Law & Regulation

Legal experts and regulators who drive the discourse in law, governance, and policy-making, shaping the legal landscape with their knowledge and experience

Debra Baker

Debra Baker

Debra Baker, a cybersecurity expert with over 30 years of experience, began her career in the U.S. Air Force and has worked at IBM and Cisco. As CEO of TrustedCISO, she specializes in strategic cybersecurity, risk management, and compliance advisory services, helping clients navigate complex frameworks such as SOC2, ISO27001, FedRAMP, StateRAMP, and NIST. A CISSP and CCSP holder, Debra has a patent-pending AI-driven vendor assessment tool. She also founded Crypto Done Right. She's recognized as one of the top 150 Women in Cybersecurity and is the author of CISO Guide to Cyber Resilience book.

Debra Baker, a cybersecurity expert with over 30 years of experience, began her career in the U.S. Air Force and has worked at IBM and Cisco. As CEO of TrustedCISO, she specializes in strategic cybersecurity, risk management, and compliance advisory ... Show more

Sabrina Pastura

Sabrina Pastura

Me apasiona que la creatividad legal y tecnológica vayan de la mano desde el día uno de un proyecto.
Actualmente desarrollo frameworks prácticos de riesgos y governance para agentes de IA autónomos, con foco en la realidad argentina y latinoamericana. Trabajo junto a developers y founders para que puedan innovar con velocidad y mayor seguridad, convirtiendo los riesgos legales en oportunidades de mejor diseño de producto.

Me apasiona que la creatividad legal y tecnológica vayan de la mano desde el día uno de un proyecto. Actualmente desarrollo frameworks prácticos de riesgos y governance para agentes de IA autónomos, con foco en la realidad argentina y latinoamerican... Show more

Diop Ababacar

Diop Ababacar

Ababacar Diop is Senegalese. He is a lawyer and President of the Dakar-based organization Jonction. He has been active for some ten years in the defense and promotion of digital rights in West Africa and worldwide. His organization, Jonction, focuses on the defense of human and digital rights.

Ababacar Diop is Senegalese. He is a lawyer and President of the Dakar-based organization Jonction. He has been active for some ten years in the defense and promotion of digital rights in West Africa and worldwide. His organization, Jonction, focuses... Show more

Mauro D. Ríos

Mauro D. Ríos

Mauro D. Ríos is a Technology Key Opinion Leader (KOL) specializing in e-Government, digital transformation, and technology neutrality. He is a co-founder of eGoverment Uruguay Agency (AGESIC) and the creator of Uruguay’s Digital Agenda (ADU) and the National OID Assignment Unit (UNAOID), which manages the identifiers powering the Digital ID, the Electronic Government Records (APIA), the Electronic Health Record, and other systems. He formulated one of the most widely used definitions of technology neutrality globally. He served as Technology Director of the National Public Education Administration (ANEP) during the COVID pandemic. His professional experience includes work with the IDB (MIF), Canada’s IDRC, URSEC, Parliament, ALC Universities, the Internet Society, and the private sector. He was selected by the Pew Research Center (Elon University, USA) to provide predictions regarding the Internet and AI in 2035. He has authored 10 books and 70 articles; some rank in Elsevier’s top 10, while others are included in the CERLAC library (UNESCO).

Mauro D. Ríos is a Technology Key Opinion Leader (KOL) specializing in e-Government, digital transformation, and technology neutrality. He is a co-founder of eGoverment Uruguay Agency (AGESIC) and the creator of Uruguay’s Digital Agenda (ADU) and the... Show more

Nathan Platter

Nathan Platter

Nathan Platter (Lincoln, NE) builds decision-ready data and AI systems for growth leaders, with a focus on human-in-the-loop design in production and regulated ops. He recently spoke at brainstorm Denver (Sep 10, 2026) with a solo talk and live build. Next month he presents for DAMA Rocky Mountain Chapter at the University of Denver. Through SettleUp, LotBeacon, Marketplace Copilot, and agentic systems work, he designs tools that check themselves before a human signs off so operations run more like Iron Man than unchecked automation. His day-to-day is Principal, Analytics & AI | Revenue & GTM Intelligence: roadmaps, prioritization, and systems that leave an audit trail you can defend.

