A veteran in the software industry, Karun has been working on application security and identity access management since 2002 and has worked in a range of capacities from application development to domain consultancy. His previous roles were with ForgeRock as Principal Solutions Architect Wipro and Oracle.

He has covered geographies ranging from the Middle East to Australia during his career and has worked in product principal companies and system integration companies in the IDM space. He has spoken and participated in numerous security events and presented identity management to both business audiences and technical communities.

His current responsibility at OKTA is to grow the Asia business, as a Senior Sales Engineer to delight the customers with our Workforce and Customer Identity solutions

Karun lives in Singapore with his wife and 2 daughters, and he loves traveling and listening to all kinds of music from Buddy Guy to AR Rahman to Dr. Dre.

Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) |ASEAN Top 30 Women in Cybersecurity. Bond Holdings

Naveen is currently the Head of Cyber Security for Air Liquide. He has been in the information and cyber security sector for more than 10 years. His experience in Information & Cyber Security space cuts across multiple industries including Financial, Pharma, and Logistics. Possessing experience from both operations and security consulting perspectives.

Philip Griffiths is a seasoned business leader who is experienced in developing new business grounds up and building high-performance teams. Currently, he is the VP and GM of the Global Business Development and regularly speaks at events from DevOps to IoT to Cyber Security. Prior to this, he used to manage Europe, Middle East and Africa as the VP and GM for NetFoundry and worked for Atos IT Services in various roles working with C-suit executives to realise their digital transformation. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and two daughters.

Stu Solomon is President of Recorded Future, the world’s largest provider of intelligence for enterprise security. In this role, Stu is responsible for leading the intelligence research, analysis, sales and marketing, services, enterprise and product security, and client delivery functions for Recorded Future. Prior to his current role, Stu led the product, R&D, and strategy functions for Recorded Future. Under Stu’s leadership, Insight Venture Partners acquired Recorded Future for $780 million in May 2019 — the highest exit for a threat intelligence company in history.

Chim was the former CISO from Dyson where he holded global responsibility on securing Dyson’s IT/OT/IOT operations to enable Dyson future ambitions in Connected and Intelligent Products. Prior to Dyson, Chim was the former CISO at DHL Express and with global leadership responsibility to defend the resilience of DHL’s logistic operations across 220 countries internationally. Chim has over 20 years of management experience spanning across Technology, Logistic and Oil & Gas industries. He brings with him a wealth of pragmatic experience on transforming Cyber Security for global multinational organizations and with successful track records of delivering numbers of Cyber Security Centre of Excellence, together with the partnership from governance agencies, technology partners and academic institutions.

Prior to joining Tripwire, Ani was the Enterprise Architect for BeyondTrust in the APJ region where he quickly built a reputation on being a subject matter expert on Privilege Access methodologies. He served as Security Architect with Microfocus, a world leader in Security and Identity Access management that owns brands like SuSe, Attachmate, NetIQ and Novell. Ani was responsible for providing subject matter expertise in a broad range of security solutions provided by Microfocus in the SIEM and IAM space. Within that role, Ani has cemented his position in the Security sector in Melbourne specifically and is a trusted key advisor for many silos of the industry that include Banking and Finance, Retail and Government.

Han Yang is a passionate cybersecurity professional with more than seven years of expertise in security consulting. Han Yang loves technology and lives in Asia’s technology capital Singapore. In his role at SecurityScorecard, he aims to delight customers, ensuring that they get the best value out of the platform. At the same time, he provides technical advisory with clients in several industry segments.

Leonardo Hutabarat, LogRhythm APAC Enterprise Sales Engineering Manager, works with customers and partners to raise their cybersecurity posture. Adopting the mentality of a trusted advisor and a consultative approach, Leonardo helps organizations across Asia see the value of and use LogRhythm’s technology to hunt attackers that threaten organizations. Leonardo has over 15 years of experience in information security, taking on roles including sales engineer, security consultant, and team leader. Due to his fervent interest in cybersecurity, he has over 45 IT security certifications, including: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

Yaron Slutzky is CISO at Agoda with 15+ years of experience in Cybersecurity domain . Prior to Agoda Yaron has been CISO for different companies working in multiple sectors such as Telecom, E-commerce & Manufacturing. Yaron also lecture in universities and conferences around the world, Yaron primarily focuses on emerging technologies & transforming organizations Information/Cyber Security program by bringing fresh new approach and methodology.

Certified Principal Auditor for ISMS ISO 27001 (IRCA). Certified (ISACA) CRISC/CISA/CISM/CGEIT/CDPSE, NICF (CISA), COBIT 5, Microsoft Azure and CEH (EC Council). Has been associated with Global Information Technology and Communication Firm, Global Retail/E Commerce Firm and Big Four Consulting firms.

Working in IT Security and Governance, Risk Management and Compliance Practices with an experience of over 10 years. Has been providing professional security consulting and auditing services to IT organizations/divisions from Governments, Public Sector and Private Sectors. His services delivery was based on international process standards and frameworks such as ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, ITIL, NIST, Personal Data Privacy, Cloud Security etc. He has been performing Security Audits and Testing, Gap Analysis, Checkpoint Reviews, Process and awareness training as part of his work.

Victoria van Roosmalen is focused on empowering a brighter future and navigates others towards informed and thoughtful actions by sharing her expertise in IT, cybersecurity, and privacy-related affairs. As a CISO & DPO, she drives the information security and privacy governance at Coosto—an all-in-one social media management solution ranked no. 1 in the Netherlands.

She is an ambassador of ISACA’s SheLeadsTech program and serves the IAPP within the Training Advisory Board. Victoria holds various industry certifications, educates students in her areas of expertise, and participates in working groups of (new) industry standards and materials—such as the NIST Privacy Framework and EDPB guidelines. In 2019, she was recognised among 200 individuals in Europe for making significant contributions to the security and privacy sector.

