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As Staff Vice President and Chief Security Officer of ADP, Roland Cloutier brings an unprecedented understanding and knowledge of global protection and security leadership to one of the world's largest providers of human capital management solutions. With over 25 years of experience in the military, law enforcement, and commercial sector, Roland is one of the leading experts in corporate and enterprise security, cyber-defense program development, and business operations protection. At ADP, a global provider of comprehensive payroll services and human resources management solutions, Roland has functional and operational responsibility for cyber, information protection, operational risk, workforce protection, crisis management, and investigative and protective security operations worldwide. Prior to ADP, Roland served as Vice President and CSO of EMC, was a United States Air Force Combat Security Specialist, and an Aerospace Protection and Anti-Terrorism Specialist for the Department of Defense. He also specialized in fraud and healthcare crime as part of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.

Director, Cybersecurity & Cloud Strategy, Issues Management, Microsoft Corporation, oversees strategy and execution to ensure timely and accurate worldwide communication to Microsoft’s customers and partners surrounding a wide range of issues. She also oversees communication strategy for the topics of cybersecurity, data privacy and cloud service reliability, responding to customer, media and industry influentials around the clock. Tracey is also responsible for the company’s outreach to a wide variety of individuals and companies working in the field of security, which includes sharing information regarding threat research and intelligence, events for security researchers to encourage the responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities, and active protection programs for the security community. She drives global strategies to address company perception on topics that can influence customer trust in technology, and areas of accessibility and geopolitical quality are additional responsibilities. Tracey works closely with executives and colleagues to provide details for customers and partners to take any necessary action, if or when, needed. She is a regular speaker at customer engagements, law enforcement discussion forums, and industry events. Tracey also meets regularly with customers to share best practices for the protection of critical infrastructure and information technology systems. She designed, created and drove the implementation of a Microsoft crisis response management process for the company, built on Microsoft Dynamics. Now a valued, top notch process that ensures quick assessments of key facts to drive accuracy and efficiencies, especially of media management, the system regularly helps the team to work collaboratively with various groups in order to help to protect company and customers’ reputations during a time of crisis. Joining Microsoft in 2004, Ms. Pretorius has led some of the company’s most high profile perception campaigns and product launches, including Windows and Internet Explorer, and also worked in establishing Microsoft’s credibility in cloud computing with the introduction of the Windows Azure platform. In her over 20 years’ of international experience, she has been privileged to lead and implement a number of global programs and has spent considerable time working in Africa, Europe, Middle East and Asia. Tracey currently resides in Washington State in the United States of America. She has a Bachelor’s of Arts degree from the University of South Africa, where she majored in Communications and Industrial Psychology. She is a member of the Executive Women’s Forum for security, privacy and risk management professionals and a member representative at KPMG’s I-4 Forum for Information Security & Risk professionals where she regularly speaks on hot industry topics. Tracey also actively participates in industry event panels, with a particular focus on APTs, data breach concerns and response. Her outside of work interests include indoor cycling, travel, exploring art galleries, fine dining and wine tasting. She can always be found enjoying a good book!

Tom Kellermann is responsible for building Core's relationships with key industry and government partners, and helping further the acceptance of auditing security defenses to reduce organizations' operational risk. Additionally, Kellermann represents Core at US, international and industry security working groups, helping these organizations promote improved security practices and policies.

Tom Kellermann formerly held the position of Senior Data Risk Management Specialist the World Bank Treasury Security Team. Tom was responsible for Cyber-intelligence and policy management within the World Bank Treasury. Tom regularly advised central banks around the world per their cyber-risk posture and layered security architectures. Along with Thomas Glaessner and Valerie McNevin, he co-authored the book E-safety and Soundness: Securing Finance in a New Age and the White Paper, E-security: Risk Mitigation in Financial Transactions. Tom is also the author of numerous World Bank white papers on cyber security: Mobile Risk Management, The Digital Insider, Phishing in Digital Streams, Bots: Cyber Parasites, Zero Day, and Money Laundering in Cyberspace.

