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

Jhonathan David , MBA, Data Scientist|Data Analytics

Jhonathan David , MBA, Data Scientist|Data Analytics

Jhonathan David Shaikh is a remarkable professional making an impressive industry impact in banking & finance, healthcare, trade & exports and education. JD started his career in banking furthered his education by earning a Masters degree in Business Administration with a major in finance and global markets from the prestigious School of Business at Tulane University as well as becoming a Data Scientist from the New York School of Data Flatiron. Jhonathan completed a 15 year career track. In 2017, he became a Global Lead in Data Digital Transformation, and later an Executive Manager in Data Models & Database Reviews, at a global firm based New York City -He has research and published business applications of data sciences and AI in major media outlets. Today he is Chief Data Strategist for Xabios Data, a data analytics| business intelligence and data science firm optimizing businesses.

Notably, JD was featured on an international article for Grant Thornton International in Data Monetization. Hi research reached more than 15,000 followers - He has spoken at more than 13 conferences in the USA and LATAM- He founded a non-profit in LATAM that helps limited-resources entrepreneurs with micro-lending and educational resources. These recognitions, along with his Top 5 Awards in Leadership reflect his dedication and impact in industry and to people.

Jhon enjoyes being called to speak at the National and International Conferences to speak about real world experiences in the world of AI , Data Analytics & Data Science. Highlights include: the State of Mexico Business Association, in Mexico City, the Data Science Panels at the S&P 500 Building in Wall street for Data Science Salon, and at the The University of Houston College of Technology. Jhonathan makes complex topics, easy to understand to non-technical audiences, and makes technical audiences understand the world and language of business.

Experience for yourself as Jhonathan speaks to businesses leaders, management groups, professionals, scientist and students about real world applications of data sciences, from real life experiences. As he speaks the language of business and science, learned through his management of global teams in real-life projects, working with the leadership of top institutions, he shares his previous and ongoing client business experiences and what's happening in the world of data science.

His expertise topics include themes around : Data Science in a Business Context, Project Experiences, Data Modeling, and Financial Education.

Jhonathan David Shaikh is a remarkable professional making an impressive industry impact in banking & finance, healthcare, trade & exports and education. JD started his career in banking furthered his education by earning a Masters degree in Busines... Show more

Jeffrey Strauss

Jeffrey Strauss

Jeff is an executive consultant, a community organizer, an open source advocate, and an attorney. As the Global Lead for Community and Developer Relations at Progress Chef, he maintains a passion for bringing people together in ways that both evolve internal practices and promote technical thought leadership across the industry. In addition, he regularly consults with Fortune 500 business leaders to help them understand and chart their own community paths in a world of ever-changing and modernizing technology solutions.

A long-time dedicated member of the developer community, Jeff has been a director of the .NET Foundation and a Microsoft MVP, and travels internationally to speak on technical, business, and community-oriented topics. He serves as a lead organizer for the Kansas City Developer Conference, #MetaConference, and Dev Around The Sun.

Jeff is an executive consultant, a community organizer, an open source advocate, and an attorney. As the Global Lead for Community and Developer Relations at Progress Chef, he maintains a passion for bringing people together in ways that both evolve ... Show more

Elle O'Flaherty

Elle O'Flaherty

Engaging and funny, performance strategist and workplace satisfaction leader Elle O'Flaherty delivers game-changing messages that interweave real-world examples and cutting-edge research. Elle's presentations are full of insights, highly interactive, and fun. She helps clients tailor their professional life to their unique brains, allowing their talents and genius to shine. Following a 17+ year legal career and certifications in ICF-accredited executive, ADHD, and career coaching, Elle founded Interlace Solutions, a coaching firm that taps into clients' potential to accelerate their achievement. Her team coaches executives, executive teams, and professionals with a subspecialty in ADHD coaching.

Elle is a sought-after keynote speaker and facilitator who consistently draws large crowds. Her goal is for participants to walk away with meaty new learning for practical application. Elle has been published in national and international outlets and speaks on productivity, professional motivation, creating ADHD-friendly environments, and innovations to support mental health, among other topics. Elle is a subject matter expert on international agricultural trade, which doesn’t come up a lot. She lives in Washington, DC, with her dog Penny, the most beautiful dog in the world. And a great family, but the dog is hard to beat.

