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

CISC18 Conference Speakers

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

Sridhar Balasubramanian

Principal Product Security Architect, NetApp

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

Daniel Birenkott

Director of Operations, IT Veterans

Josh Blaher

Manager, Product Security Engineering, Red Hat

Stacy Bostjanick

Former Chief Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity, US Department of Defense (DoD)

Bryan Bowlsbey

Director, CGI Federal, US Defense Business Unit

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)

Victor Cich

Sr. Compliance Consultant, RADICL

Conner Crisafulli

Field Solutions Engineer, Cigent

Derrick Davis

 Senior Fellow of the CREM Institute at UMBC

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

Joshua Fallon

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

Justin Fisher

CCTL Technical Director, Leidos

Sean Frazier

Federal CSO, Okta

Andrew Freund

Founder & CEO, Kraken Compliance

Corey Garretson

Compliance Consultant, RADICL

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)

James Goepel

Executive Vice President, Peak Infosec

Adam Golodner

Managing Partner, AMG Global Cyber Law, PLLC

Jonathan Halstuch

Chief Technology Officer, RackTop Systems, Inc.

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

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

Troy McCartney

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

Daniel Odonohue

EVP, Owl Cyber Defense

Manuel Offenberg

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

John Osborne

Senior Principal Solutions Engineer, Chainguard

Ali Pabrai

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

George Perezdiaz

Managing Director & Lead CMMC Assessor, PEREZDIAZ

Christopher Port

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

Carter Schoenberg

Lead Assessor and CSO, Soundway Consulting