Nathan Platter (Lincoln, NE) builds decision-ready data and AI systems for growth leaders, with a focus on human-in-the-loop design in production and regulated ops. He recently spoke at brainstorm Denver (Sep 10, 2026) with a solo talk and live build... Show more

Stacey Oneal, PhD

Stacey Oneal, PhD

Dr. Stacey Oneal is an experienced scholar-practitioner in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) with more than two decades of industry leadership guiding organizations through complex regulatory landscapes and developing robust risk management frameworks. Her professional background spans both public and private sectors, where she has served as a trusted advisor on aligning operational objectives with regulatory requirements such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, NIST CSF, FISMA, and CMMC.

As an educator, Dr. Oneal brings her extensive applied expertise into the classroom, emphasizing practical, real world learning experiences that prepare students to navigate today’s evolving cybersecurity and compliance challenges.

Dr. Oneal holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology, an M.S. in Network Security, an MBA, and a B.S. in Computer Science. She also maintains a broad portfolio of professional certifications, including CISSP, CRISC, CISA, CCO, CSM, PCI-QSA, CMMC RP, CIGE, and CICA.

Dr. Stacey Oneal is an experienced scholar-practitioner in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) with more than two decades of industry leadership guiding organizations through complex regulatory landscapes and developing robust risk management fram... Show more

Josh Harr

Josh Harr

Josh Harr is a senior cybersecurity advisor and security executive with 17 years of experience spanning U.S. federal government, military operations, critical infrastructure, healthcare, private industry, and international defense organizations. His work focuses on helping leaders understand and manage cyber risk shaped by geopolitics, operational reality, and real‑world consequences.

Josh currently serves as a Business Information Security Officer (BISO) within a large U.S. healthcare organization, aligning cybersecurity strategy with business growth, regulatory requirements, and patient care. He translates technical risk into executive decision‑making and embeds security into enterprise transformation initiatives.

In parallel, Josh supports international cyber capacity‑building as a senior advisor to the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense Cyber Defense Center, where he helps design incident response frameworks, organizational models, workforce pipelines, large‑scale cyber exercises, and governance aligned with NATO and EUCOM objectives.

Josh is also an officer in the U.S. Air National Guard, specializing in cyberspace operations and international security advising, with experience integrating cyber considerations into joint and multi‑domain environments.

Across government, military, and private‑sector roles, Josh designs executive‑level exercises and crisis simulations focused on risk‑based decision‑making under uncertainty. His work consistently operates at the intersection of cybersecurity, geopolitics, and leadership—helping organizations understand not just what could happen, but why it matters and how to act.

Josh Harr is a senior cybersecurity advisor and security executive with 17 years of experience spanning U.S. federal government, military operations, critical infrastructure, healthcare, private industry, and international defense organizations. His ... Show more

Mauxi Adriana Ornelas Kobayashi

Mauxi Adriana Ornelas Kobayashi

Mauxi Adriana Ornelas-Kobayashi is a biomedical engineer with 18+ years of experience in medical devices and diagnostic imaging across Mexico, Latin America, and the United States. Her career includes regional sales and market-development leadership for FUJIFILM Medical Systems and Chison, as well as more than a decade working with multi-brand medical-equipment distributors. She has managed ultrasound and imaging portfolios, distributor networks, public procurement, strategic accounts, and after-sales relationships across Latin America. Her professional experience with multiple ultrasound brands informs her current research on medical-device value chains, technical circularity, operational resilience, public procurement, and local industrial capabilities. She bridges industry practice with research to examine how medical technologies can be managed more sustainably throughout their life cycle.

