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Vincent Le Toux, the founder of PingCastle, is a well-renowned Active Directory expert and experienced threat response practitioner. He contributed to many open-source tools, such as Mimikatz, OpenPGP, OpenSC, and the GIDS applet. Vincent is also a seasoned speaker and has presented at numerous security conferences, including BlackHat, FIRST, and BlueHat.1 Articles
Vivek Nigam has been in the technical world since the days when the internet was the wild-wild west. After selling his first company to AOL 20 years ago, Vivek worked in a variety of fortune 100 companies. After spending many years researching how many companies struggle with team development, helping managers be coaches and communicating and establishing culture - which are more difficult in a hybrid workplace – Vivek founded BeRemote and its ReTeam platform to address these problems. Products at BeRemote are based on social science to encourage engagement, establish a recognition culture, improve idea sharing and innovation, and to track employee wellness and retention through simplified check-ins.1 Articles
Robert Davis serves as the Chief Product and Technology Officer at QIMA, a global leader in technologydriven solutions for supply chain quality and compliance. With over 20 years of senior leadership experience, Robert has a proven track record in product management, customer solutions, and engineering within top technology and compliance firms. At QIMA, Robert leads the development of cutting-edge tools like myQIMA, supporting brands in achieving transparency, efficiency, and reliability across their supply chains.1 Articles
Sid Lunawat is CEO and co-founder of Hammoq, a company that automates the reCommerce process for returned item resale and used goods. Using artificial intelligence and machine learning, Hammoq is leveraging technology to reimagine reCommerce by digitizing resale goods and automating the online marketplace process. In the face of an exploding recommerce market, where the fashion resale market alone is expected to reach $26 billion in 2022, Lunawat has taken his AI technology expertise to close the labor gap challenge which limits the product identification, valuation and marketplace listing process. Lunawat launched Hammoq following his founding of DataPure, a company that provides high-quality datasets for machine learning. He has also served as a product executive for The Boston Consulting Group’s BCG Digital Ventures, IBM and GE. Bilingual in English and Hindi, Lunawat holds a MBA from Duke University and a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.1 Articles
Shimon Ben-David is the Chief Technology Officer at WEKA, where he is responsible for actively engaging with the company's customers and partners to track emerging trends and bring actionable feedback and insights to its engineering and product management teams. Prior to joining WEKA, Shimon ran Support Services for Primary Data, XtremIO, IBM, and XIV Storage. He met WEKA's leadership team when he managed IT at XIV, prior to the company being acquired by IBM in 2007. Shimon studied Computer Science and Philosophy at Ramat Gan University.1 Articles
Saeid Hejazi is the Co-Founder of Wally, a personal finance app that helps people worldwide track and manage their finances. The app is free to download and use, and it connects with 15,000 banks from 70 countries and has been lauded for giving people insights into their finances in a straightforward way. Saeid graduated from Valley Forge Military Academy and went to study computer science at York University in Canada. After winning a national business plan competition in his senior year, he turned the idea into a startup called Nahel which eventually became the "Amazon of the Middle East" and was later acquired by Aramex in 2013.1 Articles
Ryan Dimick is the Chief Technology Officer at SMA Technologies in Houston, Texas. Over the course of his nine-year tenure at SMA Technologies Ryan has also held positions as Director of Engineering, Director of Cloud Services, Software Architect, and Sr Business Consultant. He started his career at Corning Credit Union as a user of the OpCon automation platform and held positions in IT Operations and Programming. Outside of work, Ryan loves to be creative in the kitchen by mixing cuisines and creating culinary concoctions with his family. He loves running with his dog, the serenity of growing a garden and producing his own food, and his competitive spirit prevents him from saying no to ping pong challengers.1 Articles
Rue Phillips is the Co-founder and President of SkillFusion, a unique approach to providing electric vehicle operations and maintenance (O&M) service providers with access to a nationwide credentialed talent pool for electric vehicle service equipment (EVSE) O&M obligations. With more than three decades of leadership in the cleantech sector, Phillips recognizes the need for trained and certified technicians to keep the electric vehicle charging network growing and reliable.1 Articles
Kalahasty is the Co-Founder and CEO of Vytal.ai. He has been a researcher at the Harvard Ophthalmology AI Lab for three years, where he led and incubated NeurOS and worked on projects leveraging mathematical, statistical, and artificial intelligence modeling to enhance eye disease diagnosis. Furthermore, he served as an incubation lead at Roivant Sciences, leading the early stages of a potential new vant. He has also researched at the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines at MIT, where he dedicated his time to studying human intelligence and memory utilizing artificial intelligence. While working with these groups, he has developed a deep insight into the intersection of AI and Medicine and the creation of digital biomarkers, an insight which has proved crucial for the development of Vytal. He has a focus on interdisciplinary endeavors that have the potential to make an impact in the world. He is a senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.1 Articles
Tom Brennan is Chairman of CREST USA, an international not-for-profit accreditation and certification body that represents and supports the technical information security market. In this role, he works with government and commercial organizations to optimize the value of CREST as a cybersecurity accreditation body and industry standards advocate. Brennan also serves as an industry evangelist and educator on the value of using accredited cybersecurity products and professionals to improve consumer privacy, security and protections worldwide.1 Articles