2025
4th Annual.
North Carolina Cybersecurity Symposium
Speakers wall
Cynthia Kaiser
Deputy Assistant Director, FBI Cyber Division
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2/22
THURSDAY
MORNING
DR. JEFF CRUME
IBM Distinguished Engineer, CTO IBM Security
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2/22
THURSDAY
AFTER LUNCH
CATHY OLIESLAEGER
Journey Into Cybersecurity
Podcast Host
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2/22
THURSDAY
AFTERNOON
SAMUEL
CAMERON
Cisco Systems Supply Chain Security Architect
CHAD
RYCHLEWSKI
Public Service Cybersecurity Lead, Accenture
Jordan
ferns
SailPoint - Sr. Account Executive SLED
CHUCK
KESLER
Chief Information
Security Officer
MARIA
THOMPSON
AWS SLG Executive
Government Advisor
KEN
ALLEN
Cloud Security and Transformation Advisor
Srinivasan Vanamali
Principal, Olympus Infotech, LLC
SIMI
JAFARIKHAH
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UNCW
Sammie Carter
Systems Architect, Friday Institute / NCSU
Amir Lawrence
Cybersecurity Specialist,
The Friday Institute
Ken Taitingfong
Senior Security Engineer - Cisco Systems, Inc.
Jon Sternstein
Founder & CEO,
Stern Security
Phillip Maddux
Systems Architect, Friday Institute / NCSU
NEIL KHatod
CISO, Hays Americas
Joshua Beck
Staff Application
Security Engineer
Larry Maccherone
DevSecOps Transformation
Lisa Bradley
Dell - Sr. Director Product
and Application Security
Kelsey Merriman
Senior Threat Researcher
@ Proofpoint
Chris Romeo
CEO, Devici
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LAURA
RODGERS
Director of Cybersecurity Practice, NCSU
Doug Lewis Sr.
North Carolina State University, Cybersecurity Risk Specialist
and Architect
STEVE
COBB
CISO, SecurityScorecard
TERRENCE
HERNANDEZ
Continuous Improvement and Continuous Development
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Seyedhossein SiadatiS
Adjunct faculty University of North Carolina Wilmington
Omar Santos
Cisco
Chris McCoy
Principal Engineer,
Cisco Systems
Elizabeth Cole-Walker
Cybersecurity Champion
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DAVID RANKIN
DBR Cybersecurity LLC; Adjunct Professor Information Assurance UNC Chapel Hill
Aliyana Isom
Nike, Sr. Technical
Program Manager
Sphurthi Annamraju
Director, CyberSecurity Advisory
Anthea Gonzalez
Cisco Systems, Information Security Engineer
CASEY
FORREST
Chief Information Security Officer, UNC Greensboro
Phillip Maddux
Deception Logic, Founder
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Adrianne George
Founder, MyCyberExec
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SOUNIL
YU
Creator of the Cyber Defense Matrix and the DIE Triad
Laura Rodgers
Director of Cybersecurity Practice, NCSU
Myriam Batista
Chief Information and Compliance Officer @ Reef Systems
Daniel Barber
Second Renaissance
Founder and President
Mardecia Bell
NC State University, Chief Information Security Officer
Donna Petheridge
Vice Provost, Digital Education& Learning Technology Applications
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Kelly
brown
UNC School of Medicine IT, Deputy Chief Information Officer
Larry Macherone
DevSecOps Transformation
Aaron
lancaster
vCISO and Chief Information Security Officer at General Informatics
STUDENT RESEARCHERS
VARUN
MADATHIL
Final year, Ph.D. Student, NCSU
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Lorenzo Neil
UNC School of Medicine IT, Deputy Chief Information Officer
Abdulrahman Aldkheel
PhD candidate and Research
Assistant at UNCC
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Chibuike Okekeogbu
Graduate Research Assistant for the Center of Excellence in Cybersecurity Research
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JASON
GREEN
PhD Student at NCAT University
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Bedeabasi John
Centre of Excellence in Cybersecurity Research, Education and Outreach
Mahsa Tavasoli
Computer System Technology program , College of Science and Technology, NCA&T
Tiffany Davis-Stewart
Master of Science in Information Technology Degree-NC A&T State Univ.
Abhinaya S B
PhD student at NC State
BRIAN
TORRES
University of NC at Pembroke
ELIZABETH
LIN
PhD student at NC State
Yanping Zhang
PhD candidate at Duke University
K. VIRGIL ENGLISH
PhD Student - WSPR Lab
SATHVIK PRASAD
PhD Candidate at
NC State University
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BRIANNA PHIFER
NCCU '24 Senior Student
FEYF OSMAN
NC Central University
'26 Student
Greg Tystahl
PhD Student under Dr. William Enck and Dr. Alexandros Kapravelos
Mykah Stone
Student – NCCU
Matthew Swepson
Student – NCCU
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COLE HEARLD
Computer Science Student at East Carolina University
IMRANUR RAHMAN
Graduate Research Assistant
at WSPR Lab of NC State
ELIJAH
TRIPP
Graduate Student at
UNCW – RezLab
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ELIF
SAHIN
MSCSIS Student University of North Carolina Wilmington