Mauxi Adriana Ornelas-Kobayashi is a biomedical engineer with 18+ years of experience in medical devices and diagnostic imaging across Mexico, Latin America, and the United States. Her career includes regional sales and market-development leadership ... Show more

Wanjiku Karanja

Wanjiku Karanja

Wanjiku Karanja is a technology lawyer and an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, with over eight years' experience advising on data protection, digital identity and digital assets. She is the founder of Law Lab Africa, a technology law consultancy and research firm that advises organisations on technology compliance across African jurisdictions, builds bespoke legal-tech compliance tools for its clients, and advises governments and institutions on technology policy. She is also the editor of the Data Protection Digest, a regulatory intelligence briefing on African data protection, and the Crypto Policy Monitor, a tracker of digital-asset regulation across the continent. She is a doctoral candidate at Stanford Law School, where her dissertation examines governance in decentralised finance.

Wanjiku Karanja is a technology lawyer and an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, with over eight years' experience advising on data protection, digital identity and digital assets. She is the founder of Law Lab Africa, a technology law consultancy ... Show more

Paul A Lucas

Paul A Lucas

Paul A. Lucas is a global governance, risk and transformation executive with more than 25 years of international experience across the World Bank Group, the United Nations system, including UNOPS and UNFPA, and Deloitte.

His work spans organizational transformation, enterprise risk, internal audit, investigations, financial integrity, technology risk, data analytics and AI governance. He has led global oversight functions, advised senior executives, boards and audit committees, and worked across complex international organizations operating in more than 100 countries.

Paul Lucas is a Chartered Accountant, Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Fraud Examiner, CISA, CAMS and PMP. He is a graduate of Macquarie University and The Fletcher School at Tufts University, and writes and speaks on governance, organizational effectiveness, risk, investigations and responsible AI.

Paul A. Lucas is a global governance, risk and transformation executive with more than 25 years of international experience across the World Bank Group, the United Nations system, including UNOPS and UNFPA, and Deloitte. His work spans organizatio... Show more

Attinder Pal Singh

Attinder Pal Singh

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

Alexandre Ferreira

Alexandre Ferreira

Alexandre é escritor, professor e cofundador do Lean Coffee Brasília, com sólida atuação em metodologias ágeis, transformação organizacional, auditoria e governança. Ao longo de sua carreira, atuou como gerente de projetos e contratos, auditor, coordenador de auditoria e Scrum Master, formando e desenvolvendo times e líderes em Scrum, métodos ágeis e modelos modernos de gestão.
Possui pós-graduação em Governança em Tecnologia, MBAs em Auditoria Interna e em Gestão de Operações e Serviços, além de graduação em Tecnologia em Processamento de Dados e pós-graduação em Redes de Computadores. É autor de livros amplamente utilizados sobre agilidade, auditoria ágil, reuniões eficazes e papel do Scrum Master.
Sua abordagem combina rigor técnico, vivência prática e linguagem acessível, conectando agilidade, governança e resultados concretos. Em suas palestras, provoca reflexões e entrega ferramentas aplicáveis para profissionais e organizações que buscam evoluir sua forma de trabalhar, gerir e decidir.

Alexandre é escritor, professor e cofundador do Lean Coffee Brasília, com sólida atuação em metodologias ágeis, transformação organizacional, auditoria e governança. Ao longo de sua carreira, atuou como gerente de projetos e contratos, auditor, coord... Show more

Steven P McCormick

Steven P McCormick

Steven P McCormick has built a career that reflects steady discipline in both law and finance. His office in Simi Valley presents two defining milestones. His law degree from St. Thomas University is displayed beside his Master’s diploma in Piano Performance from Boise State University. During his graduate studies, he focused on the works of classical composers such as Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, Bach, and Debussy. His academic journey shows that patience and preparation guide both music and retirement planning.

Steven was born in Miami, Florida. In 1992, he completed his English degree at the University of Florida. After graduation, he attended law school and earned his Juris Doctor. By 1995, he established his own practice, focusing on bankruptcy law, wills, trusts, and estate planning. For seven years, he worked closely with clients during financially stressful times. He helped them understand their options and create practical legal solutions. During this period, he continued his advanced musical studies and completed his Master’s degree in Piano Performance.

In 2003, McCormick transitioned into commercial litigation in Costa Mesa. He represented Newport Beach clients in business and investment disputes. As he handled more cases, he observed that many conflicts could have been reduced through stronger financial planning. He came to believe that proactive retirement planning and structured financial decisions often prevent costly litigation. This insight led him to expand his professional focus.