20 years of extensive experience in Information Technology (IT) focusing on operations, audiovisual streaming, project management, mobile solutions & strategy, network security and IT infrastructure management. Holds a Master of IT from the University of Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), a MBOT Professional Technologist (Ts.), a KNX Smart Home Certified Partner and a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist. Involved in the development of curriculum (DACUM) for IT mandatory programs and Subject Matter Expert (SME)/Trainer for Mobile Technology, SharePoint and Cyber Security.

Currently overseeing governance, digital transformation and managing the overall IT, AV, network, telecommunication and information risk management to support the operational excellence at TNB Integrated Learning Solution Sdn Bhd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tenaga Nasional Berhad, previously known as Institut Latihan Sultan Ahmad Shah (ILSAS). ILSAS develops more than 30,000 TNB employees to competently serve the nation.

Prior to ILSAS, was a Project Manager in TNB-ICT Division, primarily focused on web, multimedia and mobile strategy & development. Successfully developed the first 100% in-house mobile app for TNB, namely myTNB.

Steven Sim has worked for more than 24 years in the cybersecurity field with large end-user enterprises and critical infrastructures, undertaken global CISO role, driven security governance and management initiatives and headed incident response, security architecture, technology and operations at local, regional and global levels.

He currently leads Global OT Security Governance, Technology Management and Cybersecurity Masterplan Project Management Office. He also leads the Global Cybersecurity Incident Response and oversees CSIRTs in business units. He also leads the Group IT Security Centre of Expertise to franchise best practices to business units and has also driven cyber initiatives, developed standards, managed threats, researched vulnerabilities and promoted awareness.

Always keen to give back to the community, he also volunteers at the ISACA Singapore Chapter as the President.

Abdulla is a seasoned information security professional with more than 14 years of working experience as a consultant and end-user. He is currently the head of cybersecurity in PLUS Malaysia Berhad to ensure the digital transformation built with security in mind. This will be considered Abdulla’s fourth digital information security transformation that he is involved in. He is a member of Forbes Technology Council, an invitation-only community for world-class CIOs, CTOs, and technology executives.

Abdulla’s recent experience involved being part of the digital information security transformation covering both strategy & operating model formation. Additionally, he led the deployment/building of the digital information security transformation focused on the cyber defence domain (e.g. SOC, Threat Intelligence, Threat Hunting, Vulnerability Management, and Incident Response)

Abdulla’s earlier career in information security focused on building Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) for UN member countries under the guidance of ITU. He and his team have built CSIRT foundation capabilities aligned with the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) guideline that cover technology, process and upskilling people.

Satish is an IIM Lucknow MDP Alumni (Strategic Leadership). A dynamic professional with over 14 years of all-around experience in DevOps, Software Engineering, Infrastructure, Application Security, and Business Support Operations. He has a proven track record of incubating and accelerating DevOps practices. He has helped business units achieve operational efficiency and organisational effectiveness as core competency and differentiator.

Also, demonstrated record of design and roll-out of highly transactional high volume systems and services, digital and culture transformation initiatives.

He is passionate about making a positive change in the human experience through technology solutions./

Presently, he is considering research on the impact of (lack of) entrepreneurial orientation on the outcome of technology initiatives.

Digital Transformation and Risk Management Leader, Cyber Security Strategist, Board Director, Mentor & Advisor for start-up ventures and professional associations.

CA, CISA & CFE with over 22 years experience in Digital Transformation, Governance, Enterprise Risk Management, Cyber Security, Fraud investigation, Business Resilience, Audit, Program Management, Operational Excellence.

A seasoned and well-rounded Information and IT Security and Risk Management professional with extensive experience from the field of Information Technology, Software, Banking and Finance. With knowledge and application of governance frameworks, regulatory, statutory, and international standards. Holds a degree of Computer Engineering and different certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CEH, Comptia Security+/Linux+, MCSE, ITIL, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, COBIT.

Tanvinder ( Tan) is Director, Cyber Security and Privacy at PwC’s consulting practice and advises clients on all aspects of improving Cyber security posture, Information Security Risk Assurance, Data Privacy and Emerging Technologies with focus on Identity and Access Management, Privilege Identity management, Cyber security maturity strategy and governance frameworks leading to improvement in overall Cyber Security posture.

Tan has over 20+ years of industry experience in Cybersecurity and Information Technology across different Industries with significant experience in financial sector. Prior to joining PwC, he has performed various leadership roles in Cybersecurity and Information Technology at ANZ Bank, Bank of America, Dell and Elsevier publishing.

He is currently leading the Southeast Asia for Identity and Access Management, Privilege access Management, Cloud security, Cyber Risk Strategy solutions. He has significant experience in building the capability and capacity from ground up in several geographies, recently in Malaysia and Australia.

Tan is a well-known leader in the Cybersecurity industry within the region and has been part of the Cybersecurity domain for the past 10+ years. He is a regular speaker in major local and global Cybersecurity conferences for sharing best practices and raising Cybersecurity awareness across the industry.

Roy is a Senior Director in EY’s extensive Cybersecurity Delivery Center in Manila, Philippines, and has a wide range of expertise in Cybersecurity Advanced Engineering, Threat Detection and Response, Cybersecurity Strategy Design, Risk Management, Compliance and Resilience.

Roy has been instrumental in building the Center’s Cybersecurity Consulting arm, and has led multiple large scale projects, including spearheading the design and build of the EY Global Delivery Center’s Next Generation Security Operations Center (NGSOC), as well as previously leading the Information Security Program of a Multinational Technology Corporation’s Delivery Center.

Roy has an excellent track record in leadership and delivery of different Cybersecurity engagements across different business sectors, mainly focusing on Banking and Capital Markets, Insurance, Technology, Telecommunications, and Consumer Products & Retail.

A Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and a passionate Cybersecurity enthusiast. He aims to be a strong voice in spreading more awareness and investments in emerging Cybersecurity technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud security, cyber automation, and cyber analytics.

