Amelia Estwick is the director of the National Cybersecurity Institute at Excelsior College and a thought leader for the College’s cybersecurity research, training, and academic initiatives. Prior to her academic position, she served 17 years with the National Security Agency (NSA) in various technical leadership positions to include Technical Director within NSA’s Cyber Threat Operations Center, which is responsible for monitoring and securing Department of Defense (DoD) networks against cyberattacks. Dr. Estwick’s research in cybersecurity and computer science focused on global threat intelligence, operations security, and national defense.

As an educator, Dr. Estwick lectures on cybersecurity and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) topics of interest. She is passionate about educating the next generation of cybersecurity professionals and currently co-chairs the United States National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity Education Diversity Initiative.

She is a National Physical Sciences Consortium Fellow, a U.S. Army Gulf-War Veteran, and was recognized as one of the Top 100 Women Know Cyber by Cybersecurity Ventures.

Amelia is passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives to increase the pipeline for women and minority professionals in STEM and cybersecurity fields.

The Last Watchdog is one of the top cybersecurity websites globally.

Acohido’s interest in cybersecurity and privacy arose in 2000 when he joined USA TODAY. By chronicling the frenetic emergence of cybercrime in its formative stages, he delivered a nationally-recognized body of work for USAT.

He is the lead author of Zero Day Threat: The Shocking Truth of How Banks And Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity. It’s a non-fiction thriller that received the 2009 NYSSCPA Excellence in Financial Journalism Award for general audience books. Acohido’s cogent articles, podcasts, and videos are the gold-standard for smart coverage of complex privacy and security issues distilled for an intelligent audience.

While at the Seattle Times earlier in his career, Acohido received the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting and 11 other national awards for various profound investigative stories.

Acohido is dedicated to fostering awareness to help make our Internet-centric economy as secure as it ought to be.

Emma Lindley is an advisor in identity and co-founder of Women in Identity – a not-for-profit organisation focused on developing talent and diversity in the identity industry.

Emma also serves on the editorial board for Good ID, the Omidyar funded movement towards ethical and humanitarian principles in the field of digital identity.

She has been recognised in the Innovate Finance Powerlist for Women 2016 and 2017, KNOW Identity Top 100 leaders in Identity in 2017, 2018 and 2019, 100 Women in Tech Awards 2019, and was voted CEO of the year at the KNOW Identity Awards.

She has an MBA from Manchester Business School and completed her thesis in Competitive Strategy in the Identity Market.

Vektor Partners is a venture capital firm investing in companies disrupting the mobility space.

Before co-founding Vektor Partners, Sebastian was Head of Automotive Technology and Mobility Services Investment Banking with global bank BNP Paribas. There, he worked closely with boards and senior management teams of carmakers, part suppliers, and start-ups to develop and execute their strategic agenda, including acquisitions & divestments, capital raises, mergers, and IPOs.

Before that, he worked for US investment banks Moelis and Greenhill, focusing on M&A. Sebastian holds a Master in International Economics and Business Studies from the University of Innsbruck and an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York.

Oxipit, a World Summit Awards 2020 winner in the Health category, is a startup helping radiologists be more productive using Deep Learning technologies

After graduating in Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, Gediminas has been working at the intersection of Data Science and Software Engineering for the last decade.

Lead by Gediminas, Oxipit won the largest Computer Vision competition in 2017. Also, he helped build Artificial Intelligence (AI) community in Lithuania by organizing numerous meetups and expert discussions. Gediminas is one of the founding members of the AI association of Lithuania.

Susan has over 20 years of working experience in the cybersecurity and digital identity fields. Before moving into the tech sector, she was an analytical chemist working in environmental and pharmaceutical analysis.

Susan’s core areas of domain expertise include usability, accessibility, and data privacy within a consumer digital transaction context.

Her mantra is to make sure that human beings control technology, not the other way around. She regularly writes on identity and security in publications such as CSOOnline.