Professor of Law @ George Washington University Law School

President and CEO @ TeachPrivacy

Organizer @ Privacy + Security Forum

Daniel J. Solove is the John Marshall Harlan Research Professor at the George Washington University Law School. He is a Senior Policy Advisor at Hogan Lovells. He is also the founder of TeachPrivacy, a company that provides privacy and data security training programs to businesses, schools, healthcare institutions, and other organizations. An internationally known expert in privacy law, Solove has been interviewed and quoted by the media in several hundred articles and broadcasts, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Associated Press, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and NPR.

Professor Solove is the author of several books, including Nothing to Hide: the False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security (Yale University Press, 2011), Understanding Privacy (Harvard University Press, 2008), The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet (Yale University Press, 2007), and The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Digital Age (New York University Press, 2004). His books have been translated into many languages.

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Founder @ Sharpe Management Consulting, Active Member with Global Digital Asset & Cryptocurrency Association & Global Resilience Federation, CRISC, Certificate in Corporate Governance Program

Alex has been involved in cybersecurity from before it was cool, and before it was even called information security. He’s a long-time Cybersecurity, Governance, and Digital Transformation expert with real-world operational experience. Alex has spent much of his career helping corporations and government agencies reap the rewards afforded by advances in technology while mitigating risk.

Alex began his career at the NSA before moving into the Management Consulting ranks building practices at Booz Allen and KPMG. He subsequently co-founded two firms with successful exits, including The Hackett Group. Alex holds degrees in Business from Columbia Business School, Systems Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, and Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He is a published author, speaker, instructor, and advisor.

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Chief Cybersecurity Officer @ SoundWay Consulting

Dekalb County Georgia Homicide Detective (Retired), CISSP, CERT-RMM,  CMMC-RP

Carter currently serves as Chief Cybersecurity Officer of Sound Way Consulting (a Netswitch Partner). Mr. Schoenberg is a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), Certified National Security Agency InfoSEC Assurance Methodology (NSA-IAM) practitioner, and a Registered Practitioner by the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body. He has over 28 years of combined experience in local law enforcement, criminal investigations, cyber threat intelligence, cybersecurity, cyber risk management using the NIST CSF, CMMC, and ISO frameworks, as well as cyber law. Carter’s past work includes comprehensive assessments of the City of Toronto Police Department and evaluations of Motorola 9-1-1 Public Safety Networks and Applications. Carter actively contributed to the GSA/DoD Final Report to the White House “Improving Cybersecurity and Resiliency through Acquisition”. His work products have been actively used by DOD, Department of Education, DHS, the ISAC communities, Smart Cities, and the Georgia Bar Association for Continuing Learning-Educational (CLE) credits on the topic of cybersecurity risk and liability. Mr. Schoenberg also recently co-authored Guidance for Smart Cities and Municipalities Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management (C-SCRM).

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Consultant @ Technology Business Management, ICCP – Certified Data Professional

Sue has served as a technology executive with extensive experience in healthcare, financial services, payment systems, and telecommunications; working for such companies as Visa, Wells Fargo, Kaiser Permanente, and AT&T. Sue has led large teams of technology professionals and considers her specializations to be business intelligence, service and performance management, governance, process improvement, and change. She has coordinated and delivered technology project portfolios valued at over $3B. 

Sue has served on various banking and technology associations including CommerceNet and the Global Payments Council. She participated on Hewlett Packard’s Financial Services Industries’ Customer Advisory Council and was a member of the Information Technology Commission for the State of California.

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Advisor @ Cybraics

Shawn is a cyber-security professional and angel investor who gained national attention for his involvement in tracking down a Chinese cyber espionage ring which was later chronicled in Time magazine. Carpenter has spent his career leading some of the most sensitive security engagements across military, government, and corporate environments. During his tenure at Netwitness (acquired by EMC) and as Chief Technical Analyst at iSIGHT Partners (acquired by FireEye), Shawn continued to earn a reputation for solving bleeding-edge cross-domain issues. Earlier in his career, Shawn worked as a principal security analyst for the Justice Department, the Cyber Threat Analysis Division (CTAD), Diplomatic Security, of the State Department, and was a member of the Information Design Assurance Red Team (IDART) for the US Navy Nuclear Propulsion Center working in network intrusion detection, network security infrastructure design, threat intelligence, system/network forensics, malware analysis, and collaborative research. 

While at Netwitness, Shawn led a team of security professionals in detecting, hunting and evicting sophisticated adversaries from enterprise networks, worked in network intrusion investigations, network traffic analysis, cyber forensics, cyber security policy, audit compliance, malicious code analysis, cyber security threat assessments, and network penetration testing.

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MsITM, CISM, PMP, ITIL

Don is an experienced Chief Information Officer (CIO), cyber-security professional and computer forensic specialist. He has led staff to support highly complex government and commercial information technology environments, and the implementation of cutting edge big data, link analysis, entity resolution, computer forensic, cyber security programs. As a key member of the cyber-security community, he has also directed some of the most sensitive and highly classified investigative and security engagements across diverse military, government, and corporate environments. Don has a long history in cyber-security, working as a US Marshal, serving as a member of the United Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force and as a computer forensic and high-tech crime investigator, Diplomatic Security, in the State Department. He has managed cyber security programs at the Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, and defense and pharmaceutical companies. Don served as the Deputy Director, Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board.

Don holds a Master of Business Administration, a Master of Management of Information Technology, Commercial and Government Graduate CIO Certification, and numerous computer forensic and technology industry related certifications.

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Founder and CEO@ MKACyber

Mischel Kwon is a recognized IT security leader with 35 years of experience in technical security operations, incident response and information assurance as well as building and managing organizational and national level SOC, CERT and IR Teams. Kwon currently serves as the President and CEO of MKACyber, a security consulting firm specializing in Technical Defensive Security, Security Operations and Information Assurance. Kwon has held senior roles in the U.S. Government, including Director of US-CERT where she coordinated national-level IR activities and at the U.S. Department of Justice where she established and managed the Justice Security Operations Center (JSOC).

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Director @ EDGY, Flinn Foundation – Steering Committee, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certified, JPEA Certified Assessment Administrator

Donald is an experienced financial pro, having served as Chief Financial Officer at several different firms spanning multiple industries. His insights have been sought by Boards of Directors due to his ability to cut through the noise and focus on how best to understand financials and provide meaningful insights with data modeled into various variable future outcomes to provide meaningful risk assessments for guidance to the company’s executives teams.

Most recently, Donald formed EDGY, a performance modeling, assessment and management advisory firm to offer growing and scaling companies strategic services to operationalize guidance.

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Program Director
@ Carnegie Mellon University

Founder
@ RootAnalytics

Sheryl is a professor and Program Director of the Integrated Innovation Institute’s M.S. in Technology Ventures program. Sheryl founded RootAnalysis, as a consulting firm specializing in corporate strategy and marketing. For more than 13 years, Sheryl’s firm has worked with C-level Silicon Valley executives at high-tech companies, such as HP-Compaq, Oracle/PeopleSoft, Hyperion, Philips, Novell, and many startup organizations. Sheryl is a leader, board member, and advocate for many world–renowned institutes and organizations. She is Chairman of the Advisory Board for Women in Technology International (WITI), a member of the Board of Advisors for the Stanford Business School Sloan Program, and board member of Netswitch Technology Management. She has also coached numerous startups to achieve success in high-tech industries. Additionally, she is a frequent speaker in high-tech subject areas such as agile marketing, strategy, women in STEM, career planning, leadership, new business models, and organizational structures.

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