CTO, SASE, Palo Alto Networks
Ofer is a seasoned entrepreneur and a visionary in cybersecurity. In his role as SASE CTO, Ofer spearheads Palo Alto Networks’ secure access and networking innovation. His entrepreneurial spirit is marked by notable successes, including founding Talon, the pioneer of the Secure Enterprise Browser acquired by Palo Alto Networks and and Argus, a leader in automotive cybersecurity acquired by Continental.
CTO, SASE, Palo Alto Networks
Ofer is a seasoned entrepreneur and a visionary in cybersecurity. In his role as SASE CTO, Ofer spearheads Palo Alto Networks’ secure access and networking innovation. His entrepreneurial spirit is marked by notable successes, including founding Talon, the pioneer of the Secure Enterprise Browser acquired by Palo Alto Networks and and Argus, a leader in automotive cybersecurity acquired by Continental.
VP Product Management – Access Management, Devices, Security & Risk, Okta
At Okta, Fitzgerald drives productivity and security. Ex-Palo Alto Networks (2011–2021), he led threat prevention and identity products. He began at Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. Jamie holds BS/MS degrees from UC Santa Barbara.
Executive Director, Market Growth Strategist, DataBee
Das is focused on defining DataBee’s unique value proposition in the market, long-term strategy, product vision and business development opportunities via outreach to strategic targets, partnerships, alliances and other investments to drive overall growth.
Executive Director, WiCyS, Women in CyberSecurity
Dohm focuses on cybersecurity’s most vital asset: people. As Executive Director of WiCyS, she drives the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women in cybersecurity. With 20+ years of experience, she’s a strategic leader shaping a diverse, collaborative cyber workforce.
Founder & CEO, Breachlock
With more than 20 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry and a dream to create a solution that would make cyberspace safer, Sehgal founded BreachLock, a global offensive security provider offering attack surface discovery, pentesting and red teaming for some of the largest Fortune 500 companies.
Public Sector CTO, Rubrik
At Rubrik, Rosiek helps organizations become more cyber and data resilient. With more than 20 years in the industry, he has held several leadership roles including the chief technology and strategy officer at BluVector, CTO at Tychon, federal CTO at FireEye and principal at Intel Security/McAfee.
Co-Founder and CEO, Cyera
Segev has 15 years of experience in cybersecurity. As CEO, he leads Cyera’s strategic direction and operations, guiding the company to develop technology and tools through customer-inspired innovation. Prior to Cyera, he built and ran the cloud security division for IDF’s Unit 8200.
Partner, YL Ventures
Ellis is an adviser to cybersecurity startups and a seasoned technology executive with expertise in cybersecurity, managing risk and leading an inclusive culture. He is also the founder and CEO of Duha, a boutique advisory firm focused on providing strategic consulting in the areas of leadership, management, cybersecurity, technology risk and enterprise risk management.
Vice President, Prisma SASE, Palo Alto Networks
Upadhyaya is the Vice President of Product Management for Prisma Access at Palo Alto Networks. He has over 20 years of experience in Networking and Security. In his current role, Anupam leads the product management team for Prisma Access, Autonomous Digital Experience Management and AIOPs solutions.
Chief Product Officer, Okta
Bose is the Chief Product Officer for all of Okta’s Workforce Identity solutions. Prior to joining Okta, Arnab was a VP of Product Management at Salesforce, where he led several efforts from integrating Quip into the Salesforce Platform, to Process Automation. Before Salesforce, he was a Senior Program Manager Lead at Microsoft.
Partner, YL Ventures
Ellis is an adviser to cybersecurity startups and a seasoned technology executive with expertise in cybersecurity, managing risk and leading an inclusive culture. He is also the founder and CEO of Duha, a boutique advisory firm focused on providing strategic consulting in the areas of leadership, management, cybersecurity, technology risk and enterprise risk management.
