2018 Speakers
Speakers listed in alphabetical order. Keynote Speakers
- Paul Abbate, Associate Deputy Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
- The Honorable Dr. Michael D. Griffin, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
- Shawn Henry, President, CrowdStrike Services & CSO
- Margaret Isler, Head of Risk, Google Technical Services
- Elena Kvochko, Cybersecurity Thought Leader, Financial Services
- Dr. Ron Ross, Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Leroy Smith, Deputy CIO, Missile Defense Agency
- Renee Wynn, Chief Information Officer, NASA
Summit Speakers
- Andrew Alaniz, Manager, Security Architecture, BBVA
- Thiago Alves, University of Alabama, Huntsville
- Andy Applebaum, The MITRE Corporation
- James Ashley, Project Manager/Lead Engineer, NICE Challenge Project
- John Banghart, Senior Director, Technology Risk Management, Venable LLP
- John Bland, Computer Engineer, AMRDEC
- Salim Blume, Blockchain Developer, DESE Research, Inc
- Lynne Clark, Chief, National CAE-Cyber Defense Program, National Security Agency
- Daniel Colvett, Engineer, LOGSA
- Dr. Tony Coulson, Director Cybersecurity Center, CSUSB
- Brandon Cromwell, United States Military Academy
- Joshua Crumbaugh, Chief Hacker/CEO, PeopleSec
- Jason Cuneo, Owner, Focalpoint Security
- Ram Dantu, Professor, University of North Texas
- Stephanie Da Silva, Columbus State University
- Steven Day, Argonne National Laboratory
- Dr. Ben Denton, Technical Director, DESE Research
- Noah Dunstatter, Texas State University
- Heather Eikenberry, Program Manager, CAE-Cyber Operations Program, National Security Agency
- Nathaniel Evans, Argonne National Laboratory
- Joe Gray, Senior Security Architect, IBM
- Dr. Mina Guirguis, Associate Professor, Texas State University
- Vahid Heydari, Rowan University
- Jason Hird, Student, Anne Arundel Community College
- Jon Holladay, Specialist Executive, Strategy and Operations Finance, Deloitte Consulting LLP
- Eric Imsand, Ph.D., The University of Alabama in Huntsville
- Shawn Johnson, The MITRE Corporation
- Keith Jones, Doctoral Student, Dakota State University
- Srikanth Jonnada, University of North Texas
- Amanda Joyce, Argonne National Laboratory
- Jonathan Keim, Assistant United States Attorney, Northern District of Alabama
- Dr. Dan Kim, Professor, University of North Texas
- Kevin Kim, PhD Student, University of North Texas
- Michael Limiero, The MITRE Corporation
- Hugh Martin, Honda Motor Company
- Jason Martin, Blockchain Technology Lead, DESE Research, Inc
- Linda Montgomery, President, Cyber World Institute
- Dr. Vincent Nestler, California State University, San Bernardino
- Dr. Allen Parrish, Associate Vice President for Research, Mississippi State University
- Yesem Kurt Peker, Columbus State University
- Brandon Phillips, Texas A&M University Central Texas
- Donald Privitera, Kennesaw State University and Comprensium, Inc
- Ishan Ranasinghe, University of North Texas
- Lydia Ray, Columbus State University
- Dr. David Raymond, Director, Virginia Cyber Range
- Brandon Robinson, Attorney and Partner, Balch & Bingham LLP
- Young Ryu, The University of Texas at Dallas
- Greg Schaffer, CEO, vCISO Services, LLC
- Jake Schneider, Cyber Security SME, Geeks and Nerds
- Nilanjan Sen, University of North Texas
- John Shackleton, Senior Principal Research Scientist, Adventium Labs
- Hossain Shahriar, Kennesaw State University
- Pradhumna Shrestha, University of North Texas
- Jim Smith III, Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland University College/Kinetic Potential Scholars
- Justin Smith, University of North Texas
- Michael Smith, The MITRE Corporation
- Dr. Josh Stroschein, Assistant Professor, Dakota State University
- Alireza Tahsini, Texas State University
- Andrzej Tomczyk, United States Military Academy
- Kasia Taylor, Associate Professor, Anne Arundel Community College
- Dr. Mark Thompson Sr, Lecturer, University of North Texas
- Jay Towne, United States Attorney, Northern District of Alabama
- Jagannadh Vempati, University of North Texas
- Joe Vest, Director of Sales Engineering, SpecterOps
- Vinhcent Vu, Columbus State University
- Mary Wallingsford, Assistant Professor/Chair Cybersecurity, Networking and Digital Forensics, Anne Arundel Community College
- Dr. Paul Wang, TSYS Endowed Chair in Cybersecurity, Columbus State University
- Logan Widick, University of North Texas
- Rob Wood, Practice Director, Hardware and Embedded Security Services, NCC Group
- Andrew Yang, University of Houston-Clear Lake
- Melissa Ziegler, United States Military Academy
- Captain John Zimmerman USN (ret), Cyber Strategist, VP for Corporate Operations, Subsystem Technologies Inc.
2017 Speakers
Speakers listed in alphabetical order.- Thad Allen - Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton | Former Commandant of the Coast Guard
- Tom Bain - Vice President, Security Strategy, CounterTack
- Michael Banks - Information Security Consultant, Rendition InfoSec, LLC.
- LTC Tim Bloechl - USA, Retired
- David Bowdich - Associate Deputy Director, FBI
- Wayne Burke - CSO, Sequrit CSI
- Scott Busby - Security Engineer, MAD Security
- Jeremy Conway - Chief Technology Officer, MAD Security
- Dr. Mitch Crosswait - Deputy Director, Operational Test and Evaluation, DoD
- Chris Esquire
- Rick Fernandez - Enterprise Security Engineer, LogRhythm System Integrators
- Rob Ferrill - CISO, UAB Health System
- Mayor Paul Finley - City of Madison
- Tom Graham - Sentar, Inc.
- Greg Hanis - Director of Research, MeasuredRisk
- Joe Jarzombek - Global Manager, SYNOPSYS
- Derek Johnson - CISO Advisor, Unisys
- Vinny Lamolinara - Cybersecurity Acquisition Professor, DAU
- Stan Lowe - Booz Allen Hamilton
- Ryan Loy - Chief Information Officer, Adtran
- John Matherly - Founder, Shodan
- Mike McConnell - Former Director, National Security Agency
- Jamie Miller - President, Mission Multiplier
- Mr. Stephen Mills - Professor, DAU
- Ken Modeste - Global Principal Engineer, Underwriters Laboratories
- Mr. Dave Pearson - Engineering & IT Center Director, DAU
- Chris Poulin - Booz Allen Hamilton
- Dr. Rodney L. Robertson - 2017 National Cyber Summit Chair
- Michael Schroeder - Security Analyst, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Scott Self - Chief Information Officer, Tennessee Valley Authority
- Bob Smith - Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Ms. Melinda Reed - Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering DASD(SE)
- Brandon Rozario - Founder/President, Red Strategies
- Kell Rozman - Sentar, Inc.
- Michael Vien - Head of Cyber and Co-Founder, MeasuredRisk
- Mr. Rodney Visser - Cyber Technical Director, SRC
- Seth Wahle - Mission Multiplier
- Mark Weatherford - Former Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity, Department of Homeland Security
- David Wennergren - Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Professional Services Council
- Roy Wilkinson - Principal of virtual CIO/CISO
- Ron Williams - Chief Architect Threat Protection, Principal Architect X-Force Exchange, IBM
- Dr. Raziq Yaqub - Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Alabama A&M University
