Amitabh Kant

CEO, National Institution for Transforming India (NITI)

Mr. Amitabh Kant is presently CEO of National Institution for Transforming India (NITI). He is a member of the Indian Administrative Service, IAS (Kerala Cadre: 1980 batch). He is the author of Branding India - An Incredible Story. Mr. Kant has been a key driver of the “Make in India”, Startup India, “Incredible India” and God’s Own Country” initiatives that positioned India and Kerala State as leading manufacturing and tourism destinations. These campaigns have won several international awards and embraced a host of activities – infrastructure development, product enhancement, private-public partnership and positioning and branding based on extensive market research. Mr. Kant also conceptualized the “Atithi Devo Bhavah” – “Guest is God” campaign to train Taxi Drivers, Guides, immigration officials and make them stake holders in the tourism development process. Mr. Amitabh Kant was also the National Project Director of the Rural Tourism Project of UNDP which made a paradigm shift in spreading tourism to Indian villages which had core-competency in handicrafts, handloom and culture.

In his capacity as Secretary (Industries) Govt. of India, Mr. Kant drove the Ease of Doing Business initiative and ranking of States on outcome parameters. He is the Chairman of the Committee to implement Digital Payment in India.

Mr. Kant has been the recipient of Economic Time Policy Change Agent of the Year Award, the Bloomberg TV Personality of the year Award, the NDTV Administrator of the year Award and the Distinguished Fellowship of the Institute of Directors. He is the recipient of One Globe Award-2016 for leadership in Transforming Governance for the 21st Century. He is a Member of the Steering Board of “Shaping the Future of Production Systems” of World Economic Forum. He is also the recipient of Sir Edmund Hillary Fellowship award by the Prime Minister of New Zealand. He is also the recipient of Golden Peacock Award for leadership in Economic Transformation - 2017.

Mr. Amitabh Kant has worked as CMD – ITDC, Joint Secretary – Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, Secretary – Tourism, Government of Kerala, Managing Director, Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation, District Collector, Kozikhode and Managing Director, Matsyafed. During his tenure in Kerala, he structured the Calicut Airport as a private sector project based on User’s Free and developed the BSES Power Project and Mattanchery Bridge under Private Public Partnership. He was also responsible for introducing new technology (fiberglass crafts and outboard motor) in the fisheries sector and launching beach level auctions which substantially enhanced returns to traditional fishermen.

Mr. Amitabh Kant did his schooling from Modern School, Delhi, graduation in Economics (Hons) from St. Stephens, Delhi University and M.A from Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is a Chevening Scholar.

S.D. Shibulal

Co-founder, Infosys

Mr. S.D. Shibulal co-founded Infosys in 1981 and led the company in different capacities since its inception. He was a member of the Board of Infosys and was its CEO & MD between 2011 and 2014. Amongst his innumerable achievements during his time at Infosys, he is especially proud of being instrumental in creating the Global Delivery Model. The model established a new standard for delivery of outsourced IT services. He serves on several global leadership forums and advisory boards.

In 2014, Shibu co-founded Axilor Ventures – a new generation platform to improve odds of success of entrepreneurs. With three distinct programmes: accelerator, scale-up and early stage funding, Axilor provides infrastructure, mentoring and capital for high-impact, India –focussed start-ups (in the areas of e-commerce, Healthcare and Cleantech).

Driven by his passion for Education and for developing the leaders managing the K-12 Government schools across India, Shibu incorporated ShikshaLokam, an Education Leadership Development platform in 2016. Now active in multiple States, ShikshaLokam offers open-source technology capabilities and learning and management resources to more than 300,000 leaders, in partnership with State Governments and leading Civil Society Organizations.

Shibu serves on the board of several organisations promoting education. He is Trustee of the Infosys Science Foundation, a not-for-profit trust; a Member of the Board of Trustees, Boston University and a Member of the Board of Managers of Haverford College, Philadelphia. He is also the Chairman of the High Power Digital Advisory Committee (HPDAC) of Kerala

Rob Bathurst

Chief Technology Officer, Digitalware, Inc, NY

As Chief Technology Officer, Rob is responsible for Digitalware’s technology strategy, solution development, and market positioning. In his role, he oversees Digitalware’s engineering, operations, and product management teams.

Rob also acts as Digitalware’s “chief customer advocate,” creating product roadmaps to provide innovative solutions that meet the needs of customers, investors, and partners. Rob has nearly two decades of experience in offensive cybersecurity, technology leadership, and systems development. As an expert in secure embedded-system design, medical device security, and strategic risk mitigation, Rob has led cybersecurity engagements with Fortune 100 companies and major U.S. government agencies, including Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Justice.

Prior to joining Digitalware, Rob was Worldwide Managing Director of Embedded Systems Security at Blackberry Cylance, Principal Architect for Clinical Security and Cyber Risk at the Mayo Clinic, Cyber Exploitation Specialist for the U.S. Department of Energy, Lead Engineer at the Defense Information Systems Agency, and Cyber/Physical Security Expert for Foundstone, where he taught and executed complex red team operations. Rob is also a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, where he served as Technical Lead for Cyber Evaluation, NCOIC for Cyber Surety, and NCOIC of Network.