Tom is a Commissioner on The Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency. Tom also serves as a member of the Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography, the IP Governance Task Force, The National Consumer League’s Anti-Phishing Working Group, The New York Chapter of Infragard, the IPv6 Forum and is an active member of the American Bar Association’s working group on Cyber-crime. Tom is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).

Jon Clay is responsible for managing marketing messages and external publication of all the threat research and intelligence within Trend Micro as well different core technologies. As an accomplished public speaker with hundreds of speaking sessions around the globe, Jon focuses on the threat landscape and the use of big data in protecting against today’s sophisticated threats. Jon has held roles within Trend Micro as a Sales Engineer, Sales Engineering Manager, Training Manager and Product Marketing Manager for SMB prior to taking over as Director of Global Threat Communications. Jon is also a volunteer speaker for the Trend Micro Internet Safety for Kids and Families program. This experience has given him a broad technical background and understanding of the security requirements of businesses as well as an excellent understanding of the threat landscape. In his spare time he enjoys fly fishing & fly tying, golf, tennis, and spending time with his family.

Welcome to the Cognitive Era! - Operating the world's most sophisticated Cybersecurity Operation Centre.

ISO NSAI 9001 / 27001 certified facility that operates 24x7x365 keeping our customer safe and delivering world class cyber security support and incident response services.

First facility in Europe to implement IBM Watson to empower our SOC analysts and significantly improve operational efficiency. Working daily with an elite team of engineers, support teams and sales executives who are building smarttech247.com into a global leader in managed security services.

Hank Thomas is the Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Strategic Cyber Ventures (SCV). Hank leverages 20 years of experience in cybersecurity, military intelligence, management consulting, and commercial business to identify, assess, invest in, and mature differentiated business and technology teams positioned to revolutionize the cybersecurity landscape. Hank serves as a member of the board of directors for cybersecurity product companies E8 Security and Polarity, both part of the SCV portfolio that also includes TrapX Security and ID DataWeb.

Before forming SCV, Hank served an 11-year tenure as an executive at Booz Allen Hamilton—a global strategy, technology, and consulting firm—leading a consulting business focused on military grade cybersecurity for both commercial and government clients. Hank also served as the director of Booz Allen’s Cyber4Sight™, a multi-capability, global-cyberthreat intelligence team. His commercial client base included Fortune 100 financial services, retail, global manufacturing, automotive, healthcare, energy, and oil and gas clients. His government portfolio included U.S. military, intelligence, counterintelligence, and cyber community clients.

Prior to his work at Booz Allen, Hank was commissioned through the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) as an officer in the U.S. Army immediately upon graduation from Northwestern State University with a B.A. in Political Science. Selected for the Military Intelligence Corps, Hank served as an active duty intelligence officer for eight years in a variety of tactical, operational, and strategic assignments. Hank spent much of his military career focused on cyber, signals intelligence, information operations, and military intelligence planning, operations, gathering, and analysis. His assignments included the National Security Agency (NSA), Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, and the 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment.

David C. Lashway is the Global Co-Chair of Baker McKenzie’s Global Cybersecurity Practice and is located in Washington, DC. He focuses his practice in the areas of crisis management, internal investigations, and complex criminal, civil and administrative litigation, and has significant experience advising clients with respect to various aspects of cybersecurity related matters. He is a sought-after lawyer who advises the Fortune 100 on the full lifecycle of enterprise risks associated with information security, including before, during and after a network breach, as well as federal regulatory and criminal matters. He regularly conducts global investigations around the theft or compromise of confidential data, and is repeatedly called upon to litigate post-data breach issues. His clients include investment banks, publicly traded and private companies, trade associations and individual executives, and his matters span the globe. Mr. Lashway is a frequent speaker, a recognized leader in Chambers, and is included in The Washingtonian’s Top Lawyers for crisis management and cybersecurity. Mr. Lashway and his team were awarded Corporate Counsel Magazine’s 2017 Gold Winner for Cyber/Privacy Counsel in its annual Best of Corporate Counsel rankings based on a survey of over 1,500 corporate counsel, and BTI recently listed the team as best at cybersecurity among all leading law firms. Mr. Lashway has lived in Washington, DC for over 20 years, and serves on the board of several not-for-profit organizations.