In 2005, Steven P. McCormick became a financial advisor at Citicorp Investment Services in San Mateo. His estate planning experience gave him working knowledge of probate law, wealth transfer trusts, and special needs trusts. Many Silicon Valley clients held concentrated technology stock positions and required guidance that connected legal structure with financial strategy. By 2006, his partnership ranked as the top-performing at the firm.

From 2007 to 2009, Steven worked at JP Morgan Chase & Co. in Burbank. He earned placement on the Top Producer Committee for two consecutive years. He served media professionals and small business owners whose income levels often fluctuated. His method remained consistent. He first worked to understand each client’s goals and financial circumstances, then developed a retirement planning strategy tailored to long-term stability.

Between 2010 and 2016, McCormick served as a telecom employee at Wescom Credit Union in Sherman Oaks. During those six years, he became the top-producing credit union advisor nationally in total revenue. In 2010, he also resumed practicing estate planning law on a part-time basis. This combination allowed him to draft estate documents while advising clients on Social Security timing, Medicare enrollment, IRMAA planning, and comprehensive retirement planning.

In 2013, Steven partnered with two petroleum engineers to establish Applied Gas Lift, LLC in Metairie, Louisiana. The company focused on restoring abandoned oil and gas wells to production. He oversaw operations until 2017.

In 2016, Steven P McCormick became an independent financial advisor with Advisor Group, specializing in retirement planning, Social Security optimization, and estate planning. He later offered free educational seminars through the Foundation for Financial Independence on Social Security and income planning strategies. In January 2025, he launched McCormick Capital in Simi Valley. Steven continues to provide retirement planning and estate planning services grounded in decades of legal and financial experience.

Steven P McCormick has built a career that reflects steady discipline in both law and finance. His office in Simi Valley presents two defining milestones. His law degree from St. Thomas University is displayed beside his Master’s diploma in Piano Per... Show more

Anjaneya Turai

Anjaneya Turai

Anjaneya Turai is a technology strategist with over half a decade of experience in making artificial intelligence practical, ethical, and accessible. At South East Water, he leads AI initiatives that range from automation and analytics to the responsible adoption of emerging tools, ensuring that innovation is grounded in trust and transparency.

He has delivered AI engagement sessions across teams, spoken on podcasts about AI and ethics, and worked closely with professionals to explore how AI can drive efficiency and new opportunities. His projects span legal automation, client data management, generative AI for business, and advanced analytics, giving him a unique perspective on both the strategic and hands-on sides of AI.

Passionate about bridging the gap between innovation and responsibility, Anjaneya helps organizations unlock value from AI while keeping people, ethics, and real-world impact at the center of the conversation. Whether engaging executives, developers, or students, he brings clarity, curiosity, and practical insight into the fast-moving world of AI.

Anjaneya Turai is a technology strategist with over half a decade of experience in making artificial intelligence practical, ethical, and accessible. At South East Water, he leads AI initiatives that range from automation and analytics to the respons... Show more

Oliver Szimmetat

Oliver Szimmetat

Oliver is the Chief Privacy Office and Director of Security and Compliance at TAXbit, where he manages all aspects of security and compliance, including Incident Management/Response, Corporate Security Engineering, Cloud Security, Security Guidance, Product Security, Physical Security, and Compliance audits.

Before joining TAXbit in 2023, he was Head of Cloud Security at Uber Engineering in Seattle. There, he built a team working on secure-by-default architecture, best practices, engineering standards, automated compliance (SOC II, SOX, PCI, HIPPA, GDPR, ISO 27001), monitoring tools, data security, and threat detection/response solutions for all of Uber’s cloud assets and engineering efforts.

Prior to that, Oliver spent over 18 years at Microsoft, where he worked in various engineering and engineering management roles contributing to Windows client security (developing, testing, and releasing security updates), anti-piracy, cloud security standards, security testing (Windows, Office, and Azure), and continuous integration/delivery for all the company’s commercial online services.

