17th Annual Billington CyberSecurity Summit speakers include CISOs, federal cyber leaders, military officials, members of the intelligence community, critical infrastructure experts, and technology innovators.
For speaker biographies, photos, and additional information, visit our 2026 Speakers page.
Ben Abramovitz
Director of Cybersecurity, Public Service Commission
State of Maryland
His Excellency. Dr. Mohamed Al-Kuwaiti
Head of the UAE Cyber Security Council
United Arab Emirates
Andrew Alipanah
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Orange County, California
Nick Andersen
Acting Director
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Russ Andersson
Chief Operating Officer (COO); Co-Founder
RapidFort
John Baase
E-ICAM Program Manager
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
Hemant Baidwan
Former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Executive CISO
Knox Systems
Katelyn Bailey
Senior Manager, Mandiant Intelligence
Google
Ted Bailey
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Dataminr
Rain Baker
Senior Incident Response Specialist
Nightwing
Daniel Bardenstein
Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Co-founder
Manifest Cyber
Sam Barnett
Head, Industries: HCLS, Energy & Utilities, Telecom
Cohere
Matt Barry
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
HP Federal
Dr. Mischa Beckett
Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (CISO); Director, Cyber Threat Intelligence
GDIT
Cheri Benedict
PMO Director, Federal Acquisition Security Council
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
(invited pending agency approval)
Mark Bentkower
Channel Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Americas
Veeam
Les Bernys
Executive Director
Department of Defense (DoD) Cyber Crime Center
Jason Bilnoski
Deputy Assistant Director, Cyber Division
Cyber Operations Branch
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Richard Breakiron
Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives
Commvault
Frank Briguglio
Federal Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
SailPoint
Major General Larry Broadwell
Deputy Commander, Sixteenth Air Force
Department of the Air Force
Ron Bushar
Chief Security Officer; Managing Director
Google Public Sector
Cheri Caddy
Senior Cyber Advisor
Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL)
Mark Canter
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Andrew Carney
Program Manager, Information Innovation Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Department of War (DoW)
Dave Carroll
Cyber Capability Engineering and Strategy
GDIT
Earl Chilton
Chief of Strategic Engagement for Cyber
U.S. Department of the Air Force
(invited pending agency approval)
Nichole Clagett
Deputy Associate Director; Cyber Incident Reporting Program Management Office
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Ryan Curran
Vice President (VP), Public Sector Services
ZeroFox
Chris Conklin
Senior Technical Cyber Intel Analyst
Department of Defense (DoD) Cyber Crime Center
Donald Coulter
Senior Science Advisor for Cybersecurity, S&T
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
(invited pending agency approval)
Stephanie Crowe
Head, Australian Signals Directorate
Australian Cyber Security Centre
Vijay D'Souza
Director, Information Technology and Cybersecurity (ITC) Team
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
The Hon. Kirsten Davies
Chief Information Officer (CIO)
U.S. Department of War (DoW)
Brandon Dixon
Chief Technology Officer (CTO); Co-Founder
Ent
Chandra Donelson
Strategic Advisor, Human Resource Information Technology Modernization, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence; Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, Manpower and Reserve Affairs
US Space Force
Michael Duffy
Acting Federal Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Office of Management and Budget
(invited pending agency approval)
Jothi Dugar
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Center for Information Technology
National Institutes of Health
Michael Ellis
Deputy Director
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Brian Epley
Chief Information Officer (CIO)
Department of Commerce
Colleen Ferranti
Unit Chief
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Lieutenant General (Retired) Stephen Fogarty
Senior Executive Advisor
Booz Allen
Adam Ford
Chief Technology Officer (CTO), State & Local Government and Education
Zscaler
Joe Ford
Security Engineering Manager, Federal
Check Point
Victor Foulk
Vice President (VP)
CGI Federal
Marcus C. Fowler
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Darktrace Federal
Jennifer Franks
Acting Chief Technology Officer and Director of the Center for Enhanced Cybersecurity
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Sean Frazier
Federal Chief Security Officer (CSO)
Okta
Tommy Gardner
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
HP Federal
John Garstka
Director, Cyber Warfare
Platform and Weapons Portfolio Management (PWPM)
Office of the Under Secretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment (OUSW, A&S)
Department of War (DoW)
(invited pending agency approval)
Derek Gleich
Manager, Solutions Engineering
Cribl
Ryan Gillis
Senior Vice President, Global Head of Government Partnerships
Zscaler
David Grundy
Public Sector Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Tines
