All of our past speakers!
Speakers - 2019
Aaron Ringo
Aaron is currently serving in the USAF as a Cyber Warfare Instructor. He holds some certs and has previously served as …
April C. Wright
April C. Wright is a hacker, author, teacher, and community leader who has been breaking, making, fixing, and defending …
Brent White
Brent is an Sr. Security Consultant at NTT Security as well as a Trusted Advisor for the Tennessee Department of Safety …
Brett Gravois
Brett is a Breaker of Web Applications, Leader of a DefCon Group, Maker of Tasty Food, and Owner of a Majestic Beard. He …
Brian Baskin
Brian is a Senior Threat Researcher with Carbon Black‚Äôs Threat Analysis Unit with a specialty in digital forensics, …
Chloe Messdaghi
Chloé Messdaghi is the VP of Strategy at Point3 Security. She is a security researcher advocate who supports safe …
Chris Holt
Certified by GAIC, NTISSI, PADI, and previously by the USSF, Chris Holt is constantly learning something new. As the …
Christina Mitchell
Christina is an Application Security Engineer at Indeed. She works with the crowdsourced bug hunting platform, and …
Damon J. Small
Damon “ch3f” Small is an industry veteran with nearly 30 years of experience in the information security field. He began …
Erika Noerenberg
Erika Noerenberg is a Senior Threat Researcher with Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit, with over 15 years of …
Evan Wagner
20 years of IT and Security experience in EDU, Healthcare, Hospitality and retail. I have been working Incident Response …
Evil-Mog (Dustin Heywood)
EvilMog is the Chief Architect for X-Force and Senior Technical Staff Member, Bishop of the Church of Wifi, and member …
Hexadecim8
Hexa is a threat hunter and security researcher with 10 years in the field. She has worked with NSA, CIA, US Cyber …
Jason Haddix
Jason is the VP of Researcher Growth at Bugcrowd. Jason works with Bugcrowd to improve the security industries relations …
Jason Kichen
Jason is the VP of Advanced Security Services at eSentire. Prior, Jason spent nearly 15 years in the Intelligence …
Jayson E. Street
Jayson E. Street is the VP of InfoSec at SphereNY … He is also DEF CON Groups Global Ambassador. Jayson battled a …
Jeff Man
Jeff is a respected Information Security expert, adviser, and evangelist. He has over 33 years of experience working in …
Jim Allee
Jimi2x has 25+ years of experience in InfoSec (Blue+Red+Purple Teaming/Security Research) and also involved in the video …
Jim Nitterauer
Jim is a Senior Security Engineer at AppRiver, LLC. a Zix Company. He holds a CISSP, a CISM and is well-versed in …
Joe Gray
Joe Gray joined the U.S. Navy directly out of High School and served for 7 years as a Submarine Navigation Electronics …
John Holowczak
John is a Senior Threat Analyst on Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit focusing on automation of threat detection …
Josh Harvey
I have been working with computers for 10+ years and currently as a Systems Administrator at NASA.
Josh Millsap
I am a new cybersecurity professional that recently graduated from LSU. I was the teaching assistant for the …
Josh Schwartz
Josh Schwartz, aka FuzzyNop, has been known to be a computer who knows how to computer. It is generally agreed that he …
Josh Stone
Josh Stone is a security researcher, working currently in the area of red teaming command and control systems. …
JP Villanueva
JP Villanueva (@swagnetow) is a security researcher whose main focus is in Application Security. JP has presented at …
Marcelle Lee
Marcelle Lee is a PCAP and Forensics Chuck Norris and Joe is a Social Engineering Mr. T. Together, they bring innovative …
Michele Bousquet
Michele Bousquet is a digital forensics analyst and a professor at Tulane University, where she teaches cryptography.
Nancy Snoke
Nancy Snoke is currently a Senior IT Security Engineer with PGAC specializing in application security. Previously, she …
Paul W. Brager Jr M.Sci, CISSP, GICSP, CISM
Mr. Paul W. Brager, Jr has been a contributing member of the cyber security community for over twenty-three (23) years, …
Phoenix Snoke
Phoenix Snoke is frustrated IoT inventor. His great devices like The Bathroom Buddy with Facebook integration, …
Samantha Davison
Samantha Davison is a Behavioral Engineering Manager at Lyft where she nudges employees & users towards positive …
Sophia Fadli
Sophia Fadli is the founder of BSideNOVA by day and a Cyber Defense Analyst by night. She speaks 3 different languages …
Tim Roberts
Tim is a Sr. Security Consultant within NTT Security’s Threat Services group. He has spoken at national, international …
Trey Underwood
Trey Underwood is a infosec engineer at a super secret security company. Previously he has been involved with several IT …
Yolonda Smith
Yolonda Smith is a Lead Infosec Analyst with Target Corporation‚ Business Information Security Office, aligned with the …