Chad Holmes is a Partner/Principal, CTO, and Strategy, Innovation and Growth leader for Ernst & Young’s LLP’s (EY) Advisory Services Cybersecurity practice. He is also the global threat intelligence & cyber digital leader and has more than 18 years in the cybersecurity space that extends across all industries at a global scale. Chad also holds a top secret government clearance because of his work as a cyber intelligence liaison officer.

Directly prior to EY, Chad was the Chief Technology and Intelligence Officer at FireEye/Mandiant, where he was on the forefront of helping organizations prepare for, respond to and contain some of the largest cybersecurity breaches and malicious actors. He focused on providing strategic direction to mature and optimize organizations overall security posture. During his tenure at FireEye/Mandiant, he was able to translate business objectives into actionable, repeatable and reliable cybersecurity solutions that he delivered to the market. He was directly or indirectly responsible for technology innovation, engineering, product management, threat intelligence, corporate strategy, consultative services and strategic sales operations.

JD Sherry is well-versed in enterprise security and data center architecture and has successfully implemented large-scale public, private and hybrid clouds emphasizing security architecture best practices. Over the last decade, Sherry has established himself as a trusted senior advisor for the protection of the payment card industry (PCI), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and personally identi able information (PII) data. As vice president of portfolio strategy in the O ce of the CISO at Optiv, Sherry focuses on security and compliance aspects that enable clients to be successful in planning, building and running their cloud ecosystems, spanning across private, public and most commonly hybrid cloud computing environments. Sherry also o ers strategic consulting at the C-level and board level. Previously, Sherry spent the last decade in senior leadership roles, most recently serving as CEO of cloud cyber security upstart Cavirin, transforming them into a risk and compliance player. Under his leadership, Cavirin was ranked among the top 20 ho est cyber security companies in 2015, according to Cybersecurity Ventures. Additionally, Sherry served as global vice president for Trend Micro where he focused on cyber security program e orts, managing vendor relationships and collaborating on business development activities pertaining to the advancement of cyber security best practices.

Prior to Trend Micro, Sherry served as vice president of technology for seven years at publicly traded NIC/EGOV, where he was chartered to lead corporate technology initiatives and formulate EGOV.com’s centralized security and technology vision. While at NIC/EGOV.com, he managed technology platforms that processed more than $18 billion in payments on behalf of citizens, businesses and governments. Sherry also held various leadership positions at Honeywell FM&T, which manufactures and assembles 85 percent of the non-nuclear components in nuclear weapons. Sherry interfaces regularly with the media to provide expert insight on the state of cyber security and how individuals and organizations can adequately protect themselves from loss. He previously held a Top Secret clearance, and has an MBA IT degree from Jones University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska.

Matt Jones brings a successful track record of developing breakout strategies and growing public and private companies in the industries of security, communications and storage. Most recently, Matt was executive chairman of InterAct, the leading cloud-based software provider for the public safety market.

Prior to that, Matt was president and CEO of CloudShield Technologies, a cybersecurity solutions company, which was acquired by SAIC. Matt has held executive positions at several other companies, including CEO at Allocity (acquired by EMC), and COO of Excite@Home, Sprint and AT&T.

Matt has a Bachelor of Science from Miami University and an MBA from the University of Michigan.

