Black Hat Middle East and Africa 2022 | Black Hat Events | 14 November 2022 | Riyadh Front Exhibition & Convention center, Riyadh Front, 13412 Saudi Arabia

This event was the largest infosec event held anywhere in the world in 2021. The event brought together global CISOs from front page companies, elite ethical hackers, more Black Hat trainers than anywhere except Vegas, and 30,000 visitors. The festive vibe and amazing design of the event set a new standard for the infosec community.

It was a truly iconic event with year-round ethical hacking courses and offensive security tuition. This global event took infosec light years away from the norm and put it on the edge.

Sectors in focus:
• Web Appsec
• Security Development Lifecycle
• Ics Systems
• It/ot
• Quantum
• Ransomware
• Cyber Insurance
• Social Engineering
• Zero Trust & Sase
• Cloud Security
• Policy
• Platform Security
• Network Defense
• Mobile
• Malware
• Internet Of Things
• Exploit Development
• Data Forensics / Incident Response
• Cryptography
• Applied Security

2022 Speakers

Alex Attumalil
Global Chief Information Security Officer, Under Armour

Caleb Sima
Chief Security Officer, Robinhood

David B. Cross
Senior Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer, Oracle Saas Cloud

Dr. Alissa Abdullah (Dr. Jay)
Deputy Chief Security Officer, Mastercard

Dr. Magda Lilia Chelly
Chief Information Security Officer, Responsible Cyber Pte. Ltd.

Flavio Aggio
Chief Information Security Officer, World Health Organization (WHO)

Ira Winkler
Chief Security Architect, Walmart

Jamil Farshchi
Chief Information Security Officer, Equifax

Kurt Sanger
Deputy General Counsel, US Cyber Command

Naby Diaw
Chief Information Security Officer, Lufthansa Group

Neil Walsh
Regional Representative - United Nations Office On Drugs And Crime In Eastern Africa

Nicola Whiting Mbe
Chief Strategy Officer & Co-owner, Titania Group

Philip Martin
Global Chief Information Security Officer, Coinbase

Quinn Carman
Cybersecurity Leader, National Security Agency (Nsa)

Richard Rushing
Chief Information Security Officer, Motorola Mobility

Ryan D. Clarke
National Security Agency (NSA)

Shobha Jagathpal
Managing Director, India Ciso And Head For Technology Operations Risk And Firm Resilience For India, Morgan Stanley

Thomas Tschersich
Chief Security Officer, Deutsche Telekom AG

Tim Brown
Vice President & Global Chief Information Security Officer, Solarwinds

Aatif Khan
Risk Management Executive, Cybersecurity Advisory

Abbas Mohsin
Penetration Tester, Trillium

Abdul Alenazi
Penetration Tester, Sabry

Abdulaziz Aldawood
Security Researcher, Haboob

Abdulla Abdullayev
Security Researcher, Oryxlabs

Abdullah Al-jallal
Territory Manager, Netwitness

Abdullah Aljaber
Cybersecurity Director, Ministry Of Communications And Information Technology Of Saudi Arabia

Abdullah Alnajem
Cybersecurity Inventor, Dr Alnajem Licensed Office For Professional Consultancy In It Communication And Computer

Abdulrahman Al-manea
Chief Product Management & Marketing Officer, Sirar By STC

Abdulrahman Al-nimari
Cybersecurity Consultant, Independent Consultant

Abdulrahman Alaql
Lab Director, King Abdulaziz City For Science And Technology

Abeer Khedr
Head Of Cyber Security, National Bank Of Egypt

Abhay Bhargav
Founder Of We45

Abhinav Singh
Security Research, Normalyze

Ahmad Halabi
Managing Director | Sr. Security Specialist, Resecurity

Ahmed Alasiri
Head Of Enterprise Security Architect, STC

Ahmed Almorabea
Senior Incident Responder, King Abdullah University Of Science And Technology (KAUST)

