As founder, CEO, and editor-in-chief of Techstrong Group, Alan manages a broad array of businesses and brands including Techstrong Media, Techstrong Live, Techstrong Research, Devops.com, Security Boulevard, Techstrong TV, and Techstrong Learning. To do so and succeed, Alan has to be attuned to the world of technology, particularly DevOps, cybersecurity, cloud-native and digital transformation.

With almost 30 years of entrepreneurial experience, Alan has been instrumental in the success of several organizations.

Shimel is an often-cited personality in the security and technology community and is a sought-after speaker at conferences and events. In addition to his writing, his DevOps Chat podcast, TechStrong TV and Digital Anarchist audio and video appearances are widely followed.

Alan attributes his success to the combination of a strong business background and a deep knowledge of technology. His legal background, long experience in the field and New York street smarts combine to form a unique personality.

Mr. Shimel is a graduate of St. John's University with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics, and holds a JD degree from NY Law School.

Mitch serves as principal at Techstrong Research where he is part of a team of preeminent experts in digital transformation, DevOps, cloud-native, cybersecurity, data and AI/ML. In this role, he works with companies to align digital transformation and technology strategies to achieve disruptive goals and high-impact outcomes.

Mitch also serves as Techstrong Group CTO, is in demand as a speaker and is widely followed online on his podcasts, Analyst Corner commentary and interviews on the highly popular Techstrong TV streaming video program where he engages with top digital and tech leaders from across the industry.

Tracy is CEO and co-founder of DeployHub. She is an expert in software supply chain management and pipeline DevOps practices with a hyper-focus on microservices and cloud-native architecture. She has served on the OpenSSF Governing Board (2022-23) as a General Member Representative, the OpenSSF Governing Board Committee, and the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) Technology Oversite Committee. She previously served as a founding board member of the CDF and the Eclipse Foundation. She is the executive director of the Ortelius open source project, a supply chain evidence catalog.

Tracy is recognized by TechBeacon as one of the top 100 DevOps visionaries and speaks at many professional events such as CDCon, Open Source Summit and CloudBees DevOps World. She also hosts Tech. Strong. Women. on TechstrongTV, where she celebrates amazing technologists who happen to be women. Tracy was recognized as a Women In Technology (WIT) Honoree for her work in the DevOps area. You may also find her as an expert panelist on webinars along with some of her friends at JFrog, Techstrong Group and the Linux Foundation, or quoted in various technical journals around DevOps and open source security subjects

Ben DeBow (bendebow.com) is the author of End of Abundance in Tech: How IT Leaders Can Find Efficiencies To Drive Business Value. DeBow is the founder and CEO of Fortified, a database managed service provider fueling enterprises around the world. He founded the company in January 2002 with a vision to provide clients with innovative ways to discover the value of their data and scale their data systems to meet their business goals and objectives. As a noted authority in his field, DeBow speaks to audiences across the country about the strategies that are defining an industry. He earned his degree in information systems and accounting from the University of Cincinnati. https://www.fortifieddata.com/

Jonah Midanik has spent the last twenty years building companies in Canada and the US as a serial entrepreneur. He has been lucky enough to have seen the startup journey from a variety of perspectives: as a successful bootstrapped founder/CEO, having helped launch new corporate divisions at BigCo, and as the founder/CEO of Limelight, a Venture backed company, where he raised 8 figures of capital. Jonah currently spends his time helping companies grow with Forum Ventures as the COO and General Partner, and running Forum’s Ai Studio, where he leads launching 8 Ai native companies a year.

I have always been passionate about having a positive impact on other people’s lives.

Starting out as a top performer at Merrill Lynch, I later ignited my entrepreneurial journey in 1992, remaining loyal to my core values of quality, innovation, passion and integrity. Those values underpin my personal and professional life today.

Founded in 2000, PeopleCert has evolved from a small, local Greek player to a leading global organization in the certification of professional and language skills. Our revenue has climbed from €1mn to €75mn, growing on average 40% per year over the last five years. To date, we have delivered millions of exams and certified millions of people across 215 countries helping them to achieve their goals and realize their dreams.