1) TOP MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL: VP/ IT DIRECTOR/DELIVERY HEAD/PROGRAM MANAGER: with nearly 25 years of rich & vast experience in Healthcare IT (EMR/EHR/HISM, AI &BI)
2) With excellent management, planning, and technical skills, and wise comprehension of business and technical issues in healthcare domain
3) Healthcare-IT for India, USA, UK, Europe & Gulf Countries
4) Refining of hospital large systems development, systems integration
5) Clinical transformation & Change Management
6) Delivery Management
7) Program Management
8) Product Life cycle Management software operations
9) “A proactive IT leader with a compassion in delivering large scale, mission critical programs on time and within budgets; in quest of senior level assignments in Healthcare IT domain”
10) “Dynamic, versatile, hands-on Program Manager who can leverage clinical information technology, process design, change management, for improving in the patient care experience quality, financial and regulatory norms”
11) “Distinction of interacting with and managing CXO level global stakeholders, & framing outcome driven distributed global delivery model in Healthcare IT Domain”

Many organizations are having difficulty operating and securing their information platform. After the pandemic, it is clear that even more companies are clueless on their digital transformation journey and how to adapt in the new normal. I can help.

I started as a technology professional in 1997 and performed IT project management, IT & security operations, IT executive management, and IT, digital transformation, & security strategic planning and execution. I am also a consultant for technology projects in strategic, digital transformation, security planning, data protection, e-commerce, infrastructure, operational, and software development activities for companies from various industries.

I serve as a board member for a coaching & mentoring organization and a social enterprise while being an active member of Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), Information Security Officers Group (ISOG), National Association of Data Protection Officers of the Philippines (NADPOP), and Philippine eLearning Society (PeLS).

My commitment to the future generation includes my engagement with De La Salle University under the College of Business-Decision Sciences and Innovation Department and De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, School of Professional and Continuing Education (SPaCE). I also actively contribute in the development of the Bachelor of Science in CyberSecurity under CHED.

On my freetime, I play basketball, play computer games, collect & restore toys, and loves urban planting.

Contact me if you need Digital Transformation, Data Privacy, IT, Information Security, and Creative Strategic Solutions Architecture help for your enterprise or institution. You can connect with me at ricson@gmail.com.

Adjudged as one of the Top 10 women in Security Philippines 2020. International Lecturer, Moderator/Panelist. Experienced Information Technology Professional with a demonstrated history of working in the Army Management Information Center catering to IS needs for the whole Armed Forces of the Philippines. Skilled in Research, Training, Systems Analysis, Networks, Project management, chairmanship. VIP Security and Gender Studies and consultancy work. Skilled information technology specialist and development practitioner who is a Certified Ethical Hacker and Certified Secure Computer User with a Master’s degree focused in International Development Practice from Monash University and Masters in Information Systems at the University of the Philippines and Master in Public Management with honors at the Development Academy of the Philippines

Edmund has over 15 years in senior management experience with passion in Strategy, Information Technology, and Human Capital Development with a motto of “Invest in People”. Has been a speaker and Community Resource on Digital Transformation and Security, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. He has been invited to many International Leaders’ Summit to speak on Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Project Management and Digital Marketing.

～20 years Banking/IT/HighTech diverse leadership journey in information/cyber security, data analytics, risk and control, regulatory compliance, digital transformation, technology & product management, key account consulting, people & project management. Built the regional team (10+ staff) from scratch and restructured the teams successfully before.

Director of Cyber & Technology Risk for UBS Singapore, Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). Also worked in Citibank, Microsoft, HP, etc across Asia (Singapore, China) and Europe.

IDG CSO30 ASEAN award winner in 2021.

Strong business enabling and people engagement mindset digital transformation & technology innovation catalyst and practitioner with patent about next generation wireless networking access control filed at U.S.A patent office as sole inventor and led high speed wireless networking design in HP lab.

Active industry association leader that served PMI (Project Management Institute) Singapore Chapter (2000+ members) as Vice President and also current member of ABS (Association of Banks in Singapore) Standing Committee of Cyber Security.

Master in AI & Data Analytics and bachelar degree from NTU and NUS respectively.

Fan of sports as Asia highest bungee jump and full marathon (42.195km) finisher.

Ace heads the Strategy & Innovation practice of the Cybersecurity Operations Group of Smart Communications, Inc., a subsidiary of PLDT Inc., which together the two form the largest integrated telecommunications group in the Philippines. Prior to joining Smart, Mr. Acedillo was a consultant for various organizations including the Philippine House of Representatives, where he was a Congressman from 2013 to 2016, and among the bills that he authored into law created the Department of Information and Communications Technology in 2016. He has worked also in the national security sector, first as a commissioned officer and combat helicopter pilot in the Philippine Air Force for nine years, and then as consultant to the National Security Adviser.

More than 15+ years of professional experience in the IT field providing excellent delivery for a broad type of industries and technologies, lately focusing with a large experience in Enterprise Transformation, Conteinarisation, CI/CD, SRE, Scalability, Performance, Observability, and DevOps Culture in general.
I am always striving to bring 100% to the work that I do and my goal as SRE is to automate myself out of the job!

Outside the office, I’m always learning new technologies, experimenting with IoT, and new visionary software solutions in my home lab. I like to play music and spend quality time with my family. I’m fluent in English, Spanish, Italian, and some decent Chinese (Mandarin). I love the challenges and support of the OpenSource community!

Dheeraj is currently working as the Global Community Ambassador along with the Region Head for the Asia Pacific, Japan, China, Middle East & Africa region at DevOps Institute, headquartered in the USA.
This role is an exclusive & people-focused chief evangelist and strategic partner to the global community of Enterprises, Channel Partners, Vendors, and professionals who are supporting, planning, embarking, or already on a transformation journey in the Digital world based on DevOps, Cyber Security, SRE, emerging Technologies, and standards.

Dheeraj is currently a Certified Life Member of Leaders Excellence with the distinguished membership title: MLE℠ – Member of Leaders Excellence.
He is a certified Business Relationship Management Professional (BRMP®) & holds multiple credentials as a certified DevOps Enterprise Coach™, DevOps Leader (DOL)®, SRE(Site Reliability Engineering) Practitioner℠, Certified Chaos Engineering Practitioner, SRE Foundation℠ , DevOps Foundation® & Value Stream Management Foundation with an MBA in Entrepreneurship & International Marketing and engineering degree in Computer Science.

