Overview
The 4th Annual Florida Technology Summit will be held on November 15th, 2023 at the Tampa Marriott Water Street (505 Water Street, Tampa, Florida, 33602) from 8am-4pm.
The theme for this year's event is “Strategically Accelerating our Businesses through IT and Security." This B-B event is targeted for the Technology and Security community. Attendees consist of IT/IS Executives and Direct reports across all verticals within the state of Florida interested in Networking, Researching/Learning, Career Advancement, and Purchasing. Attend the Florida Technology Summit to get the right tools and make vital connections to best prepare your company for the broad spectrum of ever-changing technology trends.
Governing Body Members
Glen Armes
CISO
Old Republic International Corporation
Wilson Bautista Jr.
CISO
BlueCard
Keyvan Bohlooli
SVP, Chief Digital & Innovation Officer
Berkshire Hathaway Energy Montana, LLC
Dennis Devlin
Consumer Security Advocate
Gryphon Online Safety, Inc.
James J.J. Farrell
Senior Director of IT and Security Audit
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Rick Granzow
CTO
Rock Solid Consulting
Chris Hall
Owner and Principal Consultant
MH3 Consulting, LLC
Russell Haupert
CIO/CTO, Director of Technology & Innovation
City of Tampa
Renata Kobylinkski
VP, IT Infrastructure and Support Services
Generali Global Assistance
Sridhar Kocharlakota
IT Director
Energy Insurance Mutual
Ramin Kouzehkanani
Executive Team Member and Chief Information & Innovation Officer
Hillsborough County Government
Joe Kwo
USF Graduate Mentor
University of South Florida
Ray Moore
Cybersecurity Program Manager
United States Special Operations Command
Charles Payne
CTO/CISO
Neptune Media
Chris Ramos
VP, Information Security
Publix Employees Federal Credit Union
Marcus Session
VP, Information Technology Services
Hillsborough County Aviation Authority
Andy Swenson
CEO
Delbridge Group
Krizi Trivisani
Former CISO
American Red Cross
Melissa Wykle
Executive Digital Transformation Center
Integris Group
Lisa Young
Senior Metrics Engineer and Board Member
Netflix and (ISC)2
Sponsors
We would like to thank our all of our sponsors for being a part of this year's Florida Technology Summit. From being a sponsor, you will be recognized for the education and mission your company contributes to our tradeshow, panels, and sessions. Many of our sponsors have been a part of our annual summit for many years and we are proud to support them. See below for a list of our present and past sponsors.
Gold Sponsors
https://www.paloaltonetworks.com
Palo Alto Networks is the world’s cybersecurity leader. We innovate to outpace cyberthreats, so organizations can embrace technology with confidence. We provide next-gen cybersecurity to thousands of customers globally, across all sectors. Our best-in-class cybersecurity platforms and services are backed by industry-leading threat intelligence and strengthened by state-of-the-art automation. Whether deploying our products to enable the Zero Trust Enterprise, responding to a security incident, or partnering to deliver better security outcomes through a world-class partner ecosystem, we’re committed to helping ensure each day is safer than the one before. It’s what makes us the cybersecurity partner of choice. For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.
ThreatLocker® is a global cybersecurity leader, providing enterprise-level cybersecurity tools to improve the security of servers and endpoints. ThreatLocker’s combined Application Whitelisting, Ringfencing™, Storage Control and Privileged Access Management solutions are leading the cybersecurity market towards a more secure approach of blocking unknown application vulnerabilities. To learn more about ThreatLocker visit: www.threatlocker.com
Unitrends Unified BCDR enables our customers with a platform to address the challenges of today with a complete and agile solution designed to backup, secure, and recover all workloads. The platform encompasses protection for traditional data center infrastructure as well as cloud-based workloads, SaaS data, and the data being generated on endpoint devices such as laptops and remote PCs. Purposeful integrations with security tools provide end-to-end protection against cybercrime and human error, inject automation and artificial intelligence to simplify complex systems and provide a unified experience with visibility across a complete backup infrastructure.
Lunch and Learn Sponsors
Cato provides the world’s most robust single-vendor SASE platform, converging Cato SD-WAN and a complete cloud-native security service edge, Cato SSE 360, including Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) into a global cloud service. Cato. Ready for Whatever’s Next.
