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.