Andrew Conway is Vice President of Security Marketing at Microsoft, where he has spent over 20 years driving the go-to-market strategy for one of the world's largest security businesses. A prolific author on the Microsoft Security Blog and a regular media voice on cybersecurity workforce challenges and AI-powered defense, Conway has shepherded Microsoft's security marketing from the Enterprise Mobility + Security era through to today's AI-native Security Copilot and Defender Experts Suite. He is the senior-most marketing executive dedicated to Microsoft's $20B+ security business and an outspoken advocate for using AI as a force multiplier for overwhelmed security defenders.
Rohit Ghai is the President and CEO of Barracuda Networks, appointed September 2025 after nearly eight years leading RSA Security through its spin-out from Dell Technologies and its pivot toward identity security. A two-decade veteran of enterprise security and SaaS - including Symantec, EMC and CA Technologies - he sits on the boards of Pegasystems, D-Wave Systems and MHC Software, and is known on the RSA Conference keynote stage for arguing that the human element, not the machine, is what wins in cybersecurity.
Exaforce is a San Jose cybersecurity company building an Agentic AI SOC platform. Its multi-model AI engine and a crew of agents called Exabots handle detection, triage, investigation, and response so security teams stop drowning in alerts and start finding the real breaches.
Dr. John Pritchard is the CEO of Radiant Logic, where he leads a platform that unifies identity data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments for Fortune 500 enterprises. With a PhD in open innovation in AI from the University of Denver and over 25 years spanning Lockheed Martin, IBM, Adobe, and Okta, Pritchard joined Radiant Logic in 2022 as Chief Product Officer and expanded the company from a virtual directory provider into an AI-powered Identity Security Posture Management platform - before being appointed CEO in January 2025. He is a Forbes Technology Council contributor, Identiverse keynote speaker, and a vocal advocate for treating identity data as a strategic organizational asset.
Sumit Dhawan is the CEO of Proofpoint, a leading cybersecurity company protecting over 85 Fortune 100 companies with $2B+ in ARR. With 25+ years building enterprise software businesses at Citrix, Instart, and VMware (where he drove $13B in revenue as President), Dhawan joined Proofpoint in November 2023 with a mandate to unify human-centric security and grow toward $5B ARR by 2030. He is known for championing the idea that 95% of cybersecurity failures trace to human error - and that defending people is the only real way to defend organizations.
Abhishek Agrawal is the Co-Founder and CEO of Material Security, a San Francisco-based cybersecurity company that pioneered zero-trust protection for cloud email and collaboration environments. A Princeton-trained engineer who attended college at 16 and later earned his MBA from Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar (top 5%), Agrawal co-founded Material Security in 2017 alongside former Dropbox colleagues Ryan Noon and Chris Park, inspired by the 2016 John Podesta email breach. Under his leadership, Material Security reached unicorn status ($1.1B valuation) after a $100M Series C in May 2022 led by Founders Fund, with backing from Andreessen Horowitz, Elad Gil, and Snowflake Ventures. The platform protects organizations like OpenAI, Anthropic, Reddit, Lyft, Roblox, and DoorDash against email-based threats and data loss in Google Workspace and Microsoft 365.
Belsasar 'Bel' Lepe is co-founder and CEO of Cerby, the identity automation platform built to secure the applications that traditional identity tools ignore - the sprawling layer of disconnected, nonstandard, and unmanageable apps that enterprises actually run on. A first-generation Mexican-American and Stanford Computer Science graduate, Lepe started at Google at 18, then co-founded Ooyala - a video technology company that achieved two exits totaling over $440M - before turning his attention to the gaping hole in enterprise identity security. Cerby raised $54M in Series B funding in 2025, counts L'Oréal, Fox, and Allstate among its customers, and has grown ARR 10x in under two years.
Todd McKinnon is the co-founder and CEO of Okta, the leading independent identity platform, which he built from a two-person startup in 2009 into a publicly traded company with over 18,000 customers and $2 billion in annual revenue. A former head of engineering at Salesforce, McKinnon saw the cloud shift coming before most and bet his career - and his family's financial security - on the idea that identity would become the new security perimeter. He has led Okta through its 2017 NASDAQ IPO, a $6.5 billion acquisition of Auth0 in 2021, and a high-profile 2022 security breach, emerging from each as a more seasoned, candid, and mission-driven leader.