Simone Petrella is Chief Cybersecurity Officer at CyberVista, where she leads product development and delivery of cybersecurity training and education curriculums as well as workforce initiatives for executives, cyber practitioners, and continuing education. Previously, Simone was a Senior Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton where she helped build the firm's cybersecurity practice in the commercial sector focusing on the creation of cyber fusion centers and the integration of cyber threat intelligence, security operations, and cyber defense operations into effective cyber security operations. For a decade she led the firm's all source cyber threat intelligence business in the national security and Defense sectors, where she built out a threat capability and team with in depth subject matter expertise in all aspects of cyber threat intelligence, including intelligence support to both defensive and offensive operations. Her areas of specialty included predictive cyber intelligence based on an understanding of the threat adversary and developing service offerings to integrate intelligence into exercises to provide realistic cyber scenarios. Simone received her J.D. with honors from Catholic University's Columbus School of Law and graduated from Georgetown University with a B.A. in Government and a M.A. in International Law and Policy. She is a member of Women in International Security and is admitted to the New York Bar. A native of New Jersey, she has resided in Washington D.C. since 2000.

Paul Battista is CEO and Co-Founder of Polarity, creator of the world’s first commercial memory augmentation platform. Prior to Polarity, Paul was an intelligence officer for the United States Government and participated in all elements of the intelligence cycle from planning operations through dissemination to senior policy makers in the White House. Before his government service, Paul was a senior engineer for Aetna Inc., a penetration tester, and incident responder for multiple Fortune 100 customers.

David Coxe is the CEO of ID DataWeb, Inc. (www.iddataweb.com), and is responsible for the strategic vision and operations of the company. ID DataWeb’s Attribute Exchange Network (AXN) is an integrated identity security platform which provides digital identity proofing, flexible account onboarding, strong adaptive authentication, and attribute based access control in a seamless, integrated experience. The AXN delivers solutions using industry standard protocols and support for EU privacy regulations, making it simple to start from scratch, or integrate with existing security stacks. With more than 15 years of identity management experience, Mr. Coxe was the Principal Investigator for the NSTIC Pilot programs that started in 2013 and has continued to be very active in the development and implementation of related identity standards and community trust frameworks. He co-chaired the Attribute Exchange Working Group (AXWG) at the Open Identity Exchange (OIX) for implementing the business, legal, technical, policy/privacy and assessor/certification requirements for the Attribute Exchange (AX) trust framework specification that was approved by the OIX Board in June 2013. Since then, Mr. Coxe has been working with industry participants including government agencies, lawyers, policy makers, and business leaders to design, build, and use online identity solutions and trust framework ecosystems using the AXN. Mr. Coxe is also the co-founder and Board Member of Criterion Systems, a successful Federal Systems Integrator supporting cyber security and other technology initiatives for DoD, civilian agency and intelligence community customers in highly classified environments.

Sean Weppner is a skilled technologist, strategic business leader, and cybersecurity expert experienced in building solutions and leading engineering and data science teams within the commercial space and the United States Defense and Intelligence Communities. As Managing Director for Operations at Nisos Group, Sean oversees client engagement, product management, and is responsible for building the firm's technology partnership strategy. His unique background allows him to provide the bridge between the highly technical prowess of Nisos’ operators and the needs of business leaders to drive impacts and outcomes for Nisos Group's many clients. Before joining Nisos, Sean spent nearly 10 years consulting in the Defense and Intelligence communities, providing expertise in cloud and distributed computing, and delivered everything from prototypes to enterprise level capabilities in the realm of data ingest, storage, analysis, and visualization. During his time in the DoD and IC Sean acquired a specialization in Deep Learning and delivered capabilities by turning forward leaning academic research into operational statistical models which could then be used to analyze vast amounts of image and text data. Sean is an active member of the State University of New York University at Buffalo’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Deans Advisory Council and is a Cloudera Certified Apache Hadoop Developer.

Denis leads a global team of Offering/Product Managers, Development, Security Researchers and Technologists that deliver the IBM suite of Security Products/Services.