Chief Customer Officer, Island
Rogers leads Island’s customer relationships and focuses on assuring technical field excellence and customer satisfaction as Island builds its market. He has more than 20 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry and previously served on the executive team at Mimecast, where he led global sales engineering.
co-CEO, 1Password
Shiner has led the transformation of 1Password from a small team into a global organization. Prior to joining 1Password, he held leadership roles at IBM Canada and Rosetta and has a strong track record of scaling technology companies. He also serves on the Board of Directors at GenomOncology.
EVP and Chief Product Officer, Cisco
Patel leads Cisco’s security and collaboration units. He previously shaped product and platform strategy at Box, and led EMC’s Syncplicity. He also served as CMO and CSO at EMC, and was president of Doculabs, advising on enterprise collaboration and content management.
Partner, Troutman Pepper Locke
Raether leads the privacy and cyber team at Troutman Pepper and is a partner in the Consumer Financial Services group. With 20+ years of experience, he advises on privacy laws and tech issues spanning data security, IP, antitrust, licensing, and contracts.
SVP, General Counsel, Blackbaud
Olson is responsible for Blackbaud’s legal and real estate activities, including negotiating transactions, managing corporate governance activities and ensuring legal compliance. Before Blackbaud, he was an attorney at Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise.
CEO and Co-Founder, Dragos
Lee is an expert in industrial control systems, threat intelligence and incident response. He began his pioneering work in ICS/OT cybersecurity as a U.S. Air Force Cyber Warfare Operations Officer, where he led a mission aimed at identifying and analyzing national threats to industrial infrastructure.
Global VP, CISO in Residence, Zscaler
Prior to Zscaler, Curry was the chief security officer at Cybereason and chief technology and security officer at Arbor Networks. Before that, he spent more than seven years at RSA, the security division of EMC, in various senior management positions.
Vice Chairman, Sales, Varonis
O’Boyle is responsible for developing and growing Varonis’ business through high performance sales teams and strategic channel partnerships in the global market. Prior to joining Varonis, he held leadership roles at Neoteris/Netscreen and BlueCoat Systems.
Senior Vice President, Global Security (CISO), Concentrix
Managing Director, Thomvest Ventures
Umesh is a Managing Director at Thomvest Ventures, focused on cybersecurity, cloud, and AI. A former CEO and Bessemer investor, he’s backed companies like Cohere, Bolster, and Clari. He brings deep operating experience and has served on 40+ public and private boards.
Operating Partner, Capitol Meridian Partners
Razi Howe is a tech industry leader with 25+ years of experience, 15 in cybersecurity. Former CSO at RSA and Endgame, she now serves as Operating Partner at Capitol Meridian and holds board roles at Pondurance (Chair), Morgan Stanley Bank, Recorded Future, NetSPI, and others.
Managing Director, Thomvest Ventures
Umesh is a Managing Director at Thomvest Ventures, focused on cybersecurity, cloud, and AI. A former CEO and Bessemer investor, he’s backed companies like Cohere, Bolster, and Clari. He brings deep operating experience and has served on 40+ public and private boards.
CEO, Mattermost
As CEO of Mattermost, Tien focuses on providing scalable private and hybrid cloud solutions with a centralized hub for intra-company communications. He previously co-founded SpinPunch, an online video game company with millions of players across 190 countries.
CTO & Co-founder, Armis
Izrael guides the technology vision for Armis, overseeing the evolution of its platform to provide complete asset visibility and security for enterprise assets. Prior to founding Armis, Nadir spent four years as a senior software manager at Google, working on Google Maps and Google Autocomplete.
Threat Intelligence Analyst, Recorded Future
With more than 20 years of experience in information security, Liska has helped several organizations improve their security posture using effective intelligence solutions. He also provides ransomware-related counseling and key recommendations to major global corporations and government agencies.
CEO, RSA
Prior to RSA’s 2020 acquisition, Ghai was its president under Dell. He also led Dell EMC’s Enterprise Content Division, driving transformation through partnerships and M&A. Earlier roles include senior positions at Symantec, CA, and Cheyenne Software in engineering and leadership.