CyberFOX is a global cybersecurity solutions provider focused on identity access management (IAM) for IT professionals. Our two flagship products – Password Boss for password management and AutoElevate for privilege access management – supply two critical elements of a comprehensive IAM security strategy. This ability to monitor, manage and mitigate risks by controlling user access to critical information ensures organizations can tighten security defenses for themselves and their end-users. Built for the unique needs of today’s IT professionals, CyberFOX solutions simplify and improve the end-user experience by providing affordable, practicable security. To learn more about how CyberFOX helps protect businesses in more than 175 countries, visit www.cyberfox.com.
As society redefines risk and opportunity, OneTrust empowers tomorrow’s leaders to succeed through trust and impact with the Trust Intelligence Platform. The market-defining Trust Intelligence Platform from OneTrust connects privacy, GRC, ethics, and ESG teams, data, and processes, so all companies can collaborate seamlessly and put trust at the center of their operations and culture by unlocking their value and potential to thrive by doing what’s good for people and the planet.
Happy Hour Sponsor
Sophos and Data Integrity Services proudly partner to deliver superior cybersecurity outcomes by protecting companies of all sizes from the most advanced cyberthreats. We use industry leading solutions like, managed detection and response (MDR), firewall, email, endpoint, cloud protection and synchronized security. Data Integrity is proud to have received the Sophos North American Partner of the Year award four times, highlighting their steadfast devotion to delivering unrivalled service and innovative solutions.
Silver Sponsors
Blink is the first security hyperautomation copilot, backed by the largest library of pre-built workflows. With generative-AI in Blink, now anyone can generate an automated workflow to handle repetitive tasks or enforce security policies – simply by typing a prompt.
Nasuni® is a file services platform built for the cloud, powered by the world’s only global file system, UniFS®. Nasuni consolidates Network Attached Storage (NAS) and file server silos in cloud storage, delivering infinite scale, built-in backup, global file sharing, and local file server performance, all at half the cost of traditional file infrastructures.
Since 2011, Zadara’s Cloud Platform (ZCP) simplifies operational complexity through automated end-to-end infrastructure provisioning of compute, storage and network resources. Backed by an industry-best NPS rating of 71, Zadara Edge Cloud users are supported by Zadara’s team of battle-tested cloud experts and backed by our 100% SLA guarantee. With solutions available on-premises and through cloud and colocation providers, Zadara’s turnkey hardware/software, combined with its pay-only-for-what-you-use model, helps companies gain agility without sacrificing the features and functionality that enterprise IT teams demand. Zadara operates worldwide, including clouds in hundreds of data centers at public- and private-cloud partners, with an expert team that provides follow-the-sun services and support and is the official cloud supplier of Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN in the Formula One world championship. Zadara is headquartered in Irvine, California with locations in Cirencester (UK), Tokyo, Tel Aviv, Yokneam (Israel), Bangalore and Brazil.
Presentation Sponsors
Cohesity radically simplifies data management. Easily protect, manage, and derive value from data -- across the data center, edge, and cloud. Utilize a suite of services, consolidated on one multicloud data platform, and eliminate mass data fragmentation. Cohesity can be delivered as a service, self-managed, or provided by a Cohesity-powered partner.
Darktrace (DARK:L), a global leader in cyber security AI, delivers world-class technology that protects over 5,000 customers worldwide from advanced threats, including ransomware and cloud and SaaS attacks. The company’s fundamentally different approach applies Self-Learning AI to enable machines to understand the business in order to autonomously defend it. Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, the company has 1,500 employees and over 30 offices worldwide. Darktrace was named one of TIME magazine’s ‘Most Influential Companies’ for 2021.
Deepwatch is securing the digital economy by tenaciously protecting enterprise networks - everywhere, everyday. Our team, many of the most technically astute minds in cybersecurity, serves an impressive list of Fortune 500/Global 2000 companies. Deepwatch’s cloud security platform backed by exceptional engineers, developers and security experts is changing the modern SOC.
Imperium Data is an award-winning provider of IT solutions, talent, and engineering services for businesses, governments, and education. We offer our clients Pre-Sales Engineering, Post-Sales Support, IT Staff Augmentation, and Lifetime Warranties on Network Hardware and as-a-Service offerings that help organizations extend their lifecycle of their IT equipment.
Juniper Networks challenges the inherent complexity that comes with networking in the multicloud era. We do this with products, solutions and services that transform the way people connect, work and live. We simplify the process of transitioning to a secure and automated multicloud environment to enable secure, scalable, AI-driven networks that connect the world.