Some of his primary responsibilities include:

• Ensuring customer investments in IBM products/services are realized and delivered on a continuous basis
• Continuous Innovation and break thru thinking happens and is delivered at speed through IBM products and services.
• IBM is a thought leader and trusted advisor when it comes to the Cyber Threat.

Denis joined IBM through the acquisition of Vallent Technologies in February 2007. With the formation of the IBM Security unit in 2012, Denis joined the new unit to lead up Product Development. Since then he has lead a major transformation of the IBM Security product portfolio while also integrating a number of strategic acquisitions that have broadened the IBM Security capabilities in the market.

Tom Kellermann is responsible for building Core's relationships with key industry and government partners, and helping further the acceptance of auditing security defenses to reduce organizations' operational risk. Additionally, Kellermann represents Core at US, international and industry security working groups, helping these organizations promote improved security practices and policies.

Tom Kellermann formerly held the position of Senior Data Risk Management Specialist the World Bank Treasury Security Team. Tom was responsible for Cyber-intelligence and policy management within the World Bank Treasury. Tom regularly advised central banks around the world per their cyber-risk posture and layered security architectures. Along with Thomas Glaessner and Valerie McNevin, he co-authored the book E-safety and Soundness: Securing Finance in a New Age and the White Paper, E-security: Risk Mitigation in Financial Transactions. Tom is also the author of numerous World Bank white papers on cyber security: Mobile Risk Management, The Digital Insider, Phishing in Digital Streams, Bots: Cyber Parasites, Zero Day, and Money Laundering in Cyberspace.

Tom is a Commissioner on The Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency. Tom also serves as a member of the Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography, the IP Governance Task Force, The National Consumer League’s Anti-Phishing Working Group, The New York Chapter of Infragard, the IPv6 Forum and is an active member of the American Bar Association’s working group on Cyber-crime. Tom is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).

Rik Ferguson, Vice President of Security Research at Trend Micro, is a Special Advisor to Europol EC3, project leader with the International Cyber Security Prevention Alliance (ICSPA), Vice Chair of the Centre for Strategic Cyberspace & Security Science and advisor to various UK government technology forums. In April 2011 Rik was inducted into the Infosecurity Hall of Fame

As a presenter at global industry events such as RSA, Mobile World Congress, InfoSecurity, Virus Bulletin, RUSI and the e-Crime Congress, Rik addresses the challenges posed by emerging technology and online crime. He is frequently interviewed by the BBC, CNN, CNBC, Channel 4, Sky News and Al-Jazeera English and is quoted by national newspapers and trade publications throughout the world.

Rik writes the Countermeasures blog and is the lead spokesperson for Trend Micro, he also writes regular columns for CIO, ZDNet, T3 and several other European publications. In this position, Rik is actively engaged in research into online threats and the underground economy. He also researches the wider implications of new developments in the Information Technology arena and their impact on security both for consumers and in the enterprise.

Dave Allen is vice president of western Europe for Palo Alto Networks. In this role he is responsible for planning business strategy and overseeing its delivery to ensure outstanding sales performance and customer satisfaction across the UK, Ireland, South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.

Dave joined Palo Alto Networks in February 2016 from NetApp, where he was vice president and general manager for Northern Europe. His twenty years in industry has included time in in roles ranging from subsea robotics engineer, sysadmin and technologist and evangelist, to operations and consulting, into sales and business leadership across multiple countries.

Dave holds a Masters in Microelectronics from the University of Edinburgh, and enjoys weight training, winter sports and has a keen interest in the latest gadgets.

Richard has worked for over 20 years in various senior technology management roles from software engineer through to CIO. Richard was involved in deploying the first Card Not Present currency exchange solution (DCC) in the European Card Payment market in 2005, and was CIO of the first Irish software company to achieve the Business Continuity Management Certification ISO22301 in 2012.

