Apple Fanboi, Grateful Deadhead, Doctor Whovian, Bimmer Enthusiast, EOS Digitarian.

Apple Fanboi, Grateful Deadhead, Doctor Whovian, Bimmer Enthusiast, EOS Digitarian. Show more

Wendy is a Security Engineer at Sage, where she works on securing AI-driven products and applying AppSec fundamentals to emerging architectures. She's a lead at the OWASP Bay Area Chapter and has volunteered with DayOfShecurity and BSidesSF. When she's not building security controls into CI/CD pipelines, she's picking locks and roller skating.

Wendy is a Security Engineer at Sage, where she works on securing AI-driven products and applying AppSec fundamentals to emerging architectures. She's a lead at the OWASP Bay Area Chapter and has volunteered with DayOfShecurity and BSidesSF. When she... Show more

Ayomipo Solaja is a Software Engineer and AI Researcher specializing in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise backend engineering. With extensive experience building scalable, high-performance systems, Ayomipo focuses on bridging the gap between traditional backend reliability and autonomous AI. As an active researcher with published work in top-tier conferences like ICSRS 2026 and DTISO 2026, his expertise spans multi-agent governance, causal reasoning, and production-ready agentic architectures. His work centers on designing reliable, deterministic software guardrails for non-deterministic AI capabilities.

Ayomipo Solaja is a Software Engineer and AI Researcher specializing in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise backend engineering. With extensive experience building scalable, high-performance systems, Ayomipo focuses on bridging ... Show more

Erick Mancz is a Global AWS Solutions Architect Specialist at Compass UOL, with nearly 15 years building cloud architecture for high-stakes, regulated environments. He holds every active AWS certification, including the Generative AI Developer Professional as an Early Adopter, the status AWS recognizes with the Golden Jacket. He is the sixth Brazilian Golden Jacket holder on the AWStronaut Global map, an AWS Ambassador, and co-founder of Golden Jackets Brazil, the largest Golden Jacket community in Latin America, now grown into Golden Jackets Global and active in 15 countries.

He writes Golden Jacket Field Notes, a weekly practitioner series on production ML, GenAI, and cloud architecture: field notes from workloads where outages, audit gaps, and cost surprises are not tolerated. His focus areas are agentic architectures on AWS (Strands, AgentCore, MCP, A2A), Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases and Agents, GenAI governance, and cloud governance at scale.

He delivers talks in Portuguese, English, Spanish, and French.

Erick Mancz is a Global AWS Solutions Architect Specialist at Compass UOL, with nearly 15 years building cloud architecture for high-stakes, regulated environments. He holds every active AWS certification, including the Generative AI Developer Profes... Show more

Founder of Aleutian AI, former Apple Data Engineering Manager, Former McKinsey Data Engineer. Focused on data and AI privacy research for large scale data processing and analysis.

Founder of Aleutian AI, former Apple Data Engineering Manager, Former McKinsey Data Engineer. Focused on data and AI privacy research for large scale data processing and analysis. Show more

Vin Mitty is a data and AI leader with a PhD in the field, researcher, and author of the book, The AI Decision Map.

Drawing from 2 decades of technology leadership, PhD research, and executive interviews on his podcast, Mitty helps organizations and leaders transform AI into measurable business outcomes.

Vin Mitty is a data and AI leader with a PhD in the field, researcher, and author of the book, The AI Decision Map. Drawing from 2 decades of technology leadership, PhD research, and executive interviews on his podcast, Mitty helps organizations a... Show more

I work on the responsible development and governance of emerging technologies, with a focus on AI, digital safety, and public policy. My interests include digital trust, online participation, and ensuring technology serves people in ways that are ethical, inclusive, and accountable.

I work on the responsible development and governance of emerging technologies, with a focus on AI, digital safety, and public policy. My interests include digital trust, online participation, and ensuring technology serves people in ways that are eth... Show more

Chris Kubecka de Medina

Ms. Chris Kubecka is a globally recognized cybersecurity expert with over two decades of experience, known for her pivotal role in digital defense and her commitment to ethical technology practices. She has established a formidable reputation for protecting both national and international cybersecurity interests, often at the highest levels of government and industry.