Netskope, a global cybersecurity leader, is redefining cloud, data, and network security. The Netskope Intelligent Security Service Edge (SSE) platform secures people, devices, and data anywhere they go.
NIX is a global software development company that delivers services to leading brands from different business verticals. Since 1994, we have created software solutions that boost companies, transforming business capabilities into tangible advantages and measurable values and efficiently addressing present-day business challenges across technologies, data, and processes. Our main differentiating factor is a holistic, detail-oriented approach to product creation, which has evolved into a precise and reliable mechanism over the years of experience. It focuses primarily on achieving clients' strategic goals and contributing to their business growth and prosperity rather than simply performing tasks. In each particular case, we identify the most suitable solution and select the most appropriate technology stacks and approaches to cover the client's needs and requirements.
Scale Computing integrates storage, servers, and virtualization software into an all-in-one appliance based system that is scalable, self-healing and as easy to manage as a single server. The result is a data center solution that reduces operational complexity, allows a faster response to business issues, and dramatically reduces costs.
Splunk helps make organizations more resilient. Leading organizations use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Organizations trust Splunk to prevent security, infrastructure, and application issues from becoming major incidents, absorb shocks from digital disruptions and accelerate digital transformation.
Veeam® is the leader in backup solutions that deliver Cloud Data Management™. Veeam Availability Platform™ is the most complete backup solution for helping customers on the journey to achieving success in the 5 Stages of Cloud Data Management. Veeam has 355,000+ customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500 and 67% of the Global 2,000, with customer satisfaction scores at 3.5x the industry 9 average, the highest in the industry. Veeam’s global ecosystem includes 66,000 channel partners; Cisco, HPE, NetApp and Lenovo as exclusive resellers; and 22,500+ cloud and service providers. Headquartered in Baar, Switzerland, Veeam has offices in more than 30 countries.
Florida Technology Summit Agenda
Wednesday, November 15th 2023
Opening Keynote Address: Transforming and Securing a $115b Enterprise: Lesson Learned by a State CIO
Jamie Grant, Former CIO, State of Florida
Top 10 Features a Modern Secure Backup Solution Should Have
Glenn Stewart, Senior Systems Engineer - Cohesity
Sponsored by: Cohesity
Presentation Giveaway: Blink Indoor – Wireless, HD Security Camera with Two-Year Battery Life, Motion Detection, and Two-Way Audio – 3 Camera Kit
Unitrends Unified BCDR: Why Backup Alone is No Longer Enough
Adam Marget, Product Marketing Manager - Unitrends
Sponsored by: Unitrends
Get Your Weekends Back with Scale Computing
Tom Roeder, Senior Systems Engineer - Scale Computing
Sponsored by: Scale Computing
CIO Forum: Leadership Strategies Moving Forward
Larry Blakely, VP/Director of IT
Ramin Kouzehkanani, Executive Team Member and Chief Information & Innovation Officer - Hillsborough County Government
Networking / Tour Exhibits
Zero Trust at the Endpoint: Fighting Ransomware (Lunch Included)
Danny Jenkins, CEO and Co-Founder - ThreatLocker
Sponsored by: ThreatLocker
Cybersecurity is Only as Strong as Its Weakest Link (Lunch Included)
David Hagen, Security Sales Overlay - TPx
Sponsored by: TPx
Presentation Giveaway: $100 Amazon eGift Card
CISO Forum: How to Prepare your Organization for the Future (Lunch Included)
Charles Payne, Cybersecurity Executive, Professor & Speaker - KPMG
Create a Great Wireless End-User Experience with AI-driven WiFi and Bluetooth
Dan LaMay, System Engineer - Mist Systems
Keri Roberts, Regional Sales Manager, Florida - Mist Systems
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks
Presentation Giveaway: Henry McKenna 10 Year Bottled in Bond Bourbon
How AI Can Think Like an Attacker
Matthew Bailey, Account Executive - Darktrace
Sponsored by: Darktrace
Securely Leveraging AI for Business Growth: The Role of Security Service Edge (SSE)
Michael Ferguson, Global Director for Security Transformation - Netskope
Sponsored by: Netskope
Presentation Giveaway: Portable Bluetooth Speaker
Prepare for Reliable Ransomware Recovery
Joseph Tucker, Senior Systems Engineer - Veeam
Sponsored by: Veeam
Presentation Giveaway: $100 Amazon Gift Card
Building a Stronger Privilege Access Management (PAM) Practice
Bill Morgan, Senior Sales Engineer - CyberFOX
Sponsored by: CyberFOX
Networking / Tour Exhibits
Vendor Giveaways
Panel Discussion: Attracting, Retaining & Inspiring the Workforce
Panelists:
Angie Rothen, CEO/President - CybrDynamix
Larry Blakely, VP/Director of IT
Sridhar Kocharlakota, IT Director - Energy Insurance Mutual
Vacation Giveaway & Conference Wrap-Up
Keynote Speaker's Bio
A Tampa native, Jamie previously served in the Florida House of Representatives prior to being appointed to the CIO role. He's an entrepreneur with a passion for creating technology solutions for the challenges in an ever-evolving and innovating marketplace. He earned his Bachelor of Business Administration from Auburn University and a law degree from Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Florida. Now Jamie is the Co-Founder of RedLeif, a technology, information and media company out of Tallahassee, FL.