Education and Training
• PgD in Software and Systems Security, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
• Bachelor of Organizational Technology, University of Toledo (Ohio)
• Associate of Business, Programming and Software Development, University of Toledo (Ohio)
• Cyber Operations, U.S. Air Force
• Communications Operations, U.S. Air Force
• Operational Test and Evaluation, U.S. Air Force

Ambassador Adam Blackwell

VP International Development Services Group / World Economic Forum Meta-Council, Director - POLCYB

A renowned name in the international community, Adam Blackwell started his diplomatic career in 1985, and served in a variety of roles. His international assignments include the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Kenya, the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, Minister in Mexico, and ambassador to the Dominican Republic. During his career, Mr. Blackwell has participated in and led several election observation missions. He also was a contributor and coordinator of the 2013 OAS Drug Report. He has been part of the Peace Process in El Salvador and a member of the Commission to Reform Public Security in Honduras. Presently, Blackwell serves as the Vice President International at Development Services Group, INC. He is the Chair of the Advisory Board of TechTrace; S.A. He has served as a Diplomat in Residence at the William J. Perry Center for the Hemispheric Defense Studies (NDU). Additionally he is also the Chair of the Meta-Council on the Illicit Economy for the World Economic Forum (WEF), a member of the Board of the Trust of the Americas and the Board of Polcyb.

For his service, he has received numerous awards and honors. Most notable of these are; The Order of Merit of Duarte, Sanchez and Mella Grand Cross with Silver Breast Star, of the Dominican Republic and the Minister’s Award for Management (1995). He has also been decorated by the Colombian Police and AMERIPOL.

Sultan Al-Owais

Corporate Digital Services Director, Prime Minister's Office - United Arab Emirates.

Highly skilled, motivated and effective Information Security and Information Technology executive with a track record of success in leading security and IT transformation programs to reduce business risks and align ICT and Security activities to deliver on organizational objectives.

Strong leadership, technical foundation, and execution capabilities. Highly driven, leveraging knowledge, insight and communication to lead cross-functional teams, maximize productivity, and deliver complex strategic programs.

Ali Alamadi

Chairman, Information Security Awareness (ISA) Committee, UAE

Ali Alamadi plays a lead role in many information security initiatives in the UAE. He is currently the chairman of the UAE information security awareness committee (EISA) which is a joint initiative between TRA and EBDAA. The initiative is intended to educate every individual in the UAE about information security best practices. He is also member of the Emirates Safer Internet Society a non for profit organization intended to protect children online. He has been selected to represent the UAE in SC 27 working group in ISO. SC 27 working group is responsible for drafting and publishing many information security standards such as ISO 27001. In his past experiences, he lead many cyber security projects for establishing various standards such as ISO 27001 and ISO 22301 as well as local standards such as NESA and ADSIC. He initiated many awareness events and campaigns across the UAE for many entities and for the public. He has conducted more than 1500 sessions across the UAE for various targeted groups. He finally established a company specialized in cyber security consultancy (EBDAA) to deliver highest quality of services and be the leading consultancy company in the UAE and the region. The company is currently serving many key entities in the UAE with consultancy services.

Sean Poris

Director, Product Security, Verizon Media

Sean Poris is the Director of Product Security and Assurance at Verizon Media, as part of its information security squad, The Paranoids. He also leads the bug bounty team for the number one bug bounty program on one of the top bug bounty platforms in the industry - working with a global ethical hacking community to eliminate Internet badness. Prior to working for Verizon Media, Sean was Senior Director of Software Security at The College Board, where his team equipped software development groups with the critical training, tools and processes needed to address information security holistically throughout the development lifecycle. Sean currently serves on the Board of the Northern Virginia Chapter of OWASP and was a conference co-chair for the 2019 Global OWASP AppSec DC conference.

Adam Laurie

Global Security Associate Partner and Lead Hardware Hacker , IBM X-Force Red

Adam Laurie is a security consultant working in the field of electronic communications, who specializes in reverse engineering of secure embedded systems. He started in the computer industry in the late Seventies, working as a computer programmer on PDP-8 and other minicomputers, and then on various Unix, Dos and CP/M based microcomputers as they emerged in the Eighties. He quickly became interested in the underlying network and data protocols, and moved his attention to those areas and away from programming, starting a data conversion company that rapidly grew to become Europe's largest specialist in that field (A.L. Downloading Services). During this period, he successfully disproved the industry lie that music CDs could not be read by computers, and wrote the world's first CD ripper, 'CDGRAB'. At this point, he became interested in the newly emerging concept of 'The Internet', and was involved in various early open source projects, the most well-known of which is probably 'Apache-SSL', which went on to become the de-facto standard secure web server. Since the late Nineties he has focused his attention on security and has been the author of various papers exposing flaws in Internet services and/or software, as well as pioneering the concept of re-using military data centers housed in underground nuclear bunkers as secure hosting facilities.

Adam aka "Major Malfunction" has been a senior member of staff at DEFCON since 1997 and is the POC for the London DEFCON chapter DC4420. Over the years has given presentations on forensics, magnetic stripe, EMV, InfraRed, RF, RFID, Terrestrial and Satellite TV hacking, and, of course, Magic Moonbeams. He is the author and maintainer of the open-source python RFID exploration library 'RFIDIOt'

Kevin McPeake

, Peak Security

For more than 30 years, Kevin McPeake has been a author, keynote speaker, innovator, pioneer and leader in cybersecurity and technological risk management domains. And the connection of cybersecurity to shareholder value is truly encoded into both his DNA and his career history. In 1991, Kevin invented the first product and co-founded one of the first two-way radio tower monitoring companies, Location Data Systems, Inc., which was wholly acquired by Motorola in 1995. In 1998, he co-founded Trust Factory, the first full-services cybersecurity consulting firm The Hague, which is now considered the cybersecurity capital of the Netherlands. He was the first public figure (2000) to call for making cybersecurity a function of Finance, rather than Technology, as a means to improve governance, organizational agility, and remove many of the business blockers, conflicts of interests, and high overheads that often affects security teams when cybersecurity operates as a function of Technology or Operations departments. He went on to implement this structure in two GSM companies - Orange (2004) and T-Mobile Netherlands (2015). He is the founder and driver behind Peak Security, a cybersecurity boutique focused on providing a sustainable ecosystem of security solutions, products and services, located in the center of The Hague, Netherlands.

