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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am a cybersecurity professional specializing in cloud security, application security, and digital forensics. I have worked on cloud security initiatives, cybersecurity research, and hands-on security implementations across AWS environments. Actively delivers technical talks and workshops for developer and security communities, focusing on practical security, real-world attack techniques, and defensive best practices. My sessions emphasize live demonstrations, actionable insights, and lessons learned from real deployments to help engineers build more secure systems.

I am a cybersecurity professional specializing in cloud security, application security, and digital forensics. I have worked on cloud security initiatives, cybersecurity research, and hands-on security implementations across AWS environments. Activel... Show more

Manasa Kandadi is an accomplished Enterprise Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Lead Platform Engineer with extensive experience designing, implementing, and modernizing enterprise-wide regulatory technology and risk management platforms for leading financial and energy organizations. She specializes in designing and modernizing Archer-based GRC Systems helping organizations to centralize compliance and risk processes on an integrated platform. Over the course of her career, she focused on developing scalable, vendor-independent Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions that enable organizations to strengthen regulatory compliance, improve operational efficiency, and enhance enterprise-wide risk visibility.
Currently serving as Lead Platform Engineer for Governance, Risk, and Compliance Systems at Fifth Third Bank, Manasa leads the implementation and customization of enterprise-scale Archer GRC use cases supporting more than 25,000 users across the organization. She has contributed to significant operational improvements by delivering approximately $1.5 million to $2 million in cost optimization while enhancing enterprise risk visibility through centralized dashboards and enterprise reporting capabilities. Her work enables organizations to standardize risk management processes and improve governance across complex business environments.
Previously, Manasa served as Lead Technical Engineer for Governance, Risk, and Compliance Systems at American Electric Power, where she led the expansion of Archer infrastructure through the deployment of additional web and application servers. Her initiatives improved platform scalability for more than 15,000 enterprise users and increased overall infrastructure scalability by more than 300 percent through strategic optimization efforts. Across her professional experience, she has architected enterprise GRC systems supporting over 25,000 users, contributed to multi-million-dollar operational savings initiatives, and helped reduce manual compliance efforts by up to 60 percent through automation and process standardization.
Manasa holds a Master of Science in Information Systems from Marist College, New York, where she graduated with a GPA of 3.81, and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad (JNTUH), India, with a GPA of 3.9. Her combination of technical expertise, enterprise platform engineering experience, and commitment to governance and compliance has enabled her to deliver scalable, high-impact solutions that support organizational resilience and regulatory excellence.

Manasa Kandadi is an accomplished Enterprise Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Lead Platform Engineer with extensive experience designing, implementing, and modernizing enterprise-wide regulatory technology and risk management platforms for lead... Show more

Arpita Sheth is a Systems Architect and Technical Lead with over a decade of experience building large-scale distributed systems at the intersection of AI, privacy, and infrastructure. Most recently at Meta, she owned the conversation platform powering Meta AI experiences across WhatsApp, Instagram, and Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses enabling real-time, cross-surface AI interactions for hundreds of millions of users. Her work spanned the full stack of AI platform engineering: retrieval infrastructure, semantic search, multi-modal messaging, and the orchestration layers that bring generative AI products to life at scale.
Before her GenAI work, Arpita built foundational privacy infrastructure at Meta automated GDPR compliance systems, ROPA reporting pipelines, and data governance platforms across Meta's family of apps. Earlier in her career she led advertising metrics infrastructure at Meta and scalable publisher aggregation systems at PubMatic. She holds an MS in Computer Science from Stony Brook University.
She is currently focused on the next frontier of AI platform engineering building systems that are not just powerful but trustworthy, compliant, and ready for the scale demands of the next decade.

Arpita Sheth is a Systems Architect and Technical Lead with over a decade of experience building large-scale distributed systems at the intersection of AI, privacy, and infrastructure. Most recently at Meta, she owned the conversation platform poweri... Show more

Farees Fathima is a Global Responsible AI Leader and AI Governance Strategist at Carlsberg Group, where she drives the practical operationalisation of Responsible AI, AI risk management, assurance, and literacy across the global enterprise. With over 13 years of experience across Carlsberg, HSBC, Boston Scientific, and Accenture, she bridges the gap between high-level AI principles and high-velocity business execution.

At Carlsberg, Farees established and operationalised a lightweight AI Risk Management Framework that reduced assessment friction by 70% and accelerated safe AI adoption across eight global business units. She leads end-to-end lifecycle governance from ideation and experimentation to deployment and continuous monitoring with a strong focus on Generative AI, Agentic AI, and human oversight in increasingly autonomous systems.

An ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Implementer and EXIN AI Certified Professional (AICP), Farees advises CIOs, CTOs, Legal, Privacy, and Risk leaders on translating emerging global regulations including the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and ISO/IEC 42001 into actionable enterprise frameworks. As an active industry speaker and mentor, she empowers organizations and founders to build trustworthy, scalable AI systems that deliver tangible business value.