Synopsis
More Info Coming Soon.
Speaker's Bio
Adam Marget serves as the Product Marketing Manager at Unitrends, a leader in data center backup and disaster recovery solutions. An experienced technical marketing professional, Adam has been a member of the Unitrends team since 2016, during which time he’s held several roles at the company. Driven by a love and curiosity for technology, he’s been delighted to have been afforded the opportunity to help both end users and channel partners solve challenges around disaster recovery and business continuity. Prior to joining Unitrends, Adam worked with national IT solutions provider CDW where he leveraged a variety of partner solutions to help his customers achieve their goals across backup, networking, security, power & cooling, endpoint and data center technologies.
Synopsis
Data is the lifeblood of all businesses, and each day IT professionals are tasked with protecting more of it all while maximizing uptime for their organizations. In an ongoing battle against cyber threats and attacks on your data, one of the most impactful investments any organization can make is in its employees. An end user who’s educated and empowered plays an integral role in defense of your networks and data. At Unitrends, we’ve integrated our backup and recovery solutions with powerful security tools to provide protection beyond simple backup and restore capabilities.
A modern BCDR solution enables complete data protection, whether it lives on-prem, across remote endpoints, or in clouds and SaaS applications. If you're ready to embrace a solution complete and agile enough to address all workloads while injecting automation and artificial intelligence to simply complex systems, you've come to the right place.
Speaker's Bio
Glenn Stewart is a Senior Systems Engineer at Cohesity and has been with the company for almost four years. In his current role, he is working Cohesity’s enterprise customers and prospects in North/Central Florida. Glenn has a degree in Computer Science from Royal Military College of Canada. He has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry, focusing on storage and data management solutions.
Synopsis
Your data is a uniquely valuable resource and can be a significant competitive advantage. But the more data you have, the more complex it is to manage. And with rapidly increasing ransomware and other cyber threats, your data – and business – is more vulnerable than ever.
At Cohesity, we believe that technology should work harder and smarter for you, whether it’s reducing complexity, keeping your business secure, or delivering more value. Come listen to what you should be looking for in a modern-day backup solution and how your backups should be providing you much more than a point in time to restore too.
Speaker's Bio
Matthew Bailey is an Account Executive at Darktrace. Based out of Miami, Matthew works with leading organizations across the TOLA region in a range of industries to help them confront cyber risk. During Matthew’s tenure at Darktrace, the company has grown to over 6,500 customers and has been the recipient of numerous achievements, including ‘Security Trailblazer’ at the annual Microsoft Security 20/20 Awards and being named one of TIME Magazine’s ‘Most Influential Companies’ 2021. Matthew holds a Master’s of Business Administration from Assumption University.
Synopsis
In the face of skyrocketing cyber risk, detecting and responding to attacks is no longer enough. Organizations must take proactive steps to prevent threats before they happen, and to recover if compromised. In this session, Darktrace unveil an ambitious new approach to security, with core engines powering AI technologies to prevent, detect, respond, and ultimately heal from attacks. Together, these engines combine to strengthen organizations’ security posture in a virtuous AI feedback ‘loop,’ which provides powerful end-to-end, bespoke, and self-learning solutions unique to each organization.
Moderator's Bio
Larry Blakely is a proven IT leader experienced in high volume, global environments implementing innovative and cost effective business solutions. Larry brings a proven track record and unique vision to each opportunity assuring strategic alignment of business goals. Larry specializes in bridging the gap between IT and business, video conferencing implementation & adoption, process improvement, innovation, vendor management and specialist assistive technologies (research & implementation).