Engaging and funny, performance strategist and workplace satisfaction leader Elle O'Flaherty delivers game-changing messages that interweave real-world examples and cutting-edge research. Elle's presentations are full of insights, highly interactive,... Show more

Kaila Bloomfield

Kaila Bloomfield

As a Microsoft Stack Enterprise Architect I have worked with customers, Partners and Microsoft to support in the delivery of complex CRM & ERP solutions and requirements. Technology Transformations often end up overcomplicated simply because people make them that way and my goal is to try and stop that! We can make it simpler so lets do this!

As a Microsoft Stack Enterprise Architect I have worked with customers, Partners and Microsoft to support in the delivery of complex CRM & ERP solutions and requirements. Technology Transformations often end up overcomplicated simply because people m... Show more

Django Lohn

Django Lohn

Office365 changed my career: from Business Key User to Empowering Consultant thanks to the #EasyToDealWith Microsoft Stack.
Then Power Platform came and it changed my way-of-life: now building low-code/no-code Business Applications on a daily basis 💪👍.

Office365 changed my career: from Business Key User to Empowering Consultant thanks to the #EasyToDealWith Microsoft Stack. Then Power Platform came and it changed my way-of-life: now building low-code/no-code Business Applications on a daily basis ... Show more

Mick Pletcher

Mick Pletcher

Mick Pletcher is a nationally respected technology expert specializing in System Center Configuration Manager, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, Active Directory, PowerShell Scripting, Visual Basic Scripting and Automation. In 2017, Mick was honored as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for his work in Cloud and Data Center. Also in 2017, he was one of seven IT professionals worldwide to be recognized as a technical star with the 2017 SAPIEN MVP Award. Mick is an avid blogger on information technology tips and topics at http://mickitblog.blogspot.com/. His blog, which topped a million hits in less than four years, was highlighted in Adaptiva’s 2016 round-up of Top 16 SCCM Tips for 2016.

A SCCM Administrator with Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP, a Nashville-based law firm with more than 230 attorneys in four offices, Mick deploys software to more than 500 users across the Southeast and is responsible for automating tasks via the use of PowerShell, administering group policies, deploying Windows updates, and the PC build process. Prior to joining Waller, Mick implemented alternate system design approaches and managed software and Operating Systems using SCCM 2012, along with SMS Installer, Powershell, and VBScript at one of the nation’s largest architecture and engineering design firms. In 2013, Mick co-founded the Nashville Powershell User Group. He is a relentless world traveler who has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. Other hobbies include astronomy, welding and fabrication, river boarding, sport bikes, cycling and mountaineering.

Mick Pletcher is a nationally respected technology expert specializing in System Center Configuration Manager, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, Active Directory, PowerShell Scripting, Visual Basic Scripting and Automation. In 2017, Mick was honored as a... Show more

Debra Cleaver

Debra Cleaver

Debra Cleaver is the Founder & CEO of VoteAmerica, a national nonpartisan nonprofit organization which conducts data-informed campaigns to register and turnout the 100+ million Americans traditionally excluded by partisan political outreach efforts. A serial founder whose previous organizations have included Vote.org (2016), ElectionDay.org (2018), Long Distance Voter (2008), and Swing the State (2004), she's been working at the intersection of technology and democracy since 2004, several years before “civic tech” and “online organization” entered the cultural lexicon. Her various organizations have collectively registered over 4 million people, conducted mass marketing campaigns reaching tens of millions, and pioneered tactics now considered industry standards. She is an alumna of Pomona College and Y Combinator, a former Draper Richards Kaplan Fellow for Social Entrepreneurship. She frequently speaks on issues impacting voter turnout and digital innovations to increase access to the polls, with appearances at events such as SXSW, Netroots Nation, Harvard Law, the Harvard School of Government, University of Michigan, SUMMIT Ideas Festival, Lesbians Who Tech, and Accelerate Good Global.

Debra Cleaver is the Founder & CEO of VoteAmerica, a national nonpartisan nonprofit organization which conducts data-informed campaigns to register and turnout the 100+ million Americans traditionally excluded by partisan political outreach efforts. ... Show more

Martin Schimak

Martin Schimak

At the age of ten Martin fell in love with coding. Later he left his love and studied business and law. Only to find out: that’s awesome for programming business software! In the 15+ years since then he talked to energy traders, telecom people, wind tunnel experts and many others. They formed a hands-on domain decoder with a passion for DDD and a soft spot for colored sticky notes. Martin is a trainer with experience in 50+ companies and 10+ countries. He regularly speaks at meetups and conferences across Europe - and from time to time in the US.