Distinguished Engineer & Master Inventor, IBM
Crume has more than 40 years of experience in the IT industry, with extensive experience in pre-sales, security architecture development and vision setting. At IBM, he works with clients to develop cybersecurity architectures and approaches to protecting data and AI.
Founder and Managing Director, AllegisCyber Capital
Bob Ackerman is co-founder of DataTribe and founder of AllegisCyber. A 25-year cybersecurity investor and Fortune 100 exec, he’s known as “Cybersecurity’s Money Man.” A former CEO and entrepreneur, he also chairs the Global Cyber Innovation Summit and sits on multiple boards.
Ambassador at Large, Cyber Diplomacy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Estonia
Sepp started his diplomatic career in 2003 and has been posted to Luxembourg (2005), Kabul (2009-2011), Washington (2012-2015) and Addis Ababa (2020-2022). He was also the Estonian Permanent Representative to the EU in Brussels from 2006 to 2009.
SVP, Unit 42 Consulting and Threat Intelligence, Palo Alto Networks
Rubin is Senior Vice President at Palo Alto Networks, leading consulting and threat intelligence for Unit 42. With over 20 years in cybersecurity, he has built and scaled global incident response teams and handled major cyber incidents, including ransomware, supply chain attacks, and state-sponsored threats.
CISO, Anthropic
Jason joined Anthropic in 2023 after over a decade at Google, where he led Chrome infrastructure security. At Anthropic, he drives security strategy across engineering, compliance, and AI model safeguards. He’s also the author of Ruby Phrasebook.
VP and Principal Analyst, Forrester
Jeff leads Forrester’s CISO-focused research on security strategy, metrics, and services. He’s a former global architect at Verizon, Dell SecureWorks, and Mandiant, with deep experience in managed security, red teaming, forensics, and app security.
Founder, GetReal
Farid is an expert on deepfakes and manipulated media. His research focuses on digital forensics, forensic science, misinformation, image analysis and human perception. He is also a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
CEO, Snyk
Mckay is the CEO of Snyk. In previous roles as CEO, Peter led multiple software companies through hypergrowth, including Watchfire (acquired by IBM), Desktone (acquired by VMWare), and Veeam. When not running Snyk, Peter can be found reading or listening to books, biking, or running.
Head of U.S. Software Research, Morgan Stanley
Weiss leads the Morgan Stanley software research team that provides actionable insights for clients. With more than 20 years of experience working in sell-side equity research and CFO’s office, he brings a unique perspective to his coverage of leading companies such as Microsoft, Oracle and others.
CEO, Versa Networks
Ahuja is a telecom veteran with over 20 years in networking. A former Cisco senior vice president, he led service provider strategy and tech. He presently serves on the boards of two Silicon Valley startups and has held key roles at Stratacom, BlueLeaf and across major network deployments in Canada.
Executive Director, U.S. Security Software Equity Research, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Essex has been executive director of executive director for U.S. software equity research at JP Morgan for nearly two years. During his two-decade Wall Street career, he analyzed software and services for Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Invesco.
SVP, Cyber Security Products, Thales
Cano, SVP of Cyber Security Products at Thales, leads its global cybersecurity division, helping 35,000+ organizations protect data, apps, cloud, and identities. He led the Imperva acquisition and has 20+ years’ leadership in cybersecurity and tech.
Founder and CEO / President, Sightline Security / Open Information Security Foundation
Misata, a visionary in cybersecurity and open-source innovation, leads Sightline Security to empower nonprofits with strong cyber practices. As OISF President, she advances global network security through Suricata, a leading open-source technology.
SVP, Cloud Protection and Licensing, Thales
Cano, SVP of Cyber Security Products at Thales, leads its global cybersecurity division, helping 35,000+ organizations protect data, apps, cloud, and identities. He led the Imperva acquisition and has 20+ years’ leadership in cybersecurity and tech.
Chief Cybersecurity and Operations Officer, ENISA
At ENISA, de Vries represents the agency in the NIS Cooperation Group, the European Cyber Crisis Liaison Organization Network and the CSIRTs Network and supports the agency in coordinating strategic matters. His 20-year experience spans government, private sector and international partners.