Dhillon ‘L33tdawg’ Kannabhiran

Founder / Chief Executive Officer , Hack In The Box

Dhillon Andrew Kannabhiran (@l33tdawg on Twitter) is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hack in The Box, organiser of the HITBSecConf series of network security conferences which has been held annually for over a decade in various countries including Malaysia, The Netherlands and The UAE!
Prior to quitting his day job over a decade ago, Dhillon started off at the height of the dotcom craze as a technology journalist with PC World, ZDnet, MIS Asia and CNet. When the bubble burst, he moved on to a Malaysian telco as Chief IT Officer to spend his days in the world of Cisco AS5300s, in a land of the packet, switched networks at a time when Asterisk did not just mean Today, he spends his days surrounded by emails in between messing with AI and machine learning models, while spearheading all of HITB’s strategic efforts while taking the global HITB team on crazy adventures around the world.

Bessie Pang (M.A. Crininology)

Executive Director, The Society for the Policing of Cyberspace (POLCYB)

Ms. Pang moved to Canada from the United Kingdom after receiving her B.A. Hons. in Developmental Psychology with Cognitive Studies, which included Artificial Intelligence programming. After completing her M.A. Degree in Criminology in Vancouver, Ms. Pang worked in various fields of Criminology, including the British Columbia Forensics Psychiatric Commission, and the National Headquarters of Correctional Services Canada in Ottawa.

Ms. Pang was commissioned by the B.C. Forensic Psychiatric Commission to develop the first comprehensive, “Standards and Guidelines for the Assessment, Treatment and Management of Sex Offenders in British Columbia”. Ms. Pang also has extensive experience in statistical research and policy development, including in the areas of sex offenders, serious and organized crimes, youth gangs, female offenders, domestic violence, offender reintegration, and development of diversity / inclusion and recruitment policies and strategies. Ms. Pang was the first Chair for the Correctional Service Canada (CSC) Regional Ethnocultural Advisory Committee (REAC) for the Pacific Region, and served on the CSC National Ethnocultural Advisory Committee (NEAC).

Ms. Pang is one of the founders of “The Society For The Policing Of Cyberspace” (POLCYB), a not-for-profit and international organization, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Ms. Pang is the Executive Director of POLCYB, which aims to enhance international, private and public collaboration in cybercrime prevention, detection, and response, with a focus on executive and senior management issues pertaining to policies in criminal justice agencies and industry sectors. Ms. Pang serves on the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) E-Crime Committee. She also conducts consultation services under her consultation services, Primexcel Consultants. Focal consultation areas include, but are not limited to, executive training, policy, and strategic planning in the fields of Criminal Justice, social programmes, Diversity / Inclusion and Employment Equity.

In 2008, Ms. Pang was invited by the Provincial Government of British Columbia to develop a new International Cybercrime Research Centre at the Simon Fraser University. In addition to assuming the position as the Administrative Director (2008 – 2009) of the Centre, Ms. Pang also taught the first ever Cybercrime undergraduate course.

Ms. Pang was awarded the prestigious Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2013. The medal was presented to Ms. Pang in recognition of her significant achievements and continuous contributions to the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) mandate of “leading progressive change in policing”.

Tal Catran

Accelerators Guru & cyber security expert , -

Business Development & Marketing Expert with broad experience in aspects international marketing, commercialization, assimilating technologies into corporates.

Education
- B.A in Economics and Logistics from Bar-Ilan University
- L.L.B from The Academic Center of Law and Business

Professional Experience
  - Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)
  - MHT- Training & Technical Publications Division
  - Marketing and Business Development Senior Consultant. MHT is the knowledge base center for the entire IAI, systems and products developed, manufactured and maintained for customers in over 60 countries worldwide. MHT is a leader in developing training technologies, conducting professional courses for operators and technicians as well as establish Aviation, UAV and Cyber Academies worldwide
  - International Keynote speaker and professional lecturer on technology innovation and startup eco-systems worldwide, presenting a wide overview regarding entrepreneurial challenges, the era of accelerators, Incubators, startups founders, angel investors, VC and everything in between.
  - Participated and mentioned in several events in India:
       - Nasscom- WCIT-NILF 2018
       - 2nd Aerospace & Defense Manufacturing Technologies conference (2017)
       - Forbes India
       - New India Express
       - Financial Express
   - International Startup Accelerator’s Guru, established up to date 12 and currently manages 5 in a variety of technologies, including HLS & Defense, Smart Cities, Cyber, Blockchain and Women Digital Health
   - Commander (Res) Israeli Navy. Graduated Israel's IDF- Naval Academy and served in the Navy for 13 years, in a variety of combat and operations roles. ranked Commander (res)


Holding a bachelor's degree in Economics and Logistics from Bar-Ilan University and a bachelors in legislative law from Academic Center of Law and Business, Tal Catran is a pioneering expert in Business Development &Marketing.

Founder and speaker at TC Holdings, he has previously served as Marketing and Business Development Senior Consultant at Israel Aerospace Industries. Presently, he serves as an International Keynote Speaker and Start-Up Ecosystem Builder.

With vast experience in a variety of fields, including international marketing, commercialization, assimilating of technologies into corporates, Catran is a celebrated lecturer on technology innovation and startup ecosystems. He has expertly presented on multiple topics, such as today’s entrepreneurial challenges, the era of accelerators, incubators, startups founders and angel investors worldwide.

Sunil Kanchi

Chief Information Officer and Chief Investment Officer, UST Global

Sunil Kanchi serves both as Chief Information Officer and Chief Investment Officer for UST Global. Sunil oversees IT, communications, and digital transformation for all internal systems, and is responsible for mergers and acquisitions, corporate venture capital, and partnerships.