Farees Fathima is a Global Responsible AI Leader and AI Governance Strategist at Carlsberg Group, where she drives the practical operationalisation of Responsible AI, AI risk management, assurance, and literacy across the global enterprise. With over... Show more

Øystein er CISO og sikkerhetsarkitekt i Defendable og jobber daglig med å sørge for at både egen virksomhet og dens kunder kan håndtere sitt risikobilde.

Øystein er utdannet Forvaltningsinformatiker fra UiO og har erfaring fra flere sektorer. Han arbeider både strategisk, taktisk og operasjonelt med å gjøre sikkerhet til en muliggjører i virksomheten med en filosofi om at sikkerhet ikke har en egenverdi - sikkerhet er en egenskap av noe annet.

Øystein er CISO og sikkerhetsarkitekt i Defendable og jobber daglig med å sørge for at både egen virksomhet og dens kunder kan håndtere sitt risikobilde. Øystein er utdannet Forvaltningsinformatiker fra UiO og har erfaring fra flere sektorer. Han ... Show more

Johannes Stillig has been Group CISO of a global asset manager since 2019 and sits on several advisory boards. He started in penetration testing and digital forensics, then built the cyber-security practice of a London law firm, from scratch. MSc Information Security, Royal Holloway. He now builds an investigations engine where every finding must trace to the bytes it came from, and writes about evidentiary reliability in AI, mostly by documenting what his own broke.

Johannes Stillig has been Group CISO of a global asset manager since 2019 and sits on several advisory boards. He started in penetration testing and digital forensics, then built the cyber-security practice of a London law firm, from scratch. MSc Inf... Show more

Marte Heggedal is building a software company with one human and a team of AI agents. She cannot read or write code herself. Together, they have built four software products.

To take responsibility for these products, Marte has built what she calls the trust layer around AI. The agents review each other’s work, and additional checks are designed to help her spot errors. She sets requirements for security, privacy, ethics and compliance with the law. The work needs to be traceable so she can see what has been done and check whether those requirements have been met.

In her talks, she shows what she delegates to the agents, how their work is checked and when she needs to step in.

Marte has twelve years of product management experience and has worked with AI since 2021. She is the founder of Kveck, a certified AI Product Manager, and holds a master’s degree in management from BI Norwegian Business School, with specialisations in responsible AI leadership, cybersecurity and GDPR/data protection.

Marte Heggedal is building a software company with one human and a team of AI agents. She cannot read or write code herself. Together, they have built four software products. To take responsibility for these products, Marte has built what she call... Show more

Elias Zoramwine Mane is a seasoned IT professional with over 15 years of experience, including 12 years at the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) in Ghana. He is actively engaged in Internet governance activities, digital rights, and cybersecurity, a proud fellow of the Ghana School on internet governance. Elias has a strong background in promoting digital rights and cyber hygiene, with expertise in Internet policy impacting digital transformation, cybersecurity, Data protection and privacy.

He has played key roles in numerous initiatives, including mentoring the next generation of internet governance fellows in Ghana, developing and operationalizing an MOU between Ghana's NHRI and Africa’s leading Digital Rights Organization -Paradigm Initiative.

A skilled facilitator experience in training and capacity-building on topics like Cybersecurity Awareness, Governance Risk and Compliance, OCSEA (Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) and Child rights in the digital space.

Elias Zoramwine Mane is a seasoned IT professional with over 15 years of experience, including 12 years at the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) in Ghana. He is actively engaged in Internet governance activities, digital r... Show more

Annette A. Opiyo is a digital rights and governance practitioner working at the intersection of
technology, inclusion and state accountability. She leads community-based advocacy on digital
ID and documentation with the Nubian Rights Forum in Kenya, focusing on equity safeguards
for minority and stateless populations. Her work bridges field research, policy engagement and
legal empowerment, grounding digital governance debates in lived realities. She has
contributed to regional dialogues on digital identity, social protection and civic participation
across East Africa.

Annette A. Opiyo is a digital rights and governance practitioner working at the intersection of technology, inclusion and state accountability. She leads community-based advocacy on digital ID and documentation with the Nubian Rights Forum in Kenya... Show more

I am Nanda Kumar K, Manager – HR at vThink Global Technologies, with over 14 years of experience in building people strategies that drive business growth and high-performing teams. Throughout my career, I have partnered with engineering and business leaders to strengthen talent acquisition, employee experience, organizational development, performance culture, and workplace engagement.

I believe that while technology, products, and business strategies evolve rapidly, a strong organizational culture remains a lasting competitive advantage. My passion lies in helping organizations create workplaces where trust, accountability, collaboration, and ownership empower individuals and teams to perform at their best.

