Women in Cybersecurity Conference 2020 | Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) | 12 March 2020 | Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center, 6700 North Gaylord Rockies Boulevard, Aurora, Colorado 80019, USA

WiCyS is the only non-profit membership organization with national reach that is dedicated to bringing together women in cybersecurity from academia, research and industry to share knowledge, experience, networking and mentoring. The initiative was created through an NSF grant (Award #1303441) by Dr. Ambareen Siraj at Tennessee Tech University six years ago, and has grown into a wonderful alliance among academia, government and industry.

2020 Speakers

Sarah Kennedy
HCA

Emily Brown
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Damira Pon
University at Albany, State University of New York

Cara Zissman
Penetration Tester, Paylocity

Michelle Brenner
Senior Software Engineer, Netflix

Valerie Phoenix
Tech By Choice

Jelena Mirkovic
Research Associate Professor, USC Information Sciences Institute

Tania Williams
University of Alabama, Huntsville

Remi Cohen
Threat Researcher, F5 Labs

Sara Boddy
F5 Networks

Malcolm Heath
F5 Networks

Hart Rossman
AWS

Ashley Smyk
TPM, Security & Infrastructure , Amazon Web Services

Maria Vicente Bonto-Kane
University of Texas at San Antonio

Caitlin Hanley
FireEye

Kirstie Failey
Senior Consultant, Mandiant, A FireEye Company

Jessica O'Bryan
CyberThreat Intelligence Lead & Threat Hunt Development Lead, Viasat

Lauren Medica
Viasat

Sandra McLeod
Professional, Cisco Systems

Stephanie Olsen
Netflix

Diana Kelley
Microsoft

Alyssa Miller
AlyssaSec.com

Gretchen Block
Vice President – Optum Global Technology Enterprise Risk Assessment Program, Optum

Jennifer Szkatulski
Security Intelligence Analyst - Technical Strategy and Innovation Lead, WiCyS MidAtlantic Affiliate

Leslie Leonard
U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center

Laura Puterbaugh
DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Genevieve Marquardt
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Jennifer Rodrick
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Hillary Carney
CISA

Anna Etherton
DHS

Laura Malave
Academic Chair, St. Petersburg College

Julia Meyer
St. Petersburg College

Gina Yacone
Agio

Nikkia Henderson
Women in Cybersecuirty (WiCyS) Mid-Atlantic Affiliate

Laura Malave
Academic Chair, St. Petersburg College

Carol Woody
Software Engineering Institute

Marian Merritt
NIST/NICE

Kris Winkler
BCG Platinion

Anna Skelton
Vice President, Cyber Threat Intelligence, Bank of America

Kaitlyn Bestenheider
Information Security Associate, Tevora

Jeana Cosenza
Information Security Associate, Tevora

John McGill
Colorado State University, Global Campus

Sophia Anderson
National Cyber League

Sid Sidhu
Production Engineering, Facebook

Rachel Velasco
Assistant Vice President, Global Information Security, Bank of America

Lora Vaughn
Chief Information Security Officer, Simmons Bank

Susie Heilman
Senior Cyber Security Engineer, MITRE

Shannon McHale
Student, Rochester Institute of Technology

Chloe Messdaghi
VP of Strategy, WoSEC

Charlotte Fraser
Microsoft

Addy Moran
Cyber Analyst, Raytheon

Vidya Murthy
Cyber Security Graduate Intern, Raytheon

Kristy Greenberg
U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

Erin Joe
The Director of the National Intelligence

Amy Mushahwar
Alston & Bird LLP

Kimberly Peretti
Alston & Bird LLP

Awalin Sopan
Principal Engineer, Sophos Ltd

Rekha Bachwani
Netflix

Michelle Cantos
Fire Eye

Noureen Njoroge
Cisco

Malia Mason
Founder & CEO, Integrum

Dr. Mona Lisa Pinkney, CISSP, CISM, CISA, PMP
Senior Director, Governance, Risk, Compliance, Engagement and Geographies, Nike, Inc.

Florence Hudson
Founder & CEO, FDHint LLC; Indiana University

Edna Conway
Vice President and General Manager of Global Security, Cisco

Cynthia Mares
18th Judicial District

Anna Pobletts
Product Security Manager, Praetorian

Victoria Rosuello
Software Engineer, Praetorian

Aisha Ali-Gombe
Assistant Professor, Towson University

Stacy Nicholson
Towson University

Aunshul Rege
Temple University

Christina Johns
MITRE

Sarah Kern
CrowdStrike

Christine Fossaceca
MITRE

2020 Sponsors

VIP SPONSORS:
• Cisco
• Facebook
• Optum

PREMIUM SPONSORS:
• Aws
• Google
• Mastercard
• Raytheon
• StateFarm
• Verizon

DIAMOND SPONSORS:
• Adobe
• Bank of America
• Carnegie Mellon University
• CERIC
• CSSIA
• CyberProof
• Cybher
• Denso
• IBM
• Kroll
• Microsoft Security
• NCL
• Robinhood
• MCS @Rice
• RIT
• Salesforce
• Synopsys
• VISA
• Walmart

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• A-Lign
• CiSRE
• Coal Fire
• Colorado State University
• Crowdstrike
• Corps
• CyberGRX
• Deloitte
• EY
• FireEye
• Georgia Tech Research Institute
• The Home Depot
• Linkedin
• NCS
• Navsea
• Ncyte Center
• Palo Alto
• Protiviti
• SANS Technology Institute

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Bishop Fox
• Bug Crowd
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Central Intelligence Academy
• Comerica Bank
• Cybrary
• Elastic
• Georgia Tech
• GTK Cyber
• Mitre
• Nike
• NYU
• P&G
• Proofpoint
• Pure Insurance
• RunSafe Security
• Security Risk Corporation
• Technology, Cybersecurity and Policy Program
• The Walt Disney Company
• CISA
• US Department of State
• The University of Arizona
• University of San Diego
• Virtru
• Workday

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Bay Path University
• Capitol Technology University
• DarkOwl
• Dominion Energy
• EC-Council Academia
• Lincoln Laboratory
• Northeastern University Khoury College of Computer Sciences
• Praetorian
• Purdue University
• SAIC
• Sophos
• Spectrum
• Towson University
• UNT
• University of Washington
• Master of Cybersecurity & Leadership
• WPI

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• Activision
• Netflix
• Two Sigma