Richard Greenberg, CISSP is a well-known Cyber Security Leader and Evangelist, CISO, Advisor, and speaker.
Richard brings over 30 years of management experience and has been a strategic and thought leader in IT and Information Security. His Project Management, Security Management and Operations, Policy, and Compliance experience has helped shape his broad perspective on creating and implementing Information Security Programs.

Richard has been a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for 15 years, Director of Surveillance and Information Systems, Chief of Security Operations, Director of IT, and Project Manager for various companies and agencies in the private and public sectors.

You may have heard Richard’s interview as a Cyber Security expert on Will Ferrell’s Ron Burgundy podcast: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/the-ron-burgundy-podcast-30270227/episode/cyber-security-47951911/.

Richard is the Founder and CEO of Security Advisors LLC, which offers fully-managed security assessments and network and software penetration testing services that allows organizations to continuously assess their internal and external cyber risk posture, and helps companies with compliance issues. He is also the CEO of Layer 8 Masters, which has been putting on the content-rich Planet Cyber Sec conferences and CISO-CIO Forums.

Richard is an Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) Distinguished Fellow, one of only 64 worldwide, and has received their Honor Roll designation (only 55 worldwide). He has also been selected as a finalist for both the (ISC)2 Americas Information Security Leadership Award in the Senior Information Security Professional category and the Los Angeles Business Journal CIO of the Year in Security.
Richard has served on the OWASP Global Board of Directors, leads the OWASP LA Chapter, and has been Co-Chair of the highly successful AppSec California conferences. Richard also is President of the Information Systems Security Association Los Angeles Chapter and is Chair of their widely recognized annual Security Summit and CISO Forum.

Richard is dedicated to diversity in our field. He started and chairs the annual Women in Security Forum, and supports creating a more open and welcome community. Richard’s reach in the Southern California region is extensive. He has worked diligently to bring together the various Southern California IT and InfoSec organizations to enhance their collaboration efforts, to help reach new IT and InfoSec professionals.
Richard has been a published author and has spoken worldwide on Information Security, individually and on panels.

Mike Wylie
Michael Wylie, MBA, CISSP, leads Zscaler’s Threat Hunting team, bringing over a decade of hands-on experience in proactive threat detection and incident response. As a former threat hunting Director at both CrowdStrike and a major consulting firm, he has a proven track record of building and scaling elite SecOps teams.

Michael’s expertise is grounded in practical application, developed through training for organizations including the U.S. Department of Defense and leading sessions at conferences like DEFCON. His work focuses on bridging the gap between cutting-edge research and real-world practitioner challenges.​

A sought-after speaker on the human side of AI and cybersecurity, Dutch holds an MBA, cybersecurity certificates from MIT and Harvard University, the AI Programme certificate from Oxford University, and is a Qualified Technology Executive (QTE). He is currently earning a master’s degree in psychology to help make AI more responsible and secure for everyone.

Edward Bonver
Edward Bonver, CISSP, CSSLP, is a cybersecurity leader with more than 25 years of experience spanning software development, assurance, and product security. His background includes roles at Raytheon Technologies, Symantec, Digital Equipment Corporation, Veritas Technologies, and Arctera, where he has worked across the spectrum from real-time operating systems and networking protocols to enterprise-scale product security programs.

A recognized software security evangelist, Edward served on the OWASP Los Angeles Chapter Board of Directors and helped organize multiple OWASP AppSec California conferences. He also served on the SAFECode Board of Directors, representing Symantec and Raytheon Technologies, contributing to SAFECode working groups and publications. He speaks regularly at global security events and contributes to security community forums and industry alliances.

The incidents in this talk come from his personal project — a poetry website he has maintained for 25 years — rebuilt over three months with AI assistance, producing a security incident register that maps real AI failures to OWASP controls.​

Fayeron Morrison, CPA, CFE is the Founder and President of Elemental AI, a strategic advisory firm that helps boards and executive teams establish AI oversight that is proportionate to risk, legally defensible, and built to evolve with the technology.