Dheeraj has built sustainable strategic partnership with top Enterprises across Asia-Pacific, China, Japan, Middle East, Africa region as Region Head while working with Industry leaders, elite enterprises, Government agencies, specialized agencies & strategic business partners to evangelize the standardization and adoption of DevOps, SRE, DevSecOps, Agile, IT Service Management, emerging technologies standards, best practices, and skills adoption.

He has built massive online, social global communities while evangelizing and launching several successful global initiatives with thousands of members, Industry leaders and practitioners.
He is passionate about developing a strategic partnership providing sustainable values to all stakeholders and community and has been a frequent speaker at various international events and forums.

Gabriel has over 20 years’ experience in cyber security and technology risk management, specialising in the banking and financial industry. As the Head of Global IT in Gaw Capital, he is responsible for the technology development, IT operation and cyber security strategy across the international group. Prior to his current role, Gabriel served as the Regional Head of Information Security (Asia) for ABN AMRO Bank. Before that, he was the cyber forensic investigator for Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Back in 2005, he worked in JP Morgan as the regional lead of the ethical hacking team. And Gabriel first started his career as a system and network specialist in Bank of China (HK).

Gabriel received a BSc IT degree from City University of HK and a Master of Computer Science from University of Hong Kong. He is a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) since 2001, and certified in other IT security area such as computer hacking, digital forensic and information security management.

Ts. Saiful currently serves as the Head of IT – APAC, for ASCENT Fund Services, a Singapore-based, Global Independent Fund Administrator company. He is responsible for providing the technology, solutions, security, and support for all ASCENT Fund Services offices in Asia Pacific.
He was ranked as Top 75 Chief Information Officer (CIO75) for ASEAN, in 2021 by the International Data Group (IDG), as well as CIO50 ASEAN for the year 2019 and 2020. He was also listed as Top World CIO 200, by the Global CIO Forum, for the year 2021 and 2020, as a recognition to his achievement in the industry.
He brings with him a solid 21 years of experience in diverse industries such as Fund Management, Oil & Gas, Banking, as well as in the Economic Regulatory Body. He is a registered Professional Technologist (Ts.) under the Malaysian Act 768 which is governed by the Malaysia Board of Technologists.
As an IT professional with an MBA, he has broad experience in IT Management, Strategic Planning, IT Security, Digital Transformation, Project Management, Risk Management and Business Continuity. He holds the ISACA’s CISM and CRISC certifications, PRINCE2 Project Management, SCRUM Master (Agile Project Management), ITIL Practitioner and Intermediate (v2 & v3), Microsoft’s MCSA, IATA’s Aviation Cyber Security and IBM’s Lotus Notes Specialist.
He is also actively participating in IT events and summits as a Speaker, Panelist or Moderator, both locally and cross borders, such as India, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and United Arab Emirates. This is his way of giving back to the industry by sharing his knowledge and experience.

As the Product Marketing Director for Cato Networks in Asia Pacific, Demetris leads the strategic engagements around Cato’s Cloud-Native approach to Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). He is a strong advocate and champion of network and security convergence, promoting SASE as the pathway to better business and technical outcomes.

Prior to Cato, Demetris held various leadership roles with Sophos, Cisco, Juniper Networks and Citrix Systems. As a 20+ year technology industry veteran, he brings a diverse, global perspective, having lived and worked in North America, Europe, and Asia.

In his personal time, he enjoys reading books on neuroscience, as well as dabbling in music, art and cooking.

15 years of experience in Networking , Cyber Security, Application Availability and Performance.

Deep Dive understanding of the concepts like Endpoint Security, Security Operations, Threat Intelligence and Cloud Security

15+ years of experience in fighting cyber threat actors. They innovate, We innovate better. They move, We disrupt them. They team up, We form alliances. The battle has never been more fair with Crowdstrike.

As a Member of the Board of Directors, I am a co-owner of RAIR Technologies, Inc. I provide strategic guidance to the business and take part in making key decisions.

RAIR Tech’s mission is to make customers secure and confident in their digital transformation experience — without the fear of data breach and digital asset compromise.
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Our vision is to witness our customers accomplish successful digital transformations and achieve positive business results with the help of our IT security solutions that will solve your cybersecurity problems and will allow you to focus more on your core business functions.
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RAIR tackles IT & Cybersecurity with simplicity in mind – no complicated business decisions and no tedious operations.
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RAIR’s focus:
– Providing expert guidance for cybersecurity risk assessment and strategic planning
– Making your business resilient with network and infrastructure security
– Helping your business achieve your goals through intelligence driven digital risk protection

Sujit Christy is a Governance, Risk & Compliance Professional. He is a passionate cybersecurity adoption evangelist providing vital guidance to improve the cyber defenses whilst raising cybersecurity awareness to improve risk reduction and compliance. He currently serves as the Chief Information Security Officer and Cybersecurity Adviser in several organizations. He is a Director with Layers-7 Seguro Consultoria Private Limited. He is the President of the (ISC)2 Colombo Chapter, Sri Lanka. He also serves as an Advisory Board Member – Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, SLASSCOM .

Sujit is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified in Risk and Information System Control (CRISC), Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE), a certified IT Disaster Recovery Professional and holds a Diploma in Cyber Law.

Sujit counts over 20 years of experience in governance, risk, compliance and assurance. He specializes in Cybersecurity covering Risk Management, Consulting, Assurance, IT Governance, Privacy , Vendor Evaluation, Product Evaluation, Compliance and Awareness. He has worked with KPMG in New Zealand, Singapore and Sri Lanka.

Sujit is a regular invited speaker and panelist in cybersecurity conferences, seminars and webinars. He is a resource person at the Center for Banking Studies, Central Bank of Sri Lanka. He is also a past visiting lecturer at the Department of Criminology, University of Madras, India and the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KDU), Sri Lanka.