In my sessions, I share practical insights, real-world experiences, and actionable frameworks that leaders can implement to build resilient, people-first organizations. My goal is to inspire leaders to view culture not as an HR initiative, but as a strategic business driver that fuels innovation, engagement, and sustainable success.

I am Nanda Kumar K, Manager – HR at vThink Global Technologies, with over 14 years of experience in building people strategies that drive business growth and high-performing teams. Throughout my career, I have partnered with engineering and business ... Show more

Apoorv Dwivedi is an expert marketer specializing in accounting, bookkeeping, tax, and advisory firms. With years of experience helping firms of all sizes grow through client-centric marketing strategies, he has a deep understanding of how to differentiate services like Client Advisory Services (CAS) from traditional offerings. Apoorv is passionate about transforming how accountants approach marketing, making it accessible and actionable. He regularly speaks at industry events, sharing practical insights that drive real results.

Apoorv Dwivedi is an expert marketer specializing in accounting, bookkeeping, tax, and advisory firms. With years of experience helping firms of all sizes grow through client-centric marketing strategies, he has a deep understanding of how to differe... Show more

Sreedhar Ailu is a software quality practitioner specializing in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) governance, release readiness oversight, and quality risk management for large-scale regulated enterprise systems. With more than 13 years of experience, he has led and supported acceptance testing, deployment governance, and release decision-making across complex multi-vendor healthcare and public-sector technology programs.

His work focuses on the often-overlooked gap between successful testing and true production readiness. Drawing from real-world experience in highly regulated environments, he explores challenges related to regulatory interpretation alignment, testability coverage, release governance, and operational risk. His interests center on helping organizations make more informed release decisions when dependencies, integrations, and compliance requirements introduce hidden risk.

Sreedhar is an accepted speaker at CAST 2026 and an accepted author at PNSQC 2026. He actively contributes to the software quality community through practitioner research, conference participation, peer review, and knowledge sharing. His current areas of exploration include release readiness metrics, regulatory interpretation alignment, testability coverage, quality risk management, and governance approaches that improve confidence in enterprise software delivery.

When not working on quality and governance challenges, he enjoys mentoring practitioners, studying software delivery patterns, and contributing to discussions that advance the practice of software quality engineering.

Sreedhar Ailu is a software quality practitioner specializing in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) governance, release readiness oversight, and quality risk management for large-scale regulated enterprise systems. With more than 13 years of experience, h... Show more

Passionné d'informatique et de développement depuis longtemps, j'ai débuté sur CPC 6128.
Je m'intéresse à tout ce qui concerne la data, l'IA et à tous les problèmes éthiques que cela peut poser.
Sur mon temps libre j'organise le Salon de la Data

Passionné d'informatique et de développement depuis longtemps, j'ai débuté sur CPC 6128. Je m'intéresse à tout ce qui concerne la data, l'IA et à tous les problèmes éthiques que cela peut poser. Sur mon temps libre j'organise le Salon de la Data Show more

Jordan has been a Drupal developer for 19 years.

Jordan has been a Drupal developer for 19 years. Show more

Tax advisor and advocate based in Poland (EU) specialising in tax advisory for innovative companies, mainly in FinTech, IT (Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and GameDev sector) and real estate.

Tax advisor and advocate based in Poland (EU) specialising in tax advisory for innovative companies, mainly in FinTech, IT (Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and GameDev sector) and real estate. Show more

With my two core strengths - I'm a psychologist and a software architect with a background in full-stack engineering - I have a keen eye for both technical aspects and team dynamics. In startups or large-scale projects, my contribution extends beyond code, I’m dedicated to accompanying organizations through their digital and cultural transformations.
Passionate about DX and designing solutions that empower users and adapt to diverse environments.

With my two core strengths - I'm a psychologist and a software architect with a background in full-stack engineering - I have a keen eye for both technical aspects and team dynamics. In startups or large-scale projects, my contribution extends beyond... Show more

I help healthcare organizations turn complex regulatory requirements, operational risks, and technology changes into reliable quality outcomes.

With 23+ years of experience, I am a healthcare quality and operations leader specializing in enterprise quality management, PBM operations, Medicare, Medicaid, regulatory compliance, transformation, and operational excellence.
At CVS Health, I lead quality strategy and execution across Medicare, Medicaid, and Commercial platforms. My work brings together business, clinical, technology, compliance, and operations teams to strengthen controls, improve delivery performance, reduce risk, and protect member and client outcomes.

My experience includes:
• Enterprise quality strategy and governance
• CMS-regulated Medicare Part D and Medicaid operations
• Regulatory readiness, audit support, and requirements traceability
• Risk-based testing and quality-control design
• Root-cause analysis and corrective and preventive actions
• Defect prevention, first-pass yield, and process improvement
• Healthcare implementations and cross-functional transformation
• Automation, analytics, data quality, and AI governance
• Team development and onshore/offshore delivery leadership

I have led large-scale quality programs, teams, strengthened operational controls, improved automation and delivery performance, and built scalable approaches for managing quality across complex healthcare environments.