In his spare time, he also volunteers to deliver (security) engineering training to schools and start-up companies in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania.

Oliver is the Chief Privacy Office and Director of Security and Compliance at TAXbit, where he manages all aspects of security and compliance, including Incident Management/Response, Corporate Security Engineering, Cloud Security, Security Guidance, ... Show more

Yeo JooHo

Yeo JooHo

a seasoned Security Researcher and White Hat Hacker with a distinguished career spanning military operations, government investigations, and large-scale cloud infrastructure security. He has served as a cyber threat analyst for major CSPs (Cloud Service Providers) and provided critical technical support for high-profile anti-corruption investigations at the national prosecutor's office.

​A graduate of the prestigious Best of the Best (BoB) next-generation security leader program, his offensive and defensive capabilities are globally recognized. His accolades include a 2nd place finish (Blue Team) in the National Cyber Conflict Exercise (CCE) and multiple commendations for excellence in cloud incident response.

​As an active vulnerability researcher, Jooho has a prolific history of discovering and reporting security flaws in open-source web frameworks, mobile messengers, and enterprise systems. He has also contributed to national security as an official challenge author for military cyber warfare competitions and an advisory member for government-led research projects.

a seasoned Security Researcher and White Hat Hacker with a distinguished career spanning military operations, government investigations, and large-scale cloud infrastructure security. He has served as a cyber threat analyst for major CSPs (Cloud Serv... Show more

Jon-Rav Shende

Jon-Rav Shende

I’ve spent over two decades helping companies defend what matters most today, which means securing the explosion of generative AI.
I've worked with enterprises that rolled out Large Language Models (LLMs), transformed their Security Operations Centers (SOCs), and embedded Zero Trust principles into their AI deployments. From architecting secure pipelines from onpremise IT/OT, to datacenters and AWS/Azure and Google Security, to advising on AI governance to focusing on making cutting-edge innovation safe to deploy. I intend to leverage a technical background and practical field experience, with a sharp focus on how AI security is reshaping risk and how we can stay ahead of it.

I’ve spent over two decades helping companies defend what matters most today, which means securing the explosion of generative AI. I've worked with enterprises that rolled out Large Language Models (LLMs), transformed their Security Operations Cent... Show more

Keisa Avila

Keisa Avila

Keisa Avila es especialista en Business Intelligence, arquitectura de datos y analítica en la nube, con más 15 años de experiencia trabajando con grandes volúmenes de información en sectores como banca, telecomunicaciones, retail y aerolíneas. En este recorrido lideró proyectos de Data Warehouse, modelado de datos y procesos ETL/ELT, asegurando que la información estuviera disponible y confiable para la toma de decisiones estratégicas.

En los últimos 5 años dio un paso decisivo hacia el Big Data y la Ciencia de Datos, participando en proyectos de migración a la nube y creación de Data Lakes en AWS, y desarrollando modelos analíticos que aplican machine learning e inteligencia artificial.

Cuenta con una Maestría en Inteligencia Artificial y una sólida trayectoria técnica que combina lo mejor de ambos mundos: la disciplina de BI y el poder predictivo de la ciencia de datos.

Ha sido speaker en conferencias regionales (incluido el AWS Community Day en Panamá y Guatemala), donde comparte casos prácticos, storytelling con datos y estrategias aplicables que muestran cómo transformar datos en valor real para las empresas. Su enfoque es claro: democratizar el acceso a la información y demostrar cómo la innovación tecnológica impacta en la eficiencia y la toma de decisiones empresariales.

Keisa Avila es especialista en Business Intelligence, arquitectura de datos y analítica en la nube, con más 15 años de experiencia trabajando con grandes volúmenes de información en sectores como banca, telecomunicaciones, retail y aerolíneas. En est... Show more

Zhonghua Zhu

Zhonghua Zhu

Senior IP & Open Source Legal Counsel with 10+ years' experience. A qualified patent attorney with degrees in Physics and IP Law, he specializes in AI open source compliance for tech enterprises. His core practice includes end-to-end risk assessments for LLMs, pre-launch audits, compliance tool design, and legal support for external AI open source projects. An active OpenChain member, he frequently speaks at industry conferences and contributes to AI compliance whitepapers.