At the age of ten Martin fell in love with coding. Later he left his love and studied business and law. Only to find out: that’s awesome for programming business software! In the 15+ years since then he talked to energy traders, telecom people, wind ... Show more

Gabriela R

Gabriela R

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 4200. 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

Sabah Rahman

Sabah Rahman

Sabah Rahman is a Design Leader at Amazon and an independent AI explainability researcher. She built 4 novel deterministic methods for explaining black-box AI decisions - solving the non-reproducibility problem in KernelSHAP and LIME without requiring model access, gradients, or stochastic sampling. Her work addresses compliance gaps under the EU AI Act Article 13 and the Colorado AI Act. At Amazon, she designs enterprise products and ships production React code across device fleet management, beta testing platforms, and AI-powered automation.

Sabah Rahman is a Design Leader at Amazon and an independent AI explainability researcher. She built 4 novel deterministic methods for explaining black-box AI decisions - solving the non-reproducibility problem in KernelSHAP and LIME without requirin... Show more

Mohsin Ahmed

Mohsin Ahmed

Mohsin Ahmed is an Executive Director and Chief Architect at Wells Fargo with two decades of experience leading enterprise-scale transformation across Risk, Corporate Finance, GRC, Data, and AI in highly regulated financial institutions. He holds enterprise architecture authority over Corporate Risk, Internal Audit, and Corporate Finance technology, translating regulatory and accounting mandates into target-state architectures that deliver regulator-grade reporting, audit defensibility, and governed AI adoption at scale.
At Wells Fargo, Mohsin originated and architected several of the firm's foundational platforms. These include an industrialized Model Development Lifecycle platform that serves as the system of record for the enterprise model inventory and governs more than 150 regulatory and capital models; a canonical Risk and Finance data architecture spanning a multi-petabyte governed data estate; and an enterprise policy governance platform that consolidated eight fragmented systems into a single active compliance-oversight capability. Most recently, he conceived and architected the firm's end-to-end agentic AI orchestration platform a governed, reusable framework for building and operating AI agents in regulated environments, with a patent filing in preparation which today underpins a policy-intelligence capability serving more than 240,000 employees.
Earlier, over a seven-year tenure at MetricStream, Mohsin led large-scale GRC and Internal Audit transformations for global institutions including Bank of America and Mazars. He speaks and writes on model risk governance, enterprise policy governance, and responsible agentic AI, and is recognized for bridging regulatory interpretation, business strategy, and enterprise technology execution.

Mohsin Ahmed is an Executive Director and Chief Architect at Wells Fargo with two decades of experience leading enterprise-scale transformation across Risk, Corporate Finance, GRC, Data, and AI in highly regulated financial institutions. He holds ent... Show more

Taylor Giorno

Taylor Giorno

Taylor Giorno covers lobbying and influence for NOTUS. She previously covered business and lobbying for The Hill and money in politics for OpenSecrets. An Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) member, Taylor has helped train fellow journalists to track dark money in elections and foreign influence operations.

Taylor Giorno covers lobbying and influence for NOTUS. She previously covered business and lobbying for The Hill and money in politics for OpenSecrets. An Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) member, Taylor has helped train fellow journalists to... Show more

Arie Menachem

Arie Menachem

I have been active in QA and QC in the Pharmaceutical Industry for over 25 years. Between 2014 to 2020 I worked as an Investigator for the US Food & Drug Administration. In my current role, I help our sites to prepare, execute and manage regulatory inspections - including internal consultancy and training.

I have been active in QA and QC in the Pharmaceutical Industry for over 25 years. Between 2014 to 2020 I worked as an Investigator for the US Food & Drug Administration. In my current role, I help our sites to prepare, execute and manage regulatory... Show more

Andrew Lehren

Andrew Lehren

Andy Lehren is investigations editor for Mongabay, a leading global environmental news organization. He is director of investigative reporting at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism. On the IRE Board of Directors. Former investigative reporter for The New York Times and NBC News. Won 100+ journalism honors, including Polk, Peabody, Emmys, multiple IRE awards, contributed to a Pulitzer and part of a Pulitzer finalist team. Works extensively in data journalism, including for NICAR.

Andy Lehren is investigations editor for Mongabay, a leading global environmental news organization. He is director of investigative reporting at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism. On the IRE Board of Directors. Former investigative reporter for T... Show more

Lucie Fierdehaiche Maheas

Lucie Fierdehaiche Maheas

Lucie Fierdehaiche Mahéas is a procurement professional with experience across public and private sectors in multiple countries. Through her digital platform “Procurement 4.0” and involvement in a procurement professional association, she supports students and early-career professionals in understanding and entering the procurement field.

