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Marshall Yount is a software engineer and engineering leader with nearly 30 years of experience at companies including Yahoo, Zynga, Twilio, and Rippling. His work spans backend systems, developer platforms, observability, and helping teams ship reliable software. He is writing The Vibe Engineer’s Primer, connecting established software engineering principles with the practical work of directing coding agents. He writes at Yount Labs about technology, business, and human behavior. Outside software, he is a pyrotechnic artist.

I have spoken at five conferences so far, two Bsides, WWHF, SecretCon, HRC. My experience is generally in LLM security and offensive work. Sometimes incorporating novel ways of thinking of systems to audiences.

I’m Kori Vogt, a tenured public speaker, published author and long-term government director. I have served in both government and private sectors across three states for 29 years,with service in a variety of non-governmental industries including medical, insurance, banking, academic and electric. As an experienced mentor, I have honed my skills through adrive to support, understand, empower and motivate others. I am inspired by innovative minds that work to make processes better, helping othersto move from barriers to solutions. I am a certified trainer in Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue, and hold certifications and diplomas in Human Resources,Leadership, Management and Learning and Development.EDUCATIONMBA, Human Resources – John F. Kennedy UniversityBS, Human Resource Management – University of Great FallsCERTIFICATIONSCornell University Public Sector Executive Leadership certificationPSHRA Executive HR Leadership CertificationAcademy Leadership Certification - STEP LancasterLeadership Lake Havasu - LHACCDiploma in Learning & DevelopmentCrucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue– Certified TrainerHR Management CertificationGoogle Data Analytics CertificateCurrent Active L&D Instructor for the following:Supervisor Excellence Academy 3.0Advanced Manager Training for Strategic Management DevelopmentPower Hour Impact Learning seriesInternship ProgramPre-Apprenticeship ProgramApprenticeship ProgramCorporate Education Advisory Council for Corporate Education, Mohave College and Mohave County regionPSHRA Research CommitteePublic Sector Customer Service trainingVolunteering:Volunteer- community gift wrapping December2026 Earth Day community trash removalThriveFest Co-Op Wellness FairChamber of Commerce Leadership Lunch and Learn volunteer speakerCo-Chair Décor Committee Leadership Lake HavasuArea volunteer - RotaryPublished:Public Eye July/August 2026 Volume 92 No 4Penny Series In ProcessEntrepreneurship:Founder Impact SpeakingPublished AuthorSmall business ownerRecent Completions:Speaker selection PSHRA National Convention Sept 29, Portland ORSpeaker Leadership Lake HavasuCandidate:Flinn Brown FellowshipPSHRA-AZ Board memberArizona WLG Women Leading Government

SDE 2 with 4+ years of experience. working in miniorange and have expertise in IAM.

Sreehari 'INVISIBLE' Haridas is an experienced Offensive Security Researcher and Red teamer who loves to break things. Currently, he is working as an Offensive security lead in a FinTech company. He is also a core member of DEF CON Group Trivandrum and Head of Contests and CTFs at Adversary Village.

Z. Hamilton Avery, LCSW, BC-TMH, CMT, CYT-1,000, TIYT, is a psychotherapist, coach, educator, speaker, and integrative wellness practitioner with more than 15 years of interdisciplinary experience across mental health, healthcare, crisis services, education, and wellness.Z's professional background spans outpatient psychotherapy, integrated primary care, community mental health, mobile crisis response, 911 emergency communications, hospice and end-of-life care, coaching, group facilitation, yoga, meditation, mindfulness, massage and bodywork, and complementary health practices. This range of experience informs an approach to education that considers mental health and well-being within the broader contexts of the body, relationships, identity, environment, healthcare, community, and everyday life.As an educator and speaker, Z develops and facilitates presentations, classes, workshops, trainings, retreats, and other educational and experiential programs. Areas of focus include mental health and well-being, stress and burnout, anxiety and depression, trauma and PTSD, suicide prevention and crisis intervention, chronic illness and pain, grief and loss, mindfulness and meditation, self-compassion, resilience, coping skills, LGBTQIA+ affirming care, neurodiversity, behavioral health, and integrative mind-body approaches.Z's programs are designed to make research, theory, and professional knowledge understandable and useful. Depending on the topic and setting, programs may combine accessible education with discussion, reflection, case examples, experiential exercises, mindfulness, movement, guided practice, and practical skill building. Participants often leave with handouts, worksheets, workbooks, or other resources that extend learning beyond the presentation itself.Z has worked across clinical, healthcare, crisis, community, and educational environments and brings that interdisciplinary perspective to audiences that include healthcare and behavioral health professionals, social workers, therapists and counselors, helping professionals, educators and students, nonprofit and community organizations, workplaces, caregivers, wellness communities, and general audiences.Their approach is humanistic, person-centered, strengths-based, trauma-informed, inclusive, and practical. Whether discussing suicide prevention, trauma, burnout, mindfulness, chronic illness, or integrative well-being, Z aims to create learning experiences that respect complexity without making the material inaccessible. Audiences are encouraged not only to understand the subject differently, but also to leave with ideas and tools they can put into practice.

