Black Hat Middle East and Africa 2023 | Informatech | 13 November 2023 | Riyadh Front Exhibition & Convention center, Riyadh Front, 13412 Saudi Arabia

It is a leading cybersecurity conference and exhibition that takes place in Riyadh, KSA. Welcoming over 40,000 infosec professionals, 300+ exhibitors and 300+ world renowned speakers from over 120 countries.

Why Join Us ?
• Stay One Step Ahead- The cybersecurity industry is ever-evolving, and you need to stay ahead. This means learning from global CISOs and infosec execs, exploring open-source hacking tools and taking home niche tactics from leading experts.
• We're Diving Deeper Into The Unknown- We must come together to implement the right technologies and processes towards positive and preventative results. Sharing ideas and proven successes with your peers and learning from world-renowned experts in your niche will put you on top of current and new developments.
• How Black Hat MEA Can Help You- Three days is all it takes it. Take home technical insights from over 250 leading experts, engage in live hacking stations in our activity zone and network with over 40,000 industry pioneers. It's all there under one roof - what are you waiting for?

2023 Speakers

Camille Vasquez
Partner, Brown Rudnick

Vitaly Gudanets
Chief Information Security Officer, Netflix

Jim Higgins
Chief Information Security Officer, Snap Inc.

Latha Maripuri
Chief Information Security Officer, Uber

Dr. Pascal Andrei
Chief Security Officer, Airbus

Dr. Mary Haigh
Chief Information Security Officer, BAE Systems

Cynthia Kaiser
Deputy Assistant Director, Cyber Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

William Lin
Founder & CEO, AKA Identity

Gary Sorrentino
Global Chief Information Officer, Zoom

Philip Martin
Chief Security Officer, Coinbase

Dr. Chenxi Wang
Founder and General Partner, Rain Capital

Daniel Maloney
SVP & Chief Security Officer, Verizon

Brett Matthes
Chief Information Security Officer, Coupang

David Tsao
Chief Information Security Officer, Instacart

Stephane Lenco
Chief Information Security Officer, Thales Group

Graham Cluley
Security Analyst & Podcast Host, Smashing Security

Chris Roberts
Chief Information Security Officer, Boom Supersonic

Michael Montoya
SVP & Chief Information Security Officer, Equinix

Ewa Pilat
Group Chief Security Officer, DWS Group

Bjørn R. Watne
Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer, Telenor Group

Arvin Bansal
Chief Information Security Officer, Global Manufacturer (TBA)

Sam Curry
Chief Information Security Officer, Zscaler

Col. Gerard M. Acosta
Commander (CENTCOM & SOCOM), Defense Logistics Agency

Basma Dawwas
Content Director, Tahaluf

Annabelle Mander
Senior Vice President, Tahaluf

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

Vinayak Godse
CEO, Data Security Council of India

Talal Albakr
CEO, SCCC Alibaba Cloud

Fahad Alsehli
Threat Intelligence and Vulnerability Management Director, STC

Saeed AlSaeed
Chief Executive Officer, Cyberani Solutions

Omar Khawaja
VP Security, Field CISO, Databricks

Andrew Potter
Solution Architect, ForgeRock

Abdulmohsen Aleiban
Chief Information Security Officer, Royal Commission for Riyadh City

Ira Winkler
Chief Information Security Officer & VP, CYE

Eric Tan
CIO & Chief Security Officer, Flock Safety

Dr. Diane M. Janosek
Deputy Director of Compliance, National Security Agency (NSA)

Saeed Abu Nimeh
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Seclytics

Lance James
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Unit 221B

Chris Wysopal
Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Veracode

Matthias Muhlert
Chief Information Security Officer, Dr Oetker Group

Phillip Wylie
Podcast Host, Director of Security, Alias Cybersecurity

Rana Khalil
Application Security Lead, C3SA

Dr. Majid Malaika
Chief Advisor to the Vice Governor for Supervision & Technology, Saudi Central Bank (SAMA)

Isabelle Meyer
Co-Founder & CIO, ZenData Cybersecurity

Gene Yoo
Chief Executive Officer, Resecurity

Dr. Srijith Nair
Chief Information Security Officer, Careem

Gram Ludlow
Chief Information Security Officer, Marriott Vacations Worldwide

Jon Staniforth
Chief Information Security Officer, Royal Mail

Paul Baird
Chief Technical Security Officer, Qualys

Ankush Johar
Director, Infosec Ventures

Dr. Kenneth Geers
Fellow at Atlantic Council, NATO Cyber Centre, Digital Society Institute-Berlin, and Transatlantic Cyber Forum

