Cybersecurity and Compliance
When & Where
Defending Our Digital Lives
Track Agenda
- 05/04/2023 | 10:00 am – 10:30 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall A2Speakers
Jeff HudsonCEO
VenafiJeff Hudson is a seasoned leader with over 25 years of leadership and management experience in information technology and security management. Jeff has spent a significant portion of his career developing and delivering leading-edge technology solutions for financial services and other Fortune-ranked organizations and government agencies. Prior to joining Venafi, he was the CEO of Vhayu Technologies Corp., CEO and cofounder of MS2, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Informix Software, and CEO of Visioneer. Jeff speaks regularly to global audiences at technology and business conferences worldwide. He earned a bachelors degree in communications at the University of California, Davis. Scott McGrewJournalist
NBC Bay AreaScott McGrew has covered entrepreneurs and venture capital for NBC Bay Area for the past 25 years. He is also the host of the Sunday morning television program Press:Here and the weekly podcast Sand Hill Road. Scott was the first journalist to reveal the crimes behind the death of a South Bay Marine in Afghanistan and the only reporter in the world allowed to fly F-16 combat air patrol as part of Operation Enduring Freedom following 9/11. He's been an eyewitness to a firing squad and chased greased pigs at the Iowa State Fair. He is also a regular emcee and host for the Ernst and Young&'s Northern California Entrepreneur of the Year, the Global CleanTech Forum, United Way and the Boy Scouts. He also helps foster excellent business journalism as a judge at UCLA's Gerald Loeb awards.
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- 05/04/2023 | 10:30 am – 11:00 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall A2Speakers Ash KulkarniCEO
ElasticAshutosh Kulkarni is the CEO of Elastic, a leading platform for search-powered solutions spanning Enterprise Search, Observability and Security . He joined Elastic as chief product officer in 2021 and was promoted to CEO in early 2022. Prior to joining Elastic, Ash held senior product leadership and management roles at McAfee, Akamai, Informatica, and Sun Microsystems. As the volume and complexity of data continues to explode, Ash is driving innovation at Elastic to create products and solutions that help organizations accelerate the results that matter. Under his leadership, Elastic is enabling over 19,900 customers and more than half of the Fortune 500 to achieve new levels of success at scale and on a single platform.
Chris PreimesbergerWriter/Editor
SDxCentralChris J. Preimesberger, a contributing writer/editor at several publications since June 2021, is Editor Emeritus of eWEEK. He was responsible for the publication's coverage for a decade. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including AI, cloud computing, data center systems, storage, the IoT, security and others. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Magazine Eddy Award for a profile of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff--the only time he has entered the competition. Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. His resume also includes: sportswriter and columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News, editor and television critic for the Peninsula Times Tribune (Palo Alto, Calif.), and Assistant Sports Information Director at Stanford University. He has been an assistant for The Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.