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Kriti Faujdar has spent her career putting AI into places where failure is expensive. Today, that means agentic systems in applied ML at Yelp. Before Yelp, Kriti was a Senior Product Lead at Microsoft. There, she led the Security Foundation Model initiative and the Security AI fine-tuning program, building AI models for cybersecurity. Earlier at Microsoft, she was the founding product manager for Azure AI Foundry's Models-as-a-Service, which brought more than 50 foundation models from Meta, Mistral, Cohere and others to developers as pay-as-you-go APIs. Kriti began as a research scientist at ISRO, spending seven years on anomaly detection and autonomous operations across more than 20 satellite missions. She speaks on AI security and on running AI safely in production, mentors product managers, and reviews for AI research venues.

Speaking Experience SectionJay SahPrincipal Engineer in Test | AI Platforms & Automation ArchitectureJay Sah is a Principal Engineer in Test at Autodesk with over 17 years of experience in platform validation, automation architecture, and AI-augmented engineering systems. He is a continuous technical speaker and presenter at Autodesk’s flagship internal technical summit (TechX), where he shares architectural insights on building enterprise-grade AI backends and modernizing software quality workflows.His speaking focus centers on practical engineering implementations of AI and platform reliability. Jay routinely presents technical papers and live demonstrations on:Agentic RAG & Knowledge Graph Backends: Designing architectures using VectorDB, LangChain, Neo4j, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) to power internal coding agents and diagnostic systems.AI-Augmented Quality Engineering: Accelerating test design, failure triage, and crash log analysis through GraphRAG and spec-driven AI development workflows.Platform & Hardware Validation: Lessons learned from driving full-stack automation, stress/soak testing, and system reliability across NVIDIA GPU drivers, Microsoft ecosystem programs, and AutoCAD release pipelines.Beyond formal summit talks, Jay actively participates in technical hackathons, winning multiple innovation awards for novel AI integrations and test infrastructure tooling. He regularly engages with global engineering teams to share best practices on Micro-Scrum delivery, spec-driven development, and CI/CD quality gate enforcement.

I'm Nithin Ellanki, Chief Engineer at Vanguard. I write about the big shifts happening in AI, but I skip the benchmark recaps everyone else is doing. What interests me more is a simpler question: as the specs move this fast, where do the rest of us actually fit?My take is that staying relevant right now has less to do with out-coding a machine and more to do with knowing why you're doing the work in the first place. Judgment. Ethics. The oversight that's hard to hand off to a model. That's what I talk about: how we keep adapting as these systems get more autonomous, without losing the human decisions at the center of it.

Security & Blockchain Developer | ACM India Student Member | Cyber-security specialist with hands-on experience in DevSecOps, web security, and adversarial AI, delivering measurable impact across security operations. Currently Product Security Engineer at Groww

Pamela is an educational and talent development professional with decades of experience designing learning that helps people grow, perform, and thrive. She specializes in creating practical, real‑world learning experiences through blended learning, SME engagement, and supervisor support.As a Master IEP Coach®, Pamela advocates for families navigating special education, bringing clarity, confidence, and collaboration to caregivers and educators.With nearly 20 years as a firewife and a mom of three, she also speaks on service, resilience, leadership, and community—drawing from lived experience supporting people who work under pressure and show up for others.Across her three lanes—Learn, Advocate, and Serve—Pamela helps organizations, families, and communities build systems, relationships, and practices that work in real life.

Desiree Hermocillo is a statewide leader, facilitator, and systems-builder with extensive experience leading teams and initiatives at the intersection of justice, behavioral health, and human services. As the Statewide Problem-Solving Court Unit Manager for the Colorado Judicial Branch, she oversees statewide programs, strategic initiatives, training, and partnerships designed to improve outcomes for individuals, families, and communities.Throughout her career, Desiree has worked across multidisciplinary systems where competing priorities, complex challenges, and diverse perspectives are the norm. Her leadership experience has shaped a practical and people-centered approach to navigating change, strengthening collaboration, and helping teams move from simply understanding their roles to working with greater adaptability and shared ownership.Desiree is passionate about creating environments where people can engage honestly, navigate conflict productively, and remain connected to a shared purpose—even when the work is difficult. Her presentations blend real-world leadership experience with actionable strategies that audiences can immediately apply to their teams and organizations.Her areas of expertise include leadership development, multidisciplinary collaboration, team dynamics, role agility, organizational change, program development, and building effective systems across complex organizations.Desiree brings an engaging, authentic, and practical style to her presentations, encouraging audiences to think differently, challenge assumptions, and leave with ideas they can put into action.

