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Mariano Nunez
Mariano Nunez is the CEO and co-founder of Onapsis, the Boston-based company that pioneered security for the business-critical ERP applications - SAP, Oracle and others - that run the world's largest enterprises. A security researcher turned operator, he was among the first to publicly demonstrate cyberattacks against SAP systems and built the first open-source ERP penetration testing framework. Under his leadership, Onapsis Research Labs has discovered and helped patch more than 1,000 zero-day vulnerabilities, and the company partners directly with SAP as an endorsed application security solution. Nunez has been named EY Entrepreneur of the Year, an MIT Top 35 Innovator Under 35, and a Boston Business Journal 40 Under 40.
Ivan Novikov
Ivan Novikov is the founder and CEO of Wallarm, an AI-powered API security platform that has raised over $70 million in funding including a $55M Series C in 2025. With 24+ years in cybersecurity, he is recognized as the inventor of memcached injection attacks and a pioneer of SSRF research, having earned bug bounty awards from Google, Facebook, Twitter, Tesla, and Yandex. A Y Combinator S16 alumnus with a physics background from Moscow State University, Novikov transformed hands-on offensive security expertise into a company protecting APIs for enterprises worldwide.