She brings more than 25 years of experience in audit, fraud examination, and corporate governance, including 11 years at Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC). Today, she works with boards and leadership teams to translate AI from a technical topic into a governance discipline -clarifying accountability, surfacing risk, and strengthening oversight.

Fayeron is a graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business AI Leadership program and serves as Co-Chair of the Private Directors Association’s AI Governance Special Interest Group. She is also a contributor to the PDA National AI Task Force developing AI Oversight Governance: The Private Director’s Body of Knowledge (2026).

Her work is anchored by the Elemental AI Governance Navigator, a proprietary diagnostic used to assess organizational AI maturity and risk across seven critical domains. She is the author of Elemental AI: The Briefing, a weekly Substack and podcast focused on AI governance for boards and executives.

Julie Morris

Julie Michelle Morris serves as Head of Thought Leadership for a select group of leading executives and enterprises in cybersecurity, AI, and policy. Her work focuses on translating technical expertise into strategic thought leadership and growing revenue by building audience trust. She is deeply interested in how ideas spread, how trust is earned, and how influence can be used in service of others at scale. She speaks and teaches regularly on both the strategic case for thought leadership and the tactics that make it effective, hosts the How to Thought Leadership podcast, and is writing her first book, a reinvention field guide focused on aligning personal ambition, market demand, and a minimum viable brand in an AI-shaped world, for release in summer 2026.

Chris Ward

Chris Ward is the CEO of Fire Mountain Labs, where he leads the company’s mission to advance safe and assured AI. Under his direction, Fire Mountain Labs delivers pioneering AI assurance solutions to enterprise and government clients, ensuring AI systems are deployed with security, integrity, and accountability.

With over a decade of experience in AI and AI Security, Chris has coauthored 23 publications in the field and brings deep technical and operational expertise. A veteran of of the U.S. Navy and Federal Civil Service, Chris also brings deep expertise from Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Center Pacific, the Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC), the MITRE Corporation, and several successful AI startups. His background spans operational technology, national security, and cutting-edge AI innovation.

As a trusted voice in the AI ecosystem, Chris operates as an honest broker – bridging government, industry, academia, and small organizations. He advocates for AI adopters navigating a crowded and hype-driven landscape, championing pragmatic, secure, and trustworthy solutions that serve the public good and strengthen national resilience.

Before founding Fire Mountain Labs, Chris held senior leadership roles in AI security research and red teaming, where he shaped industry standards in AI risk assessment, penetration testing, secure AI governance, and adversarial threat modeling.

Serafino Sini
Serafino Sini is a senior cybersecurity executive and CISO for North America at Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A., supporting enterprise cybersecurity and risk management across a global organization. He brings deep experience in cyber risk management, security architecture, and governance within large automotive and manufacturing environments.
Prior to Yamaha, Serafino held longstanding roles at Toyota Motor Corporation, where he contributed to enterprise security architecture and information security consulting initiatives focused on aligning security strategy with business objectives.

A CISSPcertified leader, Serafino is active in the cybersecurity community as a member of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA – Los Angeles) and an AutoISAC Advisory Board participant and member of the Gartner Southern California CISO community. He is a frequent conference speaker, sharing executive insights on cybersecurity leadership, risk management, and industry collaboration.

Horica “Rico” Ionescu is an information security leader with a decade of experience driving security operations and regulatory compliance in the software industry. He is motivated by driving cultural change to embed secure practices across teams and business processes.

He is currently an Information Security Manager at Finvi, where he oversees the information security team.

Outside of work, Rico is a voracious reader who enjoys a good cup of coffee, cycling (road and mountain biking), and spending time with his family. He currently lives in Tallahassee, Florida.

David Boewer, Exposure Management Field CTO, brings over 19 years of experience as a commercial and technology leader, including more than 8 years leading go-to-market strategies. He has spent over 15 years advising on and implementing cybersecurity solutions for large enterprises, along with over 10 years addressing complex operational challenges.

