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Brendan Hann is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Snyk, where he focuses on developer security tooling across Snyk's AI Security Platform including Snyk Open Source, Code, Container, and IaC. His career in security marketing spans almost a decade at Veracode and NowSecure. He's been living in AppSec, DevSecOps, and has consistently been tasked with explaining complex security products to developers, security teams, and the market at the same time.He's spoken at OWASP BASC, DevSecCon, DevOps World, Rocky Mountain InfoSec, and OWASP chapters in Austin, Los Angeles, and Columbus. He's based in Boston.

Brian Brushwood is a strategist and award-winning creator who teaches teams how to outsmart social engineers and build trust at scale. The creator of Scam Nation (née Scam School), founder of The Modern Rogue, and host of the hit podcast World’s Greatest Con, Brian blends psychology, magic, and measurement to expose how persuasion works—on stage, in-product, and in the inbox. He’s presented at DEFCON, SXSW, TEDx, and for federal law-enforcement audiences.

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Brittany Cannon is on a mission to prove that IRL marketing is way more than just a fun flash-in-the-pan moment, it’s a real strategic marketing initiative that moves the needle. Over her 15+ years in the events industry, she has figured out how to take event line items that accounting hates and turn them into intentional GTM revenue and brand awareness drivers. Her background is a unique mix of building teams and creating impactful activations across live music, manufacturing, tech, and cybersecurity, giving her a pretty distinct view on what actually works in the physical marketing world. When she’s not fighting the good fight to showcase the actual merit of events, or building & scaling teams, you can find her bird watching in Florida or training and competing with her Australian Cattle Dog, Ruby, in various AKC dog sports.

Bronwen Hudson is a driven, creative marketing strategist who turns complex cybersecurity stories into clear, compelling narratives that people actually want to engage with. She has spent the last few years as a one‑person, full‑stack marketing team, owning everything from strategy and execution to analytics and stakeholder wrangling. But mostly, she plays roller derby.

As a four-time CMO, Charles brings more than 25 years of in-the-trenches marketing, product management, and business development leadership experience in high-growth cybersecurity, cloud, and infrastructure software companies. Charles has been instrumental in developing and executing growth strategies at category leaders like ThreatConnect Virtru, Sonatype, FireMon, Progress Software, Red Hat, and others.After ThreatConnect's recent $290M exit to Dataminr, he founded CyberG2M Advisors to help early and growth stage CEOs and revenue leaders to build durable, efficient go-to-market motions.

Christine Bartlett is SVP of Marketing at Hack The Box, championing a simple idea: great cybersecurity teams aren’t born in classrooms, they’re forged through continuous, community-validated skills development. She turns HTB’s mission into momentum, shaping the brand and driving growth. With 13+ years in cybersecurity, including senior roles at Cisco and SonicWall, Christine is known for sharp go-to-market leadership, crisp executive comms, and making marketing measurable, earning a spot on Pavilion’s “50 CMOs to Watch in 2024.”

Christine Elswick leads Highwire’s Industries practice and cybersecurity expertise, bringing nearly two decades of experience helping technology and cybersecurity brands build trust, strengthen their reputations and lead through disruption. She advises organizations on high-stakes communications, from navigating breaches and sensitive disclosures to launching new categories and establishing executives as influential industry voices. Her work centers on translating complex technology into clear, compelling stories that build credibility and drive business impact.

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Confidence Staveley is a multi-award-winning cybersecurity leader, author, and one of the most distinctive voices at the intersection of AI and security. Known for making complex technical concepts land with any audience, she holds the CISSP, CSSLP, and CCISO certifications and serves on the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Cybersecurity.Some of her accolades include Top 40 Global Thought Leader in Security and Safety (2024 & 2025), SANS Difference Maker Award: People's Champion of the Year (2024), Cybersecurity Woman of the World (2023), Top 25 Leader in Cybersecurity (2024), SC Media’s Women in IT Security 2024 Power Player, Security Magazine’s 2024 Women In Cybersecurity and recognition among the "150 Fascinating Females Fighting Cybercrime."Confidence is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of AI Cyber Magazine, a practitioner-focused publication on AI and cybersecurity, and hosts The AI Cyber Podcast. She leads CyberSafe Foundation, a nonprofit democratizing access to cybersecurity and AI Education.A sought-after keynote speaker and board advisor, Confidence brings the rare combination of technical depth, editorial credibility, and the ability to cut through hype, delivering talks that leave audiences better informed and ready to act.

Courtney Chatterton is a Marketing Manager at Miscreants, where she runs full-funnel demand generation and campaign operations for cybersecurity brands. With four years in the industry, she's built a reputation for a practical, no-fluff approach to campaign strategy. She’s known for turning jargon-filled messaging into programs that actually convert with security buyers. Courtney co-hosts monthly marketing meetups with the Cybersecurity Marketing Society and has previously presented at CyberMarketingCon 2024.

Cyrus J. Walker III is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Data Defenders, a civic cybersecurity firm serving municipalities, counties, nonprofits, and healthcare organizations. He brings thirty years of practitioner experience across cybersecurity operations, network architecture, digital forensics, and critical infrastructure protection.