I am driven to contribute to our society in an effort to make a positive difference. Elected as President of CEPIS, the organization representing 450,000 IT professionals from 29 countries across Europe, I am actively involved in promoting high professional standards, growing the pool of digitally skilled professionals, encouraging digital competence for the workforce and making IT a force for good for Europe. With a constant focus on skilling-reskilling-upskilling, we have helped millions to remain relevant, significantly raising digital literacy levels on a global scale. Through numerous CSR activities, I try to leave a positive social legacy for today’s generations and the ones to come.

Srinivas is the VP of product and engineering at Harness where he leads multiple product and platform teams. Prior to that, he led the Acropolis Hypervisor and infrastructure-as-a-service teams at Nutanix. Srinivas also spent eight years at VMware as an engineering leader and built many key aspects of vCenter, one of their flagship products.

Ram Shankar Siva Kumar is a Data Cowboy in the Azure Trustworthy ML initiative working toward empowering engineers to develop and deploy ML systems securely. His work has appeared in industry venues like RSAC, BlackHat, Defcon, BSidesLV and academic venues like NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, IEEE S&P and Harvard Business Review. His work has been featured in Bloomberg, Wired, VentureBeat, Business Insider and GeekWire. He graduated with two master’s degrees from CMU and is currently an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University and Technical Advisory Board Member at University of Washington. He is currently working on his book, Not With A Bang But With A Sticker, with Hyrum Anderson on why securing AI systems from adversaries is the next important InfoSec imperative of our times.

Diana Kelley is the CSO2 (Chief Strategy Officer/Chief Security Officer) and co-founder of Cybrize. She also serves on the boards of Cyber Future Foundation, WiCyS, and The Executive Women’s Forum (EWF). Diana was the cybersecurity field CTO for Microsoft, global executive security advisor at IBM Security, GM at Symantec, VP at BurtonGroup (now Gartner), a manager at KPMG, and co-founder of SecurityCurve. She is a sought-after keynote speaker, the host of BrightTALK’s The (Security) Balancing Act, a co-author of Practical Cybersecurity Architecture and Cryptographic Libraries for Developers, and has been a lecturer at Boston College's Masters program, the EWF 2020 Executive of the Year and EWF Conference Chair 2021-2022, and one of Cybersecurity Ventures 100 Fascinating Females Fighting Cybercrime.

Kacy Zurkus is the senior content manager for the RSA Conference. She joined RSAC in 2019 as the content strategist and has been responsible for a variety of different content programs including the RSAC 365 digital content. Kacy is passionate about DEI and works to ensure that all individuals in the industry feel welcomed, accepted and respected as members of the RSAC community. Prior to joining RSAC, Kacy worked as a freelance journalist, contributing to a variety of industry publications including Infosecurity Magazine, Security Boulevard, Dark Reading and CSO Online.

Andrea Little Limbago is a computational social scientist specializing in the intersection of geopolitics, geoeconomics and evolving technologies. As the senior vice president of Research and Analysis at Interos, Andrea leads the company’s research and computational modeling regarding global supply chain risk. She is also a co-program director for the Emerging Tech and Cybersecurity Program at the National Security Institute at George Mason. Andrea previously taught in academia, was a technical lead at the Department of Defense, and was Chief Social Scientist at Endgame and Virtru. She earned a PhD in political science from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a BA from Bowdoin College.

Ben Nicholson has worked at Palo Alto Networks for the past seven years. In that time he has worked as a professional services engineer, global solutions architect and is now a global practice leader for Prisma Cloud. He has deployed Prisma Cloud for a multitude of customers and has in-depth working knowledge of many security platforms.

Mike Vizard is a seasoned IT journalist with over 25 years of experience. He also contributed to IT Business Edge, Channel Insider, Baseline and a variety of other IT titles. Previously, Vizard was the editorial director at Ziff-Davis Enterprise as well as editor-in-chief at CRN and InfoWorld.

Shivam (Shiv) Trivedi is currently a Sales Engineer at Glean, focusing on all things technical, customer interactions, and pre-sales activities. Previously he was an IT Engineer at Samsara, where he worked on Infrastructure, Security, log-analytics, and automation. Shiv is passionate about technology and customers, which shines through his ability to seamlessly blend technical expertise with customer interaction.