Senior IP & Open Source Legal Counsel with 10+ years' experience. A qualified patent attorney with degrees in Physics and IP Law, he specializes in AI open source compliance for tech enterprises. His core practice includes end-to-end risk assessments... Show more

Jingyi Cui

Jingyi Cui

Jingyi Cui is a Senior Data Scientist at Harvey AI, where she leads data science initiatives for the company’s Agent Platform and AI Assistant. Her work focuses on evaluating and improving large language model systems, developing agentic product capabilities, and optimizing retrieval and reasoning for complex legal and corporate use cases.
Previously, Jingyi held data science roles at Meta and Cornerstone Research, where she built analytics frameworks, developed AI-powered tools, and applied data science to infrastructure reliability and high-stakes litigation. She also won the Best Overall Prize at the inaugural Stanford LLM x Law Hackathon. Jingyi graduated from UC Berkeley with degrees in Applied Mathematics and Economics.

Jingyi Cui is a Senior Data Scientist at Harvey AI, where she leads data science initiatives for the company’s Agent Platform and AI Assistant. Her work focuses on evaluating and improving large language model systems, developing agentic product capa... Show more

Aaron Bronow

Aaron Bronow

Hey there! I’m Aaron Bronow—engineering leader, startup builder, and relentless tinkerer who bridges the gap between deep systems architecture and high-impact human teams. Whether diving into the nuances of supply chain security and cloud-native infrastructure or scaling engineering culture without the corporate fluff, I bring practical, battle-tested insights straight from the terminal to the stage.

My mission? Demystifying complex technical ecosystems, turning chaotic pipelines into elegant systems, and empowering engineers to build boldly, ship securely, and actually enjoy the process. Expect actionable takeaways, zero slide-filler, and a healthy dose of pragmatic enthusiasm.

Hey there! I’m Aaron Bronow—engineering leader, startup builder, and relentless tinkerer who bridges the gap between deep systems architecture and high-impact human teams. Whether diving into the nuances of supply chain security and cloud-native infr... Show more

Cat Bonar

Cat Bonar

Cat Bonar is the CEO of Block Reign, where she leads at the intersection of blockchain, Web3 innovation, and enterprise growth. She brings over 20 years of leadership experience spanning healthcare, medical billing, and regulatory compliance, and has held C-suite roles across both private and public companies, driving strategy, operations, and compliance through periods of rapid growth and technological transformation. Today she is guiding Block Reign through its PCAOB audit process while the company engages in active discussions with governments internationally to bring blockchain into public-sector protocols and programs, putting the auditability and compliance discipline she champions into practice at the highest level. A named inventor herself, she holds a U.S. design patent for an FDA medical device to treat sleep apnea in adults. From FDA approvals and clinical trials to decentralized ecosystems, she has built companies, trained thousands, advised DAOs, and developed compliance strategies that scale alongside innovation. At Block Reign, which integrates blockchain and AI, she helps businesses, developers, and innovators bring everyday products and services on-chain, delivering utility-based digital rewards and bridging compliance with real Web3 adoption, without the complexity or speculation the space is known for. It's the thesis she speaks to, put into practice: building the trust layer where AI and blockchain meet. She specializes in turning complexity into confidence: structuring blockchain integrations, building privacy frameworks, and designing education programs for decentralized communities. Her philosophy is simple, bold ideas, backed by airtight execution and clear, compliant messaging.

Cat Bonar is the CEO of Block Reign, where she leads at the intersection of blockchain, Web3 innovation, and enterprise growth. She brings over 20 years of leadership experience spanning healthcare, medical billing, and regulatory compliance, and has... Show more

Collins Edim

Collins Edim

Collins Edim is a full-stack software developer and AI engineer with over six years of experience building production systems across web, backend, and AI infrastructure. His work spans self-hosted LLMs, RAG, AI agents, and localized AI. He is particularly interested in designing resilient AI systems for environments where connectivity, cloud access, and infrastructure cannot be taken for granted.