Sujit is the founding member, the charter secretary and past president of the (ISC)2 Chennai Chapter, India (This is the first (ISC)2 Chapter to be formed in India) He also facilitated the formation of the (ISC)2 Colombo Chapter, Sri Lanka.

Sujit is the founder/President of Information Security Professional Associates (iSPA). He was instrumental in organizing the first CISSP exam in Sri Lanka through Information Security Professionals Associates (iSPA) in 2006. He is a past Supervisor for the (ISC)2 credentials exams in India and Sri Lanka. He is a volunteer with the Center for Cyber Safety and Education formerly known as (ISC)2 Foundation. He pioneered the delivery of Safe and Secure Online programs in India and Sri Lanka.

Sujit is the recipient of the 2013 (ISC)2 President’s award (first person to receive this award in the SAARC Region), and (ISC)2 Honoree in the Information Security Practitioner Category for Information Security Leadership Achievements (ISLA), in the Asia Pacific Region.

More than 25 years of IT experience in automotive industry, 2 wheelers and 4 wheelers, from manufacturing to sales distribution, from technical engineer to management level. Recently focus in : digital transformation, smart data utilization, and cyber security discussion. Lead business development team and IT operation team, having broad knowledge in technical skill ( infrastructure, application, security ) and non technical skill ( project management, SLA management, change & communication management, people development, continuous improvement program ), with various roles and responsibilities.

Having experience in :
1. 1. Creating Business Insight
Digging and executing deep-dive business analysis. Utilizing big data (internal & external data) to analyze and provide a three-level business intelligence, with a sharp and superior prescriptive analysis on top to generate insights for a high-caliber business plan.

2. Business Development
Adding value and competitive advantages for business using IT. Creating strategies and plans that define how technology should be utilized to support an organization’s core business strategy. Keeping an eye on the evolving trends in technology and generating ideas off these trends to deliver new business opportunities, profitable business growth and competitive cost efficiency.

3. Project Management
Taking over a project and leading the team in order to meet the scope, budget, and time and deliver superior deliverables to the stakeholders.

4. Manage operation team with measurable SLA (Service Level Agreement)

Tam Chek San is the technology practice lead for data protection solutions, covering Asia Pacific & Japan regions, where he oversees the data protection and appliance products features, requirements, awareness and skill levels among the Technical Sales, Services and functional groups. He also covers the emerging product offerings that compliments the enterprise data protection solution stacks.

Since 1996, Chek San has held various roles in several areas of IT including technical support, training, solutioning, specialist sales and pre-sales, focusing in areas of networking, data storage, information management, security and virtualization spaces.

Chek San has a Bachelor Degree in Applied Science (Information Technology)

Chek San is based in Singapore.

Sudharsan is the APAC Solution lead for Data Intelligence and Content, with a focus around Hybrid cloud, Big Data Analytics, High Performance SDS, for unstructured data using Object & File.

In his previous role he was the APAC solution lead for Business-Critical Application and Converged solution focusing around architecting resilient, scalable, agile infrastructure for workloads such as SAP HANA, Oracle, Hybrid Cloud, & Containers.

He has been with Hitachi Vantara for about 9 Years now spanning various roles and has worked closely with customers to spear head their Data Center Modernization efforts, and various Digital Transformation Initiatives.

Sathish Murthy is Director of Systems Engineering for Cohesity ASEAN / India region. He brings in a wealth of experience in the data management industry. Prior to this role, he was responsible to build a successful tech team at Nimble Storage/HPE. He brings customer experiences in APAC Product Management and Marketing, Systems Engineering and Solution Architect while at companies like EMC and NetApp. Sathish current focus is to help customer transform by harnessing the power of data.

Philip is a seasoned security professional and Sales Engineering Manager with experiences across the APAC region. He leads a team of highly qualified pre-sales engineers across the regions to help companies adopt a people centric security program and help these organisations stay ahead of threats coming from every channel including email, web, cloud, social media and mobile. Prior to Proofpoint, Philip spearheads the digital risk protection solution for Digital Shadows in APAC and also led the pre-sales team in Splunk deploying operation and security analytics solution in South Asia.

In his role as the Vice President for Asia Pacific Japan at SentinelOne, Evan is currently responsible for the expansion of the GTM operations across the region.

Before joining SentinelOne he was the EMEA VP Sales for Cylance leading the successful build out of the European business before arriving in Singapore in 2018 to re-energise the APAC operation prior to the company’s subsequent sale to Blackberry in 2019.

Prior to joining Cylance, he has had successful terms at industry recognized cyber security vendors such as Fireye, leading the UK&I Enterprise Sales Division pre and post IPO and Veracode and Ironport prior to their subsequent acquisitions.

Evan has spent the last 15 years in Cyber Security and 25 in total years working for international and early-stage companies. Evan holds an MBA from the Brisbane Graduate School of Business, and Graduate Certificate in Information Systems from Southern Cross University in Queensland, Australia.

Kelvin serves as SentinelOne’s APJ Director for Security Engineering, a primarily outward-facing role for the organization, encompassing a wide gamut of customer-facing activities, including technology evangelism and pre-sales.

With over 23 years of IT security experience, Kelvin has been involved with the consultancy and implementation of end-to-end security solutions in the area of security applications and technologies such as identity management systems, public key infrastructure, data loss prevention, security information and event management (SIEM), big data security analytics, as well as advanced endpoint threat prevention solutions.

Experienced Chief Technology Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer and network security industry. Strong information technology professional skilled in ISO 27001, Analytical Skills, Security Policy, Vulnerability Management, and Vulnerability Assessment.

Irshad Saifi is a C-level executive with over 20 years of global enterprise technology experience, managed a $100+million global budget, lead global teams spread out in all three continents of fortune 10/100/500 companies in multiple industries such as Professional Consulting Firm, Manufacturing, BFSI, Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, IT/ITES.

He is a strong technology leader with functional, transformation & business strategist acumen, he helped fortune 500 companies to solve their complex business problems using technology.