Chris has 20 years of experience in Technology, Big Data, Analytics Leadership, DevOps, and Process Automation. He is an award-winning Technology executive with experience leading global product and engineering organizations for various companies including HSBC, Capital One, TransUnion and Red Ventures.

I am an inquisitive product marketer, tech enthusiast and global citizen. I have adapted across 25 jurisdictions and 6 different industries, developing my knowledge of AI/ML and blockchain products and audiences in particular.

As I believe that good strategy depends on a well-rounded view of the business, I have secured roles in different business functions, working closely with C-Suites in established giants, high-growth companies and start-ups. Post-MBA, I took a basic coding course, then spent the last 5 years working closely with product in AI/ML and blockchain, crafting messaging and positioning, deeply understanding audiences and advocating for the adoption of these life-changing technologies.

Outside of work, I enjoy organising foodie get-togethers, learning about psychology, and martial arts.

Mark R. Hinkle is a seasoned technology executive with over 25 years of experience, prominently recognized for his strategic leadership and advocacy for open source software. Presently, he concentrates on marrying AI with enterprise needs through his roles at Peripety Labs, an artificial intelligence consultancy, and his thought leadership in 'The Artificially Intelligent Enterprise' newsletter. Hinkle's deep expertise in driving AI innovation establishes him as a key influencer, empowering businesses to harness AI for a competitive edge.

Robin's expertise spans over twenty-eight years in software engineering with a focus on digital engineering, DevSecOps and the Agile building of large complex solutions across multiple domains from submarines to satellites. She advocates for continuous learning with multiple certifications including SAFe Fellow, SPCT, CEC, PMP, PMI-ACP, and CSEP. She is a Systems Engineering PhD candidate at Colorado State, researching best practices to deliver complex safety-critical solutions using Agile and DevSecOps.

She provides mentoring, guidance and coaching support and conducts training classes to enable digital transformation for customers and teams. Robin's key areas of focus include systems thinking, digital engineering, DevSecOps and Agile. She has also led several efforts in Agile program execution and continues to lend her expertise in the development of safety-critical systems using digital engineering, DevSecOps, and Agile techniques and processes for management, scheduling and technical performance.

Joseph Enochs serves as the Managing Director of Emerging Technologies at EVT, where his expertise in Generative AI fuels his passion for developing user-friendly, low-code AI/ML frameworks. His dedication to democratizing technology is evident through his contributions to the Tech community. With a disciplined and innovative approach, Joseph is spearheading the development of an AI/ML and Generative AI learning curriculum, aiming to demystify these complex concepts, and making them accessible to a wider audience.

Yossi Carmon is the chief executive officer of Accelario, a leading provider of innovative Test Data Management (TDM) solutions that empower DevOps teams. He is a successful entrepreneur and technology business leader with expertise in enterprise software, AI, SaaS, and cybersecurity.

Josh Blackwelder is deputy chief information security officer (CISO) at SentinelOne, a cybersecurity organization pushing the boundaries of autonomous technology. His leadership extends across cloud security engineering, security operations, FedRAMP, security engineering, compliance, vendor risk, security architecture and application security. In his 20+ years of experience across organizations such as Instructure and Adobe, he’s consistently driven meaningful advancements that empower organizations to navigate the evolving landscape of security with confidence.

Andrew Lamb is a staff engineer at InfluxData and an Apache Arrow PMC member working on InfluxDB 3.0. His experience ranges from two-person startups to large multinational corporations and distributed open source projects, and has paid leadership dues as an architect and manager/VP. He holds an SB and MEng from MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
 

Steve Siebert is an experienced area manager with a demonstrated history of working in data center and information security industry. Siebert is skilled in cybersecurity, storage area networks (SANs), sales, professional services and data center technologies. He holds a BA focused in Business Administration, Marketing, Economics from Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Joe is VP of product strategy for Fairwinds, where he is responsible for leading teams that build solutions to bridge the gap between developers, security and operations. His product experience ranges from lean startup incubations to managing high-growth products through to maturity. Prior to Fairwinds, Joe was a director of product management at Veracode, which was acquired by Thoma Bravo in 2018 for $950 million.