May 4-5, 2026 | The Hotel UMD, College Park, Maryland

Speakers 2026

Including CMMC Day, Common Criteria Day, CSfC Conference, and DIB Cloud Services Day

Adam Bartolanzo

Principle, Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Rachel Bassford

CUI Consultant, DEFCERT

Justin Beals

CEO & Founder, Strike Graph

David Bedard

Director of Compliance, KTL Solutions

Tom Benkart

Archon Director of Cyber Bertifications, ID Technologies, A CACI Company

Scott Bernoudy

Founder and CEO, Open Approach

Michael Brooks

CMMC Strategy & Engagement Director, A-LIGN

Victor Cich

Sr. Compliance Consultant, RADICL

Conner Crisafulli

Field Solutions Engineer, Cigent

Derrick Davis

Associate Director DOD OSBP, State And DOD

Herbert Decker

Cybersecurity Practitioner and Security Strategist, Tretechpro

John Dunker

Director CSfC PMO, National Security Agency (NSA)

Fred Elliott

Sr. Manager, Business Development, Curtiss-Wright

Justin Fisher

CCTL Technical Director, Leidos

Sean Frazier

Federal CSO, Okta

Andrew Freund

Founder & CEO, Kraken Compliance

James Goepel

Executive Vice President, Peak Infosec

Stuart Itkin

Chief Security Evangelist, Futurefeed

Melissa Kaiser

Director, Compliance, SOCSoter

Derek Kernus

CEO, Aethon Security Consulting

Kristy Knowles

Security Research Engineering Technical Leader, Cisco

Kyle Lai

President and CISO, KLC Consulting

Fernando Machado

Managing Principal/CISO, Cybersec Investments

Herbert Markle

CC Technical Director and Lead DoDIN APL Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton

Joshua Marpet

Chief Compliance Officer, Cyturus

Troy McCartney

CISSP, Director of Cybersecurity, Compliance & AI Innovation, Alpha Team Solutions

Daniel Odonohue

EVP, Owl Cyber Defense

Ali Pabrai

Lead CCA, CCP, RPA, RP, CISSP (ISSAP, ISSMP), HITRUST CCSFP, MSEE, ecfirst

George Perezdiaz

Managing Director & Lead CMMC Assessor, PEREZDIAZ

Carter Schoenberg

Lead Assessor and CSO, Soundway Consulting

Derek Strausbaugh

CTO, National Security, Microsoft Federal

Darnell Washington

President CEO, Cyber Center For Education And Innovation Home Of The National Cryptologic Museum

Leslie Weinstein

Owner, The Cyber Advisor

Scott Whitehouse

VP, Compliance, C3 Integrated Solutions

Bill Wootton

Chief Revenue Officer, C3 Integrated Solutions