Moderator's Bio
Ramin Kouzehkanani is a senior executive with significant years of experience in leading large organizations in both public and private sectors. Ramin has extensive experience in management and technology consulting, transformation of service delivery systems, statistical analysis, Lean Sigma, and the delivery of solutions that have impacted the growth of vibrant and evolving organizations. As a strategic Chief Information Officer, Ramin has demonstrated success in aligning technology departments, platforms, and budgets with overall organizational goals and objectives. Ramin serves as a principal advisor to Health & Human Services agencies on the implementation of Federal rules through the establishment of strategic roadmaps for interoperability of data systems and processes, data exchanges, and predictive modeling in Child Welfare and Human Services. Ramin served in Florida Governor Crist’s Administration until 2011 and continued service in Florida Governor Scott’s Administration until September of 2011. Ramin has also served as senior advisor to Assistant Secretary George Sheldon at the United States Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children & Families, the State of Illinois Department of Children & Family Services, and the State of Florida Department of Children and Families and its Community-Based Care agencies.
Synopsis
This roundtable is for attendees for executives with VIP badges ONLY. This session is intended for audience participation so be ready to discuss, receive valuable information, and connect with others for further discussion.
Speaker's Bio
Michael Ferguson is the Global Director for Security Transformation at Netskope. He is a highly customer-focused security professional, having worked in the cyber security industry for over 15 years across the Asia Pacific Region. Michael has been CISSP certified for over 7 years, speaking at various industry events (e.g. Gartner, AusCert, and AISA) on Data Loss Prevention, Zero Trust and Cloud Security Initiatives. Michael has extensive web, data and cloud security experience, specializing in running DLP, Zero Trust and Insider Threat programs.
Synopsis
In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses are increasingly relying on artificial intelligence (AI) to drive growth and innovation. However, integrating AI into existing systems while maintaining optimal security poses significant challenges. This talk will explore the concept of Security Service Edge (SSE) and its role in safely enabling the use of AI to accelerate business growth without compromising performance or security. We will discuss how SSE acts as a critical security layer at the edge of the network, providing advanced threat protection, data privacy, and secure access controls. Join us to discover practical strategies for leveraging AI while ensuring robust security measures, enabling organizations to harness the power of AI to drive business success.
Speaker's Bio
Joseph Tucker is a Senior Systems Engineer at Veeam and has been with the company for almost five years. He is currently working with Commercial, State and Local Government, and Education accounts within Florida and South Georgia. Joseph has more than 25 years’ experience assisting customers design, architect, deploy, and support enterprise IT solutions including servers, storage, data protection, and disaster recovery solutions.
Synopsis
According to Veeam’s® 2022 Data Protection Report, 90% of organizations can’t recover data to meet their service level agreements (SLAs). This is compounded during a ransomware attack, where you have to verify that your data is clean before starting the restore process. We believe that having a software-driven approach to backup and recovery that also verifies your data is safe is the last line of defense against ransomware. Catch up on-demand and learn:
• The current state of ransomware recovery
• How you can flip the script on attackers and avoid becoming a victim
• Building effective planning for disaster recovery
Speaker's Bio
Bill Morgan is a veteran of the SMB community and has spent the last 20+ years helping the IT community solve their technology issues and educating them to better understand the “Why” of technology. Bill has spent time in various Sales, Support and Consulting roles throughout his career while working for CA Technologies, CorTechs, ConnectWise, Liongard and CyberFOX. Bill has always taken a genuine interest in helping the IT community achieve their desired goals and is passionate working with other IT professionals. He provides subject matter expertise regarding technical issues and advises customers on suitability of products and solutions based on their technical needs. A veteran of hundreds of IT industry events and expert panels, Bill is always happy to share thoughts, ideas and expertise on how to improve technology business practices.
Synopsis
Gain the insights and deeper understanding to the importance of having a privilege access management (PAM) solution in place as an IT professional. Learn how you can further protect your organization and end-users from various cyber attacks that many of today’s IT professionals face daily with privilege access management.
Speaker's Bio
Mark Benson is a tenured system engineering manager with over twelve years of running large national programs including healthcare at NetApp, Federal Sales at EMC and currently state, local and education at Nutanix. Prior to his sales career Mark was on the customer side for fifteen years at locations such as Florida State University, Florida Dept. of Health and John Deere.
