Featured Speakers

Emmitt Smith, President & CEO, Emmitt Smith Enterprises

Emmitt Smith is a professional football icon and one of the greatest to ever play the game. In his 15 years in the National Football League, Smith amassed many records that still stand today. This includes the all-time leading rusher with 18,355 career rushing yards and the all-time rushing touchdown record holder with 164 TD’s. Smith’s impressive resume also includes three Super Bowl champion rings and being inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2010.

Joe Leonard, CTO & VP Security Strategy, GuidePoint Security

Joe Leonard has two decades of experience in developing and implementing security consulting solutions for customers. Joe is an experienced executive with more than 40 years of technical and supervisory experience in the areas of cybersecurity, network engineering, web hosting, cellular communications and customer support. Over the past 16 years, he has focused on developing security consulting solutions for customers. Prior to joining GuidePoint Security, Joe was the Presidio CISO and Vice President of Cyber Security Solutions and was responsible for the internal security and developing customer security consulting solutions.

Kapil Raina, VP Zero Trust & Identity Marketing, CrowdStrike

Kapil Raina, a cybersecurity marketing executive of 20+ years, has built and led product, marketing, sales, and strategy teams at startups and large brands such as VeriSign, VMware, and Zscaler. Mr. Raina, currently serves as CrowdStrike’s VP of Zero Trust & Identity Protection marketing. He was previously the VP of Marketing at Preempt Security, which was acquired by CrowdStrike. He is a recognized speaker and author of books on AI, PKI, Mobile Commerce, Biometrics, and other security topics. Mr. Raina holds a B.S. from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) in Computer Engineering.

Kalpana Singh, Product Marketing and Strategy, Okta

Kalpana Singh leads the product strategy and competitive intelligence team at Okta. She leads high-impact organic and inorganic initiatives across the organization and has deep experience in security, identity and networking, with specification in Corporate Strategy, Product Strategy, Architecture, Market & Strategic Analysis and M&A Integration. Before she joined Okta, was a Corporate Development Director at Palo Alto Networks and Juniper Networks.

Danny Connelly, Chief Information Security Officer, Zscaler

Danny Connelly joined Zscaler in January 2021 and serves as CISO for the Americas and Public Sector. Prior to Zscaler, Danny was the Associate CISO, Operations Branch Chief for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). During his 11 year tenure at CDC, Danny was responsible for implementing operational capabilities to support Incident Response, Forensics, Cyber Threat Intel and Insider Threat functions. He has designed, implemented and optimized enterprise cyber security capabilities to effectively detect, prevent and respond to emerging cyber security threats.

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