Featured Speakers
Adam Meyers
Senior Vice President, Counter Adversary Operations, CrowdStrike
Adam Meyers is Senior Vice President of Counter Adversary Operations at CrowdStrike, leading the company's Threat Intelligence line of business. He directs a globally dispersed team of cyber threat experts tracking criminal, state-sponsored, and nationalist adversary groups, producing actionable intelligence to protect customers. He oversees the development and deployment of AI, machine learning, reverse engineering, and natural language processing to detect and stop sophisticated adversaries. His work combining human intelligence with technology-driven insights continues to transform cybersecurity.
Martin Wendiggensen
AI Research Scientist | PhD Researcher, Dreadnode | Johns Hopkins
Martin Wendiggensen is an AI Research Scientist at Dreadnode and PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins AIST, focusing on how AI is shifting the cybersecurity offensive-defensive balance. He holds a Master's degree in International Relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS and a Bachelor's in Political Science from the University of Mannheim. He has conducted research at NATO, ETH Zurich, and the University of Mannheim, and previously served as a policy advisor to a member of the German Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee. He also writes a twice-monthly column explaining AI technology for one of Europe's largest newspapers.
John Hultquist
Chief Analyst, Google Threat Intelligence Group
John Hultquist is Chief Analyst at Google Threat Intelligence Group, having come to Google through its acquisition of Mandiant. John has over 25 years of experience in intelligence and special operations, principally covering emerging threats in cyber espionage. His team found and first publicly exposed the Russian threat actor best known as Sandworm. John is the founder of CYBERWARCON and SLEUTHCON, and he teaches at Johns Hopkins University. He is also a veteran of the US Army.
Sherrod DeGrippo
GM Global Threat Intelligence, Microsoft
Sherrod DeGrippo is the General Manager of Microsoft Global Threat Intelligence and host of the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast. She was recognized as Cybersecurity Woman of the Year (2022). Previously, she served as Director of Threat Intelligence Strategy at Microsoft. Her background includes serving as Vice President of Threat Research and Detection at Proofpoint, leading a global team focused on threat research, malware analysis, and intelligence operations. With over two decades of cybersecurity experience, she has held senior roles at Nexum, Symantec, Secureworks, and the National Nuclear Security Administration. Sherrod is a frequently cited expert across major media outlets and a regular speaker at global security conferences including Black Hat and RSAC.
Chi-en (Ashley) Shen
Security Research Engineering Technical Leader, Cisco Talos Intelligence Group
Chi-en Shen (Ashley) is a security researcher at Cisco Talos, specializing in emerging threats including APTs, financially motivated crimes, spyware, and mercenary group exploitation. Previously, she worked at Google Threat Analysis Group focusing on zero-day exploit hunting and botnet tracking, and at Mandiant tracking APT groups across APAC. Passionate about supporting women in InfoSec, she co-founded HITCON GIRLS, Taiwan's first security community for women, and organizes Rhacklette in Switzerland. She serves on the review boards for Black Hat Asia, Hacks in the Box, and HITCON, and has spoken at Black Hat, HITCON, FIRST, and CODE BLUE.
Lacie Blythe
Senior Intelligence Analyst, GTAC Vulnerabilities, CrowdStrike
Lacie is a Senior Intelligence Analyst in CrowdStrike's Counter Adversary Operations Global Threat Analysis Cell, specializing in vulnerability intelligence. Her work focuses on tracking emerging vulnerabilities and real-world exploitation trends, providing organizations with clear assessments of the potential impact and risk these evolving threats pose.
Julian-Ferdinand Vögele
Principal Threat Researcher, Recorded Future
Julian-Ferdinand is a Principal Threat Researcher at Recorded Future's Insikt Group, specializing in malware analysis and infrastructure detection. He investigates cybercriminal, state-sponsored, and mercenary spyware operations. He previously worked in offensive security, holds a background in computer science, and is a Virtual Routes fellow.
Jaime Duque
Senior Intelligence Analyst, GTAC Vulnerabilities, CrowdStrike
Jaime is a Senior Intelligence Analyst with CrowdStrike's Counter Adversary Operations Global Threat Analysis Cell. With years of intelligence experience, he provides key insights for long-term strategic assessments by tracking emerging vulnerabilities and exploitation trends, helping organizations maintain decision advantage against adversaries.