Sunil came on as Senior Vice President in 2014 when UST Global acquired Kanchi Technologies, an engineering services company that delivered a unique form of outsourcing, referred to as “co-sourcing.” Sunil founded Kanchi Technologies in 2009, and served as CEO, overseeing operations in the USA, Germany, and India. Previously, Sunil served as Director of Business Development for Larsen & Toubro, and as Manager for Strategic Planning Projects for Rockwell Automation. He spent his earlier career as a consultant with PTC.

Sunil is known for his expertise in building high-performance teams, driving profitability and growth through innovative solutions, and executing effective go-to-market strategies. In 2013, the Milwaukee Business Journal named Sunil one of its “40 Under 40” business leaders to watch. He is a certified Lean Master and Six Sigma Green Belt.

Sunil holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from the College of Engineering, Trivandrum, a Master of Science from Wichita State University, and a Master of Business Administration from Kellog School of Management at Northwestern University.

A Shiju Rawther

Chief Information Officer, Poonawalla Finance

A leader with major operating tenets as driving technology transformation through thought leadership, innovation, analytics & delivering value to stakeholders.

Shiju is global technology leader who has been instrumental in driving the technology transformations for business in the range of to multi Billion USD as revenues. He has been key player at Organisations which have been on an average 30% growth year on year.

Currently spearheading the IT function, strategies and designing the digital roadmap for Poonawalla Finance, a group company of Dr Cyrus Poonawalla Group and India’s leading financial services conglomerate and designated as Chief Information Officer.

Key achievements in the earlier stints include setting up of the complete IT Infrastructure, Application deployment and security operations including SOC from the scratch for two start up MNCs in India viz., Gateway Terminals India and Fullerton India. Implemented Virtualisation on Open platform, which was the first of its kind in India. Automated the Business Continuity by building robust DR setup with seamless switch over from Primary site to DR site.

He is also associated with Cyberdome ranked as Commander, Public Private Partnership initiative started by Kerala Police to combat Cyber Threats.

Shiju is also Technology Advisory Board Member for top security OEM’s & few Financial institution in India & abroad.

Shiju was recognised as “Security Leader of the Year - Financial Services” in December 2016 by DSCI, NASSCOM.

He holds a Engineering Degree in Computer Science & Engineering and Management Degree in IT. Certified Ethical Hacker, Prominent Speakers and contributes inputs to many security forums for combating cyber threats. Recognized as Most Innovative CIO’s of India, Top 100 CISO’s & CSO’s consistently over last many years by various media groups.

Maya R Nair

Director - Chief Information Security Officer, CRISIL Limited

An experienced leader of Datacenter Infrastructure and Information security with major operating tenets of implementing defense in depth, acquiring 360 degree view of security, implementing IT infrastructure setups from the scratch, revamping datacenters and designing & implementing Business Continuity plans and Disaster Recovery sites.

Maya has a demonstrated history of working in the diverse industries of Telecommunication, BFSI and Manufacturing. She succeeded in positioning the Technology function as a Business Transformation initiative, with major contributions in IT infrastructure, Security technology implementations focussing on protection, prevention, monitoring and alerting.

Key achievements in the current and earlier stints include setting up of complete IT and datacenter infrastructure from the scratch, setting up of Security technology and framework from the scratch and operationalising it and designing & implementing Business continuity plans and Disaster recovery sites.

She is associated with Cyberdome ranked as Commander, a Public Private Partnership initiative started by Kerala Police to combat Cyber Threats and to spread awareness among masses

Maya has won many industry accolades and awards in recognition to her contribution to technology and security. She is a regular speaker in industry forums and writes technology articles.

She holds an engineering degree in Electronics engineering and post graduate degree in Software systems with specialisation in Network security. She also holds a management degree in Finance management. She also has many certifications including CISA, ISO 27001 LA, DCPLA to her credit.

Santhosh Srinivasan

Sr. Director - Global IT Compliance & IT Services , Flex

A results driven IT professional with extensive work experience in Information Security, IT Infrastructure management and IT Compliance. Santhosh is currently employed with Flextronics as a Sr. Director - Global IT Compliance & IT Services. Previously, Santhosh has held leadership roles in Infrastructure management and Information Security with Symantec, HCL Technologies, and Cummins, Inc. (U.S.A).

Specialties: Information Security leadership, IT Compliance, IT Infrastructure management, IT Shared Services management, Offshore Vendor Management.
Certifications:
Information Security: CISSP, ISSMP, SANS GSLC, CISM, CRISC, CEH.
Infrastructure Management: MCSE NT/2000/2003, ITIL V3 foundations.
IT Compliance & Governance: CISA, CGEIT, COBIT 5 Foundations.
IT Architecture & Training: Togaf 9 Part 1&2, Certified Leadership Trainer.

Ryan Rutan

Director of Community, Synack Red Team

Ryan Rutan is currently the Director of Community for the Synack Red Team after having spent over a decade building distributed online communities for tech savvy enterprise developers. He is a long-time developer/maker at heart and technology innovator by trade, but his passion comes from uniting people, process and technology into fully sustainable communities capable of scaling to meet any challenge, regardless of industry. In his spare time, he enjoys flexing his creativity by writing books (such as Fork This Life ), hacking on custom IoT projects and furthering his cybersecurity skills by leveraging his strengths to build automation tools to streamline scanning and recon.

Dr Fyodor Yarochkin

Senior Researcher, Forward-Looking Threat Research, Trend Micro

Fyodor Yarochkin is a Senior Researcher, Forward-Looking Threat Research Senior at Trend Micro with a Ph.D. from EE, National Taiwan University. An early Snort Developer and Open Source Evangelist as well as a Programmer, his professional experience includes several years as a threat investigator and over eight years as an Information Security Analyst.