My leadership philosophy is simple: compliance should not be treated as a final checkpoint, it should be embedded into processes, technology, data, and decision-making from the beginning.

I am particularly interested in the responsible use of AI and analytics in healthcare. My focus includes data integrity, privacy, transparency, validation, human oversight, regulatory alignment, and ensuring that innovation improves and not compromises quality and member safety.

As a doctoral candidate in Healthcare Administration, published author and researcher, speaker, peer reviewer, and healthcare innovation judge, I bring a scholar-practitioner perspective that connects evidence, leadership, and real-world execution.

I welcome conversations about:
Healthcare Quality | Enterprise Operations | Regulatory Compliance | PBM | Medicare & Medicaid | Operational Excellence | Transformation | Risk Management | AI Governance

I help healthcare organizations turn complex regulatory requirements, operational risks, and technology changes into reliable quality outcomes. With 23+ years of experience, I am a healthcare quality and operations leader specializing in enterpris... Show more

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

Senior Data, Analytics & Regulatory Reporting Professional specializing in AI Risk Platforms, PRA SS1/23, and Basel 3.1. Built risk ecosystems generating £1M+ ARR across 13+ UK banks. Connect with me on LinkedIn.

Senior Data, Analytics & Regulatory Reporting Professional specializing in AI Risk Platforms, PRA SS1/23, and Basel 3.1. Built risk ecosystems generating £1M+ ARR across 13+ UK banks. Connect with me on LinkedIn. Show more

With over a decade of dynamic experience across leadership development, diversity and inclusion, and human resources, Sheila Vance-Tisby is a recognized thought leader and speaker in the areas of leadership, women’s leadership, emotional intelligence, and organizational transformation. Sheila's career spans multiple industries, where she has spearheaded high-impact programs that cultivate resilience, foster effective leadership, and promote equity in the workplace.

As the Founder and Principal Consultant for Rebel Leader Lab, Sheila designs and delivers bespoke leadership development programs for organizations looking to accelerate talent growth and foster emotional intelligence within their teams. Having consulted for major companies such as Amazon Web Services, New Balance, and Georgia Tech Research Institute, she brings firsthand knowledge of how to lead teams through transformative change, manage conflict, and build emotionally intelligent leaders. Her leadership programs have been implemented by companies across the U.S., and her impact continues to resonate within the corporate world.

A frequent speaker at conferences and corporate events, Sheila captivates audiences with her powerful insights on emotional intelligence, leadership resilience, and mediation techniques. She is known for blending practical strategies with inspirational storytelling, leaving her audiences empowered to lead with empathy, resolve conflicts, and create inclusive work environments.

With a strong educational foundation including an MBA from Concordia University and over 10 years of progressive leadership experience, Sheila’s expertise positions her as a top speaker for organizations committed to developing future leaders and fostering workplace excellence.

With over a decade of dynamic experience across leadership development, diversity and inclusion, and human resources, Sheila Vance-Tisby is a recognized thought leader and speaker in the areas of leadership, women’s leadership, emotional intelligence... Show more

I'm a local government official in the Information Department of the City of Hiroshima. I'm a leading expert on DX human resource development for local government officials and hold a Master of Science in Instructional Systems. I'm currently a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hiroshima City University, researching DX skill surveys of local government officials and developing an individualized optimal learning system based on instructional design theory. I previously served as a board member of the Japan Registered Information Security Specialist Association (JP-RISSA), having completed my term.

I'm a local government official in the Information Department of the City of Hiroshima. I'm a leading expert on DX human resource development for local government officials and hold a Master of Science in Instructional Systems. I'm currently a doctor... Show more

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

Akhil Patel is Director of Business Development at CyberGuard Advantage, with 10+ years spanning enterprise sales and customer success across cybersecurity, compliance, and B2B SaaS. He has guided organizations of every size through SOC 2, ISO 27001 and 42001, PCI DSS, HIPAA/HITRUST, penetration testing, and emerging AI governance and red-teaming programs, working hand in hand with CISOs, security leaders, and executive teams. Earlier, at Cobalt.io, he led enterprise customer success for a portfolio of Fortune 500 accounts, scaling pentest programs from onboarding to mature, multi-year engagements.

Akhil is a member of InfraGard's Indiana chapter and a regular at RSA, ACG, and regional security communities. He speaks on compliance strategy, offensive security, and applying AI to go-to-market.

Akhil Patel is Director of Business Development at CyberGuard Advantage, with 10+ years spanning enterprise sales and customer success across cybersecurity, compliance, and B2B SaaS. He has guided organizations of every size through SOC 2, ISO 27001 ... Show more