More recently Richard has been working as CIO for a software solution provider serving the largest US mortgage servicer, and is now spending his time managing IT risk and information security for a financial services multi-national.

Richard has been involved in ensuring all companies he works with attain and retain industry certification such as ISO27001, ISO22301, PCI DSS, and ITIL certifications. Richard is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and in his spare time he shares his opinions and insight on Information Security management on his blog www.richardharpur.com and on twitter @rharpur.

Bryan McCarthy leads Ronan Daly Jermyn’s Cyber and Data Protection Group, representing companies on a broad range of data management issues, including cyber and data security, notification of breaches, data subject access requests, data transfers outside the EEA, employee data, due diligence in sales of corporate assets and compliance training.

An accomplished IT leader, anchoring IT as a core driver of business expansion, I specialise in building effective structure and aligning organisations towards the achievement of clear business goals and objectives. In developing strong and capable IT leaders I ensure that IT can deliver at all levels in the organisation and that real results are the constant focus.

Through a significant history in regulated medical and pharmaceutical industries and through high-profile leadership in the service and BPO industry I have developed deep technical knowledge as well as skills and expertise that can ensure accomplishment and success in the all IT disciplines.

An effective presenter and communicator in all media and a developer of strong relationships within an organisation, I can ensure the success of programs to deliver real business progression and change.

Enda Kyne is a Senior Executive with significant experience in IT consulting, management consulting, IT management, business leadership and business change.  With a career to date spanning over 30 years, Enda has worked in large structured corporate environments and also in rapidly growing start-up organisations.  He joined FBD Insurance plc as Chief Technology and Operations Office in January 2017, having previously worked with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Pathfinder, Bank of Ireland, Vision Consulting and Cap Gemini in a number of senior roles. He was also appointed to the e-Health Ireland Committee by the HSE Directorate in 2015. Enda holds a BSc in Information Technology from Dublin City University.

Ian is the Director of IT for Laya Healthcare, Irelands second largest provider of private medical insurance.

Ian leads a team of software development, test, project management and systems professionals that delivery all of Laya's IT services.

Ian is a member of the Laya Healthcare executive team and ensures that Laya's IT capabilities are closely aligned to the business at all times.

Ian ensures that all of Laya's IT systems and development meet the needs of memebers, recent innovations have included the care on call app, claims app, members area and significant improvement to the online sales tools.

Ian joined Laya Healthcare after 15 years with Bon Secours Health System as director of IT, and 15 years prior to that as an Executive Officer in the Irish Naval Service where he spent much of his time at sea in a variety of roles.

Kurt has spent more than twelve years of his career in the FBI’s Counterintelligence and Cyber Divisions working cases that protected national security. His primary focus has been state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) intrusions cases that included cross-jurisdictional cooperation at all levels of government. From 2010-2012, Kurt was assigned to FBI Headquarters as a Supervisory Special Agent in the Cyber Division, he coordinated and led multiple teams that were investigating and mitigating various APT threats. He received the FBI Director's Award for Excellence and the U.S. Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service for the groundbreaking case against the five 3PLA hackers charged with economic espionage in 2014. He is currently the Assistant Legal Attaché for the FBI in London, where he represents the FBI on cyber matters.

Information Technology executive with significant leadership, change management, and business transformation experience. A global leader, and IS Business Partner with significant business & technology experience.

Responsible for Information Services for a Global Manufacturing footprint in the MedTech sector.

Experience in IT Leadership, Solution Design & Deployment, Applications Development, and IT Compliance and Business Intelligence.

Significant experience in multiple industries including Medical Devices, Pharmaceutical and Semiconductor Manufacturing as well as commercial experience in the Information Technology Sector.

Hank Thomas is a Partner and the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Strategic Cyber Ventures LLC, (SCV). Hank leverages his 19 years of experience in business, consulting, and the military intelligence and cybersecurity community to spot, assess, and invest in truly differentiated business and technology teams positioned to revolutionize the cybersecurity landscape.

