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Alfonso De Gregorio is a globally recognised cybersecurity technologist, award-winning research artist, and strategic policy advisor. He has spoken at 25+ peer-reviewed int'l events across 5 continents, such as NATO Conference on Cyber Conflict, RSAC, and the leading hacker events. High-performance organisations engage him to spearhead relentless innovation across disciplines and fields, accelerate asymmetric advantage, and achieve peak confidence in today's interconnected operational environment—establishing Alfonso as a key figure shaping the discussion and practice of cybersecurity.Today he is Founding Director and Principal Investigator at Pwnshow, an interdisciplinary research agency investigating critical cybersecurity challenges at the complex technology-society nexus; CEO at Zeronomicon, a premium zero-day vulnerability acquisition platform; and, Member of the ETSI TC SAI (Securing AI), where he works towards ensuring the technical standards underpinning the EU AI Act are practical, effective, and innovation-friendly. At the forefront of the AI governance debate, his current work focuses on the dual-use dilemma of open-weight AI and how the proliferation of powerful models impacts the cyber threat landscape. Active in the legislative and standardization trenches as much as at the terminal prompt, he provided expert technical consultation to the European Commission regarding the EU AI Act. He successfully advocated for the "substantial modification" clauses in the GPAI Code of Practice, protecting open model developers from undue liability.

My name is Đoàn Đình Toàn, but you can call me Twan. I'm a Threat Intelligence Analyst at VCI-CTIP (Vietnam Cybersecurity Intelligence), where I research and publish vulnerability advisories and threat intelligence reports. My current research focuses on code-generation injection vulnerabilities across the JavaScript ecosystem.

Purva Porwal is an AI/ML Manager at State Street Corp with nearly a decade of experience working in various organizations such as JP Morgan & Chase, Infosys, Tech Mahindra. Primarily contributed in Conversational AI and Natural Language Processing, she has driven impactful innovations across key industries such as finance and telecommunications. Her passion lies in harnessing AI’s potential to create meaningful transformation, and is constantly exploring emerging technologies in the field. Beyond her technical expertise, Purva is an active mentor, supporting and inspiring future professionals in the AI space. She plays an integral role in the AI community, contributing to thought leadership and fostering collaborative progress.Took part in multiple hackathons as mentor and Judge, details are as below:- Mentored for Girl Geeks 2025 - Geekathon, organized by IEEEComputer Society Bangalore Chapter. (14 th Nov - 13th Dec 2025)- Participated as Judge in JPMC Code For Good Hackathon in 2023 and 2024- Mentored in BuildwithAI Hackathon in 2024 and Hackmakers hackathon in 2021Speaker Opportunities:Presented at Pycon Lithuania 2026 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szjY5zOywYE- Presented our conference paper work of DataScience and AI track at IEEE REACS 2025 held at ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management in Dec 2025- Invited in a Podcast by SNS Institutions Coimbatore - titled From Engineer to AI Architect: Navigating the Gen-AI Career Ladder - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7POpIIZSCA- Presented in a webinar by Analytics Vidhya https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/events/datahour/guarding-generative-ai-the-owasp-llm-top-10-explained/Recording can be found here at page2: https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/events/datahour/- Invited as a speaker by Analytics Vidya in DataHack Summit 2025 - https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/datahacksummit-2025/speakers/

Karan Bansal is Global Head of AI and Security Innovation at ArmorCode, with 10+ years in security. He previously led security and privacy at Urban Company (a $2.8B unicorn) and was a founding engineer at AvidSecure (acquired by Sophos in 2019). He maintains the open-source claude-code-hooks toolkit (439 stars), security hooks for AI coding agents mapped to the OWASP LLM Top 10. He speaks at DEFCON and OWASP.