Rajiv Gupta
Head
Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
Josh Hanson
Deputy Director, Communications Systems Acquisition Directorate
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
John Harmon
GVP, Cyber Solutions
Elastic
Matt Hartman
Chief Strategy Officer
Merlin Group
Matt Hayden
Vice President (VP), Cyber and Emerging Threats
GDIT
Charlee Hess
Director, Healthcare and Public Health Cybersecurity Division, Acting Director of the Office of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection, Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR)
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
(invited pending agency approval)
Dave Hinchman
Director, IT and Cybersecurity
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Amy Hogan-Burney
Corporate Vice President (CVP); Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Governance & Risk
Microsoft
Colter Ets Hokin
Senior Security Architect
Check Point
Bob Huber
Chief Security Officer (CSO)
Tenable
Mohammed Husain
Strategic Delivery Lead, Government
OpenAI
Craig Jackson
Intelligence Lead, Cisco Talos Incident Response
Cisco
Susmit Jha
Program Manager, Information Innovation Office
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Department of War (DoW)
Amy Johanek
Vice President (VP), Federal
Okta
Chris Johnson
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Knox Systems
Ivan Kalabashkin
Deputy Head of the Cyber Department
Security Service of Ukraine (SBU)
Terrence Kalka
Director
Department of Defense (DoD) Cyber Crime Center
Joshua Kilberg
Senior Director
Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
Jeffrey King
Chief Information Officer (CIO)
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
(invited pending agency approval)
Casper Klynge
Vice President (VP); Head of Government Partnerships & Public Policy; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)
Zscaler
Beckie Koonge
Chief Information Officer (CIO)
National Weather Service
David Kubicki
Head, Security Customer Engineering, Federal
Google Public Sector
Scott Kupor
Director
US Office of Personnel and Management
Brett Leatherman
Assistant Director
Cyber Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Robert Leong
Senior Director, Global Cybersecurity Product Management
HCLSoftware
David M. Liebenberg
Leader, State-Sponsored Threats; Cisco Talos
Cisco
Ryan Lowry
Vice President (VP)
Booz Allen
Aaron Luttman
Senior Technical Advisor
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Ryan Lyford
Chief, Overseas Support Branch
Department of State
(invited pending agency approval)
Dr. Paul Lyons
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of War for Cyber Policy; Performing the Duties of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of War for Cyber Policy
Department of War (DoW)
(invited pending agency approval)
Sean Mackirdy
Area Vice President (AVP), National Security
Elastic
Gareth Maclachlan
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Gigamon
Adam Maddock
Section Chief; Cyber Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Nick Marinos
Managing Director, Information Technology and Cybersecurity
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Brian Mazanec, PhD
Deputy Assistant Secretary
Acting Director, Center for Preparedness
Director, Center for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Coordination Operations & Response Element
HHS Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR)
(invited pending agency approval)
Gerald “Jerry” Mazur
Senior Advisor, Cyber Intelligence
Peraton
John McCann
Director, Strategy and Partner Engagement
Department of Defense (DoD) Cyber Crime Center
Lieutenant General Michelle McGuinness CSC
National Cyber Security Coordinator
Australia
Brad Medairy
President of National Cyber
Booz Allen
Monzy Merza
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Crogl
Brian "Stretch" Meyer
Federal Field Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Axonius Federal Systems
Adam Meyers
Senior Vice President (SVP), Counter Adversary Operations
CrowdStrike
Dr. Dan Taninecz Miller
Chief AI Officer
Leidos
Beth Miller
Global Field Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Mimecast
Joe Miller
Senior Director, Product Management
Dataminr
Tim Miller
Global Field Chief Technology Officer (CTO); Chief Cybersecurity Strategist
Dataminr
Chief Warrant Officer 5 John Millsap
Technical Advisor, Operations, Plans, and Readiness Directorate
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
Col. Erica M. Mitchell
Commander, Delta 26
National Reconnaissance Office
(invited pending agency approval)
Sujit Mohanty
General Manager; AVP, Public Sector Field Engineering
Databricks
Rear Admiral (Ret) Mark Montgomery
Senior Director
Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Scott "Monty" Montgomery
Vice President (VP), US Federal
Island
Dana Morris
Senior Vice President (SVP) of Product & Engineering
Virtru
Tim Naylor
Sales Director, Splunk
Cisco
John Nemoto
Vice President (VP)
CGI Federal
Bill Newhouse
Cybersecurity Engineer
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
(invited pending agency approval)
Jason O'Connor
President, Intelligence
Leidos
Michael Ogata
Computer Scientist, Applied Cyber Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
(invited pending agency approval)
Stacy O’Mara
Chief Policy Officer
