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Jason is a Associate Partner at IBM with a strong background in project management, cybersecurity, cloud, and strategic planning. He’s leads IBM’s cybersecurity initiatives across Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, and Foreign Affairs. Jason designed and led many client security programs to drive success and innovation in areas such as vulnerability management programs, security operations, risk management, identity and access management, and solution architecture design efforts. Jason is adept at leading project teams, cyber capacity building, and implementing solutions in complex environments. He holds the following certifications: PMP, ITIL, CISSP-ISSAP, CISM, CISA, SAFe 5 Architect.

Jason received multiple leadership awards for his contributions to the technology sector both in the Washington, D.C. region and globally. He served as the President of the ISACA Greater Washington, D.C. Chapter (GWDC) from 2018-2020. He is a featured writer for Govloop and an ISACA Expert Speaker. Jason is a sought-after industry expert in the cybersecurity field. He is a frequent conference speaker and has been interviewed by news outlets such as Politico, FedTechMagazine, and TechTarget. He previously served as Vice President and Director of Professional Outreach and Development for GWDC. He was part of many working groups for ISACA Global such as the Leadership Development Advisory Council. He is a key contributor to the CISA and CISM online review courses and exam content creation.

Jonathan Brandt, CISM, CDPSE, CCISO, CISSP, CySA+, CPI, PMP

A senior information security practice manager in ISACA’s Knowledge and Research department. In this role, he contributes thought leadership by generating ideas and deliverables relevant to ISACA’s constituents. He serves ISACA® departments as a subject matter expert on information security projects and leads author management teams whenever external resources are necessary. Brandt is a highly accomplished US Navy veteran with more than 25 years of experience spanning multidisciplinary security, cyberoperations and technical workforce development. Prior to joining ISACA, Brandt was a project manager for classified critical infrastructure projects across the globe.

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Jean-Michel Ferat is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura with over 20 years of experience in the specialized fields of forensic accounting, fraud detection, and data analytics. He has applied his skills in a variety of cases involving corruption, kickbacks, collusive bidding rings, money laundering, embezzlement, asset misappropriation, terrorist financing, and financial statement fraud. He has led or participated in reactive investigations and proactive compliance engagements, including Foreign Corrupt Practices Act monitorships, across the United States and in over 25 countries around the world.  Jean-Michel served two terms as the forensic accounting expert on the audit and finance committee of the board of directors of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria and currently serves on the international advisory board of the CEELI Institute where he advises the organization on anti-corruption initiatives.

Jean-Michel has led or participated in numerous high-profile and complex projects across the United States and in international locations including Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chile, China, Djibouti, Guinea, Holland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Latvia, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Pakistan, Senegal, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates, and Vietnam.

Ian has dedicated his IT career to identity and access management, working in and around banking and finance for the last 19 years. In this time, Ian has worked as a software engineer, security architect, and identity product owner. He has led IAM programmes for major banks such as the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and ran the digital transformation programme as Head of Technology, Security for HSBC Global in the UK. After a number of years independently consulting in Europe around PSD2 and Open Banking, Ian joined Transmit Security in 2019 as Sales Engineer across APAC, before moving into a global role in 2021 covering technical evangelism and marketing.

Sawan is an IT Risk Management Professional with over 15 years’ experience in multi industry organisations that have grown by acquisitions and mergers where he created and delivered strategically aligned IT Transformation programmes while managing risk that improved scalability, agility and provided new business enablement.

Sawan’s career has been well travelled, built upon collaborative and flexible approaches that have ensured people are at the centre of all initiatives as the main asset thus building Information Security and Privacy principles in every table discussion.

As a qualified architect, one of his biggest strengths is to be an effective communicator and translate complex to a simple explanation and vice versa while focusing on the value of the work and how it contributes to business growth.

Tinesh has 15 years of successful cyber corporate and 5 years of start-up entrepreneurial cyber experience.

Tinesh is a mentor, motivator and advises individuals who are considering an entrepreneurial career as well as being a mental health advocate, keen supporter of mindfulness and self care.

He is a Forbes Technology Council member, part time lecturer at Brunel University and aspiring author.

Tinesh is also a advocate of helping young learners find their place in the working world and helps over 30 young learners a year with his personal time to encourage and motivate them to follow their dreams and achieve their goals.

Scott Fletcher is a Cloud Security Engineer at Whispir

Scott’s background includes Penetration Testing, Software Development & Security Consulting. He has held Principal Consultant rules in both Australia & New Zealand, and worked for a number of enterprise and financial services organisations.

Phillip Campbell is the founder and CEO of enigmaFIT, a global executive brain coaching company. As a cognitive scientist, he continues to extensively research the brain and cognition.

He has developed a framework of how to optimize the integration of the left-hemisphere and right-hemisphere working together to create Brain Balance. Phillip has pioneered leadership development and learning agility areas approaches by leveraging the concepts of Fluid Thinking and Crystallized Knowledge, and providing the Fluid Thinking Development Program to the brightest leaders in our global business environment.

Phillip’s program is a refreshing and quantifiable approach to unlocking and harnessing the power of cognitive capability of individuals and organizations. His team at enigmaFIT provide cognitive development programs to C-suite and senior executives of global multinational companies across the USA, UK, Europe, Australia, and Asia, and also to successful entrepreneurs.

His methodology ensures that the best leaders become elite leaders, and exceed their potential by exponentially increasing their performance.

Saaim Khan is a cybersecurity professional with 20 years of experience in client-facing roles. He has worked with organisations in APAC, ranging from small businesses to large enterprises.

Saaim holds multiple security certifications (CISM, ISO 27001 LI/LA, CTT+) and degrees in Computer Science and Project Management and qualifications in Cybersecurity Management, Cyber Law and Cyber Warfare.

Saaim has previously built and let security consulting practices, while working as an interim-CISO, security advisor and strategy consultant with organisations both big and small. He has helped organisations achieve compliance and certification with ISO 27001, SOC2 and PCI-DSS, and conform to GDPR, CCPA, MAS-TRM and PDPA requirements.

Saaim is passionate about reducing cybersecurity inequity for businesses. A regular media commentator and podcaster, Saaim promotes the need for greater transparency in cybersecurity engagements.

Lisa Lorenzin is Senior Director of Transformation Strategy at Zscaler, specializing in secure application access and digital transformation. For more than 25 years, she has worked in a variety of network and information security roles and has contributed to open standards for endpoint integrity and network security from the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Lisa’s current focus is on helping customers achieve their security goals and create a seamless user experience across cloud and mobile environments through the use of cloud-delivered zero trust access solutions.