Mary O'Brien is Vice President of Engineering, IBM Security. She leads a global team of research and development professionals delivering the IBM Security Product portfolio. Mary has 30 years of industry experience developed through tenures in the Uk, US and Ireland. Currently based in Ireland, Mary earned her BEng degree from Dublin City University.

Gary is AIB’s Head of Cyber Security Transformation where he leads the effort to develop the capabilities to address the Cyber Security challenges of tomorrow. Gary has nearly 20 years of Information Security experience having held senior positions within banks and financial institutions in Ireland, the UK and Australia. Gary joined AIB from Commonwealth Bank in 2015. His current areas of focus are strategic security. threat management and the development of business focused information security practices. In addition to his information security roles Gary has also spent time in academia as professor finance at IE Business school, Madrid.

Successful results driven IT executive with over 15 years of experience in enterprise-level technology solutions and management.

Holding an extensive background in enterprise level IT transformation activities having built solution centres from the ground up in order to support multi-billion dollar companies.

I am currently employed as the global director of business intelligence for Tyco and am tasked with transforming the company into a data driven enterprise leveraging best in class IT solutions.

Prior to my current role in Tyco I enjoyed a 13 year career with Flextronics. During my time there I wore many hats, I lead the IT operations group spanning 15 of Flextronics EMEA sites, initiated and directed a BI enablement team focussed on delivering business insight to the EMEA region, lead the EMEA IT Implementations group, managed large scale global deployments, IT account manager for some of their largest customers, lead architect of the cloud strategy team, developed as a functional logistics and enterprise planning consultant and at the beginning I worked within local IT as a network administrator.

Trend Micro, a global leader in IT security, appointed Dervla Mannion as its Vice President of European Operations Centre in early 2013. Having joined the security firm in 2003, she rose through the ranks as one of its leading managers from its London base, and later transitioned to the Japanese company’s European HQ in Cork.

A graduate of Dublin City University and University of Dortmund (Germany), Dervla has held a variety of tech leadership roles spanning sales, marketing and operations functions, both in Ireland and abroad (Germany, The Netherlands and UK). Prior to this, Dervla operated in mergers and acquisitions with a particular focus on emerging growth markets. Dervla is a member of the Digital Sales Council in Ireland – a council formed in 2015 of executive sales leaders, providing thought leadership and governance around the vibrant EMEA Inside Sales sector.

She is also an active member of Cork’s booming tech sector, where she remains a board member of the IT@Cork European Technology Cluster, a non-profit independent business organisation representing the interests of the IT industry in Ireland.

In 2015, Dervla Mannion was nominated one of Irelands Top 20 influencers in the global tech industry.

Niamh is DocuSigns EU Information Security Director. She joined DocuSign with 15 years’ experience in the Information Security profession. The first 12 years of her career were spent working on Information Security teams for an Irish Financial Institution (AIB), she then progressed her career to manage the security strategy program portfolio for an Irish online eGaming company (Paddy Power). In 2014 she took her career global and set-up the EMEA Privacy and Compliance team for a cloud application provider (Workday) embedding privacy and compliance into the European headquarters here in Dublin.

She describes herself as “Born to Protect” as she protected the goals in her football sporting life and continues to protect data in her professional life. Niamh qualified as the youngest female in Ireland to obtain the Information Security CISSP qualification back in 2004. In her spare time she likes to give back to the Information Security industry by lecturing at National College Ireland, sitting on Global (ISC)2 Scholarship review panels and mentoring those new to the Information Security Profession. Niamh is based out of DocuSign EMEA headquarters in Dublin.

Welcome to the Cognitive Era! - Operating the world's most sophisticated Cybersecurity Operation Centre.

ISO NSAI 9001 / 27001 certified facility that operates 24x7x365 keeping our customer safe and delivering world class cyber security support and incident response services.