Ms. Kubecka's career began with a strong technical foundation, rapidly advancing into leadership roles that demand both tactical acumen and strategic foresight. Her expertise spans cyber warfare, digital intelligence, artificial intelligence, and the development of robust cybersecurity frameworks, including those addressing the challenges of post-quantum computing.

A thought leader in cybersecurity, Ms. Kubecka frequently contributes to international conferences, policy discussions, and academic forums. She is the author of several influential books, including Hack The World With OSINT, and has published numerous research papers on platforms like ResearchGate. Her work often explores the ethical implications of emerging technologies and the critical role of privacy in cybersecurity.

Ms. Kubecka serves as the CEO and Founder of HypaSec NL, Senior Cybersecurity Advisor for Elemental Concept, and Chief Hacktress for Unit6 Technologies. Her significant contributions to the field have been recognized with numerous awards, including The Order of Thor. She is also a former Distinguished Chair for the Middle East Institute's Cyber Security and Emerging Technology Program.

Throughout her career, Ms. Kubecka has led critical operations that highlight the intersection of cybersecurity and human rights. During the conflict in Ukraine, she used her expertise to facilitate the evacuation of civilians, applying digital intelligence to support these missions. In Venezuela, her investigations uncovered the weaponization of government-backed applications, such as the Ven App and Patrica App, which are used for surveillance and repression of dissent. Her research revealed how these apps are being exploited to target citizens, leading to arrests, disappearances, and even deaths, underscoring the dire consequences of unethical technology use.

Ms. Kubecka's background as a USAF aviator and former member of the USAF Space Command highlights her extensive commitment to defense in both the physical and digital realms. Her journey began at a young age, with her early technical skills leading to her first major hacking achievement at age ten.

Chris Kubecka de Medina Ms. Chris Kubecka is a globally recognized cybersecurity expert with over two decades of experience, known for her pivotal role in digital defense and her commitment to ethical technology practices. She has established a fo... Show more

Daniel Hiller is a software engineer with more than 20 years of work experience. He’s part of the KubeVirt community. KubeVirt is a Kubernetes add-on to run virtual machines on Kubernetes clusters. In the community he maintains, improves and automates CI, testing processes, GitHub automation and community data processing for the KubeVirt organization using Prow on Kubernetes and Golang.

Daniel Hiller is a software engineer with more than 20 years of work experience. He’s part of the KubeVirt community. KubeVirt is a Kubernetes add-on to run virtual machines on Kubernetes clusters. In the community he maintains, improves and automate... Show more

Nidhi Srivastava is an award-winning cybersecurity leader, TEDx speaker, researcher, and Founder of DigiArmorX. With over 15 years of experience in program management, cybersecurity, governance, risk, and compliance, she has led enterprise initiatives for Fortune 500 organizations including US Bank, IBM, and AT&T. Her expertise includes AI governance, cybersecurity strategy, cloud security, privacy, and regulatory compliance, with programs aligned to ISO 27001, NIST, PCI DSS, and CIS Controls. She is passionate about helping educational institutions use AI responsibly while strengthening cybersecurity, protecting student privacy, and building resilient digital learning environments.

Nidhi Srivastava is an award-winning cybersecurity leader, TEDx speaker, researcher, and Founder of DigiArmorX. With over 15 years of experience in program management, cybersecurity, governance, risk, and compliance, she has led enterprise initiative... Show more

Marco is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience in the Microsoft ecosystem, specializing in the design and management of enterprise solutions in both cloud and on-premise environments. He is an expert in collaboration technologies, with a particular focus on Microsoft Teams and Exchange, supporting companies of all sizes in their digital transformation journey.

In recent years, he has deepened his expertise in Microsoft 365 Copilot, sharing insights and use cases through articles and blog posts aimed at the IT community.