Throughout both phases of Marks career successful project outcome has always been a driving factor. With wide knowledge across the data center stack as well as cloud services, Mark continues to drive innovation into the world of IT through the balance of successful technologies and efficient usage of funds.
Synopsis
Today’s hybrid and multi cloud infrastructures heavily utilize virtualization, software-defined infrastructure and automation. This has provided IT teams with more efficiency and agility but has also compounded security risks. These security threats are more acute for State, local, and education agencies as they carry confidential citizen, student and state information. The agencies and institutions face the constant threat of ransomware and other destructive forms of cyberattacks. Do you have the right infrastructure and processes to improve your security posture across the kill-chain?
Speaker's Bio
Danny Jenkins, CEO & Co-Founder of ThreatLocker, a cybersecurity firm providing zero-trust endpoint security, is a leading cybersecurity expert with over two decades of experience building and securing corporate networks, including roles on red and blue teams. Danny is dedicated to educating industry professionals about the latest cyber threats and frequently speaks on the topics of ransomware and zero trust.
Synopsis
The Zero Trust framework is based on the principle of "never trust, always verify." Join us to learn about Zero Trust, how to adopt it for endpoints, and the technologies you need to take control of your environment in the fight against ransomware.
Speaker's Bio
Tom started his Scale journey back in 2014 as a Tier 1 Support Engineer. He spent 3.5 years in Support and earned several promotions until he was recruited by the Sales team. He spent time as the dedicated Channel SE where he traveled all over North America, evangelizing the Scale brand. When he wasn't doing that, he was onboarding and training new partners, and even headed up the Technical Training curriculum in the Scale Partner Portal. In February of 2020, Tom was promoted to the field and given the territory of the US Southeast where he and his team have been extending and growing Scale's reach in the region.
Synopsis
Scale Computing can simplify your environment with our truly Hyperconverged Infrastructure. Gone are the days of single points of failure, multiple vendors who all point their fingers at each other when something breaks, not to mention the complexities of managing and patching an environment with multiple vendors. Scale Computing consolidates all of this down into a single solution architecture that is more robust and easier to manage than anything else on the market today.
Speaker's Bio
For over 40 years, David Hagen has always been on the forefront of innovative technology. His deep experience encompasses; Software Development, IT Consulting, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Software-defined networking, Business Continuity Planning, VoIP, and Sales Leadership.
David's passion in the industry has allowed him to witness and experience the digital transformation of technology and delivery of services in this emerging market.
Synopsis
Let’s look at identifying most common gaps in our information security posture. No matter how sophisticated, advanced technology will always be constrained by human factors. Understanding vulnerabilities and your risk is the first step to putting the necessary measures in place to secure these weakest links.
Speaker's Bio
Andrew Moore has a history of building great operational systems. He has worked in the IT arena for over 17 years and has been instrumental in the successful building of several businesses into multi-million dollar companies.
Synopsis
Businesses need to be aware of the changing threat to their organizations posed by cyber security criminals. This presentation walks business executives through the current issues facing companies, approaches on how to solve these issues and real world tactics employers can utilize for a safer network.
Moderator's Bio
Charles Payne is a dedicated Cybersecurity Executive with more than 25 years of applied experience in Digital Forensics, Governance Risk & Compliance, Penetration Testing, and Vulnerability Management. Charles believes that the correlation of expertise, progressive insights, and preemptive measures enable organizations to limit, reduce, or mitigate risk establishing developmental trust with key stakeholders.
Charles also serves on the advisory board of vital organizations, providing business-critical experience to achieve defined business objectives. As a professor, Charles is passionate about fostering the cybersecurity community by teaching in an interactive lab setting and mentoring the next generation of cybersecurity professionals.
Synopsis
This roundtable is for attendees for executives with VIP badges ONLY. This session is intended for audience participation so be ready to discuss, receive valuable information, and connect with others for further discussion.
Speaker's Bio
Dan LaMay is a Systems Engineer and industry veteran. With over 3 decades of experience he has designed a multitude of RF networks that are scalable, secure and easy to manage. Dan's specialties include: Security, Wi-Fi, CBRS, Analytics & Management tools, BYOD design & implementation, Virtualization, Performance analysis & networking.
Speaker's Bio
Keri Roberts helps organizations build their Network for the Next Decade. She and her team are pioneering the the first AI driven WLAN. Utilizing AI delivers an amazing indoor experience that makes Wi-Fi predictable, reliable and measurable.
