May 3-4, 2027 | 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

Dr. Don Baggett

National Security Agency (NSA)

Tony Bai

Chief Solutions Officer, RISCPoint

Sridhar Balasubramanian

Principal Product Security Architect, NetApp

Adam Bartolanzo

Principle, Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

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

Stacy Bostjanick

Former OUSD A&S, Director of Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Policy, DOW

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)

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

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.

Matthew Downey

Technical Lead, National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP)

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

Jon Green

CTO, HPE Networking

Michael Greenman

Sr. Manager, Cloud Solutions, Deltek

James Goepel

Executive Vice President, Peak Infosec

Adam Golodner

Managing Partner, AMG Global Cyber Law, PLLC

Matt Goodrich

Director, Federal Security Compliance SME, Diligent

Rupal Gupta

Security Engineer III, Intertek Acumen Security, USA

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