Cyrus serves on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's CISA Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council (CIPAC) as a member of the Election Infrastructure Subsector Coordinating Council, working directly with federal partners on threat intelligence and joint incident response capabilities for election infrastructure. He is an internationally recognized expert in electronic voting system security and holds a certificate from MIT's Smart City Design program.

Earlier in his career, Cyrus served as a Subject Matter Expert in Cyber Terrorism Defense and Incident Management at the University of Arkansas's Cyber Defense Analysis Center under DHS funding, where he trained more than 5,000 federal, state, and local law enforcement professionals, including personnel from the NSA, FBI, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, and U.S. Secret Service.

Under his leadership, Data Defenders serves as the operational architect of Aurora, Illinois's regional cybersecurity operation, which has detected and mitigated 35,331 threats, eliminated 351 high-severity threats, declared zero major security incidents, and delivered those results at 77% below the cost of an equivalent in-house Security Operations Center.

Brand = Pipeline. Prove me wrong.

Danielle Guetta is the first marketer at Jazz, the AI-native DLP platform that took the cybersecurity industry by storm with its DLP Sucks campaign. Before Jazz, Danielle was the second marketer at Astrix Security, where she led product marketing and helped build the Non-Human Identity (NHI) category from the ground up — defining the language, narrative, and positioning that the entire market now uses. Before Astrix, she spent years at Check Point Software (joining through an acquisition), giving her nearly a decade of cybersecurity marketing experience across stealth-stage startups, category-defining scale-ups, and global enterprise. Danielle specializes in turning complex security problems into bold, contrarian brand moments that move pipeline.

Impactful Intelligence

Previously Vice President of Marketing at Cyberint, and now Director of Marketing, Exposure Management division @ Check Point software.

Based in Israel. Rich history in the software and internet industry, specifically focused on cybersecurity for the past 15 years or so.

Hold graduate degrees in Business and Psychology.

David J Ebner is the President and Founder of Content Workshop, a story-first content agency. While in graduate school, he assembled a collective of storytellers whose sole purpose was to use their storytelling skills to help brands create and convert an audience. That idea became Content Workshop in 2013. After graduating from the University of Tampa with an MFA in Creative Writing, he authored the Amazon Best Seller–Kingmakers: A Content Marketing Story. Today, David runs Content Workshop from the headquarters in Clearwater, Florida, where he lives with his wife and two children.

David Koke is Head of Marketing at Intruder, a UK-based exposure management platform. With a decade of experience in marketing and customer-facing roles at early-stage tech startups, from Seed through Series B, David has a deep understanding of what it takes to build and scale GTM motions with limited resources and high ambition.

David Spark is the founder and executive producer of the CISO Series, a media network for cybersecurity professionals. He also co-hosts many of our shows. Spark is a veteran tech journalist who’s appeared in many media outlets such as eWEEK, Wired News, Forbes, PCWorld, Clearchannel, and TechTV (formerly ZDTV). Spark is the author of "Three Feet from Seven Figures: One-on-One Engagement Techniques to Qualify More Leads at Trade Shows." Outside of tech, security, and marketing, Spark squandered over a dozen years working as a touring stand-up comedian, a San Francisco tour guide, and a comedy writer for The Second City in Chicago.

Deb Wolf is the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Dataminr responsible for elevating the company’s brand, driving customer engagement, and supporting growth goals.

Prior to Dataminr, Deb served as CMO at Lookout, where she pivoted the company from B2C to B2B, expanded its product portfolio from mobile to cloud security, and scaled its go-to-market efforts.

She has 35-plus years of experience growing private and public companies, and has held marketing leadership roles at organizations such as Workday, Integrate and BetterUp.

Deb has a BA in English from California Polytechnic State University, and advises CEOs at three early-stage venture-backed companies in the AI, leadership development and data industries.

Deepika D’Souza is a Senior Marketing Communications Manager at Endor Labs, where she leads influencer and community programs for one of the fastest-growing AppSec companies.

She has built Endor Labs’ influencer program from the ground up, partnering with podcasts, creators, and technical communities to reach security and developer audiences.

Her work focuses on turning trusted voices into measurable business impact, tying influencer efforts directly to demo requests, pipeline, and revenue outcomes.

Deepika brings an operator’s perspective on what it actually takes to make influencer marketing work inside a B2B organization.

Emily Rosenfield is theMarketing Director at Fig Security, with over a decade of experience scalinghigh-growth tech brands. A veteran of the cybersecurity space, she has alsoworked at Cymulate and JFrog. Emily specializes in bridging the gap between creativebrand strategy and technical operational excellence to build scalable marketingengines.

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Eran Kinsbruner is Vice President of Product Marketing at Checkmarx and a recognized thought leader in software quality, secure development, and DevSecOps. With over 20 years of experience in engineering, product marketing, and developer advocacy, he helps global enterprises modernize pipelines and strengthen AppSec in the AI era. A frequent keynote speaker, author, and advisor, Eran bridges the gap between AppSec and engineering by promoting shift-left practices, developer-first security, and the use of agentic AI to enhance code quality without slowing innovation. He has contributed to leading industry reports, whitepapers, and open-source projects, and authored several books on continuous testing and secure software delivery. Today, Eran focuses on advancing next-generation AppSec powered by agentic AI—helping modern software teams build faster, stay secure, and deliver with confidence.