Speakers
Additional Presenters added weekly
Keynote

Tim Brown
CISO
Team8
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

Martin Bally
Chief AI Security Strategist
Glow

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

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

Christopher Buse
SVP and CISO
Old Republic International

Bill Carter
National Director of Cybersecurity Strategy
Fortinet

Steve Carvey
Engineer-SLED
Crowdstrike

Mea Clift
CISO
Ally

Kay Marie Dennis
Certified Shiatsu Therapist
Shiatsu Therapist

Paige Early
Director of SLED- North Central
GuidePoint Security

Charles Fortune
Managing Director
BeyondID – A KeyData Cyber Company

Chris Gabbard
Supervisory Cybersecurity Advisor
DHS & ISA

Christopher Gabbard
Supervisory Cybersecurity Advisor
DHS & ISA

Philip Geier
CEO & GRC Practice Lead
Pivotalogic

Dr. Torsten George
Cybersecurity Evangelist
ID Dataweb, Inc.

Pandian Gnaprakasam
CEO
ORDR

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

Matthew Harberts
C3 Technical Lead
Minnesota National Guard

Keven Hendricks
Founder - Ubivis Project
Federal Bureau of Investigation

Vitaly Herasevich
Professor of Anesthesiology and Medicine
Mayo Clinic

Tim Herman
President
Minnesota InfraGard Members Alliance

Stefanie Horvath
Major General
Army National Guard

John Israel
Assistant Commissioner and Chief Information Security Officer
MNIT

Peter Kapelanski
Senior Manager, Vulnerability Vigilance
Medtronic

Dinos Kerigan-Kyrou
Senior Advisor NATO DEEP e-Academy; Director CompleteGRC
NATO DEEP

Lindsey Konerza
Security Governance and Compliance Analyst
University of Minnesota

Julie Kriedemann
Regional SLED Manager
Crowdstrike

Phyllis Lee
Vice President of Content Development
Center for Internet Security

Jennifer Lotze
Principal Consultant
IT Audit Labs

Eric Magnus
Sales Engineer
Zafran Security

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

Tina Meeker
Deputy CISO
Old Republic International

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

Vince Peeler
Co-Founder & CEO
Enlightened Intelligence

Mitchell Rothstein
Manager
EisnerAmper

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, National Technology Assurance Leader
EisnerAmper

Omer Singer
Co-Founder & CTO
Glow

Eirene Shipkowitz Smith
Principal Consultant Cybersecurity
MedSec

Tony Taylor
CISO
Land O' Lakes

Buster Therapy Dog
Therapy Dog
NorthStar Therapy Animals

Tofte Therapy Dog
Therapy Dog
Twin City Pet Rescue Organization

Nicolette Weis
Cyber Coordination Cell
Air National Guard

Tom Wisnowski
CEO
Nexera
Moderator

Debra Bruemmer
Senior Director of Clinical Security
MedSec

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

Castro Quincy
CISO
Chainguard

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
Help Desk Technician
Purpose Brands, LLC

Kumar Dasani
Head of InfoSec
B. Braun Medical Inc.

Francois Joseph Gelin
Youth Advocate
180 Degrees

Mark Jaffe
Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer
NetFoundry

Ann Lebar
VP of Services
MedSec

Karl Mattson
Founder & Managing Partner
Squared Circle Ventures

Allison Miller-Cestaro
Chief Technology Officer
SBD Ventures

Akshitha Priyadarshini Murugan
Cybersecurity Graduate Student
Illinois Tech

Kellie Roach
Sr. Director - Cyber Operations
Optiv

Mike Rogers
CISO | Hormel
Visionary Security Operations Leader

Dr. Cori Zuppo
CEO
Cyber Sports, Ltd.