Lucie Fierdehaiche Mahéas is a procurement professional with experience across public and private sectors in multiple countries. Through her digital platform “Procurement 4.0” and involvement in a procurement professional association, she supports st... Show more

Paige Pfleger

Paige Pfleger

Paige Pfleger is a senior criminal justice reporter at WPLN News, Nashville Public Radio, and a fellow with ProPublica's Local Reporting Network. She has reported investigative series on gun violence and juvenile justice, and her investigation into domestic violence and firearms dispossession won an Edward R. Murrow Award and was a finalist for the Livingston Award and an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award. Her story about a rural domestic violence court helped close a dangerous loophole in courtrooms across Tennessee. Paige is also the southern chapter leader for the Association of Gun Violence Reporters.

Paige Pfleger is a senior criminal justice reporter at WPLN News, Nashville Public Radio, and a fellow with ProPublica's Local Reporting Network. She has reported investigative series on gun violence and juvenile justice, and her investigation into d... Show more

Kayla Williams

Kayla Williams

Kayla Williams is a Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Risk Officer known for translating complex technical realities into clear, sustainable compliance strategies. With deep expertise in emerging technology governance, organizational communication, and regulatory interpretation, Williams helps enterprises build compliance and AI programs that actually work in real-world environments. She has led cross-functional governance initiatives spanning cybersecurity, IT, legal, and operations, specializing in frameworks such as NIST, ISO, and the emerging global AI regulatory landscape. Williams is recognized for her ability to identify organizational misalignment, reduce friction, and build governance and operational processes that support rather than obstruct innovation. Her work emphasizes pragmatic, human-centered approaches that keep enterprises compliant, agile, and secure.

Kayla Williams is a Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Risk Officer known for translating complex technical realities into clear, sustainable compliance strategies. With deep expertise in emerging technology governance, organizational commu... Show more

Patrick Pfeifer

Patrick Pfeifer

Born and raised. Nearly derailed a few times. Took a left, then a right, but always landed back in front of a screen. Computer and information science fanatic.

Born and raised. Nearly derailed a few times. Took a left, then a right, but always landed back in front of a screen. Computer and information science fanatic. Show more

Seaton Daly

Seaton Daly

I am an attorney licensed to practice law in Utah and Washington State, with a practice focused on cybersecurity, incident response, and information risk. I work with organizations before and during cybersecurity incidents, advising on incident response execution, regulatory obligations, and coordination with technical responders, insurers, and third‑party vendors.

I regularly engage with security professionals, executives, and external security firms to help organizations translate technical incident response actions into sound business and legal outcomes. My work emphasizes practical, real‑world response rather than abstract compliance, with a focus on helping organizations design and execute incident response plans that function effectively under real‑world pressure.

I bring a cross‑disciplinary perspective to cybersecurity events, bridging the gap between technical response teams, leadership, and legal considerations during critical moments of a security incident.

I am an attorney licensed to practice law in Utah and Washington State, with a practice focused on cybersecurity, incident response, and information risk. I work with organizations before and during cybersecurity incidents, advising on incident respo... Show more

Samuel Kelemen

Samuel Kelemen

Samuel is a Security Engineer currently working on Identity, Authentication, and Authorization systems.

Samuel is a Security Engineer currently working on Identity, Authentication, and Authorization systems. Show more

Todd Walls

Todd Walls

Dr. Todd Walls, DM, MBA (Human Resource Management & Healthcare Management), MSW, is a Human Resource (HR), learning and development (L&D), privacy, governance, and workforce systems consultant. A former federal Privacy Officer, he holds the Certified Information Privacy Professional - U.S. Government (CIPP/G) and Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) and brings cross-functional experience spanning HR, L&D, organizational development, privacy, compliance training, employee engagement, accessibility, disability inclusion, workforce data, regulated environments, and prior Air Force information systems/security duties, including service as a Terminal Area Security Officer, Computer Workgroup Manager, and Client Server Administrator.

Todd is a frequent conference and workshop speaker whose experience includes regional HR conferences, national and regional disability inclusion programs, national privacy law compliance training, and invitations to speak internationally on privacy law compliance and information security. He has developed and delivered privacy, compliance, accessibility, reasonable accommodation, and organizational learning content for diverse adult audiences, including large federal training audiences.