Armadin
Jose Padin
Vice President (VP), Majors & Public Sector Solutions Consulting
Zscaler
Chris Page
Acting Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations; Information Warfare Requirements and Capabilities (N6N9C)
US Department of the Navy
Ryan Palmer
Architecture Lead for AI Services
General Services Administration (GSA)
(invited pending agency approval)
Prutha Parikh
Head of Security
Cohere
Cherilyn Pascoe
Director
National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE)
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Sharothi Pikar
Senior Director, Cyber Growth
Leidos
Mary Polanco
Former Senior Enlisted Advisor, US Air Force; Founder & CEO
Live and Lead Well LLC
Justin Post
Regulatory Cybersecurity Specialist and Cybersecurity Focal Point Program Advisor, Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Kristina Powell
Director, Public Sector Marketing
Gigamon
Brandon Pugh
Principal Cyber Advisor
US Department of the Army
Scott W. Register
Vice President (VP), Enterprise
Keysight
Ronald Ringgold
Field Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Public Sector
SentinelOne
Kevin Rivera
Director, Cyber Forensics Laboratory
Department of Defense (DoD) Cyber Crime Center
Megan Rolander
Ransomware Expert
Black Kite
Raymond Romano
Deputy Assistant Director, Cyber Threat and Investigations; Bureau of Diplomatic Security
Department of State
(invited pending agency approval)
Travis Rosiek
Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Public Sector
Rubrik
Nevena Rupp
Director General, Digitization & Identities
Federal Office for Information Security (BSI)
Germany
Kristopher Rush
Technical Director, Monitoring and Response Directorate
CERT Division of the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute
Eric B. Sackowitz
Co-Founder; Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
SecureCo
John Sahlin, Ph.D.
Vice President (VP), Cyber Solutions
GDIT
Debbie Sallis
Executive Director
The Cyber Guild
Josh Salmanson
Vice President (VP), Defensive Cyber
Leidos
John Samios
Chief Systems Security Officer
Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
(invited pending agency approval)
Aaron Sant-Miller
Vice President (VP), Cyber Artificial Intelligence
Booz Allen
Ory Schein
Israel Cyber Attaché
Israel National Cyber Directorate
Steven Schmitt
Technical Lead, Incident Response and Recovery Team
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
Nino Scimemi
Former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (CISO); Vice President (VP) of Security Operations
Knox Systems
Tony Scott
President; Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Intrusion
Matthew Shallbetter
Director of Strategy, Federal Civilian
Armis Federal by ServiceNow
Chad Skipper
Global Security Technologist
Cisco
Jim Smid
Federal Solutions Architect
Palo Alto Networks
Marc Smith
Unit Chief
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Jen Sovada
General Manager, Public Sector
Claroty
Matthew Springer
Deputy Associate Director; Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Cameron Stanley
Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer
Department of War (DoW)
Lt. Gen. Paul T. Stanton
Commander of the Department of War (DoW) Cyber Defense Command and Director
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
Emma Stewart
Director, Center for Securing Digital Energy Technology; Chief Power Grid Scientist and Research Strategist
Idaho National Laboratory
Hon. Katherine “Katie” Sutton
Assistant Secretary of War for Cyber Policy and the Principal Cyber Advisor to the Secretary of War
U.S. Department of War (DoW)
(invited pending agency approval)
Vikram Thakur
Technical Director, Symantec and Carbon Black Threat Hunter Team
Broadcom, Inc.
Nushat Thomas
Cybersecurity Branch Chief
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Patricia Titus
Field Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Abnormal AI
Gregory Touhill
Brigadier General (retired), Director
CERT Division of the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute
Chris Townsend
Global Vice President, Public Sector
Elastic
James Tripiciano
Department of Defense (DoD) Cyber Crime Center
Zach Tudor
Associate Laboratory Director, National & Homeland Security
Idaho National Laboratory (INL)
Dr. Justin Ubert
Director, Cyber Protection Division
U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)
Justin Valdes
Senior Director, Federal
Menlo Security
Apostol Vassilev
Research Supervisor
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
(invited pending agency approval)
Simon Vernon
Certified Instructor; Principal Technical Architect
SANS Institute
Nicholas Vidovich
Product Lead, Kudu Dynamics
Leidos
John Weatherly
Head, Global Public Sector
Cohere
Brigadier General William Wilburn Jr.
Deputy Principal Cyber Advisor
Department of War (DoW)
Jessica Wilkerson
Technical Lead, Cybersecurity; Quality Partnering and Digital Controls
Roche Information Solutions
James Wolff
Chief Information Officer (CIO), National Nuclear Security Administration
Department of Energy
Chris Wysopal
Chief Security Evangelist
Veracode
John Zangardi
Former Acting Chief Information Officer (CIO), Department of the Air Force; Former CIO, DHS; Federal Advisor
Knox Systems
Ivan Zhang
Co-Founder
Cohere
Billy Zientek
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
National Reconnaissance Office