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- 05/04/2023 | 11:00 am – 11:30 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall A2Speakers Chenxi WangManaging General Partner
Rain CapitalChenxi Wang is the Founder and General Partner of Rain Capital, a cybersecurity focused venture. A well-known operator, technologist, and thought leader in the cybersecurity industry, Chenxi also serves on the board of directors for MDU Resources, a Fortune 500 company. Chenxi recently founded the Forte Group, a women-in-tech advocacy group. Previously, Chenxi served on the board for OWASP. She was CSO at Twistlock, VP for Intel Security, and VP of research for Forrester. She was recognized as a Women-of-Influence by SC Magazine. Chenxi's career began as a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University. Chenxi holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Virginia. Renuka NadkarniChief Product Officer
AryakaRenuka Nadkarni is the Chief Product Officer at Aryaka, overseeing engineering, cloud operations, product management and marketing. She is responsible for the company's technology strategy and execution. She is a security veteran with 20+ years of experience building new businesses, at startups and at large, publicly traded companies. Before joining Aryaka, she held the CTO of Security position at F5 Inc., where she was instrumental in driving F5's entrance into the security market. Previously, she held various positions and built cutting-edge cloud and security products, and launched new businesses at F5, VMware, Infoblox, and launching startups. Renuka holds an MS in Electric Engineering from the University of Houston and a BS in Electric Engineering from the University of Mumbai. Tschudy SmithChief People Officer
ForgeRockTschudy Smith is ForgeRock’s Chief People Officer (CPO), bringing more than twenty years of human resources experience for large enterprises. Tschudy leads with the mission to see others at their best, building programs that help organizations recruit and retain top talent. As CPO, Tschudy leads talent strategy, including employee experience, rewards, attraction, retention, development diversity and inclusion globally. Previously she was the Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Cisco, where she spent 16 years providing strategic consulting to leaders and teams. Tschudy graduated from the University of Denver and earned her master’s degree from San Jose State University. Aanchal GuptaDeputy CISO and Corporate Vice President
MicrosoftAanchal Gupta is the Deputy CISO and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft. Aanchal leads a diverse team of security experts working around the clock to protect one of the world’s largest corporate networks and providing the first line of defense for billions of customers against an evolving security landscape. Previously, as Chief Information Security Officer for Novi (Calibra) at Facebook, she led a team responsible for assessing and mitigating security risks across Facebook's cryptocurrency initiative. Aanchal joined Facebook in 2016 after serving as Chief Information Security Officer at Microsoft for Skype and Skype for Business. Prior to Microsoft, Aanchal led Yahoo's Global Identity team, contributing to various authentication and authorization open standards such as OpenID and OAuth. Aanchal was named one of Business Insider’s “Most powerful female engineers of 2018”. She serves on the board of Silvergate Capital Corporation (NYSE:SI), Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), and is a fellow at the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce). She also serves on Silicon Valley CISO Investments’ (SVCI) board and invests in and guides cybersecurity startups. Aanchal is also a staunch advocate for building diverse teams and serves on the review board for the Grace Hopper, Enigma, and Black Hat conferences.
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- 05/04/2023 | 11:30 am – 12:00 pm PDT
- 30 mins Hall A2Speakers Farzad TariVP Business and Corporate Development
ImpervaFarzad Tari is a veteran Business and Corporate Development Executive and an active investor in early stage cyber security companies. Farzad has been actively involved with driving revenue growth through forming strategic partnerships, designing stage appropriate go-to-market strategies, and generating high returns for stakeholders through IPOs and M&A exits. He currently leads corporate development and strategic partnership at Imperva, the leader in application and data security. His prior experience includes leadership roles at companies such as Cisco, F5 and CheckPoint. He has also served as an executive, investor and board member at several successful cyber security startups including Tugboat Logic (now part of OneTrust), Secret Double Octopus, Prevoty (now part of Imperva), Swan Labs (now part of F5), CyberInc (now part of Forcepoint), Cequence, Armorcode and Pronto.
Rick CacciaSVP Marketing
Palo Alto NetworksRick Caccia is SVP of Marketing for the Cortex and Unit 42 business units at Palo Alto Networks, where he is responsible for product marketing and demand generation. He has worked in a variety of B2B data and security management companies, including leadership roles at ArcSight and Exabeam, leaders in the SIEM and security analytics markets. He has an MBA in technology management from U.C. Berkeley.
Rehan JalilCEO
SecuritiRehan Jalil is the CEO of Securiti, the leader in Unified Data Controls. He was the SVP and GM for Cloud Security at Symantec.
Rehan came into Symantec through the $4.7B acquisition of Bluecoat, where he ran cloud security. He came into BlueCoat via the $280M acquisition of Elastica, which he founded and ran as CEO. Elastica pioneered CASB and drove it to become an important security category. Prior to that he was founder and chief executive officer of WiChours, an innovator in deep packet inspection centered packet core, which was used to deploy some of the earliest 4G networks. WiChorus was acquired by Tellabs for $180M. Previously, he was Chief Architect at Aperto and helped innovate multicore GPU at Sun Microsystems. He was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur finalist in 2010 and Top 25 Disruptor in 2015.
