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

Mohammed Abaza

Partner, VP Engineering, Limitless Defense LLC

Roger Abbott

Co-chair of the ABA Public Contract Law on Cybersecurity and Emerging Technologies, Miles & Stockbridge

Joshua Anzaroot

Principal, JLS Consulting Group

Dr. Don Baggett

National Security Agency (NSA)

Tony Bai

Chief Solutions Officer, RISCPoint

Sridhar Balasubramanian

Principal Product Security Architect, NetApp

Rachel Bassford

CUI Consultant, DEFCERT

Mark Battaglini

Lead Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton

Wilson Bautista

CEO, Jun Cyber

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

Daniel Birenkott

Director of Operations, IT Veterans

Josh Blaher

Manager, Product Security Engineering, Red Hat

Bryan Bowlsbey

Director, CGI Federal, US Defense Business Unit

Richard Breakiron

Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives and Executive Programs, Commvault

Stacy High Brinkley

Sr Mgr, Industry Spec Svcs, BDO

Michael Brooks

CMMC Strategy & Engagement Director, A-LIGN

Curtis Chappell

Vice President, Security, Thales Defense & Security, Inc. (TDSI)

Conner Crisafulli

Field Solutions Engineer, Cigent

Derrick Davis

 Senior Fellow of the CREM Institute at UMBC

Herbert Decker

Cybersecurity Practitioner and Security Strategist, Tretechpro

Nathan Degruttola

Technical Director - CSfC Engineering, CSfC Program Management Office, National Security Agency (NSA)

Jay Diem

Founder & CEO, SloariX

Bill Downer

Vice President, Sales, RedData, a division of RPI-CS, Inc.

John Dunker

Director, CSfC Program Management Office, National Security Agency (NSA)

Fred Elliott

Sr. Manager, Business Development, Curtiss-Wright

Tim Fahl

CTO, Owl Cyber Defense

Joshua Fallon

Senior Network Defense Analyst Monitoring & Response Directorate CERT Division, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Justin Fisher

CCTL Technical Director, Leidos

Steven Fraser

Technical Director, CSfC Program Management Office, National Security Agency (NSA)

Sean Frazier

Federal CSO, Okta

Cole French

CMMC Practice Lead, Kratos Defense and Security Solutions

Andrew Freund

Founder & CEO, Kraken Compliance

Corey Garretson

Compliance Consultant, RADICL

Suprotik Ghose

CISO, Graphene Security

James Goepel

Executive Vice President, Peak Infosec

Adam Golodner

Managing Partner, AMG Global Cyber Law, PLLC

Matt Goodrich

Director, Federal Security Compliance SME, Diligent

Eric Gursky

CISSP, C|EHv8 Group Lead, Commercial Solutions for Classified Trusted Integrator Team Cryptographic Modernization Branch Engineering and Systems Integration Directorate C5ISR Center U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM)

Jonathan Halstuch

Chief Technology Officer, RackTop Systems, Inc.

Patrick Hannah

CTO, CloudHesive

Brian Hayes

Network Engineer, Johns Hopkins University APL

Stuart Itkin

Chief Security Evangelist, Futurefeed

Bhanu Jagasia

Founding Samurai, Chief Executive Samurai & Chief Technology Samurai, bladestack.io

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

Kenneth Lasoski

Compliance Director, Versa Networks

Jussipekka Leiwo

Principal Consultant, Teron Labs

Fernando Machado

Managing Principal/CISO, Cybersec Investments

Alexander Major

Partner, Co-Chair, Government Contracts & Global Trade Practice, McCarter & English, LLP

Herbert Markle

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

Joshua Marpet

Chief Compliance Officer, Cyturus

Ed Morris

Lab Director, Gossamer Security Solutions

Daniel Odonohue

EVP, Owl Cyber Defense

Manuel Offenberg

CTO Chief Architect, RedData, a division of RPI-CS, Inc.

Scott Orton

CEO, Owl Cyber Defense

John Osborne

Senior Principal Solutions Engineer, Chainguard

Ali Pabrai

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

Dominic Perez

CTO, Curtiss-Wright

George Perezdiaz

Managing Director & Lead CMMC Assessor, PEREZDIAZ

Patrick Perry

Director of Emerging Technology, Zscaler

Jordan Phillips

Software Engineer, wolfSSL

Christopher Port

USMC Network Engineering Officer, United States Marine Corps (USMC)

Carl Rios

Chief Executive Officer, Founder, Rios Enterprises

Jon Rolf

Independent, Retired NSA NIAP Director

Mike Rovnan

ISSE, CSfC Program Management Office, National Security Agency (NSA)

Allen Sant

Common Criteria Testing Laboratory Technical Director / Infrastructure Manager, Leidos

Carter Schoenberg

Lead Assessor and CSO, Soundway Consulting

Shaunak Shah

Manager, Engineering, Intertek Acumen Security/EWA Canada

Angela Soum

National Information Assurance Partnership

Keith Stacy

Managing Director, Networking Practice, Iron Bow Technologies

Jade Stewart

Portfolio Manager, National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP)

John Taggart

Information Security Officer, Emerson

Tom Tollerton

Principal, Forvis Mazars US

Mark Treleven

Field CTO, Ivanti

Daniel Turissini

Cyber Security Specialist, Certified CMMC Assessor (CCA), Educare of Northern Virginia

Tom Walheim

Director of Cybersecurity and Deputy Chief Security Officer, Hypori

Darnell Washington

President and CEO of SecureXperts, Incorporated

Leslie Weinstein

Owner, The Cyber Advisor

John Weisz

CSfC Program Management Office, National Security Agency (NSA)

Scott Whitehouse

VP, Compliance, C3 Integrated Solutions

Brian Wood

Program Manager, Google

Bill Wootton

Chief Revenue Officer, C3 Integrated Solutions

Matthew Downey

Technical Lead, National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP)

Jon Green

CTO, HPE Networking