Stephen Bennett
Global Chief Information Security Officer, Domino's Pizza Enterprises Limited

James Freestone
Chief Information Security Officer, Informa

Boris Hajduk
Chief Information Security Officer, GoTo

Vandana Verma
Security Relations Leader - APJ, Synk

Wojtek Swiatek
Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer, Dassault Systems

Juan Gomez-Sanchez
VP and Global Chief Information Security Officer, Whirlpool Corporation

Chris Holden
Chief Client Officer, Recorded Future

Aiman H. Aljumoay
Chief Delivery & Advisory Officer, Sirar by STC

Kyle Turner
Global Managing Director of Customer Engineering, Google Cloud

Dr. Moataz Binali
Regional Vice President and Managing Director for the Mediterranean, Middle East Africa Region, Trend Micro

Peter Gibbs
Security Business Leader EMEA, Infoblox

Jeff Scheaffer
Vice President of Product Management, Security Services Edge, Cisco

Mohammad Albadrani
VP, Digital & ICT Solutions, Mobily

Mohammed Almeshekah
Founder & Managing Partner, Outliers Venture Capital

Chris Meenan
VP, Product Management, IBM Security

Ezzeldin Tahoun
Serial Entrepreneur, Cyber Security Researcher & Computer Engineer

Anas Roubi
Sr. Penetration Tester, Privasec

Charalambos Konstantinou
Professor, KAUST

Elsayed Elrefaei
Digital Forensics & Incident Response Engineer, Kaspersky

Paulino Calderon
Founder, PwnLab/Websec

Tao Yan
Distinguished Researcher, Palo Alto Networks

Faisal Alabduljabbar
Security Research Consultant, TCC

Saeed Alsaeed
Senior Consultant Red Team (OT Security), CPX

Ibrahim Elsayed
Security Engineer, Lacework

Hesham Elzoghby
Director of GRC Services, SecureNass

Mohamed Samy
Security Consultant, IOActive

Rahul Vashisht
Security Researcher

Rohit Kumar
Founder, Securable.ai

Seid Yassin
Cyber Security Consultant, DTS-Solution

Daniel Adaramola
Chief Information Security Officer, SunTrust Bank Nigeria

Abeer Khedr
Head of Cyber Security, National Bank of Egypt

Nisreen Al Khatib
Director, Digital Trust and Cybersecurity, PwC

Mirza Burhan Baig
Senior Security Consultant, ZDL Group - UK

Owais Mehtab
Principal Security Consultant, MDsec

Basil Shahin
Regional Sales Director, Corelight

Ahmed Al Tamim
Director, Haboob

Rami Qassem
Regional Sales Lead, SolarWinds

Ahmed Qaisi
Head of Cybersecurity Defense & Intelligence, NEOM

Mazen Al Ahmadi
Cyber Defence General Manager, STC

Kreshnik Rexha
CTO – Data & Application Security, IBM

Badr H. Alogaili
Director, Cyber Security Governance, Risk & Compliance, Mobily

Maxine Holt
Senior Director of Content, Cybersecurity, Omdia

Abdulrhman Abdullah
Cyber Security Consultant

Ahmed Bawazir
Cyber Security Consultant, Sirar by STC

Arpine Maghakyan
CEO, RedRays

Danish Tariq
Security Engineer & Independent Consultant

Emre Kulali
Strategic Partnerships, Accuknox

Dr. Ognjen Vukovic
Technical Program Manager, Offensive Security, Google

Taojie Wang
Sr. Principal Researcher, Palo

2023 Sponsors and Partner

SUPPORTER:
• Vision 2030

FUTURE PARTNER:
• NEOM

STRATEGIC SPONSORS:
• Site
• Mobily Busines
• IBM
• Zain
• Sirar
• Cisco
• Trend Micro
• Haboob
• Alibaba Cloud
• Spire
• Flagyard
• Bug Bounty
• Linkshadow

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Cloudflare
• Infoblox
• Mandiant
• Ingram
• PCS Saudi
• Nour Net
• Security Matterz
• Starlink
• Odyssey

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Secureye
• Recorded Future
• Illumio
• Bulwark
• Romuz

BAG SPONSOR:
• Green Circle