Erik Bloch has been in the security field for nearly 35 years, starting his career in the U.S. Army before joining Cisco’s first security team and founding the CSIRT team. Over the years, he has led security efforts at major companies like Salesforce, Sprinklr, NTT, and Atlassian, as well as fast-moving startups such as SenSage, AppDirect, an...

Hitesh has more than 15 years of identifying and remediating security risks across networking, cybersecurity, and cloud solutions. He is one of a select few architects globally certified at the highest level of the Fortinet Security Fabric ecosystem.

Tim Choi is Group Vice President of AI Security Product Strategy and Go-to-Market. Prior to this role, he led product marketing across Proofpoint’s portfolio of products and solutions. Before joining Proofpoint, Tim served as Vice President of Product Management at BlackBerry, where he was responsible for software and security products. He al...

Tejas Pravinbhai Patel is a Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon and Chair of the Irving ACM Chapter. He holds Fellowship designations from SCRS, BCS, and IET, and has delivered 14+ international keynotes at IEEE and ACM conferences. He has 30+ IEEE Xplore publications in AI systems and inference optimization (h-index 4, 77 citation...

An energetic and strategic executive with extensive sales and technical leadership experience in the VAR marketplace with partnerships across leading technology manufactures. Customer facing for over 30 years with a proven track record of exceeding quota, recruiting and retaining top talent, and driving continuous internal improvement.

Jennifer Bolling is a Regional Cyber Director for the EPS Practice within the Midsouth region and is based out of the Atlanta, GA office. Jennifer specializes in consulting and broking services for Cyber and Professional Liability and her responsibilities include assessment of exposures, coverage and program structure, strategic action plann...

Simon Kang is a Principal Technical Program Manager at Snowflake focused on cybersecurity, enterprise AI governance, and practical security operating models. His experience spans cyber risk advisory, GRC, security program management, regulated cloud initiatives, enterprise AI rollout, and control automation. Simon works across security, produ...

Jake Hammock is the Chief Information Security Officer, Assistant Chief Technology Officer and Security & Infrastructure Director at the City of Seattle, where he leads the Security & Infrastructure Division delivering citywide cybersecurity, enterprise infrastructure, cloud operations, IT service management, telecom and radio systems, fiber,...

Steven is Mandelbaum Barrett’s Chief Cybersecurity/Legal Officer. An ISACA Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer, Steven’s client-facing practice focus is on cybersecurity and privacy, risk assessments and data breach response, AI risk, and regulatory compliance. He regularly publishes on cybersecurity law, privacy, and emerging technolog...