Ahmed Alroky
Offensive Security Researcher, AI Active And Koin Network

Ahmed Shawky
Trainer

Akib Sayyed
Founder, Matrix Shell

Alex Cohen
Trainer

Alexandra Hurtado
Worldwide Technical Leader, Xdr Threat Management Portfolio, IBM Security

Alexandru Caciuloiu
Cybersecurity Expert

Alexandru Uifalvi
Trainer

Ali Abdulla Al Sadadi
Head Of Information Technology, Ministry Of Oil

Ali Alamri
Incident Response Consultant, IBM

Ali Masfuh
Access Control And Identity Management Director, Cyber Defense, STC

Aljoharah Alrais
Cybersecurity Compliance Supervisor, STC

Amit Ghodekar
Vice President - Information Security, Axis Bank

Amit Mehta
Cyber Security Practice Lead, Eemea, Mastercard

Ammar El-hassan
Associate Professor, PSUT

Anas Alghamdi
Student

Anas Roubi
Penetration Tester, Vigilant Asia

Andrea Isoni
Chief AI Officer, AI Technologies

Andrew Morfill
Chief Information Security Officer, Komainu

Ankush Johar
Director & Ambassador Of Global Cyber Alliance, Infosec Ventures & Lloyds Ventures

Anuprita Daga
President And Chief Information Security Officer, Yes Bank

Arwa Alhamad
Head Of Cybersecurity, Sanabil Investments

Arwa Alomari
Threat Intelligence Specialist, Mobily

Arwa Alsalamah
Data Governance And Compliance Director

Ashfaq Ansari
Trainer

Ashish Dhone
Senior Information Security Analyst, Persistent Systems Ltd.

Babar Khan Akhunzada
Chief Cyber Strategist, Securitywall

Bart Stump
Senior Systems Engineer, RSA Netwitness

Basel Alothman
Founder, Kuwait Hackers Llc

Betania Allo
Cyber Attorney, Counter-terrorism, Threat Intelligence, Data Privacy, United Nations

Boris Hajduk
Chief Information Security Officer, Tokopedia

Bramwell Brizendine
Assistant Professor Of Computer Science, University Of Alabama In Huntsville

Brenno Andrade
Head Of Cybercrime Unit, Brazilian Police

Brian Gallagher
Co-founder, Partisia Blockchain

Brian Gorenc
Senior Director, Trend Micro

Bryan Seely
Security Architect, Cyemptive Technologies

Carmen Marsh
President & Chief Executive Officer, United Cybersecurity Alliance

Chris Roberts
Chief Information Security Officer, Boom Supersonic

Christopher Crowley
Trainer

Daniel O. Adaramola
Advisory Board Member, Young Ciso Network & Group Head, Technology & Business Continuity Risk, Unity Bank Plc.

Daniel Weber
Phd Student, Cispa Helmholtz Center For Information Security

Danish Tariq
Security Engineer

David Colombo
Founder & CEO, Colombo Technology

Dexter Chen
Threat Researcher, Txone Network

Dominic Seddon
Security Operations Lead, Komainu

Dr Reem Al Shammari
Global Thought Leader In Cybersecurity & Technology, Energy Sector

Dr. Ali Hadi
Trainer

Dr. Wendy Ng
Principal Cloud Security Architect, Oneweb

Ed Sleiman
Head Of Information Security, King Abdullah University Of Science And Technology

Emad Al-mousa
IT Consultant, Saudi Aramco

Eslam Salem
Security Research Team Lead, Datadog

Etizaz Mohsin
Senior Security Consultant, Zerodaylab

Evan Anderson
Principal Technologist, Randori

Fady Chalhoub
Associate Partner, Ibm Security Services EMEA

Fady Younes
Senior Cybersecurity Director, Cisco

Fadyah Alshlawi
Senior Threat Intelligence Researcher, Sabic - STC

Fahad Alduraibi
Director Of Cybersecurity Center, Communications And Information Technology (Citc)

Fahad Aljutaily
Chief Executive Officer, Sirar By STC

Fahad Qahtani
Senior ICS/OT Incident Responder, Dragos, Inc.

