Keynote Speaker

Winn Schwartau

Special Projects Director
Cognitive Security Institute

As the Director of Special Projects for the Cognitive Security Institute, Winn Schwartau's work focuses on the intersection of cybersecurity (silicon) and cognitive (carbon) security. His new book, "The Art & Science of Metawar” examines how humans must strengthen our cognitive defenses against AI-driven reality distortion, TMI/disinformation, manipulation, and algorithmic addictions to successfully coexist with technology. His prior book, “Analogue Network Security” is a time-based approach to justifiable security. “It will twist your mind.” “The Best Cybersecurity Book of All Time,” Cyber Defense Magazine.

Winn has lived cybersecurity and warping minds since 1983. His creative and original thinking has inspired decades of predictions about the internet, technology, privacy, & security, which have been scarily spot on.  Fellow, Royal Society of the Arts Distinguished Fellow: Ponemon Institute International Security Hall of Fame: ISSA Top-20 industry pioneers: SC Magazine. Top 25 Most Influential: Security Magazine Top 5 Security Thinkers: SC Magazine. Author: “Pearl Harbor Dot Com” (Die Hard IV), 3 volumes of “Information Warfare”, “CyberShock”, “Internet and Computer Ethics for Kids”. Executive Producer: “Hackers Are People Too” Founder: www.TheSecurityAwarenessCompany.Com (Bought by KnowBe4)