Bennett is a cybersecurity leader with 24 years of experience helping organizations tackle the today’s modern security challenges. As a Solutions Director at Armis, he specializes in cutting through complexity to deliver security strategies that work in the real world — not just on paper. He brings a practitioner’s mindset to every conversation, with deep experience across the evolving threat landscape facing modern enterprises.

Outside the security world, Bennett is a coach, a father of four, and can usually be found on a mountain bike or behind a wake boat — all of which, he’d argue, require about the same level of risk management.

Chris Lindsey is a seasoned speaker who has appeared at conferences, webinars, and private events. Chris draws on expertise from more than 15 years of direct security experience leading and building security programs and over 35 years of experience leading teams in programming, software, solutions, and security architecture.

Mike is a Connector, a Solution Finder and Problem Solver. With 20 plus years in technology and thousands of enterprise IT project engagements, Mike Miller has a wealth of knowledge, experience and an extensive network. Mike has worked as a sales leader for major corporations like AT&T, NetApp, Internap and currently works as a Vendor Agnostic Solutions Consultant.

Mike is a Solutions Consultant serving the Enterprise IT community with a Client Advocate approach. He helps solve problems with an extensive network of providers and partners that can deliver results. Mike specializes in Managed Services, Network, Security, Cloud Computing, UC and the modern CX Contact Center. Mike has built a large and loyal client base with many major logos. Mike and his partners have built a large network of IT Executives by establishing groups, hosting events, speaking engagements and running a Podcast (Boardroom sessions Podcast with Mike Miller) to name a few channels. When not in the company conference room, Mike can be found on a paddle board, surfboard, bike or running on the local trails. He lives in Huntington Beach with his wife and 3 children.

Co-founder & Chief Product Officer at Heeler

At Cycode, Jimmy helped shape the company’s AI-native application security strategy, including the design of Cycode Maestro, an agentic AI system focused on exploitability analysis and autonomous remediation workflows. He is a frequent speaker at OWASP, Cloud Security Alliance, and industry conferences, where he focuses on securing the Agentic Development Lifecycle, AI software supply chains, and modern AI attack surfaces.

Richard Greenberg, CISSP is a well-known Cyber Security Leader and Evangelist, CISO, Advisor, and speaker.
Richard brings over 30 years of management experience and has been a strategic and thought leader in IT and Information Security. His Project Management, Security Management and Operations, Policy, and Compliance experience has helped shape his broad perspective on creating and implementing Information Security Programs.

Richard has been a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for 15 years, Director of Surveillance and Information Systems, Chief of Security Operations, Director of IT, and Project Manager for various companies and agencies in the private and public sectors.

You may have heard Richard’s interview as a Cyber Security expert on Will Ferrell’s Ron Burgundy podcast: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/the-ron-burgundy-podcast-30270227/episode/cyber-security-47951911/.

Richard is the Founder and CEO of Security Advisors LLC, which offers fully-managed security assessments and network and software penetration testing services that allows organizations to continuously assess their internal and external cyber risk posture, and helps companies with compliance issues. He is also the CEO of Layer 8 Masters, which has been putting on the content-rich Planet Cyber Sec conferences and CISO-CIO Forums.

Richard is an Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) Distinguished Fellow, one of only 64 worldwide, and has received their Honor Roll designation (only 55 worldwide). He has also been selected as a finalist for both the (ISC)2 Americas Information Security Leadership Award in the Senior Information Security Professional category and the Los Angeles Business Journal CIO of the Year in Security.
Richard has served on the OWASP Global Board of Directors, leads the OWASP LA Chapter, and has been Co-Chair of the highly successful AppSec California conferences. Richard also is President of the Information Systems Security Association Los Angeles Chapter and is Chair of their widely recognized annual Security Summit and CISO Forum.

Richard is dedicated to diversity in our field. He started and chairs the annual Women in Security Forum, and supports creating a more open and welcome community. Richard’s reach in the Southern California region is extensive. He has worked diligently to bring together the various Southern California IT and InfoSec organizations to enhance their collaboration efforts, to help reach new IT and InfoSec professionals.
Richard has been a published author and has spoken worldwide on Information Security, individually and on panels.