He has successfully led digital transformation initiatives globally in his career, which helped companies to gain a competitive advantage, increase revenue and decrease costs. He has considerable experience in setting up successful technology governance, defining strategy and roadmap, and the ability to get it executed in different economic and organizational environments.

He is having considerable experience in identifying business opportunities including but not limited to Implementation of Industry 4.0, Innovative technologies such as AI/ML, RPA, digitization, setting up a COE center in APAC, executing global merger & acquisition, re-organization, unified strategy, roadmap for a group of companies.

He is passionate about technology and leadership and keeps investing his time to keep up-to-date. He believes in delivering outcomes with ethics, governance, policies, standards, and processes with globally accepted frameworks that involve managing global teams, multi-million budgets.

He has been constantly promoted in previous organizations, He has also been awarded by prominent global IT media companies such as IDG, IDC, Greyhead Media, Techplus media, etc for best CXO’s award, he is also an active speaker in public conferences. He likes sharing his experience and learning from industry leaders, he is a member of the national committee member of FICCI for AI & Digital Transformation, e-courts committee member (Govt of India initiative), and board member of EC-Council.

He is pursuing one-year leadership and innovation program (LEAD) from Stanford Graduate School of Business, prior to this he has completed MBA in Finance & International business from IMT Ghaziabad India and M.Sc. Computer Science from MDU Rohtak India. He has also attended a few programs in leadership, transformation, and technology from reputed institutes like Stanford, ISB Hyderabad, Coursera, Udemy, Microsoft, Cisco, PMI, ISACA, Prince2 etc.

Ram Vaidyanathan is a Senior technology evangelist and industry expert in IT security and cyberrisk at ManageEngine, the IT management division of Zoho Corporation. He keeps himself updated about the latest techniques attackers use to compromise organizations and how we can defend ourselves. His responsibility includes informing product roadmap decisions and helping customers deploy and get the most value from ManageEngine Log360, a comprehensive SIEM solution.

Marco Zhang has over two decades of experience in driving excellence in sales and engineering teams. Prior to joining Saviynt, he worked at software giants such as Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Dell Software, Dimension Data, and top identity vendors such as One Identity, BeyondTrust, and Centrify, empowering product improvement and efficient project deployments across the Asia Pacific.

At Saviynt, he heads the regional sales engineering department, helping enterprises improve their security posture against internal and external threats.

He holds a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, a Master’s degree in Communication Software and Network, CISSP, and PMP professional certifications.

Hywel has a career of over 25 years within Product Development, Product Management and Systems Engineering. During this time he has helped some of the most regulated organisations successfully address their cyber security challenges including many of the world’s largest Banks and Insurance companies. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computing from Coventry University in the UK and is both a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP). Prior to joining Sophos, his career has included long periods at Symantec, Blue Coat and McAfee.

Ryan Terry is a Sr. Solutions Product Marketing Manager at Okta, focused on security solutions. Ryan brings more than 8 years of experience in cybersecurity and previously worked at Proofpoint and Symantec. Ryan has a Master’s of Business Administration (MBA) from Brigham Young University.

Cameron Townshend Bsc, MSysDev, MCP CP Snr, MCSD – has extensive experience building large mission critical applications. Developed the WeatherChannel.com.au website and backend integration. This site won 2010 Kentico site of the year for Integration and 2011 Astra award for Most Outstanding Use of Technology. Initial project lead on NSW Biosecurity Information System. He is both a hands-on developer and a skilled communicator and leader of project teams.

After graduating from a Technical University I immidiately started working as a Quality Assurance Engineer. This is how I found my passion in Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery and Automation. Now I work as a Devops Engineer and I simply love what I am doing. I am keen on learning new technologies and I always want to improve things.

Due to my adventurous sprit I have worked in many big companies in many different countries. Here is a list of the countries that I have worked in: Bulgaria, Malta, The Netherlands, Spain and now I work in United Arab Emirates.

I am a passionate applied security technologist and strategist who believes that everyone can get better and safer from innovation and better use of technology. I have worked as a project manager, network and system security architect, national security planner from simple design to complex programs. I am particularly interested in applying IT security, business influences and emerging technologies for a safer world.

I have mentored and led groups of professional security consultants in providing security implementation and consultancy services. People are the key in order to make things happened, and everyone is unique. Leadership and teamwork bring this uniqueness to the next level, and magic happens.

Engaging people and building solutions is my passion and forte. With an extensive work experience that spans across different roles – R&D, Service Delivery, Product Mgmt., Solution Architect, Pre-Sales; this has equipped me with an all-rounded experience in delivering secure digital solutions. I love challenges and live by my motto ‘What breaks me, builds me!

Soumo is the head of security architecture at PETRONAS where he is the Cyber Security Lead for end user security, identity & access management, cloud security and M365. With a long spanning career in information technology services, he has been a transformation leader, a change agent and someone who keeps challenging the status quo.

Sharat has over 15 years of experience assisting organizations in the areas of security architecture, threat detection and threat hunting. As a Security Architect at Vectra.AI, Sharat works with enterprises to assist with the security foundations covering visibility, detection and response across on-premises, multi-cloud and hybrid footprint which helps organization embrace agile technologies to stay competitive.

Sharat is a member of Sans/GIAC Advisory Board and holds multiple security certifications such as CISSP, CRISC, CISM, GCIH,CDPSE,CCSK etc

Joshua Arvin Lat is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of NuWorks Interactive Labs, Inc. He previously served as the CTO of 3 Australian-owned companies and also served as the Director for Software Development and Engineering for multiple e-commerce startups in the past which allowed him to be more effective as a leader. Years ago, he and his team won 1st place in a global cybersecurity competition with their published research paper. He is also an AWS Machine Learning Hero and he has been sharing his knowledge in several international conferences to discuss practical strategies on machine learning, engineering, security, and management. He is the author of the book “Machine Learning with Amazon SageMaker Cookbook”

As a Practice Director, I lead a team of highly skilled professionals focused on delivering quality outcomes to our clients across the region leveraging the full capability of the Saviynt solution. My primary focus is to ensure increased Client Satisfaction by mentoring professionals and building a world-class delivery organization for the region.