First facility in Europe to implement IBM Watson to empower our SOC analysts and significantly improve operational efficiency. Working daily with an elite team of engineers, support teams and sales executives who are building smarttech247.com into a global leader in managed security services.

Dr. Gladyshev is an internationally recognized expert in the field of digital forensics and cybercrime investigation. He holds a PhD in Computer Science with specialization in Digital Forensics, and his academic research focuses on the development of automated reasoning algorithms for analysis of digital evidence.

Dr. Gladyshev has been working with the Law Enforcement since 1998 when he designed the first cybercrime training course for An Garda Siochana. He joined University College Dublin as a lecturer in 2005 and directed the development of UCD’s MSc in Forensic Computing and Cybercrime Investigation that became an international success story with over 150 law enforcement students enrolled annually. Dr. Gladyshev founded Digital Forensics Investigation Research Laboratory (DigitalFIRE) in 2007 and established UCD’s MSc programme in Digital Investigation and Forensic Computing for the private sector in 2009.

In his extra curricular capacity Dr. Gladyshev serves as an invited expert to INTERPOL Global Cybercrime Expert Group and works part-time as a director consultant in the digital forensics division of Grant Thornton Ireland. He also serves as a cybercrime department editor for the IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine and participates as editorial board member in the production of several academic journals in the field of digital forensics and cybercrime investigation. In 2014, Dr. Gladyshev was elected to the board of directors of DFRWS.org a US not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of digital forensics education worldwide, and he is chairing the technical programme committee of DFRWS EU 2017 conference that will take place in Germany in March 21-23 of next year.

Paul is an experienced information security, risk and compliance professional currently working for Glen Dimplex, the world's largest manufacturer of electrical heating, and also holds significant global market positions in domestic appliances, cooling, ventilation, and renewable energy solutions.

Jamie Cowper is the Director of EMEA Marketing for Resilient, an IBM Company. He has previously served as the Senior Director of Business Development and Marketing at Nok Nok Labs.

Prior to this, he was Director of European Marketing at Veracode and PGP Corporation, as well as business development and product marketing roles at Symantec, Mirapoint and Critical Path. Jamie has significant industry expertise across a wide range of Information Security areas, including Authentication, Encryption, Email and Application Security.

He has spoken at a large number of industry events across Europe and Asia, including RSA, Gartner and Forrester conferences and contributed articles to many leading IT publications.

Alan Jenkins is a charismatic and effective leader, with strong technical expertise across all security disciplines but particularly cyber, accrued over 25+ years as a practitioner. He possesses broad experience in both private & public sectors and has a track record of devising and implementing strategic change programmes within the security, privacy & risk functions to deliver business benefit at optimum cost that is fit-for-purpose. He is a passionate supporter of Security Convergence and has served on ASIS Europe's related sub-committee for the past 3 years. He joined IBM in November 2015 as an Associate Partner focused on the Financial Services Sector.

Shirley Finnerty is the Business Group Lead for Windows and Devices in Microsoft Ireland. With over 20 years specialising in Devices with Mobile Operators and Microsoft, she has experienced the evolution of the workplace extending beyond the office in support of employees working productively from multiple locations. One of the challenge of a mobile workforce is to ensure users identities, data and devices are protected. Shirley will discuss Security and how it relates to supporting mobility in Organisations.

Mark would consider himself to be 50% Software Technologist and 50% Economist which makes him a 100% Xanadu CEO. Mark has been involved in the online gaming sector since early 2003 where he has been at the forefront of cutting edge technology and at the sharp end of the online gaming sector. Mark has extensive knowledge of sports betting and trading technologies. With 9 years of in-depth betting exchange development experience he has an intimate, in-depth and rare understanding of what it takes to build, maintain and innovate with a highly transactional and highly available environment.

Mark views both process and software development from an economist and business driven angle. This approach coupled with his passion for innovation should help Xanadu become a leading player in software development and support for leading edge online platforms.