Speakers
Additional Presenters added weekly
Keynote

Tim Brown
CISO
Team8

Omer Singer
Co-Founder & CTO
Glow
Featured

Taylor Fox
VP Director - BSA Officer
Sunrise Banks

Connie Howe
Basketball Hall of Fame
IBM (ret.)

General Joseph Votel
General
U.S. Army (Retired)
Speakers

Vince Aimutis
VP – Director of Information Services / CISO
Federated Insurance

Peter Alsis
MNIT Cyber Navigator Supervisor
State of Minnesota

Tara Atkinson
Federal Bureau of Investigation

Martin Bally
Chief AI Security Strategist
Glow

Arun Batchu
Advancing the Future of MedTech Workforce Instructor
Technological Leadership Institute

John Bradshaw
Director, Solutions Engineering
Novee

Nancy Brainerd
Senior Engineering Director, Product Security
Medtronic, Inc.

Christopher Buse
SVP and CISO
Old Republic

Bill Carter
National Director of Cybersecurity Strategy
Fortinet

Steve Carvey
Engineer-SLED
CrowdStrike

Matt Connors
Vice President of Advisory Services
IDMWORKS

Grace Doyle
Election Security Cyber Navigator
Office of Minnesota Secretary of State, Steve Simon

Paige Early
Director of SLED- North Central
GuidePoint Security

Steven Eppley
Private Sector Coordinator
Federal Bureau of Investigation

Charles Fortune
Managing Director
BeyondID – A KeyData Cyber Company

Christopher Gabbard
Supervisory Cybersecurity Advisor
CISA

Chris Gabbard
Supervisory Cybersecurity Advisor
CISA

Philip Geier
CEO & GRC Practice Lead
Pivotalogic

Dr. Torsten George
Cybersecurity Evangelist
ID Dataweb, Inc.

Dave Gold
VP, Global Field CTO/CISO, SentinelOne
SentinelOne

Matthew Harberts
C3 Technical Lead
Minnesota National Guard

Keven Hendricks
Founder - Ubivis Project

Vitaly Herasevich
Professor of Anesthesiology and Medicine
Mayo Clinic

Tim Herman
President
InfraGard Minnesota Members Alliance

Stefanie Horvath
Major General
Army National Guard

John Israel
Assistant Commissioner and Chief Information Security Officer
MNIT

Amartya Jha
Co-founder and CEO
CodeAnt

Andrew Joycey
Regional Sales Manager, Canada Central US
Black Kite

Peter Kapelanski
Senior Manager, Vulnerability Vigilance
Medtronic

Dinos Kerigan-Kyrou
Senior Advisor
NATO DEEP e-Academy, and CompleteGRC

Lindsey Konerza
Security Governance and Compliance Analyst
University of Minnesota

Julie Kriedemann
Regional SLED Manager
Crowdstrike

Michele Lange
Travelers

Phyllis Lee
VP Content Development in Cybersecurity Best Practices
Center for Internet Security

Jennifer Lotze
Principal Consultant
IT Audit Labs

Eric Magnus
Sales Engineer
Zafran Security

Shadya Maldonado
Co-Founder and CEO
ArcQubit Inc.

Eileen Manning
Founding Partner
Cyber Security Summit

Mark Mathison
IT Audit Director
MN Office of the Legislative Auditor

Molly McLain Sterling
Sr. Director, Global Cybersecurity Strategists
Proofpoint

Jeremy Medrano
Solutions Engineer
Sprocket Security

Tina Meeker
Deputy CISO
Old Republic

Mohamed Mohamed
Cyber Risk Assessment Analyst
Metro State University/Metro Schools College Prep

Brian Morgan
Cyber Coordination Cell (C3)
Minnesota National Guard

Quang Nguyen
Sr. Manager, Sales Engineering
CrowdStrike

Amir Ofek
Co-founder and CEO
aizome

Neal Patel
Director
BeyondID – A KeyData Cyber Company

Clint Patterson
Founding Security Engineer
Artemis

Vince Peeler
Co-Founder & CEO
Enlighten Intelligence

Jack Poller
Vice President
NetFoundry

Mark Ritchie
Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army, Emeritus
US Army

Geoff Roote
Sr. Manager, Delivery & Experience Innovation
Ent

Randy Rose
Vice President of Security Operations & Intelligence
MS-ISAC

Mitchell Rothstein
Manager
EisnerAmper

Dana Salk
CISO
Clairity

Shannon Seaver
Executive Director
Stone Arch Collective

Tabitha Senty
Customer Success & Solutions Leader
IT Audit Labs

Dr. Georgianna Shea
Chief Technologist, CCTI’s Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab
Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Kate Siegrist
Partner, Technology Assurance
EisnerAmper

Ken Sigel
Solutions Engineer
Onyx

Shaun Six
President
UTSI International

Eirene Shipkowitz Smith
Principal Consultant Cybersecurity
MedSec

Justin Smith
Principal Security Architect, Platform Security Manager
Ecolab

Ben Stock
VP of Customer Support
Ordr Inc.

Jiwnani Tannu
Principal Security Engineer
Microsoft

Tony Taylor
CISO
Land O' Lakes

Drew Vanover
Principal Cybersecurity Strategist
Horizon3

Nicolette Weis
Cyber Coordination Cell
Air National Guard

Tom Wisnowski
CEO
Nexera
Moderator

Debra Bruemmer
Senior Director of Clinical Security
MedSec

Quincy Castro
CISO
Chainguard

Mary Diner
Director, Ethical Hacking
Optum

Phil Englert
VP Medical Device Security
Health ISAC

Michelle Greeley
Senior Director of Compliance
Solera Health

Chip Laingen
Executive Director
Defense Alliance

Kristy Livingston
Sr. Mgr Cybersecurity Operations
Sunrise Banks

Jerrod Montoya
vCISO & General Counsel
Truvantis

Michael Nghiem
Department Leader, Identity Access Management
Edward Jones

Jeremy Treadwell
Professor of Management & Enterprise AI Strategy
Bowie State University

Catherine Trebnick
Managing Director
Rosenblatt Securities
Panelist

Odutola “Tola” Amusan
Principal Information Security Analyst - HTM
Mayo Clinic

Michael Cunningham
Hardware Deployment Technician
MAC

Kumar Dasani
Head of InfoSec
B. Braun Medical Inc.

Francois Joseph Gelin
Youth Advocate
180 Degrees

Ann Lebar
VP of Services
MedSec

Karl Mattson
Founder & Managing Partner
Squared Circle Ventures

Allison Miller-Cestaro
Chief Technology Officer
SBD Ventures

Brian Morgan
Cyber Coordination Cell Director
Minnesota National Guard

Akshitha Priyadarshini Murugan
Cybersecurity Graduate Student
Illinois Tech

Kellie Roach
Sr. Director - Cyber Operations
Optiv

Mike Rogers
CISO
Hormel

Michael Wright
CEO/Founder
Intercepting Horizons

Dr. Cori Zuppo
CEO
Cyber Sports, Ltd.
Special Guest

Kay Marie Dennis
Certified Shiatsu Therapist
Shiatsu Therapist

Buster Therapy Dog
Comfort Dog
North Star Therapy Animals

