Cybersecurity & Ransomware 2023 - Orlando | Converge360 Media (An 1105 Media company) | 12 November 2023 | Loews Royal Pacific Resort at Universal Orlando, 6300 Hollywood Way, Orlando, FL 32819, USA

Will bring together some of the best content and speakers on Cybersecurity worldwide to help guide attendees in Architecture/Design, Deployment, Operationalization, and Certification. This conference provides attendees with the knowledge they need to succeed with: cloud-native security, how to defend against modern threats, how to communicate imminent security threats with executive teams, how to design and deploy applications in hardened environments, Ransomware, Backup and Recovery Strategies, and so much more.

Track Topics:
• Ransomware Industry
• Threat Intelligence
• Human Intelligence
• Security Operations Center
• Incident Response
• OT & IoT Security

2023 Speakers

Heidi Araya
Enterprise Transformation Consultant

Chris Ayers
Senior Customer Engineer, Microsoft

Bradley Ball
Sr. Azure Engineer for the Azure FastTrack CXP PG, Microsoft

Sam Basu
Developer Advocate, Progress

Mike Benkovich
Developer, Business Owner, Consultant, Cloud Architect, Microsoft Azure MVP and an Online Instructor

Karinne Bessette
Technologist, Product Strategy Team, Veeam

Prashant G Bhoyar
Cloud Solution Architect, AIS

Jason Bock
Staff Software Engineer, Rocket Mortgage

Eric D. Boyd
Founder and CEO, responsiveX

Andrew Brust
Founder and CEO, Blue Badge Insights

Émile Cabot
Principal Consultant, TriCon Elite Consulting

Priscilla Camp
Data Warehouse Systems Manager, University of Central Florida

Jeremy Clark
Developer Educator, JeremyBytes.com

Allen Conway
App Modernization Consultant, Xpirit USA

Roy Cornelissen
Lead Consultant, Xpirit

Alton Crossley
Software Engineer in Security

Benjamin Day
Author, Trainer, Developer

Marcel de Vries
CO-Founder & CTO, Xpirit

Stacy Deere-Strole
Solutions Architect, Focal Point Solutions LLC

Angela Dugan
Strategic Business Consultant & Agility Coach

Andreas Erben
CEO Americas, daenet

Kevin Feasel
Predictive Analytics Manager, ChannelAdvisor

Adam Felts
Sr Systems Administrator, InfoMart

Esteban Garcia
CEO - US, Xebia | Xpirit

Nick Gill
Solution Architect & Technical Strategist: Business Applications, AIS

Maarten Goet
Microsoft MVP & RD

Mickey Gousset
DevOps Architect, GitHub

Ginger Grant
Principal Data Geek, Desert Isle Group

Jay Gundotra
Technical Founder & CEO, ENow

Angela Henry
Data Platform MVP, Senior Architect

Amy Herold
Sr. Cloud Solution Architect-Engineering, Microsoft

Jeffery Hicks
PowerShell Author, Teacher, Mentor

Allan Hirt
Founder, SQLHA, LLC

Billy Hollis
Developer. Designer. Speaker. Author.

Philip Japikse
Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, MCSD, PSM II, PSD and PST, Developer, Coach, Author, Teacher

Neeraj Jhaveri
Sr. Engineer, Microsoft

John Joyner
Senior Director, Technology, AccountabilIT

Rajeev Kapur
CEO & Chief AI Officer, 1105 Media, Inc.

Cristal Kawula
President, TriCon Elite Consulting

Dave Kawula
Principal Consultant, TriCon Elite Consulting

Chris Klug
Developer, Active Solution

Veronika Kolesnikova
Sr. Software Engineer, Liberty Mutual

Sami Laiho
Chief Research Officer, Adminize

Thomas LaRock
Principal Developer Evangelist, Selector Software

Vishwas Lele
CTO, Applied Information Sciences

Rockford Lhotka
VP of Strategy, Xpirit USA

Leonard Lobel
CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

Meagan Longoria
Data & Analytics Consultant, Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting

Karen Lopez
Data Evangelist, Space Enthusiast, & NASA Datanaut

Josh Luedeman
Principal Engineering Manager, Microsoft

Abdullah Mamun
Program Manager, Microsoft

Dwayne McDaniel
Developer Advocate, GitGuardian

Tom McKearney
Cloud Solution Architect, Applied Information Sciences

Derek Melber
VP of Product Engagement & Outreach, QOMPLX

Andy Milford
CEO, RDPSoft

Ted Neward
Principal, Neward and Associates

Michael Niehaus
Principal R&D Engineer, Tanium

Jörgen Nilsson
Principal Consultant, Onevinn - Ccmexec.com

Scott Norberg
President and Founder, Opperis Technologies

John O'Neill, Sr.
Chief Technologist, AWS Solutions

Petri Paavola
Yodamiitti Oy

John Papa
Partner Cloud Advocate, Microsoft

Carey Payette
Senior Software Engineer, Trillium Innovations

Adrian Porter
Sr. Data Security Manager and Protection Officer, 1-800 CONTACTS

Brian Randell
Product Marketing Director, GitHub

Travis Roberts
MVP, MCT, Product Marketing Manager, Blogger, and Enthusiast

Stephen Rose
Chief Technology Strategist, Petri IT, Owner, stephenlrose.com consulting

Levie Rufenacht
Software Developer, Ice Tea Group

Panu Saukko
Consultant / Trainer, ProTrainIT

Stefan Schörling
Cloud Security and Infra Geek, Onevinn AB

Heather Severino
Founder, TeachUTech

Jan Ketil Skanke
COO and Principal Cloud Architect, CloudWay

Jordan Smith
Education Engineer, MongoDB

Nestori Syynimaa
Senior Principal Security Researcher, Secureworks

Alex Thissen
Architect, Lead Developer, and Mentor

Simon Timms
Principal Software Engineer, Particular Software

Omar Valerio
CIO / CTO / IT Director, Westminster Christian School

Kendal Van Dyke
Senior Program Manager, SQL Server, Microsoft

Michael Van Horenbeeck
CEO, “The Collective”

René van Osnabrugge
DevOps Strategy Consultant, Xpirit

Stacia Varga
Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Consultant, Educator, and Author

Shaun Walker
Founder, Devessence Inc.

Chris Woodruff
Team Leader, Engineering, Rocket Homes

Buck Woody
Applied Data Scientist, Azure Data Services Team, Microsoft

Jim Wooley
Senior Delivery Principal, Slalom Consulting

Steve Wright
Senior Database Solutions Architect, SolarWinds

2023 Sponsors

EVENT PARTNER:
• Microsoft

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• ENow
• Particular Software
• SolarWinds
• Wisej.NET

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Progress
• Rollbar

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Redgate
• Vonage
• Xebia | Xpirit