Faisal Al Khamisi
Chairman, The Saudi Federation For Cyber Security And Programming (SAFCSP)

Faisal Alasmari
Cybersecurity Consultant, Cipher Company For Cybersecurity

Fal Ghancha
Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer, Dsp Investments

Fares Alfowzan
Information Security Specialist, Haboob

Fawaz Almalki
Chief Information Security Officer, Tasnee

Fayez Al-Shammari
Chief Information Security Officer, Sabic

Gabrielle Botbol
Offensive Security Advisor, Desjardins

Gabrielle Hempel
System Engineer, Netwitness

Georgia Weidman
Founder, Software Engineer In Security, Bulb Security, Shevirah, Aiven Oy

Gervin Appiah
Trainer

Ghada Alshemaimry
Marketing Director, Mozn

Gregory Bell
Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Corelight

Hassan Khan Yusufzai
Senior Security Researcher, Spidersilk

Haydur Agha
Vice President, Cyber Security, Sony Music

Himanshu Mehta
Head Of Cyber Threat Intelligence, Hivepro

Hisham Mir
Chief Technology Officer, Securitywall

Ian Khan
Futurist & Metaverse Security Advisor, Futuracy

Ibrahim Elsayed
Security Engineer, Meta

Ignat Korchagin
Engineering Manager, Cloudflare

Illyas Kooliyankal
Group Chief Information Security Officer, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (Adib)

Ismail Melih Tas
Senior Security Consultant, Synopsys

Ivan Pisarev
Head Of Dynamic Malware Analysis Team, Group Ib

Jason Kent
Hacker In Residence, Cequence Security

Jaya Baloo
Chief Information Security Officer, Avast

Jean Philippe Aumasson
Chief Security Officer, Taurus

Jon Michael Mancao
Trainer

Jon Staniforth
Chief Information Security Officer, Royal Mail

Kamran Mohsin
It Security Consultant, Zerodaylab

Kelvin Wong
Researcher, Hardware Ninja

Khaled Farah
Cloud Security Engineer, Careem

Khalifa Al Shamsi
Hackers Academy

Kim Albarella
Interim Head Of Global Security, Tiktok

Kota Kanbe
Author Of Vuls, Future Corporation

Lamya Alowain
Senior Researcher - National Center For Cybersecurity, King Abdulaziz City For Science And Technology

Lance James
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Unit221b

Larry Whiteside Jr
Chief Security Officer, Women's Care

Lavakumar Kuppan
Founder, Domdog Security

Lee Whatford
Chief Information Security Officer, Domino's Pizza

Leon Trampert
Phd Student, Cispa Helmholtz Center For Information Security

Les Correia
Executive Director - Global Head, Application Security & Enterprise Cybersecurity And Risk, Estee Lauder

Lothar Renner
Managing Director, Cisco

Luca Bongiorni
Director Of Cybersecurity Lab, Zte Italia

Lucy Hedges
Tech Editor, Metro Uk

Majed Hakami
Cybersecurity Analyst, Aramco

Malak Alfosail
Security Operation Analyst - Level 3, Cyberani Solutions

Manish Kumar Gupta
Chief Executive Officer, Cyberwarfare R&d Pvt. Ltd.

Marcin Kozlowski
Head Of Information Security And Compliance

Marco Liberale
Neurodivergent Wonderkid

Mari Galloway
Chief Executive Officer & Founding Member, Cyberjutsu

Mars Cheng
Manager, Txone Network

Marwan Alohidan
Head Of Cybersecurity, Central Bank (Sama)

Mary O'brien
General Manager, Ibm Security

Max Kersten
Malware Analyst, Trellix

May Alsaif
Digital Forensics And Incident Response (Dfir) Senior Analyst, Site

Mazin Ahmed
CTO, Fullhunt.io

Mesfer Almesfer
Chief Information Security Officer, Neom

Michael Champion
Regional EVP, Informa Markets

Michael Tremante
Director Of Product, Cloudflare

Milad Aslaner
Head Of Technology Advisory Group, Sentinelone

Mirza Burhan Baig
Senior Security Consultant, Zerodaylab

Moataz Moustafa
Senior Consultant - Adversary Simulation, Mandiant

Moataz Salah
CEO, Cybertalents

Mohamed Alshehri
Penetration Tester, Synopsys Inc.