He is a SHRM chapter President-Elect, national keynote presenter, former IAPP CIPP/G Certification Advisory Board member, and published thought leader in HR Executive, HR.com, Training Industry, and International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), including articles on employee data trust, employee voice, workforce systems, privacy law compliance, incident response, and NoSQL database vulnerabilities.

Dr. Todd Walls, DM, MBA (Human Resource Management & Healthcare Management), MSW, is a Human Resource (HR), learning and development (L&D), privacy, governance, and workforce systems consultant. A former federal Privacy Officer, he holds the Certifie... Show more

Radoslav Ďurač

Radoslav Ďurač

Radoslav Ďurač is a Digital Accessibility Specialist specializing in the accessibility of websites, mobile applications, documents, and digital products and services.

He works with WCAG, EN 301 549 and PDF/UA requirements and focuses on helping organizations comply with the European Accessibility Act and the Web Accessibility Directive.

His expertise includes accessibility audits, accessibility testing, accessible design reviews, PDF accessibility, assistive technologies, and accessibility consulting for public and private sector organizations.

Radoslav Ďurač is a Digital Accessibility Specialist specializing in the accessibility of websites, mobile applications, documents, and digital products and services. He works with WCAG, EN 301 549 and PDF/UA requirements and focuses on helping or... Show more

Marco Antonio Villán

Marco Antonio Villán

Magister en Tecnologías informáticas y de Comunicaciones de la Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE). Docente e Investigador UADE. Licenciado en Comunicación Audiovisual de la Universidad de San Martín y periodista de la escuela de periodismo TEA. Además, referente de Seguridad de la Información del Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA) y Analista en Seguridad de la Información en el Departamento de Informática del Ministerio de Justicia.

Me especializo en Protección de Datos Personales, Privacidad y Seguridad de la información. Como investigador me desempeño en el marco de las actividades de Ciencia y Técnica (ACyT) del Instituto de Tecnología (INTEC) de la Universidad Argentina de la Empresa. Actualmente y desde hace seis años estoy a cargo de proyectos de investigación sobre análisis de vulnerabilidades en aplicaciones para Android.

Magister en Tecnologías informáticas y de Comunicaciones de la Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE). Docente e Investigador UADE. Licenciado en Comunicación Audiovisual de la Universidad de San Martín y periodista de la escuela de periodismo TE... Show more

Tiffany Hrabusa

Tiffany Hrabusa

Tiffany is a former law librarian who spent 15 years among books before swapping case law for code as a technical writer. She now writes for Grafana Labs and helps maintain the documentation for the OpenTelemetry open source project.

Tiffany is a former law librarian who spent 15 years among books before swapping case law for code as a technical writer. She now writes for Grafana Labs and helps maintain the documentation for the OpenTelemetry open source project. Show more

Shinoj Manikkoth Mundayayadan

Shinoj Manikkoth Mundayayadan

• Senior .NET Full-Stack Engineer with enterprise experience, designing
and delivering scalable, high-performance distributed systems.
• Proven expertise in cloud-native solutions, and building resilient, secure,
and maintainable applications.
• Expertise in developing Market data solution on Microsoft Azure. Hands
on in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Data Lake, Azure Service
Bus, building resilient, event-driven architectures.
• Extensive experience in C#, ASP.NET Core (.NET 1.1–8), and
microservices architecture, across financial services, Insurance, oil
trading, and payments domains.
• In depth knowledge in frontend development using Angular, and
TypeScript,- building modern, high-performance trading and data-driven
applications.
• Experience using GitHub Copilot and Claude Code to create custom skills,
build scalable software solutions, and accelerate development workflows.
• Designed and implemented AI-powered enterprise solutions, including
C#/.NET chatbots integrated with Azure AI, Semantic Kernel services and
prompt-engineered workflows to streamline onboarding and internal
knowledge systems.

• Senior .NET Full-Stack Engineer with enterprise experience, designing and delivering scalable, high-performance distributed systems. • Proven expertise in cloud-native solutions, and building resilient, secure, and maintainable applications. ... Show more

Suyash Nalawade

Suyash Nalawade

I am a dedicated software engineer specializing in Linux packages, with a deep passion for security, open source, and Python. I break down complex security challenges into clear, accessible insights. I have presented a well-received talk at DevConf India, where I helped engineers and students understand vulnerabilities with live demos. I have also volunteered to organize tech conferences and hackathons, nurturing a collaborative community that drives innovation and continuous learning.