Baptiste David

ESIEA (C + V)O LabLaval, , France

Baptiste David is a PhD student at ENSAM for (C + V)o Laboratory. His research is mainly focused on malware analysis, security under Windows operating system, networks, kernel development, and vulnerabilities. He also works in data analysis and design of automatic tools to collect and manage big data. He likes to teach and share knowledge with anyone who asks. He has already participated in several conferences including iAWACS, C0c0n, Ground Zero Summit, EICAR, ECCWS, Defcon, ZeroNight.

Pierre Francois Maillard

- , -

Total of two years of experience in building and breaking Smart IoT Devices in various fields such as Biomedical, Embedded system, Additive, and Smart Manufacturing.
Experience in the security domain.
Created an online course on Exploiting IoT Device at Hakin 9 Magazine.
Delivered talks and hands-on workshop to more than 500 students for several IoT local chapters and hackerspaces in India.
Loves spending most of his spare time in making, breaking and securing IoT Devices.
Excel at operating and working with hardware
Always curious to dig in the current and upcoming technology to build applications that can serve humanity and improve the world we live in.

Jairam Ramesh

Group head of Cyber Security , -

Jairam is currently the group head of cyber security for one of the largest Insurance companies in the world. A seasoned cyber security professional with over a decade of experience in information security across multiple domains and roles. His core focus has been on incident response, forensics, threat intelligence and enterprise security architecture. Jairam has had a dynamic career stream from developing forensic tools to setting up national level cyber security frameworks and Computer Emergency teams. In the last 6 years his primary focus has been on expanding detection capabilities , SOAR and Data Analytics. An avid speaker at local and international conferences and when possible spends time mentoring freshers.

Jay Turla

Manager, Security Operations , Bugcrowd

Jay Turla (@shipcod3) is a Manager, Security Operations (PH) at Bugcrowd Inc., and one of the goons of ROOTCON. He has been acknowledged and rewarded by Facebook, Adobe, Yahoo, Microsoft, Mozilla, etc. for his responsible disclosures. He has also contributed auxiliary and exploit modules to the Metasploit Framework. He has presented at ROOTCON, HITCON, PEHCON, DEFCON's Packet Hacking Village, DragonCon, Bsides Myanmar, Nullcon and other hacker conferences. He used to work for HP Fortify where he performed Vulnerability Assessment, Remediation and Advance Testing. His main interest or research right now is about car hacking and is currently one of the main organizers of the Car Hacking Village of ROOTCON / Philippines which is recognized and supported by the Car Hacking Village community.

Chloe Messdaghi

VP, Strategy , Point3 Security

Chloé Messdaghi is the VP of Strategy at Point3 Security. She is an ethical hacker advocate who strongly believes that information security is a humanitarian issue. Besides her passion to keep people safe and empowered online & offline, she is driven to fight for hacker rights. She is the founder of WeAreHackerz (formerly known as WomenHackerz) & the President and cofounder of Women of Security (WoSEC), podcaster for ITSP Magazine's The Uncommon Journey, and runs the Hacker Book Club

Abraham Aranguren

CEO, Security Trainer, Director of Penetration Testing, 7A Security

After 13 years in itsec and 20 in IT Abraham is now the CEO of 7ASecurity(​7asecurity.com​), a company specializing in penetration testing of web/mobile apps,infrastructure, code reviews and training. Security Trainer at Blackhat USA, HITB,OWASP Global AppSec and many other events. Former senior penetration tester / teamlead at Cure53 (​cure53.de​) and Version 1 (​www.version1.com​). Creator of “PracticalWeb Defense” - a hands-on eLearnSecurity attack / defense course(​www.elearnsecurity.com/PWD​), OWASP OWTF project leader, an OWASP flagshipproject (​owtf.org​), Major degree and Diploma in Computer Science, some certs: CISSP,OSCP, GWEB, OSWP, CPTS, CEH, MCSE:Security, MCSA:Security, Security+. As a shell scripting fan trained by unix dinosaurs, Abraham wears a proud manly beard.
He writes on Twitter as ​@7asecurity​​ @7a_ ​​@owtfp​ or ​https://7asecurity.com/blog​. Multiple presentations, pentest reports and recordings can be found at https://7asecurity.com/publications

Phillip Wylie

Senior Red Team Lead , -

Phillip Wylie is the Senior Red Team Lead for a global consumer products company, Adjunct Instructor at Dallas College, and The Pwn School Project founder. With over 22 years of experience, he has spent the last 8 plus years as a pentester. His passion for mentoring and education inspired him to start teaching and to found The Pwn School Project a bi-monthly cyber security educational meetup. Phillip teaches Pentesting and Web App Pentesting at Dallas College. He is a “The Uncommon Journey” podcast cohost, and co-author of “The Pentest Blueprint: Starting a Career as an Ethical Hacker” published by Wiley Publishing.

Jorge Orchilles

Chief Technology Officer , SCYTHE

Jorge Orchilles is the Chief Technology Officer of SCYTHE and co-creator of the C2 Matrix project. He is a SANS Certified Instructor and the author of Security 564: Red Team Exercises and Adversary Emulation. He was a founding member of MITRE Engenuity Center of Threat-Informed Defense. He is a Fellow at the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) and National Security Institute. Prior, Jorge led the offensive security team at Citi for over 10 years.
He co-authored the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) and A Framework for the Regulatory Use of Penetration Testing in the Financial Services Industry, and is the author of Microsoft Windows 7 Administrator’s Reference. Jorge holds post-graduate degrees from Stanford and Florida International University in Advanced Computer Security & Master of Science. Jorge speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese, in decreasing levels of fluency. When he’s not hacking, teaching, or writing, you’ll find him watching and playing soccer.

Ryan Sherstobitoff

Senior Analyst, McAfee ADVANCED Threat RESEARCH

Ryan Sherstobitoff is Senior Analyst who has spearheaded major campaigns for McAfee Advanced Threat Research. He was formerly the Chief Corporate Evangelist at Panda Security, where he managed the US strategic response for new and emerging threats. Ryan is widely recognized as a security & cloud computing expert throughout the country.