Katie Blankenship
Senior Director, Intelligence, CrowdStrike
Katie has been supporting intelligence and leading cyber intelligence programs for the public and private sector for over 18 years. In her current line of work with CrowdStrike, Katie is the Senior Director for the Global Threat Analysis team and leads CrowdStrike's adversary attribution program with a diverse team of analysts that focus on adversary tracking, threats and trends across the global threat landscape.
Speakers
Tillmann Werner
VP, Intelligence Production, CrowdStrike
Tillmann Werner is VP of Intelligence Production at CrowdStrike, overseeing in-depth analysis, tracking, and reporting of criminal and targeted cyber attacks. He has a passion for proactive defense strategies such as honeypots and botnet takeovers. Werner is actively involved with the global cybersecurity community and is a regular speaker on the international conference circuit.
Hiroshi Takeuchi
Security Researcher, MACNICA
Hiroshi Takeuchi is a security researcher with over 10 years of experience in the industry. His main responsibilities are reverse engineering and incident response within MACNICA, a security service company serving the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions. Alongside his day-to-day work, he has developed internal tools including an intelligence platform, honey network, and Python scripts to support analysis. He writes blog posts and technical reports, and has spoken at security conferences including Virus Bulletin, Botconf, CONFidence, HITCON, and JSAC.
Jonathan Bar Or
Security Researcher, CrowdStrike
Jonathan Bar Or ("JBO") is an information security expert and hacker focusing on binary analysis, vulnerability research, application security, reverse engineering, and cryptography. His research has uncovered critical vulnerabilities impacting millions of users worldwide, shaping security best practices across the industry. Frequently cited by major news outlets, his work has influenced both academia and industry, driving meaningful security improvements. He is also a seasoned public speaker, presenting at top security conferences and sharing deep technical insights on exploitation techniques, mitigations, and emerging threats.
Loucif Kharouni
SVP of R&D & AI Innovation, Auger Security
Loucif Kharouni is SVP of R&D & AI Innovation at Augur Security, leading threat research, engineering, and AI/ML integration across the product portfolio. With over 19 years in cybersecurity and senior roles at ADP, Deloitte, Damballa, and Trend Micro, his work focuses on adversary infrastructure analysis and predictive threat intelligence. His recent research covers Iranian APT targeting of U.S. critical infrastructure, malvertising operations tied to sanctioned bulletproof hosting, and post-sanctions infrastructure rebranding. He has authored more than 30 research papers and has presented at Virus Bulletin, RISE, CERT-EE, TakeDownCon, and ToorCon.
Selena Larson
Staff Threat Researcher, Proofpoint
Selena Larson is a Staff Threat Researcher specializing in tracking advanced cyber threats and emerging adversary behaviors. Her work focuses on deep technical analysis, threat actor profiling, and translating complex security findings into actionable intelligence for defenders. She also hosts two podcasts for security practitioners: DISCARDED and Only Malware in the Building.
Alex Merriam
Sr. Mgr, Global Security - Risk/FSO, CrowdStrike
Alex leads the Insider Risk, Counterintelligence, and Industrial Security Programs at CrowdStrike, ensuring the security and integrity of CrowdStrike's information, employees, and global operations. He also supports threat analytics, security education and awareness, and physical security initiatives. Prior to CrowdStrike, he served as a Senior Industrial Security Representative for the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, overseeing security and insider threat programs across federal contractor companies and academic institutions. He holds a B.A. in Geography from Clark University and is a certified CERT Insider Threat Program Manager.
Anne Marie Zettlemoyer
CSO, Rook9
Anne Marie Zettlemoyer is a cybersecurity executive and advisor with more than two decades of experience building and leading security, threat intelligence, fraud, and risk programs across Fortune 500 companies, high-growth technology firms, government environments, and startups. She specializes in translating adversary intelligence into operational security capabilities across detection engineering, threat hunting, and enterprise security strategy.
Paul Urian
Senior Threat Researcher, CrowdStrike
Paul Urian is a Senior Threat Researcher at CrowdStrike specializing in AI security. With over four years at CrowdStrike and previous experience at Bitdefender and the Ministry of National Defense of Romania, he brings a deep background in malware analysis, reverse engineering, and binary exploitation. His current research sits at the intersection of AI and offensive security — focusing on prompt injection attacks in LLMs and agentic systems, AI vulnerability discovery, and building autonomous systems that can find and exploit vulnerabilities. He is passionate about both securing AI and leveraging AI to advance security research.