Saviynt is a leading provider of Cloud Security and Identity Governance solutions. Saviynt enables enterprises to secure applications, data and infrastructure in a single platform for Cloud (Office 365, AWS, Azure, Salesforce, Workday) and Enterprise (SAP, Oracle EBS). Saviynt is pioneering IGA 3.0 by integrating advanced risk analytics and intelligence with fine-grained privilege management.

Josiah Winston has over 10 years in the IT Industry, specialising in Infrastructure and Security Domains. He was instrumental in several critical national and large-scale projects, covering both design and implementation across ASEAN region. Currently holding a position as Solutions Engineer, ASEAN, at CyberArk, he assists organisations in addressing their Identity Security and Access Management concerns to protect against targeted cyber threats and insider attacks.

Antonio Rancan is a Sydney based Solutions Architect at Cloudflare covering the APJC region. Specialising in Zero Trust and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), he enables customers to secure and modernise their corporate networks through the adoption of Cloudflare’s solutions.

Prior to his role at Cloudflare, Antonio provided technology consulting leadership in IT infrastructure, network and security projects. Past customers have ranged from SMEs to large enterprises across a wide range of industries. His consultative approach helps address customer needs from requirements validation through to solution implementation.

A seasoned professional with over sixteen years’ experience in the field of Cyber Security, heading the APJ region for the Investigative Response – Verizon Threat Research Advisory Center (VTRAC) practice. Brings a unique and wide experience of leading an expert team for incident response, digital forensics, payment forensics investigations, IT investigations, and e-discovery.

Dragan brings more than 20 years experience working in the Identity, Security and Networking industry in a variety of technical pre-sales and consulting services roles encompassing architecture, design and development. Dragan has participated in several large projects in the finance, telecommunications and government industries, where he architected, designed and implemented innovative solutions. Dragan has spent the last 13+ years focusing on identity and security at Sun Microsystems, Oracle Security and now at Okta, the world’s most iconic Identity as a Service Company.

Eugene Ang is a Security Practice Advisor at Maxis’s enterprise practice division. He provides security practice advisory and advises customers on security solutions to protect their organization end-to-end, with focus on endpoint, network and cloud security.

Eugene has over 15+ years of industry experience in cybersecurity and risk management having served in various roles and sectors. Prior to joining Maxis, he was leading the Application Security team with SWIFT, a global provider of secure financial messaging services, based in Kuala Lumpur.

An experienced IT professional with almost eight years of experience in the field of Software Engineering. Provides and supports the team in the areas of technical problems, processes, and operations, and actively driving quality improvements.

As Regional Director for Asia, Jude leads a fantastic team of cyber security professionals who are passionate about delivering world class solutions for our channel and end user communities. He is highly skilled in cyber security and information technology, with over a decade of leadership experience at companies such as IBM, Oracle and Sun Microsystems.

Nigel is the Technical Regional Manager at Delinea and leads a team Systems Engineers covering the APAC region. He has over 20 years experience and significant achievements in designing/delivering solutions and consulting with a focus on IT security including identity and access management, compliance management, security operations centres (SOCs), data loss prevention and application security.

His major clients include multi-national financial institutions, telecommunication companies, Oil & Gas corporations and Government agencies and has performed security assessments, developed policies as well organizational redesigns for them.

Prior to joining Delinea, he has held regional and in-country positions at various MNCs in the areas of consulting and solution architecting in various fields including security, IT service management, grid computing, open source solutions and wireless applications. He currently holds CISSP, ISO27001 Lead Auditor and ITIL Service Manager certifications.

Maciej joined WhiteSource through the acquisition of his Supply Chain Security company “Diffend”, and now holds the title of Senior Product Manager for Supply Chain Security. Prior to WhiteSource, Maciej was the lead software architect at Castle.io. Maciej has experience in a wide variety of business applications built using multiple Ruby frameworks & particularly interested in code quality and Ruby-based applications’ security.

Maciej is an active OSS contributor and maintainer of various projects including Karafka, dry-rb libraries and Bundler-Security project.

20+ years of experience in the field of Information Technology, Information Security and Cyber security. Marlon has led and implement multiple cyber security projects and information security program with extensive technical and functional background in the field of Network and Server Security, Information Security Management, IT Governance, Audit and Risk. He is the CISO of Maybank Philippines and concurrent CISO of Maybank New York.

Julie is passionate about evangelizing Okta’s innovations far and wide. Prior to joining Okta, she worked as an Account Executive in a mid-sized enterprise at Gartner, where she interfaced with numerous vendors in various technology industries.

Sami Laine is Director of Technology Strategy at Okta. For last couple of decades Sami has helped many of the world’s largest enterprises, financial institutions and public sector organizations protect against fraud, malware, threats and data breaches and now at Okta helps companies embrace identity as the new security perimeter.

Marcus Guan is a Partner Solutions Engineer at Okta who supports Asia partners to grow their business. Marcus spent more than a decade in cyber security as an engineer solving customer’s challenges within the Asia Pacific region. Over the past 10 years, he worked on various solutions from EDR, data platform, and now first-class identity access management.

He is passionate about sharing his knowledge and using his skillset to solve customer’s challenges and build strategic partnerships with partners, helping their success and gaining value from technology.

Lasith Gamage is a Solutions Engineer at Okta who supports enterprises in the Asia Pacific region to provide consultancy for their digital transformation journey and overcome customers’ Identity & Access Management (IAM) challenges and grow their businesses.

Lasith has been working in the IT industry for over 15 years and helping various customers around the globe. Apart from IAM, he excels in Solutions Architect and Software development of Enterprise-grade applications.
During his past tenure, he worked as IAM Architect for leading media and finance insurance organizations building IAM platforms.

Lasith is passionate about pursuing the latest trends and bringing that knowledge to customers to help grow their business using the right tech stacks.

