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Bidemi Ologunde

PhD, CICA, Citi

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Dr. Bidemi Ologunde is a cybersecurity leader specializing in threat intelligence and criminal intelligence, focused on helping organizations anticipate, understand, and disrupt real-world adversaries. He translates complex threat trends: ransomware, fraud, identity compromise, and emerging AI-enabled attacks, into practical strategies leaders and builders can implement. Bidemi is the host of The Bid Picture Podcast and The Work Ethic Podcast, where he explores security, leadership, and the mindset behind high-performance teams through candid conversations and clear, actionable insights. Known for bridging technical depth with cultural and business context, Bidemi equips interdisciplinary audiences to build resilient products, protect trust, and lead responsibly in a rapidly evolving digital world.

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Jason Stewart

Manager, EOD/vCISO Services, Fortified Health Security

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Jason Stewart brings more than 25 years of technology and cybersecurity leadership experience across healthcare, financial services, and technology. As Manager, EOD/vCISO Services at Fortified Health Security, he helps organizations strengthen cyber maturity, improve resilience, and build sustainable security programs.

Jason is known for turning complex risks, regulatory pressure, and operational challenges into practical strategies leaders can act on. His background includes serving as a CISO, CIO, and operations leader, giving him a grounded perspective on how cybersecurity decisions affect executives, IT teams, and frontline operations.

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Ron Dilley

Field CISO, Reflex Security

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I build cybersecurity programs and the systems they run on, then I pressure-test them until the results are defensible. I’m a CISSP, IANS Research Faculty, and I’ve led security at scale across complex enterprise environments (including CISO responsibility).

Over the last few years, a growing slice of my work has pulled into AI in and around security, not just “AI strategy”, but the real mechanics: how models fail, how teams misuse them, how agents go sideways, and how to put guardrails in place that actually hold. I build and evaluate AI-driven systems because if you can’t measure it, you’re just vibing in production.

Today I partner with CISOs and security teams to strengthen incident response readiness using AI-driven crisis simulations that deliver real-time adaptive scenarios, actionable after-action insights, and audit-ready reporting.

Focus areas:

  • AI Security & GenAI Governance (risk, controls, safe adoption)/li>
  • AI Red Teaming / Prompt Injection / Agent misuse scenarios (practical failure modes)/li>
  • Deception + Detection Engineering + SecOps transformation/li>
  • High-scale telemetry and analysis: parsing, correlation, visualization, and “make the signal show up” systems

If you want AI in security that survives contact with real operations, that’s my lane.

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Rajan Behal

KPMG LLP

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Rajan Behal is a Managing Director in KPMG LLP’s Cyber practice, based in Dallas, with 25 years of experience securing some of the world’s most complex enterprise environments.

His work sits at the intersection of identity and security architecture — spanning Identity & Access Management, Privileged Access Management, Security Analytics, Insider Threat Detection, and Threat & Vulnerability Management. Over the past two years, he has turned his focus to one of the most consequential emerging challenges in enterprise security: governing the agentic AI workforce. As organizations deploy AI agents with real credentials, broad system access, and autonomous decision-making capability, Rajan is helping CISOs build the identity governance infrastructure — NHI lifecycle management, context and intent-aware access controls, and Zero Intent architecture — that makes safe AI adoption possible at scale.

Rajan holds the SABSA SCF, CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, c|CISO, and PMP certifications, and is an active member of SABSA, ISC2, IEEE, and ISACA. Before KPMG, he held senior roles at Accenture, Oracle, and other leading advisory firms.

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Corey Hlavacek

Senior Director, Information Security enVista

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Corey Hlavacek is a senior IT and cybersecurity leader with nearly two decades of experience building, scaling, and leading enterprise security and technology programs across the technology, transportation & logistics, and manufacturing sectors. He has a proven track record of establishing global information security programs, strengthening organizational resilience in hybrid and cloud environments, and aligning security strategy with business growth.

He brings deep expertise in cyber risk management, governance, and regulatory compliance, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, SOX, and PCI DSS. Corey is a frequent industry speaker and has presented at CornCon 2025, Hacker Halted 2025, BSides Fort Wayne 2025, and the AI Agent & Copilot Summit North America 2025.

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Gary Hayslip

CISO in Residence Halcyon.ai

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Keyaan Williams

Managing Director CLASS-LLC

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Keyaan J. Williams is a risk governance leader who works with board directors, corporate officers, and senior executives where technology risk, enterprise value, and fiduciary responsibility converge. He is the Founder and Managing Director of CLASS LLC, a risk governance firm providing consulting and executive education focused on decision authority, accountability, and the governance of cybersecurity, data, and AI risk. Williams is also a founder of Valence Decision Solutions, where his work centers on governing material enterprise risk outcomes through the Trivalent Decision Support System (3VDSS). 3VDSS enables governing bodies to make explicit, defensible decisions about exposure, trade offs, and risk acceptance under uncertainty. He serves as a board director and advisor, is a frequent keynote speaker, and is a published author on risk governance and executive accountability.

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Jim West

CEO & Founder, TopCyberPro.com

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Jim West is a cybersecurity leader, educator, author, and creator of inSECURITY, an immersive cybersecurity experience designed to make security personal, practical, and unforgettable. With more than 35 years across IT, cybersecurity, governance, engineering, and mission-focused operations, Jim has built a career helping organizations move beyond checkbox compliance and toward meaningful cyber resilience.

He currently serves as an Information Systems Security Manager supporting U.S. defense missions in Kuwait and is the founder of TopCyberPro.com, where he has helped more than 150,000 cybersecurity professionals through training, exam preparation, career development, and practical security education. Jim is also the host of the TopCyberPro Podcast, where he interviews leaders, authors, innovators, and practitioners shaping the future of cybersecurity.

Jim holds a rare combination of advanced credentials across cybersecurity, systems engineering, governance, and architecture, including CISSP, ISSAP, ISSEP, ISSMP, CISM, PMP, C|CISO, multiple GIAC certifications, INCOSE CSEP, and OMG SysML Advanced, where he became one of the earliest professionals in the world to earn the advanced designation. His work bridges cybersecurity, systems thinking, risk management, secure-by-design principles, workforce development, and mission assurance.

An award-winning author and recognized industry voice, Jim has written extensively on cybersecurity strategy, quantum readiness, governance, risk, and resilience, including recent publications in ISACA Journal and GRC Outlook. He has spoken at major cybersecurity events and conferences on topics ranging from the Dark Web and cyber risk to quantum security, security leadership, and the future of cyber education.

At Hacker Halted, Jim brings his latest creation, inSECURITY, to the stage: an interactive cybersecurity performance eight years in the making. Rather than relying on traditional slides or passive awareness training, Jim uses everyday objects, audience participation, and real-world decision points to teach core security concepts in a way attendees can immediately understand, remember, and apply.