Marco is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience in the Microsoft ecosystem, specializing in the design and management of enterprise solutions in both cloud and on-premise environments. He is an expert in collaboration technologies, with ... Show more

I’m Member of Parliament, vice-President of our Telecommunications subcommittee and executive member of the African Parliamentary Network on Internet Governance (APNIG) and the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) – Policy Network on Artificial Intelligence (PNAI).
Also executive member of AFSPaN, the African Food Systems Parliamentary Network, a pan-African, legislator-led platform uniting current and former parliamentarians from 28 countries to champion agricultural and food systems transformation

I’m Member of Parliament, vice-President of our Telecommunications subcommittee and executive member of the African Parliamentary Network on Internet Governance (APNIG) and the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) – Policy Network on Artificial Intelli... Show more

Attinder Pal Singh is a Senior Product Manager for SQL Server at Microsoft, currently leading the technical vision for SQL Server on Linux. With over 15 years of experience in database technologies, Attinder has held diverse roles across Support, Consulting, and Engineering roles, enabling him to build deep expertise in optimizing business-critical solutions.
Prior to his current role, he served as a Product Manager for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale, contributing to the evolution of cloud-native database read scale capabilities. Today, he focuses on delivering new features and platform innovations for SQL Server on Linux, helping customers accelerate and modernize across cloud and hybrid environments.
He has presented his work 3 times at DevDays Asia (Taipei), 5 times at Bangalore UG group (India), Webinars and internal Microsoft events.

Attinder Pal Singh is a Senior Product Manager for SQL Server at Microsoft, currently leading the technical vision for SQL Server on Linux. With over 15 years of experience in database technologies, Attinder has held diverse roles across Support, Con... Show more

Mediador, formado en la Escuela de
Mediación del Colegio Público de Abogados
de Buenos Aires. Magister en RRHH, FCE
UBA. Entrenado en negociación por CMI-Harvard,
en Cambridge, Massachusetts,
EEUU. Posgrado en Gestión Humana de
las Organizaciones, Facultad de Psicología
UBA. Contador Público. Profesor de
Negociación, persuasión y comunicación estrategica en grado y posgrado.
Vicepresidente de la Comisión de Negociación del Consejo Profesional de Ciencias Económicas de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.
Entrenador, mentor y consultor de negociadores.
Apasionado investigador y creador de contenido sobre negociación, persuasión y comunicación interpersonal.
Profesional independiente, socio fundador de Visión y Estrategia Consultores.

Mediador, formado en la Escuela de Mediación del Colegio Público de Abogados de Buenos Aires. Magister en RRHH, FCE UBA. Entrenado en negociación por CMI-Harvard, en Cambridge, Massachusetts, EEUU. Posgrado en Gestión Humana de las Organizacion... Show more

A puzzle solver at heart, I've been delivering agile cybersecurity for Fortune 500 companies for 15 years.
I've designed enterprise-wide AI governance frameworks, authored GenAI adoption policies, and led AI risk and maturity assessments against the EU AI Act and ISO/IEC 42001 My work spans responsible AI controls (bias detection, fairness testing), DPIAs for high-risk processing, and compliance assessments of GenAI agent orchestration platforms. I hold Cloud Security Architect, GCP Cybersecurity, and OCI Security credentials, but I'm still fighting the urge to get a ISC2 one.

At the intersection of cyber and geopolitics I've spoken at international conferences, like Mobile World Con in Las Vegas, LeadX in Georgia, and Romanian conferences like Cloud Native Days in Bucharest, DevOps in Sibiu or GoTech World on PQC, NTN Defence and other niche topics in cyber.

A puzzle solver at heart, I've been delivering agile cybersecurity for Fortune 500 companies for 15 years. I've designed enterprise-wide AI governance frameworks, authored GenAI adoption policies, and led AI risk and maturity assessments against the... Show more

With over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity at both strategic and operational levels, and a proven track record of building high-performing security teams, Sebastian takes a multi-faceted view on today's security challenges, successfully blending technical acumen with business insights - and continuously asking himself: "Hmm, I wonder if there's a better way to do this?"

With over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity at both strategic and operational levels, and a proven track record of building high-performing security teams, Sebastian takes a multi-faceted view on today's security challenges, successfully blendi... Show more

Kristine Parker Watson is a leadership and career coach, speaker, and author with more than 30 years of corporate HR leadership experience. As the founder of Leading Edge Advisory Partners, she helps professionals gain clarity and confidence during career transitions and equips new and emerging leaders to lead more effectively.