He holds an AMP from Harvard Business School, an MSEE from Purdue University and a BS from NED University.
Ray KruckCEO and Founder
Tugboat LogicRay is a serial entrepreneur with 3 company exits and a 24+ year enterprise security career with executive leadership roles in Corporate Development, Marketing and Sales at several leading firms, including Check Point Software, Proofpoint, Websense, and OneTrust. In 2011, Ray co-founded Nexgate with a breakthrough platform to help brands discover, monitor and secure their brands social presence. Nexgate was acquired by Proofpoint (NASDAQ: PFPT) as their largest acquisition in 2014. Since Nexgate, Ray co-founded Pointgrey Partners an early stage venture investment firm focused on deep technology plays that drive competitive disruption in the enterprise and life science markets. Ray enjoys mentoring other startup ventures with his participation as an Associate in Canada’s leading technology venture mentorship program - Creative Destruction Lab. In 2017, Ray founded and became CEO of Tugboat Logic Inc, a security assurance platform that leverages advanced technology and embedded guidance to automate and simplify security management. Tugboat Logic grew to over 1500 enterprise clients, with 280% YoY growth before being acquired by OneTrust Inc in 2021. Ray also enjoys volunteering in his community with the San Mateo County Sheriff Search and Rescue Team and as an EMT with local organizations. Sourabh SatishCTO and Co-Founder
PangeaSourabh Satish is a serial entrepreneur and has a long-standing accomplished career in Cyber Security. During his 25+ years of working in the security industry, Sourabh has designed and implemented many ground-breaking security products and technologies. He is a prolific innovator with more than 225 issued patents and many pending. As CTO and Co-Founder at Pangea, Sourabh is leading an engineering team of talented and passionate engineers who are building state of the art cloud native, SPaaS(Security Platform as a Service) that enables developers to embed security in the applications and expedite time to market. Prior to founding Pangea, Sourabh was the Co-founder and CTO for Phantom Cyber, which was acquired by Splunk in 2018, just three years after founding. There, he architected and implemented much of the product, Phantom, a category-defining and industry-leading product for SOAR (Security Orchestration and Automation). Prior to Phantom Cyber, Sourabh was a Distinguished Engineer at Symantec, where he developed a wide range of security products and technologies. Today Sourabh is also an advisor to many security startups in the industry.
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- 05/04/2023 | 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm PDT
- 30 mins Hall A2Speakers Amit SinhaCEO
DigiCertDr. Amit Sinha is CEO of DigiCert. Prior to DigiCert, Dr. Sinha was President of Zscaler. During his 12-year tenure, Zscaler grew from a startup to a NASDAQ-100 company and established itself as a dominant leader in enterprise security. Dr. Sinha is an independent Board Member at Zscaler and at DataRobot, an AI cloud platform company, and an advisor to several startups. Prior to Zscaler, Dr. Sinha served as CTO for Motorolas Enterprise Networking and Communications business, delivering Wi-Fi solutions. He was the CTO of AirDefense, a market leader in the wireless security space, leading to its successful acquisition by Motorola in 2008. Prior to AirDefense, Dr. Sinha served as Co-Founder and Chief Technologist at Engim, a Wi-Fi semiconductor company. Dr. Sinha earned his Masters and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and his B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, where he graduated summa cum laude and was awarded the President of India Gold Medal. He has authored over 25 journal/conference papers, contributed to 3 books, and is the inventor of 39 U.S. patents granted or pending.
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Track Chairs
ForgeRock
With over 30 years of experience in technology and marketing, Atri has worked at a variety of companies from start-ups to large well established companies. In that period he has experienced four IPOs, three acquisitions and a couple of failures. He received a BS and MS in Computer Science from Washington State University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Atri grew up in Mumbai, lives in San Francisco, and loves to experience the food, music, and culture of different parts of the world.
Ex-Symantec, Ex-Oracle
Hormazd is a proud Canadian-American and received his Bachelor of Mathematics in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.
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