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Dr. Jai Menon has served as CTO for multi-billion dollar Systems businesses (Servers, Storage, Networking) at both IBM and Dell. Jai was an IBM Fellow, IBM’s highest technical honor, and one of the early pioneers who helped create the technology behind what is now a $20B RAID industry. He impacted every significant IBM RAID product between 1990 & 2010, and he co-invented one of the earliest RAID-6 codes in the industry called EVENODD. He was also the leader of the team that created the industry’s first, and still the most successful, storage virtualization product. When he left IBM, Jai was Chief Technology Officer for Systems Group, responsible for guiding 15,000 developers. In 2012, he joined Dell as VP and CTO for Dell Enterprise Solutions Group. In 2013, he became Head of Research and Chief Research Officer for Dell. Jai holds 53 patents, has published 82 papers, and is contributing author to three books on database and storage systems. He is an IEEE Fellow and an IBM Master Inventor, he is a Distinguished Alumnus of both IIT, Madras and Ohio State University, and he is a recipient of the IEEE Wallace McDowell Award and the IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Systems Award. He serves on several university, customer and company advisory boards.

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John Kindervag joined Palo Alto Networks as Field CTO in 2017 after eight and one half years at Forrester Research where he was a Vice President and Principal Analyst on the Security and Risk Team. John is considered one of the world's foremost cybersecurity experts. He is best known for creating the revolutionary Zero Trust Model of Cybersecurity.

Zero Trust is widely embraced by companies as diverse as Coca Cola, Google, and WestJet Airlines. Notably, the US House of Representatives is recommending that all government agencies adopt Zero Trust in the wake of the OPM Data Breach.

The-OPM-Data-Breach-How-the-Government-Jeopardized-Our-National-Security-for-More-than-a-Generation.pdf. Additionally, Chairman Jason Chaffettz wrote a bylined article in Federal News Radio endorsing Zero Trust. These recommendations have led to increasing adoption of Zero Trust within the United States Federal Government.

He currently advises both public and private sector organizations with the design and building of Zero Trust Networks and other Cybersecurity topics. He holds, or has held, numerous industry certifications, including QSA, CISSP, CEH, and CCNA. John has a practitioner background, having served as a security consultant, penetration tester, and security architect. He has particular expertise in the areas of secure network design, wireless security, and voice-over-IP hacking. He has been interviewed and published in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and The New York Times. He has also appeared on television networks such as CNBC, Fox News, PBS, and Bloomberg discussion information security topics. John has spoken at many security conferences and events, including RSA, SXSW, ToorCon, ShmoCon, InfoSec Europe, and InfoSec World. John has a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from the University of Iowa and lives in Dallas, TX.

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Oliver Schuermann is a 14-year veteran of Juniper Networks came to Juniper as a security engineer via the NetScreen acquisition in 2004. Since then he has held multiple technical leadership positions within the company. Most recently, Oliver has taken the role of Sr. Systems Engineering Director for Juniper Enterprise Architecture team for the US. In Oliver's almost 25-year industry experience he has held positions in Software Integration, Systems Engineering, and Technical Leadership in both the Enterprise, as well as the Service Provider space. Prior companies include large service providers such as CenturyLink and McLeodUSA.

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Tom has been in the network and security field for over 20 yrs. During this time he worked for large enterprises as a Network Engineer and for multiple network management and security vendors where he has had roles in Sales Engineering /Management, Technical Field Marketing and Product Management. Currently at Arbor Networks he's a Director of Product Marketing focusing on Arbor's industry leading DDoS Protection solution.

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Sean Hittel is a Threat Detection Engineer for Netskope who has been working in threat research and attack containment for the entirety of his career. His areas of specialty include attack operation, and detection evasion evolution, as well as applied machine learning. Mr. Hittel is fluent in Python and JavaScript, using a PostgreSQL or SQL Server back end, and he also enjoys rapid prototyping and customer-focused solutions. He is passionate about business process including appropriate applications of Lean, Kanban, and broader Agile.

Career highlights for Mr. Hittel include developing both a honeypot-based IPS signature generation and evasion triage system optimized for browser attacks as well as RPC style exploits, and a toolchain for a high release frequency machine learning-based detection engine that shipped detections to about 200 million endpoints.

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Tom has been in IT for 29 years in various support and consulting roles. Security has been his primary focus though he has also worked with other technologies such as LAN/WAN, WiFi, VMware, etc. Firewalls has been his primary focus and has had extensive experience with next gen firewalls and its integration with other technologies. Tom currently works for Fortinet Inc. as a solution architect and SE.

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Kris Yach has 15+ years of experience ranging from Network/Security engineering in the private and consulting sector, to building a successful technology organization for a value added reseller (VAR). Most recently Kris spent 4.5 years as the Information Security Officer for a large healthcare institution in Wisconsin where he built Cyber Security and Risk Management programs from the ground up. Kris is now a regional sales engineer for Carbon Black and is focusing his efforts on the ever evolving End Point space. Kris is a CCIE in Security and a CISSP.

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Mike Richard is a Solution Architect with Zscaler where he engages with both architectural teams and IT executives to drive network transformation projects. Prior to joining Zscaler Mike held various engineering & architecture positions at Time Warner Telecom and Riverbed; was a member of the Office of the CTO at Virtela Technology Services; and lead the initial product team at Singularity Networks. With experience from both a service provider and enterprise perspective, he has been working to develop more efficient and elegant ways of addressing network & security architecture for the past 15 years.

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Michael Weinstein is Director of Product Marketing for datacenter security solutions at Bitdefender. Prior to Bitdefender, Michael has led marketing efforts for key products at Wind River (Intel), Honeywell, Polycom, Logitech, and HP. Michael holds an MBA degree from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

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Eighteen years progressively broad experience in developing, deploying and supporting highly integrated telecommunications, electronics and electro-mechanical technologies.

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Phil Montgomery joined Pulse Secure in early 2016, bringing more than 20 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Pulse Secure, Montgomery served as Executive Vice president and Chief Product Officer of Identiv, Inc. Montgomery also spent three years with Vmware running Product for their end-user computing group, and seven years with Citrix Systems, launching the Citrix Secure Gateway (CSG) and the rollout of companywide security marketing strategy. Montgomery graduated from the University of Southern Queensland with a bachelor of business degree in operations management and end-user computing.

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Brian has been designing and securing the largest networks in the world for more than 15 years as a consultant, architect, and implementer. Brian has deep experience redesigning network and security infrastructures across multiple verticals including Military and Government, the largest Service Providers, healthcare organizations and financials. Brian has also evangelized about information security around the globe speaking to thousands sharing experiences and security best practices.