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