Kristine brings real-world experience in leadership development, employee relations, communication, organizational change, and building stronger teams. Her practical approach helps audiences move beyond theory and identify actions they can immediately use in their careers and workplaces.

Speaking Topics Include:

Career Clarity: What to Do When You’re Ready for a Change but Unsure What Comes Next
Burnout or the Wrong Job? Recognizing What Really Needs to Change
From Employee to Leader: Making the Transition Successfully
Communicating with Clarity, Confidence, and Impact
Leading Teams Through Change and Uncertainty
Building Trust, Accountability, and Stronger Workplace Relationships
Adulting 101: The Real-Life Skills Young Adults Were Never Taught

Kristine is also the author of So, You Want to Be a Grown-Up? The Unofficial Guide to Adulting Without Losing Your Mind, a practical guide designed to help young adults navigate money, employee benefits, work, communication, and independent living.

Through relatable stories, interactive discussion, and practical tools, Kristine gives audiences more than inspiration. She helps them leave with greater clarity and specific steps they can take next.

One additional recommendation: if the speaker bureau lets you choose categories, include leadership, career development, workplace communication, change management, employee engagement, and young adults/education. This gives you two clear speaking lanes—career and leadership programs for professional audiences, and Adulting 101 programs for schools and community organizations.

Kristine Parker Watson is a leadership and career coach, speaker, and author with more than 30 years of corporate HR leadership experience. As the founder of Leading Edge Advisory Partners, she helps professionals gain clarity and confidence during c... Show more

I am a professional with experience across software engineering, mission-critical ICT operations, and consulting, including 8–10 years focused on governance, risk, compliance, and audit. I partner with senior stakeholders to implement and assess security frameworks aligned with ISO 27001, NIS2, EU AI Act, and ISO 42001, supporting regulatory compliance and business objectives. I have led cross-functional initiatives in third-party risk management and M&A security, improving risk visibility and integration timelines across global environments.

I am a professional with experience across software engineering, mission-critical ICT operations, and consulting, including 8–10 years focused on governance, risk, compliance, and audit. I partner with senior stakeholders to implement and assess secu... Show more

Farees Fathima is the Group Responsible AI Lead at Carlsberg Group, where she leads Responsible AI initiatives focused on AI governance, risk management, and ethical AI adoption across the enterprise. With over 13 years of experience spanning AI, intelligent automation, digital transformation, and enterprise technology, she has helped global organizations design and scale technology solutions that deliver business value while building trust.

Her experience includes leading AI governance programs, driving intelligent automation initiatives, and enabling organizations to adopt AI responsibly. As a speaker, Farees shares practical insights on Responsible AI, enterprise AI adoption, AI governance, and the future of trustworthy AI, helping business and technology leaders navigate the evolving AI landscape with confidence.

Farees Fathima is the Group Responsible AI Lead at Carlsberg Group, where she leads Responsible AI initiatives focused on AI governance, risk management, and ethical AI adoption across the enterprise. With over 13 years of experience spanning AI, int... Show more

Chris Taylor is a security consultant with a 25+ year background in digital forensics and incident response who specializes in building security programs for media & entertainment companies. His company is a specialized MSSP that provides security for film studios, production companies, game development studios, and the companies that support them.

Chris Taylor is a security consultant with a 25+ year background in digital forensics and incident response who specializes in building security programs for media & entertainment companies. His company is a specialized MSSP that provides security fo... Show more

Darshna is the Chief AI Officer at Elastacloud, with a PhD in Neuroscience and over 10 years of experience delivering enterprise AI solutions across Finance, Legal, Energy, and Sustainability. Proven track record in building machine learning solutions, multi-agent AI systems, aligning AI strategy with business goals, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver measurable commercial impact. Recognised Microsoft AI MVP (5years), mentor, established conference speaker (Tech(K)now, Microsoft conferences (Future Decoded, Build, Ignite), DPS Days, Cloud Brew, UK Azure meetup, SQL Bits), and community leader (organiser of Data Science London, 10k+ members). Passionate about responsible AI, sustainability, and translating cutting-edge research into real-world impact.