Dan Levy

Senior Manager , EY Israel Advanced Security Center

Dan is a senior manager from EY's advanced security center in Israel, where he specialises in offensive security and automation projects.

He overlooks advanced technical projects in the fields of web/mobile/network/cloud security as well as lead large scale cyber security programs for global corporations.

His professional engagements include:

• Led the development and deployment of automation solution to accelerate vulnerability management processes and align with risk profile; drastically reducing manual work of InfoSec team and number of high-risk vulnerabilities in the network.


• Managing large scale Attack & Pen programs global companies, effectively assessing the security of hundreds of systems on a yearly basis.


• Coordinating and leading “Purple Team” war game attack simulations, providing client with holistic visibility of its threat detection and incident response capabilities.

Abhijith B R

Abx, Founder & Lead Operator , Red Team Village

Abhijith has more than a decade of experience in the Information and Cyber Security domain. Leading offensive security operations for a global FinTech company. Formerly the Deputy Manager - Cyber Security at Nissan Motor Corporation, previously employed with EY as a Senior security analyst. Abhijith is the founder of https://RedTeamVillage.org, a red teaming community which actively organizes hacking villages and CTF competitions, also acts as the Lead Organizer of DEFCON Group Trivandrum (https://dc0471.org/). He has recently started running https://tacticaladversary.io/ blog.

Madhu Akula

- , Engineer, Author, Speaker & Trainer

Madhu Akula is creator of Kubernetes Goat, security ninja, published author and cloud native security researcher with an extensive experience. Also he is an active member of the international security, devops and cloud native communities (null, DevSecOps, AllDayDevOps, etc). Holds industry certifications like OSCP (Offensive Security Certified Professional), CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), etc.

Madhu frequently speaks and runs training sessions at security events and conferences around the world including DEFCON (24, 26 & 27), BlackHat USA (2018 & 19), USENIX LISA (2018 & 19), O’Reilly Velocity EU 2019, GitHub Satellite 2020, Appsec EU (2018 & 19), All Day DevOps (2016, 17, 18, 19 & 20), DevSecCon (London, Singapore, Boston), DevOpsDays India, c0c0n(2017, 18), Nullcon (2018, 19), SACON 2019, Serverless Summit, null and multiple others.

His research has identified vulnerabilities in over 200+ companies and organisations including; Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, eBay, AT&T, WordPress, NTOP and Adobe, etc and credited with multiple CVE’s, Acknowledgements and rewards. He is co-author of Security Automation with Ansible2 (ISBN-13: 978-1788394512), which is listed as a technical resource by Red Hat Ansible. Also won 1st prize for building Infrastructure Security Monitoring solution at InMobi flagship hackathon among 100+ engineering teams.

Varun Kohli

Lead Strategist - Machine Learning, Google

Varun is a traveler by heart and a Lead Strategist with Google by profession. He started his career as a software engineer with a product development organization and now works on developing machine learning models to detect abuse on Google Cloud. He is an avid machine learning developer, researcher and a public speaker at tech conferences, with Google Crowdsource, NASSCOM, Amdocs Global: Upskilling, c0c0n, SkyConf Poland and IISc. to name a few.

Prasoon Gupta

Application Security Engineer , Paytm

Prasoon Gupta is an Application Security Engineer at Paytm and part time bug bounty hunter with codename - dekster Working in Application security field since 5 years and he is mostly interested in Web application security and Automating the recon process for mapping large surface area for attack using bash and tweaking many tasks using bash.

Kaustubh Padwad

Manager-Device Security Assurance, Reliance Jio

Kaustubh is a Embedded System security researcher, His main area of interest is Device security,Reverse engineering, discovering RCE,Priv-esc bugs in proprietary or close source devices. He was Null champion, He had deliver more than dozens of talk in null meet and he was champion for 3 years in null community. Also he is a speaker at DEFCON,DEFCOn Red team Village, Owasp SeaSide 2020,BsidesBoston,Rootcon Some of his works are published in SecurityWeek, ExploitDB, 0day. today and have more than Dozens of CVE, Recently he was the winner of SCADA CTF @ nullcon 2019.

Maxence Delong

CVO Laboratory, ESIEA

Maxence Delong is a PhD student at ESIEA for (C+V)O laboratory. His researches are mainly focused on distributed networks, anonymous communications and blockchain technology. He although works in Open Source INTelligence, design tools for automatic data gathering at big scale and data analysis. He has already made conferences included: ICCWS, ECCWS, FORSE and C0c0n XII

Tamaghna Basu

CTO, neoEYED Inc.

Tamaghna Basu, CTO of neoEYED Inc. is on the mission to www.killthepassword.com to build a safer worldwith stronger, yet very convenient authentication mechanism for companies and end-users. He is a hacker,speaker, trainer and a developer too. He has more than 15 years of experience in cyber-security domain andworked in large enterprises like PwC, Paypal, Walmart etc. to help them secure their products. His main areas of research include application security and network pen‐testing, incident handling and cyber forensic. Being a software developer earlier, he worked in python, java, .net, ruby etc. and various domains like finance, insurance, gaming etc. He is a frequent speaker/trainer in various conferences like NULLCON, C0C0N, OWASP, ISACA etc. and member of NULL, DSCI and other communities. He also contributed to security magazines like Clubhack and ISACA journal. He has accomplished various other certifications like Cyber Crime Investigation, Diploma in Cyber Law, OSCP, GCIH etc.

Amit Dubey

Chief Security Architect, Tech mahindra

Amit is a renowned National Security Expert and a Crime Investigator on Cyber Forensics and Ethical Hacking to various Indian Investigation Agencies and Police deptt.

A prominent speaker and a renowned name on national and international cyber security conferences, Amit is regularly quoted in Indian print and electronic media on global cyber issues. He is also invited by various arms of the Indian government, including its defense forces to train their cyber professionals, acknowledging his authority on cyber security.

