Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned Security Technologist, called a “security guru” by The Economist. He is the New York Times best-selling author of 14 books—including Click Here to Kill Everybody—as well as hundreds of articles, essays and academic papers. His influential newsletter Crypto-Gram and blog Schneier on Security are read by over 250,000 people. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University; a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School; a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, AccessNow, and the Tor Project; and an advisory board member of EPIC and VerifiedVoting.org.

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned Security Technologist, called a “security guru” by The Economist. He is the New York Times best-selling author of 14 books—including Click Here to Kill Everybody—as well as hundreds of articles, essays and academic papers. His influential newsletter Crypto-Gram and blog Schneier on Security are read by over 250,000 people. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University; a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School; a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, AccessNow, and the Tor Project; and an advisory board member of EPIC and VerifiedVoting.org.

Mike Dow has worked in the semiconductor industry for Motorola, Freescale, NXP, and now Silicon Labs for the past 25 years. He has a Professional Engineering License in the state of Texas. He has extensive experience driving and participating in wireless standards organizations such as IEEE and ISA and helped form the Wireless Industrial Technology Consortium (WiTECK) where he filled the position of Chair and President from 2007-2009. He has worked for the last 11 years in the roles of Business Development, New Product Development, and Marketing where he specializes in Security, Connectivity, IoT, Industrial IoT, Point of Sale, and Smart Energy verticals.

Joseph Kiniry, Ph.D is a Principal Scientist at Galois. He is also the Principled CEO and Chief Scientist of the public benefit corporation Free & Fair. Joe has held permanent positions at four universities, most recently a Full Professor and Head of the Software Engineering Section at the Technical University of Denmark. Specific areas that he has worked in include software verification foundations and tools, digital election systems and democracies, cryptography, smart-cards, smart-phones, critical systems for nation-states and national security, hardware security, and CAD systems for asynchronous hardware design. He has around twenty years of experience in the design, development, support, and auditing of supervised and internet/remote electronic voting systems.

The author of HACKABLE: How to Do Application Security Right, Ted Harrington is the Executive Partner at Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), the ethical hackers famous for being the first to hack the iPhone.  For leading security research that Wired Magazine says “wins the prize, hands down,” Ted has been named Executive of the Year [American Business Awards] and 40 Under 40 [SD Metro].  He leads the group that started and organizes IoT Village, an event whose hacking contest is a three-time DEFCON Black Badge winner, and which represents the discovery of more than 300 zero-day vulnerabilities (and counting).

Paul Roberts is a seasoned reporter, editor and media entrepreneur with more than 17 years' experience covering the information technology security space. He is the founder of The Security Ledger. an independent security news website that explores the intersection of cyber security with business, commerce, politics and everyday life. He is also the founder of The Security of Things Forum and of SecuRepairs, an organization of information security professionals who support a digital right to repair. Paul has appeared on NPR’s Marketplace Tech Report, KPCC AirTalk, Fox News Tech Take, Al Jazeera and The Oprah Show.