Mohammad Ababneh
Assistant Professor, Psut

Mohammad Siraj
Cybersecurity Business & Strategic Alliances Manager, Schneider Electric

Mohammed Aldoub
Cyber Security Consultant, Council Of Ministers, Kuwait Government

Mohammed Alghamdi
Saudi Federation For Cybersecurity, Programming And Drones (Safcsp)

Mohammed Alhareeqi
Cloud Services General Manager, Site

Mohammed Almalki
Cybersecurity Researcher, CITC

Mohammed Almodawah
SOC Lead Engineer, Saudi Information Technology Company

Mohammed Ayesh
Director, Privacy & Technology, PwC

Mohammed K. Ujaimi
Chief Information Security Officer, King Abdullah University Of Science & Technology (Kaust)

Momen Eldawakhly
Red Team Engineer/Lead, Cypro AB

Mona Alshehri
Risk & Compliance Analyst, Saudi Air Navigation Services

Monnappa Ka
Trainer

Morten Schenk
Trainer

Mudita Khurana
Security Engineer, Meta

Muhammad Alharmeel
Co-founder, Cyberdefenders

Nada Alghannam
Cybersecurity Specialist, Saudi Federation For Cybersecurity, Programming And Drones

Nada Khater
Digital Transformation | Data | Cybersecurity Public Policies Expert From Jordan

Najla Almazyad
CS Penetration Testing & Vulnerability Management Analyst, STC

Nasser Aldosary
Vice President Of Programs, Cyberani Solutions

Nassereddine Abdelli
Trainer

Neil R. Wyler
Global Lead Of Active Threat Assessments, IBM X-force

Neslisah Topcu
Security Researcher & Consultant

Nicki Doble
Deputy Executive Chair (NSW), Australian Information Security Association

Nikhil Mittal
Founder And Infosec Researcher, Altered Security

Nils Andersen-roed
Head Of Intelligence And Investigations, Binance

NJ Ouchn
CEO & Founder, Vfeed Inc

Noor Alfaiz
Senior Network Security Specialist

Norah Aldeghaim
Access Control & Identity Management Senior Analyst, STC

Norah Alkhathlan
Cybersecurity Specialist, Saudi Aramco

Norah Almubairik
Phd Student, King Fahd University Of Petroleum & Minerals

Norah Alomairah
Cyber Security Consultant, Saudi Exim Bank

Norihiro Nakaoka
Software Engineer, Future Corporation

Nouf Alqahtani
Senior Threat Intelligence Researcher, Sabic - STC

Obay Aljerian
Cybersecurity Advisor/consultant

Omar Alibrahim
Security Researcher, Kuwait Hackers LLC

Ozan Olali
Application Security Region Leader, IBM

Paula Januszkiewicz
CEO, Cybersecurity Expert And Trainer, Cqure

Peter Hopwood
Hopwood Speaking

Peter Steyaert
Senior Sales Engineer Manager, Gigamon

Pranav Bhopatkar
Director Cybersecurity MEA, Honeywell

Prateek Gianchandani
Head Of Product Security, Careem

Quynh Nguyen Anh
Senior Reseacher, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Rachid Harrando
Office Of The Ciso, Servicenow

Raed Ahsan
Ethical Hacker, Security Researcher & Penetration Tester, R-Security

Rami Altalhi
Senior Incident Response Consultant, Cisco Talos Intelligence Group

Rana Khalil
Application Security Engineer Consultant, C3SA Cyber Security Audit

Rasha Abu Alsaud
EVP & Chief Information Security Officer, The Saudi National Bank - Snb

