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Andrew Corbett

Solutions Consultant, NICE Actimize

Andrew is a member of the Nice Actimize Premier Solution Consultants team. As a member of Nice Actimize Andrew has worked to provide a cloud compliance solution to a variety of Banks, Credit Unions and FinTech’s. In a non-covid world Andrew can be found working on film, tv, and music video sets on the weekends in his hometown of Atlanta Georgia.

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Ron Ross

Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Ross is a Fellow at NIST. His focus areas include cybersecurity, systems security engineering, cyber resiliency, security architecture, privacy, and risk management. Ross leads the FISMA Implementation Project and the Systems Security Engineering Initiative, which includes the development of cybersecurity and privacy standards and guidelines for the federal government, contractors, and the U.S. critical infrastructure.

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Dave Martin

Senior Director, Product Management - Threat Response, Open Systems

Dave Martin brings to Open Systems more than 20 years of experience with IT security and networking technologies in a variety of engineering, product marketing, product management and business development roles. He currently serves as the Senior Director, Product Management - Threat Response responsible for market positioning, product strategy and feature definition for Open Systems' global extended detection and response services.

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Zaki Abbas

CISO and SVP, Brookfield Asset Management

Zaki Abbas is the SVP, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Brookfield Asset Management. Zaki joined Brookfield in 2017 and has over 15+ years in the Information Security field. Before joining Brookfield Asset Management, Zaki was the AVP - Information Security & IT Planning at Economical Insurance. Previous, to Economical, Zaki worked as an Information Security Officer at Great-West Life for over 8 years and an Information Security Advocate at IBM for 10 years

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Samer Adi

Technology Operations and Security Leader, Goodfood Market

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Ireen Birungi

CISO, Interac Corp.

Ireen Birungi is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Interac Corp., where she leads the technology and business security strategy and implementation. This includes operationalizing enterprise-wide cybersecurity program that supports continuous improvement; managing security risks and compliance with business, client, legislative and regulatory requirements; reporting and containing security incidents and breaches; identity and access management and privilege access management; and monitoring threats and taking preventative measures. Ireen has over 20 years of experience helping organizations excel in the areas of cybersecurity, risk and vulnerability management and IT architecture in a variety of industries across and Public, Private and Consulting sector. She began her career in the security operations centre for a major Canadian bank, managing processes around network devices and systems, administering cryptographic keys for ABMs and conducting vulnerability assessments on varying technologies. She then progressed to senior roles in governance, risk management and compliance providing consulting advisory services, including recommendations for improving security posture to a number of clients in the healthcare sector and telecommunications and ultimately ending back in operations, where she led the establishment of a cybersecurity operations centre for a major engineering organization. Ireen holds a degree in Economics from the University of Toronto and cybersecurity designations: CISSP, CISM, and CRISC and an active member of Evanta (A Gartner Company) CISO community, International Security Forum (ISF) and advisory board for siberX

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TG J Amarasena

CEO, CERT Sri Lanka

Amarasena is CEO of Sri Lanka CERT. He joined Sri Lanka Air Force in March 1987 after graduating from University of Colombo. He served the Air Force for 28 years in the branch of Electronic Engineering until his retirement in August 2015. After his retirement, from 2016 to 2017 he was with Lanka Logistics & Technologies Ltd, a company established under Ministry of Defence as its Head of Projects.

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Chongming Kong

Head of Systems Engineering, Asia Pacific and Japan for NetWitness, RSA

Kong is head of systems engineering, Asia Pacific and Japan for NetWitness. Kong started his career building and operating Security Operations Center with the Singapore Government in which he builds expertise in different cybersecurity technologies and processes/workflows. In his most recent roles, Kong has been consulting key customers across APJ in successfully building their SOC operations.

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Prof.Triveni Singh

SP, Cyber Crime, Uttar Pradesh Police

Singh is currently posted as additional superintendent, special task force, UP Police, and is in charge of investigating cybercrimes in the state of Uttar Pradesh. His special areas of expertise are cybercrime and financial fraud. He has had wide exposure in dealing with cases related to anti-corruption, vigilance, economic offences, money laundering and cybercrimes.

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Laura Leaver

Senior Solutions Consultant, LastPass by LogMeIn

Laura has worked in the SaaS industry for the past 25 years, primarily in collaboration, support, and security software. She has helped thousands of clients improve their business operations with solutions from LogMeIn. Laura discusses the security behind LastPass Business, for both Users and Admins.

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Mark Johnston

APAC Head of Security, Customer Engineering Google Cloud

Mark is a passionate security advocate who leads Google Cloud’s team of Security and Networking specialists in Asia Pacific. With over 20 years of security domain expertise across the financial, government, telecommunications and education industries, he helps organizations adopt cloud computing using the shared responsibility model.

Prior to joining Google Cloud, he spent eight years at IBM where he led the APAC Security Tiger Team, and developed the IBM Enterprise Security Maturity Workshop executed at over 150 client sites worldwide.

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Harrison Nnaji

CISO, FirstBank Nigeria

Nnaji is CISO FirstBank, Nigeria. He is an accomplished data and information security strategist and practitioner with more than 15 years of solid experience in the conception, engineering, design, delivery, operation and optimization of cyber, data and information security capabilities, risk management, networking, IT operations and project management.

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Sithembile Songo

Head Information Security and Risk Management, Public Investment Corporation

Songo is head, information security and risk management, Public Investment Corporation. She has more than 18 years worth of experience in the information security field and played a pivotal role leading, managing, establishing, developing and implementing various information security initiatives, including information security strategy and programme, cyber transformation programmes, information security awareness strategy and programmes, policy development, application security, incident management, among others.

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Andrzej Kawalec

Head of Cybersecurity, Vodafone Business

Kawalec, who has more than 20 years of experience, manages the global portfolio of security offerings for Vodafone Business. Prior to joining Vodafone, he was global CTO for security and director of security research at HP and head of strategy and CTO at Optiv. He has also worked at Siemens, Compaq and EDS and has held various board-level positions in areas including innovation, marketing, consulting and strategy. Kawalec is a member of the Forbes Technology Council and the Global Agenda Council on Cyber Security.

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Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Rajesh Pant

National Cybersecurity Coordinator-PMO, Govt. of India

Pant is national cybersecurity coordinator in the national security council of India at the prime minister's office. He is responsible for coordinating all cybersecurity activities across multiple sectors. He holds a Ph.D. in information security metrics. Previously, he was the head of the Army's cyber training establishment for three years. He served in the Army Signals Corps for 41 years and was honored three times by the president of India for distinguished service of the highest order.

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Mubashir Afzal Mir

Technical Solutions Architect, APJC, Duo Security, Cisco

Mir is Duo Technical Solutions Architect, APJC at Duo Security, Cisco. Prior to joining Cisco, he was the senior principal engineer at Dell Technology. He was also the global technical architect for modern workspace at Unisys.

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Tony Jarvis

Security Principal, Citrix

Jarvis s security principal at Citrix. He is passionate about educating audiences on the risks posed by modern cyber threats and advises business leaders as they undertake major cybersecurity transformation projects and initiatives. Having held a variety of leadership and advisory roles with recognisable brands including Citrix, Check Point, FireEye, Standard Chartered Bank and Telstra, he has developed an acute understanding of how to successfully deliver cybersecurity engagements which strategically align with business objectives.

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