Serge Christiaans is the founder and owner of a Singapore based cybersecurity company and former combat pilot of the Royal Netherlands Airforce. Prior to his CISO positions, he has received a business degree from the prestigious Royal Netherlands Military Academy, and provided cyber security leadership for many SMEs, NGOs and MNCs since 2005. Serge has more than 17 years of cybersecurity and data privacy experience in helping companies to reduce their digital vulnerabilities and increasing their cyber security awareness.

Experienced in Banking/Advertising/Media Platform/Entertainment/Analytics Domains, Delivered services with roles as Solution Architect, Lead Java, Sr. Consultant, SME, Product Architect, Pre/Post-Sales.

Multi-Cloud:
• Designed highly scalable, Secured, Prod/DR AWS Cloud solutions for enterprise grade Apps.
• Designed Google & Oracle Cloud Solution for Prod-POCs.
• Terraform IaC for multi-cloud (AWS+OCI+GCP+Azure) use cases.

API Pipelines: Google(AdWords/DCMReporting/Analytics/DCS/DBM), Snapchat,Facebook,TwitterAds,BingAds,BrightRoll

Best Practices:
Agile Methodology, Security best practices, Cloud & Container Security, Cluster Security, Peer reviews, Empowering team.

Professional Summary:
A PMP, ITIL & Agile certified DevOps professional with 17+ years of relevant experience in managing DevOps Strategy, Roadmap, Transformation, Adoption, platform setup, and service delivery initiatives supporting digital, cloud-native and, monolithic applications utilizing virtual, container, and cloud infrastructure running on Distributed systems, AS400 and Mainframes platforms.

Professional Achievements:
1. Rated as “A+” performer in most of the companies worked and promoted being identified as a next-level leader.
2. Successfully driven DevOps adoption & transformation in financial organizations.
3. A well-recognized conference speaker on DevOps concepts & transformation in financial services industries (FSI).
4. Ex-President of Barclays & UOB Toastmaster club and winner of toastmaster speech competitions in area/division level

Passionate machine learning engineer with 5+ years of experience in predictive modeling. A solid foundation in statistics, linear algebra, calculus, and other analytical techniques. Project manager and team leader with extensive experience in system design and implementation.

Experienced analyst with a demonstrated history of working in higher education and games market research industries. Skilled in video games and esports industry, international relations, and policy analysis. Professionally focused in socio-political and market research. Has 2 Master’s Degrees from University of California, San Diego and Zhejiang University.

Technology Transformation Leader with international experience in building Digital strategies, IT strategies, delivering large programs and portfolios, software engineering, service & infrastructure/cloud management, operations, site reliability engineering, and service delivery in complex, large-scale, mission-critical IT environments. Core strengths are towards identifying opportunities to fuel business growth through technology and delivering the most optimum IT and Automation solutions earning huge credibility and trust of CXOs.

Specializes in delivering a broad range of complex, multi-disciplinary programs Digital Transformation Strategies, application development, security, and infrastructure initiatives across large, cross-functional, and multi-cultural teams. In one of my earlier roles, I had to influence 61 Group CIOs across dnata entities to align and integrate into a single digital platform for seamless operations.

Satriyo Dharmanto is a senior professional with more than 26 years of experience, focusing on the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry.

With his experiences, expertise, and knowledge, he has been providing active contributions relating to the ICT development issues to the government of Indonesia, especially as the consultant member and advisor of the Indonesia Ministry of Information and Communication Technology.

He was the Strategic Direction consultant member of Indonesia’s state-owned enterprise PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia, Tbk. (PT. Telkom), as well as several big corporations such as Kompas Gramedia (KG) and ICT Center Menara Jakarta, in the area of ICT Business Management, Strategic Management, Wireless Communications, Broadband Communications, Data Center, Digital TV, Internet of Things (IoT) as well as 5G initiative.

He was successfully active as Regional Sales Director (Indonesia, East Timor, and PNG) for Conax AS, (Telenor AS – Group), Alphatron Asia PTE Ltd, Alandick Indonesia (AlanDick & Co, UK), Consultant of Detecon Asia (Deutsche Telekom Group), and Director of Multikom Global Mediatama Group.
More than 25 Universities in Indonesia had invited him as a guest lecturer, to provide sharing sessions in the field of ICT, Digital Business, Entrepreneurship, Knowledge Management, and Strategic Management.

Currently, he is a senior member of IEEE, a Member of IEEE Communication Society, IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, and Broadcasting Society. He was the Chairman of IEEE Communication Society Indonesia Chapter 2011-2014, Chairman of IEEE Indonesia Section 2015-2017, IEEE Asia Pacific Region 10 Industry Relation Committee, and currently, he is on the IEEE Indonesia Advisory Board.

Steve is the Developer Relations Lead for New Relic Asia Pacific, based in Singapore. He has over 10 years of solution consulting across the Asian region, working with clients across organizations such as VMware, New Relic, and Toptal. Outside of work, Steve loves to tinker with code, hunt for good deals, and continue to practice hot hatha.

I used to be a networking gateway product monkey coder. I’ve been doing open source security for decades. Always hungering for knowledge from not only in my day job but everything about security: Code review/audit, kernel hardening, security testing, Network/OS forensic, pentest, linux kernel rootkit, firmware compliance, etc. I didn’t say “Cloud”, did I?

Hello, I am Abhishek from Mumbai, India. My pronouns are He/Him/His. I am working as a Developer Advocate @Yugabyte. I’m a backend software engineer and DevOps, an Open Source enthusiast highly driven by dev communities and proficient in Python & its application architecture. Apart from my professional work, I contribute to and run a few developer communities, some conferences across India, evangelize for OSS, and D&I in the tech community. Side by side, I also mentor students and folks in the community. I like OSS (& communities) and doing infra DevOps work. I am a huge supporter of Python & the dev ecosystem around it, and I am well versed in implementing APIs (in Flask) and a bit of fronted (UI) work. I Like to read and implement more on the clean code paradigm!