Ray Kobeissi
Speaker & Trainer, MENA Speakers

Rayan Aziz
Senior Cybersecurity Analyst

Renad Alrabea
SOC Team Lead, Banque Saudi Fransi

Rian Saaty
Principal Penetration Testing & Vulnerability Assessment Consultant, Saudi Information Technology Company (Site)

Robert Dudley
Chief Technology Officer, Coinshares

Ron Peeters
Vice President Middle East/Emerging Markets, Synack

Ruiyi Zhang
Research Assistant, Cispa Helmholtz Center For Information Security

Ryan Johnson
Senior Director, R&D, Quokka

Saad Algarni
CEO, Sdaia Academy

Saeed Abu Nimeh
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Seclytics

Saja Alqurashi
Software Quality Assurance Engineer, CSI

Sajan Shetty
Trainer

Salah Altokhais
Cyber Threat Intelligence Technical Lead, The National Cybersecurity Authority (NCA)

Samantha Humphries
Head Of Security Strategy, EMEA, Exabeam

Samiya Al Enezi
Lead, Saudi Arabia Wicsme Affiliate

Sanjay Gondaliya
Principal Security Consultant, Notsosecure

Sara Al Kindi
Senior Cybersecurity Consultant, Petroleum Development Oman

Sebastian Madden
Chief Corporate Development Officer, Protection Group International (Pgi)

Seid Yassin
Sr. Red Team And Application Security Lead Consultant, DTS-Solution

Shahmeer Amir
3rd Ranked Bug Bounty Hunter, Ceo, Younite/veiliux/authiun

Sky Yeung
Founder, Drone Association HK

Stephane Lenco
Chief Information Security Officer, Thales Group

Stoyan Angelov
Founder & CEO, Evedo

Sukesh Pappu
R&D, Domdog Security

T. Roy
Trainer

Talal Albakr
CEO, SCCC - Alibaba Cloud Jv

Tamer Odeh
Regional Director Mea, Sentinelone

Tarek Naja
SME, Hackers Academy

Tia Hopkins
Field CTO and Chief Cyber Risk Strategist, Esentire

Victor Khoury
Trainer

Vikalp Shrivastava
Chief Information Security Officer, Kerzner International

Vikas Yadav
Chief Security Officer, Nykaa

Vikash Chaudhary
CEO & Founder, Hackersera

Waad Albayyali
Pentester, Site

Wadha Almattar
Phd Student, King Fahd University Of Petroleum & Minerals

Waleed Khanfoor
Presenter

Weihan Goh
Associate Professor, Singapore Institute Of Technology

Wesam Alzahir
Software Engineer, Cloudapps

Yara Al Humidan
Consultant Penetration Tester & Vulnerability Management, Site

Yash Bharadwaj
Chief Technical Officer, Cyberwarfare R&d Pvt. Ltd.

Yasser Al Yousef
GM Governance, Risk And Compliance, Chief Of Information Security, Saudi Arabian Ministry Of Justice

Yasser Alghamdi
Cyber Defense Center Director, STC

Yasser Alhazmi
SOC Researcher, Technology Control Company

Zaki Abbas
Chief Information Security Officer, Brookfield Asset Management

Ziad Aloboud
Chief Information Security Officer, Ministry Of Human Resources And Social Development (Hrsd)

Zibran Sayyed
Telecom Test Engineer, Matrix Shell

Ziyad Alotaibi
Security Researcher, Haboob

2022 Sponsors and Partners

IN SUPPORT OF:
• Saudi Vision 2030 - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

STRATEGIC SPONSORS:
• Spire Solutions
• Cisco
• IBM
• Trend Micro

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Infoblox
• Honeywell

CONTENT PARTNERS:
• Vice
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• Offensive Security
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• Mandiant
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