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John M. Gilligan
Chief Executive Officer
Center for Internet Security
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Jeff Sorenson, LTG, USA (Ret.)
President & Partner
A.T. Kearney Public Sector & Defense Services, LLC
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Kimberly Bandler
Regional Director, Defense Accounts
Xage Security
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Robert Beardsworth
Senior Subject Matter Expert – Navy Information Forces
ASRC Federal
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Hannah Becker
Vice President/Creative Director
Becker Digital
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Cora Carmody
Strategic Advisor
DLH Corporation
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Brandon Collins
Cyber Security Compliance Specialist
Motorola Solutions
Industry Member
Jim Cosby
CTO – Public Sector and Partners
Global Strategy and Technology Office
NetApp
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Kyle Dewar
Tanium
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Joerg Eschweiler
Cassadian CyberSecurity
Koeln, Germany
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Founder
Cyber and STEAM Global Innovation Alliance
Industry Member
Roberta Faux
U.S. Head of Cryptography and CTO
Arqit, LLC
Industry Member
Alyssa Feola
Seventeen Sierra
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Victoria Foreman
University of Guam
Industry Member
Dean Fox
Amentum
Industry Member
MG George Franz, USA (Ret.)
Director, Global Cyber Practice
MANTECH
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Romeo Gardner III
President and Chief Executive Officer
Nehlos
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Adrianne George
MyCyberExec
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Proofpoint
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Cyber Ranges
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Sarbari Gupta
Chief Executive Officer
Electrosoft Services, Inc.
Industry Member
Marin Halper
Vice President, DoD and Services Center
The MITRE Corporation
Industry Member
Col Arthur Hatcher, USAF (Ret.)
Independent
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Stephanie Heckel
Dark Wolf Solutions, LLC
Industry Member
CAPT Glenn Hernandez, USCG (Ret.)
Senior Consultant
OpEdge Solutions LLC
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Magdalena LoGrande
Cybersecurity Engineering Fellow
Sigma Defense Systems LLC
Industry Member
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Quantum AI Security, LLC
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Ron Meeting
Chief Executive Officer
Rapid Strategy
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Vice President of Cyber and CISO
Omni Federal
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James FX Payne
Vice President of Special Programs
Objective Interface Solutions, Inc.
Industry Member
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Accenture Federal Services
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Public Sector Leader
IBM Quantum Safe Team
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Travis Rosiek
Rubrik
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SVP and Chief Engineer
Center for Internet Security
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Laura Samso Pericon
Synarea Insights
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Jason “Cueball” Simmons
Senior Program Manager
SAIC
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Technical Program Manager, Strategic Programs Group
Zscaler
Industry Member
James Stanger, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Evangelist
CompTIA
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Jon Stresing
Senior Account Manager
NVIDIA
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Sam Visner
Technical Fellow
The Aerospace Corporation
Industry Member
Darnell Washington
President and CEO
SecureXperts, Inc.
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CEO
Sherpa Werx
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Chuck White
Booz Allen Hamilton
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Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiatives
Circadence
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Senior Director, Public Sector Strategy and Solutions
Crowdstrike
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DHS CISA
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Senior Advisor, Enterprise Technology Planning and Change Management
Department of Housing and Urban Development
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Senior Security Engineer, National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE)
National Institute of Standards & Technology
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Commander
502d Communications Squadron
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National Defense ISAC
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Research Director, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative
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Virginia Tech
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Cybersecurity Science & IT Service Management Researcher
Marymount University
Academia
Sharon Hamilton, Ph.D.
Vice President of Strategic Partnerships
Norwich University
Academia
Rick Hudson
UNC Charlotte
Academia
Diane Janosek, Ph.D.
Center for Women in Cyber
National Capitol University
Academia
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Chairman, CyberSecurity Advisory Program Committee
Western Maricopa Education Center
Academia
Paul Nielsen
Director and CEO
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Academia
Brig Gen Gregory Touhill, USAF (Ret.)
Carnegie Mellon University
Academia
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Adjunct Assistant Professor
University of Maryland University College
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Cyber Security & IT Advisor, Independent
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Windows Systems Engineer
Applied-Insight, LLC
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Flatiron School
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Executive President
Grupo Radical
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