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Dr. Gregory Carpenter is Principal Partner at CW PENSEC and a retired U.S. Army officer with over two decades of operational experience spanning intelligence, counterintelligence, electronic warfare, deception, and security testing. He previously served in senior roles across joint and interagency environments and was recognized as NSA Operations Officer of the Year for his work in advanced operational analysis and mission execution.Dr. Carpenter’s professional focus centers on adversary modeling and the failure modes of trust, identity, and attribution under adaptive threat pressure. His work examines how emerging technologies—including cyber-physical systems, in vivo and nano-scale technologies, automation, and information operations—alter attacker behavior and invalidate long-standing defensive assumptions. He has led and advised offensive and defensive programs across cyber, information, and electronic warfare domains, with particular emphasis on how identity collapses when human operators are no longer stable or external to the systems they access.At conferences and in research settings, Dr. Carpenter translates complex adversary behavior into practical defensive insight, emphasizing how organizations must redesign identity, access control, and trust models for environments where compromise is expected rather than exceptional. He has presented at DEF CON’s Misinformation Village (2023), Adversary Village (2025), and the DEF CON Creator Stage (2024, 2025).

Kirils Solovjovs is Latvia's leading white-hat hacker and IT policy activist, renowned for uncovering and responsibly disclosing critical security vulnerabilities in both national and international systems. Kirils started programming at age 7 and by grade 9 was spending his lunch breaks writing machine code directly in a hex editor.With deep expertise in network flow analysis, reverse engineering, social engineering, and penetration testing, he has significantly contributed to cybersecurity advancements. Notably, Kirils developed the jailbreak tool for MikroTik RouterOS and played a pivotal role in creating e-Saeima, enabling the Latvian Parliament to conduct a fully remote legislative process, the first of its kind globally.He currently serves as the lead researcher at Possible Security and as a research assistant at the Institute of Electronics and Computer Science.

ISACA Cybersecurity ConferenceDelivered an insightful session on Zero Trust Security, breaking down its practical implementation and its role in modern cyber defense architecture. His talk was well-received by industry professionals and highlighted the evolving nature of perimeter-less security models.CIO News Cybersecurity ForumPresented on the integration of offensive and defensive security practices, emphasizing collaboration over siloed efforts. His impactful delivery earned him an on-the-spot award for excellence in thought leadership and practical insight.Crypto Expo DubaiTook the stage at one of the largest blockchain and cryptocurrency platforms in Dubai, where he delivered a high-impact talk on “Hacking Crypto Wallets”. The session provided deep dives into real-world attack vectors and preventive mechanisms, drawing significant attention from global fintech and blockchain professionals.