Amit also run a Radio Show 'RedFM Hidden Files' on 93.5 RedFM Saturday 10am and Sunday 2:00PM, where he tells cyber crime stories to spread cyber safety awareness.

A commonwealth UK, chevening fellow, He is also an advisory member to various startup boards and security forums. He is part of Cyber Security division at Tech Mahindra Ltd. CNN-IBN featured him as National Security Expert and covered few of his cases in a documentary on “Cyber warfare in India” in 2012.

He has also authored a book named “Return of The Trojan Horse, Tales of Criminal Investigation”, which includes few of his interesting and thrilling crime cases that he has worked and solved successfully. He writes regular columns in News Papers and Children Magazine “School Live” to spread awareness around Cyber Security.

Amit is known for his hacking expertise and proactive approaches to tackle the expected cyber-attacks. His long experience of working with companies like Samsung , ST-Microelectronics, Qualcomm, gave him enough exposure of Mobile Software and Firmwares. Few of his demonstration of hacking a mobile in just 30 seconds got viral on various social media networks.

Amit holds 17 years of rich experience in Telecom and Mobile Phone Software Domain with leading telecom MNCs (Samsung, ST Microelectronics, Qualcomm, Tech Mahindra etc.). He holds B.Tech in Electronics and Instrumentation and M.Tech (Telecom Systems) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Amit has been awarded at many international platforms including the prestigious Golden Peacock Award of year 2015 at Dubai for Best Innovation of the Year, Aegis Graham Bell Award in 2015 for Best Innovation in Cyber Security on Mobile Device and by Indo-American Chamber of Commerce in 2014 for Best Innovation for Smart Cities.

HimaBindu Vejella

CyberPsy CORE, CyberPsy

Author, Speaker, Security Evangelist with 17+ years of experience in the IT industry leading EnCase Forensics, eDiscovery & Security. She is Core Member for CyberPsy (https://www.linkedin.com/company/cyberpsy/). She Motivated many professionals @ various global events on Security, Privacy, Forensics and Cyber Security from virtual to real. She was recognized as Lady Legend in the year 2018, International Microsoft MVP Awardee for her voluntary exceptional community contributions in technology multiple times sin a row. She won hackathons organized by NASSCOM & HYSEA in 2018. She is Global speaker at technical events IOT Slam, Women Tech Global Conference, CyberJutsuCon, WHackzcon, Cyber Security Career Conference, IEEE, DevOps India Summit etc. She holds Guinness book of world record for Windows 8 app fest hackathon in 2012. She is a Volunteer at CyberPsy, mentor at executive women’s forum, DevOps ambassador for DevOps institute. Hima is passionate about giving back to the community and Women in Computing. Follow her on twitter @Forensichima

Sandeep Variyam

Security Consultant , Palo Alto Networks

Sandeep is Security Consultant for India & SAARC at Palo Alto Networks. Sandeep is passionate about working with enterprises and their thought leadership ensures they reach success, spearheads the development of security best practices for the cybersecurity community and business executives.

With more than 15 years of experience in the IT security industry, he acts as a trusted advisor to organizations across the region and helping them improve their security postures and align security strategically with business initiatives.

Munawwar Hussain Shelia

IoT Security Researcher, Payatu

Munawwar Hussain Shelia is currently working as IoT Security Researcher at Payatu in his employments history involves him working on web application and mobile application development, this is what boring him looks like in Day or better yet a disguise he wears. His real self can be seen in the dark of night where he likes to reverse malware for dinner and reverse random binaries for deserts. He used to write malware for Linux/android for no profit and only fun, just so that he doesn't forget his malware reversing skills. He speaks 5 languages java, c, c++, python, and assembly, his mother tongue is x86 and he is reasonably fluent in ARM and MIPS instruction. Occasionally when he feels anxious or if he has a panic attack he retreats to his emacs to read Linux kernel source code as it reminds him there is a greater problem in the world to worry about. Recently he is been looking into embedded bootloaders and ARM Trustzone.

Savan Gadhiya

Principal Security Consultant , NotSoSecure

Savan Gadhiya is working as a Principal Security Consultant at NotSoSecure. He completed his masters in IT Systems and Network Security in 2013. He has more than 6 years of experience in IT Security and 9 years of experience in Information Technology. He is one of the members in developing Advanced Web Hacking Labs of NotSoSecure. He can be found on Twitter @gadhiyasavan. He has delivered a workshop on Server-Side Request Forgery at BSides Ahmedabad 2019 and a few talks in Nullcon monthly meetups.

Parveen Yadav

Security Researcher , -

Parveen Yadav is a security researcher and Synack red team member. Parveen Yadav is Co-Founder of OWASP Seaside Conference and presented Bugzee Soldering Village at Defcon China and presented Bug Bounty Village at OWASPSeaside Conference.

Narendra Kumar

Security Analyst , -

Web | mobile Penetration tester,Active member and contributor at various security communities including null, OWASP, G4H. Presenter at OWASPminicon,OWASP Seasides Goa 2018. Presenter/Speaker at Null & OWASP chapters. A Happy Volunteering team member of OWASP Seasides and Nullcon Security Conferences.

Prerak Mittal

Security Analyst , -

Prerak Mittal is Co-Founder of Defcon Dehradun (DCG91135) security group. His major interests revolve around IT and network security and casual coding/scripting to automate the boring stuff. He is a part time bug bounty hunter and has spoken at numerous Security events and conferences such as OWASP Seasides and local Defcon and HackTheBox meetups and along with his Defcon Dehradun team has presented RFID hacking village at BSides Ahmedabad.

