs’ global threat intelligence team at Fortinet, advising CSOs/CISOs of Fortune 500 companies across industries on strategic threat insights and defense strategies.

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Matt Kunkel

Co-founder and CEO, LogicGate

Prior to LogicGate, Kunkel spent over a decade in the management consulting space building technology solutions to operationalize regulatory, risk and compliance programs for Fortune 100 companies. He is a recognized leader in the GRC/IRM space. 

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Ulla Coester

Project Director, Westphalian University of Applied Sciences, Gelsenkirchen

Coester is Project Director of the Research Project Trustworthiness Platform of IT Systems. She studied business administration and spent many years as a consultant in the field of digital ethics and digital trustworthiness. 

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Derek Manky 

Chief Security Strategist and Global VP Threat Intelligence, Fortinet 

Derek Manky brings more than twenty years of experience to a strategic and visionary cyber security role, working with FortiGuard Labs at Fortinet. Manky leads FortiGuard Labs’ global threat intelligence team which consults with leading CSOs/CISOs of Fortune 500 companies worldwide across multiple industries. 

Dr. Gil Baram

Research Scholar, Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, UC Berkeley

Dr. Baram is a cyber strategy and policy expert with more than 15 years of experience leading innovative research, lecturing and consulting senior business leaders and government officials. Her research interests encompass various aspects of emerging technologies, security, and society.

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Jonathan Baker

Director, Center for Threat-Informed Defense, MITRE

Jon advances the state of the art and the practice in threat-informed defense globally. He co-founded the Center as a privately funded R&D organization that partners with sophisticated cybersecurity teams to systematically advance the global understanding of adversary tradecraft and apply that knowledge to defend against those threats.

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Perry Carpenter

Chief Human Risk Management Strategist,  KnowBe4

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: 

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Jay Chaudhry

Founder, Chairman and CEO, Zscaler

Chaudhry founded a series of successful companies, including AirDefense, CipherTrust, CoreHarbor and SecureIT. He has more than 25 years of IT industry expertise spanning engineering, sales, marketing and management at leading organizations, including IBM, NCR and Unisys.