Darshna is the Chief AI Officer at Elastacloud, with a PhD in Neuroscience and over 10 years of experience delivering enterprise AI solutions across Finance, Legal, Energy, and Sustainability. Proven track record in building machine learning solution... Show more

Tech Lead at Sycamore Informatics, shipping production LLM agents across an 8-product ecosystem for regulated clinical-trial data. Sycamore is the market leader in clinical trial data science, serving 10 of the Top 20 Global Pharma — AbbVie, BMS, Bayer, Daiichi-Sankyo, CSL, Genmab, Alcon. Scale: 2,000+ TB, 10,000+ active users, 100+ regulatory submissions.

15+ years across platforms, AI-driven engineering, and technical leadership. Former Director of Engineering at Safyre Labs, where he ran the multi-brand B2C ecommerce platform behind Jewlr, Lee Fiori, and ONE+ONLY (1M+ customers). Earlier: AI-driven initiatives at Mars, Inc., Etsy, and IKEA; Rails/AWS delivery for Bossa Nova Robotics, HackerRank, Agero, etc.

Currently focused on the intersection of LLM agents and regulated production Rails — fails-closed customer-environment resolvers, idiom-aware skill-layer invariants, version-pinned code reads. SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, ICH-GCP, CDISC, FDA/EMA/PMDA-aligned.

International conference speaker & tech paper author. Recent: PHUSE EU Connect 2025, PHUSE SDE Shanghai 2025, CDISC US 2025, Toronto Ruby 2024, Toronto DevOps Exchange 2023.

Tech Lead at Sycamore Informatics, shipping production LLM agents across an 8-product ecosystem for regulated clinical-trial data. Sycamore is the market leader in clinical trial data science, serving 10 of the Top 20 Global Pharma — AbbVie, BMS, Bay... Show more

I’m an AI and intelligent automation specialist with more than 12 years of experience designing, supporting and leading technology across complex enterprise environments.
My work brings together artificial intelligence, computer science, psychology, automation and human behaviour. I’m particularly interested in responsible AI, human–AI interaction, trust calibration and meaningful human oversight.
I hold an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from Queen’s University Belfast, where my research explored transformer model behaviour, interpretability, controlled evaluation, attention analysis and failure-mode testing. I’m also a NeurIPS 2026 ethics reviewer and write publicly about AI governance, accountability and the human impact of emerging technology.
I’m especially interested in what happens when AI moves beyond theory and meets real organisations, real incentives and real people. I care about making complex ideas accessible, helping teams evaluate systems responsibly, and connecting technical capability with genuine human need ✨

I’m an AI and intelligent automation specialist with more than 12 years of experience designing, supporting and leading technology across complex enterprise environments. My work brings together artificial intelligence, computer science, psychology,... Show more

Hi, I’m Vidhi Shah. Working at TOTL Advisors, a trusted Employer of Record (EOR) and recruitment services provider in Ahmedabad, India. We help foreign companies hire, manage, and scale teams in India without establishing a legal entity. Our services include EOR solutions, recruitment, payroll management, tax compliance, employee onboarding, HR administration, and labor law compliance. Nothing is more rewarding than being part of a team that helps global businesses expand seamlessly while ensuring compliance and operational excellence.

Hi, I’m Vidhi Shah. Working at TOTL Advisors, a trusted Employer of Record (EOR) and recruitment services provider in Ahmedabad, India. We help foreign companies hire, manage, and scale teams in India without establishing a legal entity. Our services... Show more

Shikirra is a security analyst transitioning to a GRC practitioner with hands-on experience across SOC operations, incident triage, and compliance framework development in a multi-tenant MSP environment.

As founder of ShiDoesCyber, she built a platform dedicated to making cybersecurity knowledge honest, accessible, and actionable.

She brings a practitioner’s perspective to the AI governance conversation, not theory, but the view from someone who has done alert triage, built risk registers, and watched AI adoption happen in real client environments without governance frameworks in sight. This is her first conference talk submission.