Ankit Giri

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Mr. Ankit Giri is a Speaker, presenter and a blogger. He has diverse background in writing information blogs. Mr. Ankit is a penetration tester by profession with 5+ years of experience. He is also a part time bug bounty hunter, featured in Hall of Fames of multiple companies like EFF, SONY, HTC, AT&T, etc. He loves speaking in conferences and has been a feature in many conferences like AWS Community Day 2020, DeepSec Austria 2019 and many more. Our speaker has also published article in PenTest magzine on IOT Security and has been a featured profile at Peerlyst.

Abhinav Mishra

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Abhinav Mishra (0ctac0der) is the founder of ENCIPHERS, an information security consulting and training company. Abhinav takes care of managing the penetration testing, training and other offensive security projects for ENCIPHERS. Before starting his journey of entrepreneurship, Abhinav used to be a part time bugbounty hunter. He holds numerous accolades & rewards for finding security issues through responsible disclosure programs. Enciphers manages responsible disclosure programs for it's clients. Hence, Abhinav will be able to share a view from both sides i.e. bug bounty hunter as well as responsible disclosure program manager.

Bhavuk Jain

Bug Bounty Hunter , -

Bhavuk Jain is an independent security researcher and a full time bug bounty hunter. He has been acknowledged by dozens of companies including Apple, Facebook, Yahoo and has been to various live hacking events all around the world.

Harsh Bothra

Cyber Security Analyst , Detox Technologies

Harsh Bothra is currently working as a Cyber Security Analyst at Detox Technologies. Holding a bachelor's degree in Computer Science & Engineering, his major interests revolve around Information Technology and Security. He is a part-time Bug Hunter on Bugcrowd (Currently ranked under Top 150 Researchers & MVP Q1) and Synack Red Team Member. He has spoken at various security events and conferences such as Cyber June'gle by Defcon Red Team Village & Texas Cyber, Bugcrowd LevelUp0x07, OWASP & Defcon local chapters. Harsh has authored two books on Hacking especially focusing on beginners. One of the books authored by Harsh has been previously recommended by NITTR-Chandigarh, AICTE (Govt. of India bodies). He holds 50+ Hall of Fames from various companies. He loves to talk about various cyber security stuff and has carried out a lot of sessions related to Cyber Security, Ethical Hacking & Application Security. He is always ready to support and mentor people the best way he can.

Aravind Putrevu

Developer Advocate, Elastic

Aravind is passionate about evangelizing technology, meeting developers, and helping in solving their problems. He is a backend developer and has eight years of development experience. Currently, he works at Elastic as Developer Advocate and looks after the Developer Relation function of India, South East Asia. Previously, He worked at McAfee Antivirus as a Sr. Software Engineer in Cloud Security Domain. He has a deep interest in Search, Machine Learning, Security Incident Analysis, and IoT tech. In his free time, he plays around Raspi or an Arduino.

Haran Kumar

Solutions Architect Security Specialist , Elastic

Skills driven and passionate security professional with extensive experience in SOC architecture, SIEM log Management, Endpoint security, Incident Response and cybersecurity operations. Currently living his security passion by helping projects and prospects in architecting security solutions with Elastic stack. Working as a solutions architect managing cybersecurity use cases as security specialist with Elastic.

Gem George

Security Consultant , -

Gem George is a security consultant focused on Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing. Gem has over 4 years of experience in the security field and passionate about attending CTFs and security tool developments. He has been acknowledged by tech giants such as Google and Cisco for reporting vulnerabilities and holds several CVEs in his name. He is also a volunteer of Google as a Product Expert (Google PE) supporting on Gmail and Google Accounts.

Sreehari Haridas

Operator , Red Team Village

Sreehari is an experienced Security Researcher, who has 3 years of professional experience. He is a Web application Penetration tester and a renowned Bug Bounty Hunter. Currently, Sreehari is working as a Cyber Security Engineer at UST Global, formerly a security consultant with EY. Being a security enthusiast, he has tested various applications and websites for vulnerabilities and has received 50+ Hall of fame in different companies like Google, Sony, Adobe, eBay etc. He also has interest in reverse engineering techniques and exploits development

He has bagged 3rd place in Asia region for the Global Cyberlympics Capture the flag (CTF) competition and 6th position in international Hackthebox.eu Capture the flag platform.
He was involved in organizing Red Team Village - Red vs Blue CTF at C0c0n security conference. 2019. Sreehari is a member of DEFCON Group Trivandrum (https://dc0471.org/about.html), and an operator/CTF builder at Red Team Village community. (https://redteamvillage.org/). He was a board member of OWASP Kerala chapter and an active volunteer at Kerala Police Cyberdome.

Sachin S Kamath

Offensive Security Lead , Axiata

Sachin is an experienced Red/Purple teamer who’s currently working as the Offensive Security Lead at Axiata. He enjoys exploiting Active Directory environments and laughing at really stupid misconfigurations. Sachin is an active open-source contributor and believes in giving back to the community - so much so that he will send you two zero-day exploits if you send one to him. When not breaking into things, he enjoys playing COD4MW and DoTA2.

Carlos Polop Martin

Senior Pentester, Sec-1 (Claranet)

Carlos Polop is a Spanish Telecommunications Engineer by the UPM, Master in Cybersecurity by the UC3M, OSCP, CRTP and OSWE.
He has worked as a Pentester in PWC Spain, as Security Specialist in the Department of Defence of Spain, and currently working as Senior Pentester in SEC-1 (Claranet) based in London.
He is a also a hackaton and CTF player (SirBroccoli on HackTheBox).
Carlos publishes his research on the website - https://book.hacktricks.xyz/

Nikhil Srivastava

Bug Bounty Hunter , -

Nikhil is a full-time bug bounty hunter and has been a top 5 Synack Red Team member for the past 6 years. He is also lead pentester at cobalt.io. He loves to travel and explore least visited natural spots and always keeps a "never give up" attitude in life.