Collins Edim is a full-stack software developer and AI engineer with over six years of experience building production systems across web, backend, and AI infrastructure. His work spans self-hosted LLMs, RAG, AI agents, and localized AI. He is particu... Show more

Avinash Patil

Avinash Patil

Building secure, scalable, and automated infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and hybrid environments. Holding both CKA and CKS certifications, I specialize in bridging the gap between advanced DevOps, platform modernization, and the next generation of AI-driven architecture.

Building secure, scalable, and automated infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and hybrid environments. Holding both CKA and CKS certifications, I specialize in bridging the gap between advanced DevOps, platform modernization, and the next generation of AI... Show more

Ariane Djeupang J.

Ariane Djeupang J.

Ariane Djeupang is a ML Engineer and Project/Program Manager, a Microsoft MVP Awardee passionate about fostering community growth and innovation in the tech industry.
She is dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion, actively participating in the tech and non-tech communities and other initiatives that empower underrepresented groups in technology.
Her commitment to mentorship and community-driven change drives her efforts to create supportive environments where everyone can thrive and excel, and have a sincere sense of belonging.

Ariane Djeupang is a ML Engineer and Project/Program Manager, a Microsoft MVP Awardee passionate about fostering community growth and innovation in the tech industry. She is dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion, actively participating in ... Show more

Ezequiel Fernandez

Ezequiel Fernandez

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

Brian Vicente

Brian Vicente

I'm founder and CTO of Sanctum SecOps LLC, architecting post-quantum PKI, multi-tenant CAs, and crypto-agility tooling for open networking and CMMC environments. I'm an active IETF participant and Internet-Draft author in LAMPS and PQUIP on PQC hybrid certificates, ACME PQC agility, and multi-tenant PKI, and hold a USPTO provisional on topology-aware PQC rotation. Using my patent-pending toolchain, I produced 133 PQC composites as a closed-source provider, verified against OpenSSL and Bouncy Castle.

I'm founder and CTO of Sanctum SecOps LLC, architecting post-quantum PKI, multi-tenant CAs, and crypto-agility tooling for open networking and CMMC environments. I'm an active IETF participant and Internet-Draft author in LAMPS and PQUIP on PQC hybri... Show more

James Wambua

James Wambua

James Mumo Wambua is a financial educator and the founder of Auctoritas Agency, which positions financial-sector leaders across East Africa.

He trained in actuarial science and spent his early career at KCB Bank Group, East Africa's largest bank by assets, working across microfinance and Sharia-compliant retail banking. He now publishes as @mumo_mumo_ to roughly 145,000 African professionals on YouTube and TikTok, covering crypto regulation, stablecoin adoption, and capital formation for African markets. He is a content partner with Binance.

Most of his work involves translating live regulatory change into practical guidance for the people it hits first: cross-border traders settling import invoices, small businesses holding savings in dollars, and retail investors navigating markets with no consumer protection layer. He covered Kenya's Virtual Asset Service Providers Act as it moved through Parliament and tracked how licensing changed user behavior on the ground.

Born in Kenya, based in Atlanta. He works across both markets.

James Mumo Wambua is a financial educator and the founder of Auctoritas Agency, which positions financial-sector leaders across East Africa. He trained in actuarial science and spent his early career at KCB Bank Group, East Africa's largest bank b... Show more

Erick Mancz

Erick Mancz

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

Juan Vargas

Juan Vargas

Soy ingeniero de sistemas, arquitecto de software y líder tecnológico con más de 20 años de experiencia. He sido CTO y director de Ingeniería, y actualmente lidero KuraVox, una iniciativa de inteligencia clínica basada en IA. Mi experiencia combina arquitectura de software, inteligencia artificial, liderazgo tecnológico y formación de equipos.

Soy ingeniero de sistemas, arquitecto de software y líder tecnológico con más de 20 años de experiencia. He sido CTO y director de Ingeniería, y actualmente lidero KuraVox, una iniciativa de inteligencia clínica basada en IA. Mi experiencia combina a... Show more

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