I am a dedicated software engineer specializing in Linux packages, with a deep passion for security, open source, and Python. I break down complex security challenges into clear, accessible insights. I have presented a well-received talk at DevConf I... Show more

Denise D'Angelo

Denise D'Angelo

Denise D’Angelo is an AI transformation leader focused on AI workforce readiness, governance and how organizations make decisions in an AI-enabled environment. She works with executive teams to ensure AI is integrated into high priority workflows, with clear ownership, accountability, and practical guardrails that support speed and control.

As founder of DynamicD Enterprises, Denise partners with organizations to move beyond experimentation and into consistent, organization-wide adoption; her passion is helping leaders translate AI into how work gets done and enable teams to adopt and operate day to day.

Her work spans financial services, payments, life sciences, and public sector environments where trust, regulation, and client impact are critical. Denise is known for bringing a clear, experience-based perspective to leaders navigating AI in complex organizations; particularly where governance must enable progress, not slow it down.
With a background in data strategy and architectures, data privacy and AI governance, Denise balances technical with operating model and business outcomes.

Denise D’Angelo is an AI transformation leader focused on AI workforce readiness, governance and how organizations make decisions in an AI-enabled environment. She works with executive teams to ensure AI is integrated into high priority workflows, wi... Show more

Julio Reyes

Julio Reyes

Senior Cloud Security Engineer with a decade securing cloud environments at regulated financial institutions and international organizations. Currently based in Geneva. I have worked across Canadian banks and a UN agency where I kept encountering the same problem: when audits or incident reviews required proof of what governed a system at a specific past moment, no tool was designed to answer that question. I built APEX Verity to solve it, a governance infrastructure platform for regulated enterprises operating cloud and AI systems. I present complex security and governance concepts to audiences ranging from executive leadership to engineering teams.

Senior Cloud Security Engineer with a decade securing cloud environments at regulated financial institutions and international organizations. Currently based in Geneva. I have worked across Canadian banks and a UN agency where I kept encountering the... Show more

Kanishk Gaur

Kanishk Gaur

Kanishk Gaur is a globally recognised Cyber Security, AI Governance, and Digital Trust expert, entrepreneur, and researcher with over 15 years of experience advising Fortune 500 companies, governments, regulators, and multilateral organisations across the US, UK, Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. Formerly in leadership roles at Deloitte, EY, and Protiviti, he now leads Athenian Tech, an AI-powered cybersecurity and threat intelligence company focused on combating deepfakes, misinformation, cyber fraud, ransomware, impersonation, and AI-led cybercrime through advanced AI and machine learning technologies. He is also the Founder & CEO of India Future Foundation (IFF), a not-for-profit driving digital literacy, online safety, cyber awareness, and women & child safety initiatives across India and South Asia in collaboration with governments, law enforcement, and international organisations. A Chevening Cyber Fellow, TEDx speaker

Kanishk Gaur is a globally recognised Cyber Security, AI Governance, and Digital Trust expert, entrepreneur, and researcher with over 15 years of experience advising Fortune 500 companies, governments, regulators, and multilateral organisations acros... Show more

David Dean

David Dean

David Dean is an author, speaker, and business AI realist who explores how artificial intelligence reshapes work, judgment, and accountability in modern organizations. Through his writing and speaking, Dean surfaces the subtle ways automation and intelligent systems alter decision-making, responsibility, and trust in everyday work environments.

He spent eighteen years working inside complex enterprises—healthcare organizations, financial institutions, corporations modernizing under regulatory pressure—watching strategy collide with reality. He built the systems. Led the teams. Cleaned up after initiatives that looked flawless in planning but fractured on impact. What he learned wasn't about technology. It was about behavior.

Rather than focusing solely on AI capabilities, Dean examines the human elements that remain essential: how people navigate uncertainty, where accountability lies when AI assists or automates, and what holds organizations together when technology accelerates faster than clarity. His approach helps organizations notice what's already changing beneath the surface, turning AI-driven uncertainty into clear direction.

Dean's technical background is deep—AI architecture, intelligent automation, data strategy, governance—but his focus has always been what those systems reveal about how people actually work. His perspective comes from the inbox, the handoff, the approval chain where decisions shift and accountability dissolves.

An Inbox Between Us offers a conversation about responsibility, AI, and the shifting landscape of contemporary work. As a speaker and consultant, Dean helps teams understand how AI enters daily decisions, clarify what choices belong where, and build work systems that hold up under pressure.

David Dean is an author, speaker, and business AI realist who explores how artificial intelligence reshapes work, judgment, and accountability in modern organizations. Through his writing and speaking, Dean surfaces the subtle ways automation and int... Show more

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