Synopsis
The best enterprise campus networks are only as good as the underlying WLAN. Too often business, operations and constituent services doesn’t go as planned because employees and visitor devices fail to connect or connect poorly to campus WiFi. Furthermore, IT staff struggle to quickly solve these issues as legacy WLAN architectures and their network tools primarily focused on the condition of the network and NOT on the quality of the end-user experience. This is no longer the case. Now AI, Cloud, Machine Learning and Natural Language technologies are bringing real and disruptive benefits to operators using the next generation of WLAN to proactively deliver predictable, reliable and measurable WiFi for a great user experience not possible with earlier generations of WiFi. In addition, by leveraging WiFi AND Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), government can now open new and customizable location views of its facilities, assets, devices and human interaction with amazing analytics both real-time and over time providing new opportunities for location-based services, safety and facilities management and planning.
Speaker's Bio
Jessica Lynn has held various roles in the cybersecurity industry for the past 9 years. Moving from distribution to channel development to enterprise sales – she has a pulse on the threat landscape that businesses face today in the age of digital. She thrives on helping partners and businesses solve their biggest problems. Today Jessi is Director of Partner Sales with UK based cybersecurity company Glasswall and loves her life at home with soon to be husband-to-be, her 13 yr old son, her 2 cats and a dog.
Speaker's Bio
For the last 5 and a half years Greg Rhein has been one of Glasswall’s Solutions Architects and is currently based out of our Reston VA office. Prior to this he was Security products Sales Manager and Technical Lead of an Arizona based Distributor. Previously to this he has held positions as an Enterprise Product Manager at HP/Compaq and Contract Product Support lead at Apple Computer. He has also worked as a Technical lead while consulting for MGM Studios, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Fox Studios, SunAmerica (AIG) as well as a number of Bi-Coastal Law firms.
Speaker's Bio
Pete Newman is US Sales Director for Glasswall based in the NYC area and has a background in financial and regulatory technology, software and market data. As a Sales Executive, Product Manager and software entrepreneur, Pete has helped large investment banks, wealth management firms and leading online brokers solve business problems with best of breed technology solutions. His company Gotham Software, a provider of compliance solutions for the fixed income market was acquired by Ipreo (IHS Markit) in 2004.
Synopsis
Real time prevention strategy is key to staying ahead of cyber criminals and to keep up with digital transformation and globalization trends. Come learn about an emerging technology – Content Disarm and Reconstruct (CDR) – which aims to restore trust to digital collaboration and give your security and business operations teams a fighting chance to operate in today’s climate. CDR is the next defacto standard to prevention based cybersecurity strategy by shifting from looking for potential bad to what a known good file content looks like. Trust your files again.
Angie Rothen's Bio
Angie Rothen is a Technology Executive, Entrepreneur, and avid college sports fan. She has held executive roles in Cybersecurity, IT, and Corporate Strategy and Governance. She is the CEO/President of CybrDynamix, a cybersecurity strategy company. Angie advises other boards and business leaders on cybersecurity strategy and is on the Board of Directors with Impact 211.
Larry Blakely's Bio
Larry Blakely is a proven IT leader experienced in high volume, global environments implementing innovative and cost effective business solutions. Larry brings a proven track record and unique vision to each opportunity assuring strategic alignment of business goals. Larry specializes in bridging the gap between IT and business, video conferencing implementation & adoption, process improvement, innovation, vendor management and specialist assistive technologies (research & implementation).
Sridhar Kocharlokota's Bio
Sridhar Kocharlakota brings more than 22 years of hands-on experience Technology Architecture areas specializing in Infrastructure and Security Areas. As the Director of Technology at Energy Insurance Mutual, Sridhar oversees the architecture and implementation of operational and business support systems that the organization uses to operate and manage the business. Sridhar is also the lead technologist for creative and innovative technology solutions at EIM. Over the last two decades Sridhar has spent significant time designing and architecting Content Delivery Networks for AT&T and running Disaster Recovery programs at Obamacare. Sridhar holds a Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering and holds a Master's in Technology Management from Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey. Also, Sridhar is currently in the last semester of a dual master’s program at Stevens working towards his MBA.
Synopsis
This panel will discuss the key trends that are currently shaping the workforce. Join our speakers to hear about strategies you can employ to navigate the current environment and make your team more successful. This session will include audience Q&A.
Exhibitors
Supporting Sponsors
