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Featured Speaker: Kristina Krasnolobova

Kristina Krasnolobova is a Cyber Security Analyst for Sentara Healthcare. Sentara Healthcare is a not-for-profit health system that has twelve hospitals and 30,000 employees serving Virginia and North Carolina. Kristina is a repeat industry speaker who is passionate about sharing her expertise and skills with others. She is co-organizer of BSidesNOVA and a strong believer in giving back to the community so in her spare time she volunteers at conferences

Featured Speaker: Jake Williams

Jake Williams, the CTO and Co-Founder of BreachQuest and Rendition Infosec, has two decades of experience in secure network design, penetration testing, incident response, forensics and malware reverse engineering. Prior to founding BreachQuest and Rendition Infosec, Williams worked with various government agencies in information security. Williams is an IANS Faculty Member and works as a SANS Analyst. He is a prolific speaker on topics in information security and has trained

Featured Speaker: Scott D. Applegate

Scott Applegate is the Global Incident Response Manager for Dentons, the largest law firm in the world, where he manages cybersecurity operations and incident response for 180 offices in more than 80 countries. A retired U.S Army officer with more than 28 years of experience in leadership, management, communications, and security, Mr. Applegate has served in a variety of positions in peacetime and war including two combat tours in Iraq.

Featured Speaker: Kirsten Renner

Kirsten is the Sr Director of Recruiting at Novetta, an advanced analytics and full spectrum cyber security company. She studied HR Management at University of Maryland. After a short while working as a software developer, then help desk manager, she combined her love for technology and HR by becoming a Technical Recruiter and has been doing so for over 20 years. For the last decade, Kirsten has been primarily supporting

Featured Speaker: Laura Samso Pericon

Laura Samsó Pericón is a researcher bridging the gap between Cyber and Drone technology. She is a subject matter expert with 15+ years of civil-defense international experience focused in R&D, innovation, program/project management and business development in the Earth Observation and Cyber areas, in concrete in the fields of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and Satellites. Her interests also range from geopolitics to intelligence technologies. Her background is Electronics and Aerospace and

Featured Speaker: Jessica Gulick

A recognized cybersecurity practitioner and thought leader, Jessica Gulick began her career as an engineer 25 years ago. She has since led cyber security teams, launched and grown IT and cyber firms through her WOSB Katzcy, and is now focused on cracking the code on how to tackle the cybersecurity talent problem. She founded the U. S. Cyber Games in collaboration with the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) program

Featured Speaker: Chuck Easstom

Dr. Chuck Easttom is the author of 34 books, including several on computer security, forensics, and cryptography. He holds a Doctor of Science in cyber security, a Ph.D. in Nanotechnology, a Ph.D. in computer science, and three master’s degrees (one in applied computer science, one in education, and one in systems engineering). He is an inventor with 23 computer science related patents. He is a senior member of both the

Featured Speaker: Rob Richardson

Rob Richardson is a software craftsman building web properties in ASP.NET and Node, React and Vue. He’s a Microsoft MVP, published author, frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events, and a diligent teacher and student of high quality software development. You can find this and other talks on his blog at (https://robrich.org/presentations) and follow him on twitter at (@rob_rich) Abstract: Service Mess to Service Mesh In our quest

Featured Speaker: Madinah Ali

Madinah S. Ali is the President & Co-Founder of SafePC Cloud- www.safepccloud.com. The company primarily focuses on data backup and recovery for midsize, enterprise, and government IT environments with an emphasis on cybersecurity. Ms. Ali formerly served as The Women in Technology (WIT) Chair/Board member for the International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners (IAMCP) Atlanta Chapter and currently serves as the Atlanta Co-Lead for The WIT Network. In 2020, she