I am a Platform Engineering Leader with over 7 years of experience leading platform engineering and cloud infrastructure for large-scale financial systems.I currently lead DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering for a digital banking platform supporting over 2 million users and processing high volumes of financial transactions daily. My work focuses on designing and operating systems that are reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient within regulated environments.I have led initiatives across cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, and system observability, delivering measurable outcomes including improved platform stability, reduced operational overhead, and 20–30% optimisation in cloud costs.My experience spans Kubernetes, Azure cloud environments, and modern DevOps practices, with a strong focus on aligning engineering decisions with business impact.Beyond my core role, I contribute to the wider technology ecosystem through technical publications, mentorship, open-source contributions, and cloud consulting

Nathan M. Thornhill builds tools that catch what AI invents. He created CiteStamp, which checks an AI-written bibliography against the published record and shows which sources were made up, and he founded the Institute for Complexity Science and Advanced Computing, which publishes his research and charges authors nothing.The work came out of healthcare rather than philosophy. He spent years as a nursing assistant, then in Long Term Care Administration and ICU admissions, where families asked him whether their loved one was still in there. He never had a good answer for them. The same question now applies to AI systems, and that is where most of the research sits: his current study compares how rats, monkeys, and AI models commit to a decision.He is the author of Foundations of the Existence Threshold, holds four provisional patents, and works from Fort Wayne, Indiana, without a university or a funding body.

Jessica Caresse White is Managing Director & CEO of J.Caresse & Company, a McKinsey & Company alumna who leads operations transformation and growth advisory for PE-backed and high-growth companies, with a concentration in retail and consumer businesses. She helps organizations build the governance and operating systems that let growth scale sustainably, including guiding AI adoption at the operational level.

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Carlos Simpson is a London-based public speaker, practitioner-researcher, executive mentor-coach, strategic designer and Founder & CEO of BE(YOU)FULL CIC. His work explores identity, human development, leadership, agency, creativity and the human implications of artificial intelligence. He translates research-informed ideas into practical frameworks for leaders, organisations and educators, with particular interest in human becoming, reflective practice, mentoring and responsible leadership in periods of technological and organisational change.

Diyar Saadi Ali is a cybersecurity expert specializing in cybercrime investigations, SOC operations, and malware analysis. A certified MITRE ATT&CK Contributor and CVE discoverer, including CVE-2024-25400, CVE-2024-25399, and CVE-2026-20841, Diyar helps organizations defend against evolving digital threats. Diyar has spoken at major international conferences including Black Hat MEA in Saudi Arabia, DeepSec in Vienna, COSAC in Ireland, VulnCon in India, BSides Budapest, BSides Ireland , THCon Party, and the Arab Cyber Security Conference in Egypt. With extensive hands-on experience and a strong focus on analyst enablement, Diyar delivers practical and real-world malware analysis training.

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, the adversarial research agency investigating vulnerability — in code, in institutions, and in people — at the intersection of technology and society; 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.

Danish Tariq is a Security Engineer by profession and a Security researcher by passion. He has been working in Cyber Security for over 8 years and it all started out of a curiosity to break things and look deep down into those things (physical or virtual) back in his teenage years. His major expertise is Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Assessments.He was also involved in bug bounty programs as well, where he helped many companies by finding vulnerabilities at different levels. Companies include Microsoft, Apple, Nokia, Blackberry, Adobe, etc.Spoke @ BlackHat MEA 2022 (Briefing: Supply-Chain Attacks)Featured in "The Register" for an initial workaround for the NPM dependency attacks.Certified Ethical Hacker, Certified Vulnerability Assessor (CVA), Certified AppSec Practitioner, Certified Network Security Specialist (CNSS),IBM Cyber Security AnalystEx-Chapter Leader @ OWASPEx-Top Rated freelancer (Information security category) on UpworkRecent security research and CVEs include - CVE-2022-2848 & CVE-2022-25523Served as a Moderator @ OWASP 2022 Global AppSec APAC.Researched and Speaker at MCTTP, Germany - HITB, Thailand - OOTB, Indonesia and many more.

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Dr. Jọkẹ Coker is a globally respected executive coach, psychologist, and leadership strategist with over 25 years of experience helping organizations and senior leaders break through barriers to transformational growth. As a Master Certified Coach (MCC) and President-Elect at ICF Houston, she blends deep psychological insight with corporate leadership expertise to drive meaningful change. A published author and co-creator of the CoG Scale, Dr. Coker is passionate about unlocking human potential through evidence-based frameworks like her TRUST Model for leading in uncertain times.

I’m the CEO of OsmSec, a cybersecurity consultancy focused on content engineering, penetration testing, and offensive security training. My work revolves around helping security companies, training platforms, and organisations build practical, high-quality cybersecurity content and improve their security posture.Over the years, I’ve collaborated with teams including OffSec, SkillBit, CyberRanges, CTFbazaar, and FifthDomain to create hands-on labs, CTF challenges, penetration testing content, and technical training material.Outside of OsmSec, I’m a Core Pentester at Cobalt.io and the founder of Security BSides Vizag, where I help grow the local cybersecurity community through knowledge sharing and events.I’m passionate about offensive security, building realistic training environments, and making cybersecurity education more accessible and practical.