Donato Onofri
Principal Red Team Engineer, CrowdStrike
Donato Onofri is a seasoned Red Team Engineer with over fifteen years of experience in reverse engineering, red teaming, threat research, and penetration testing. Passionate about both offensive and defensive cybersecurity, he has worked with industry leaders like CrowdStrike and HPE, as well as governments and financial institutions. His research covers state-of-the-art offensive techniques, malware analysis, and internals, and he holds multiple certifications and recognitions for vulnerability discovery. He has spoken at conferences including Black Hat and AVAR, and is co-author of the book Attacking and Exploiting Modern Web Applications.
Irene K
Security Researcher, CrowdStrike
Irene is a Senior Security Researcher at CrowdStrike's Counter Adversary Operations team, specializing in threat intelligence research with a focus on the Asia Pacific region. Prior to CrowdStrike, she served at Booz Allen Hamilton and the U.S. Army.
Connor Horton
Senior Intelligence Analyst, CrowdStrike
Connor Horton is a Cyber Threat Intelligence leader with 13 years of experience spanning U.S. Special Operations, federal government, and Fortune 50 enterprises. As Deputy Manager of CrowdStrike's CAO Elite team, he leads intelligence operations protecting organizations from state adversaries and sophisticated threat actors. Connor excels at building CTI programs that drive strategic defense decisions at the highest levels, and has served as a trusted briefer to White House leadership, translating technical intelligence into risk-based insights that executives and boards can act on immediately.
Sebastian Walla
Security Researcher, CrowdStrike
Sebastian Walla studied Cybersecurity at Saarland University, Germany, and its CISPA – Helmholtz Center for Information Security. Since 2020, he has been with CrowdStrike Intelligence, initially working as a Malware Reverse Engineer in the Technical Analysis Cell before transitioning in 2022 to focus on threats to the cloud.
SttyK
Threat Intelligence Analyst
SttyK is an Open Source Intelligence Analyst with a background in Dark Web analysis, currently focusing on North Korea's cyber activities. He has presented at AVTOKYO 2023, CYBERWARCON 2024, Black Hat USA 2025, and CODE BLUE 2025.
Saeed Abu-Nimeh
Auger Security
Dr. Saeed Abu-Nimeh is the Founder and CTO of Augur Security. He is one of the leading thinkers on the intersection between machine learning and cybersecurity. Prior to founding Augur, he held the position of Distinguished Scientist at PayPal. Before that, he was Senior Scientist at Damballa and a Security Researcher at Websense. He holds a Ph.D. from Southern Methodist University and a Postdoc from Carnegie Mellon. Saeed has co-authored more than 19 papers and books on the applications of machine learning to cybersecurity.
Lars Wallenborn
Sr. Manager, ARC, CrowdStrike
Lars Wallenborn is a researcher and manager at CrowdStrike, where he analyzes cyber threats and builds tools and automated systems to counter them. With a background in mathematics, he combines reverse and forward engineering with cyber threat intelligence analysis to dissect adversary operations and develop scalable countermeasures. His work spans from hands-on malware analysis to designing the infrastructure that supports threat intelligence at scale. Lars is a regular speaker at international security and reverse engineering conferences.
Xue Yin Peh
Head of Investigative Strategy & Collection, Chainalysis Inc
Xue Yin Peh is the Head of Investigative Strategy & Collection at Chainalysis, with around a decade of experience in OSINT collection and cyber threat intelligence. Xue Yin currently focuses on the scam tech ecosystem enabling cyber scams, using blockchain analysis to reveal additional supply chains and uncover other perpetrators behind these criminal operations. Previously, Xue held roles as an anti-terrorism analyst before focusing on cyber threat activity affecting and emanating from the APAC region. Xue is based in Singapore.
Rhys Leahy
Deputy Manager, VO Data Ops, CrowdStrike
Rhys Leahy manages Data Operations for CrowdStrike's Counter Adversary Operations team. As an experienced security researcher and data scientist, she leads a team of hackers in collecting and analyzing deep and dark web data to uncover emerging cyber threats. Before joining CrowdStrike, Rhys worked as a Data Scientist at NASA, where she used open-source models to analyze satellite imagery.
Sam R
Lead Threat Hunter, CrowdStrike
Sam is a threat hunter with CrowdStrike's Falcon OverWatch team.