She built it the same way she builds everything: starting from what she actually observed, anchoring it in primary source documentation, and making it useful for the people in the room.

Shikirra is a security analyst transitioning to a GRC practitioner with hands-on experience across SOC operations, incident triage, and compliance framework development in a multi-tenant MSP environment. As founder of ShiDoesCyber, she built a pl... Show more

The poacher and the gamekeeper: 25+ years building enterprise technology at the highest level — WPP, Heathrow, Arup, BBC — and over a decade as a civil society board trustee at Article 19, Privacy International, and the Inspiring Leadership Foundation. The person who built a £250m agentic AI platform (at the world's largest advertising company) is the same person fighting for digital rights and economic empowerment. That tension is what makes the keynotes honest — and what makes David genuinely rare on any speaker roster. Author of two books. Creator of the J-Curve of Change framework, cited across industries for 20+ years. Available for keynotes, panels, and firesides on AI transformation, AI governance, and what responsible leadership actually looks like in practice.

The poacher and the gamekeeper: 25+ years building enterprise technology at the highest level — WPP, Heathrow, Arup, BBC — and over a decade as a civil society board trustee at Article 19, Privacy International, and the Inspiring Leadership Foundatio... Show more

Gautham Koorma is a consulting and testifying expert at Quandary Peak Research, where he provides technical analysis, source code review, and expert testimony in litigation involving software intellectual property, cybersecurity, and generative AI. With over a decade of experience in digital forensics, machine learning, and IP strategy, he translates complex technical findings into actionable insights for attorneys, courts, and business leaders. He holds a master's degree from the UC Berkeley School of Information, where his research focused on digital forensics and deepfake detection.

https://quandarypeak.com/software-experts/gautham-koorma/

Gautham Koorma is a consulting and testifying expert at Quandary Peak Research, where he provides technical analysis, source code review, and expert testimony in litigation involving software intellectual property, cybersecurity, and generative AI. W... Show more

I am a longtime developer turned architect who now drives security across the software development lifecycle at ING.

After years of writing code myself, I bring a builder’s mindset to every security conversation - practical, energetic, and and rooted in developer‑friendliness. Whether I’m designing guardrails or talking supply chain security, I’m all about helping teams ship faster and safer.

I am a longtime developer turned architect who now drives security across the software development lifecycle at ING. After years of writing code myself, I bring a builder’s mindset to every security conversation - practical, energetic, and and ro... Show more

Nathan Max Osorio is a speaker, author, attorney, and creator of Access Architecture, a practical framework for restoring access to clarity, choice, communication, and action under pressure.

For more than 15 years, Nathan has worked as an immigration attorney in high-stakes environments where language, timing, and decisions carry real consequences. He is also the author of You Begin with Language: Master the Foundation of Human Experience and the founder of Interrupt the Loop, a Los Angeles-based training company.

Nathan’s work is built on one core distinction: people do not fail because they lack knowledge. They fail because, in the moments that matter most, they lose access to what they already know.

His talks are practical, grounded, and human. Audiences leave with language they can use immediately, a clearer understanding of what interrupts access, and a repeatable way to return to action under pressure.

Nathan Max Osorio is a speaker, author, attorney, and creator of Access Architecture, a practical framework for restoring access to clarity, choice, communication, and action under pressure. For more than 15 years, Nathan has worked as an immigrat... Show more

Kristiyan Velkov is a Principal Front-end Developer, Docker Captain, and author of four technical books, including Mastering React.js Interviews and Mastering TypeScript Core Utility Types. With over ten years of experience, he specializes in React.js, Next.js, DevOps for front-end engineers, and building secure, high-performance web applications. Kristiyan has contributed to the official Docker documentation and regularly shares practical insights on Medium and Substack, where thousands of developers follow his work. He speaks at community events and workshops, focusing on modern JavaScript, DevOps practices, and real-world front-end engineering challenges.

Kristiyan Velkov is a Principal Front-end Developer, Docker Captain, and author of four technical books, including Mastering React.js Interviews and Mastering TypeScript Core Utility Types. With over ten years of experience, he specializes in React.j... Show more