Jason is an executive, philanthropist, author, and engineer who’s been in tech for 25 years and who has led High Tech engineering teams at places like Google and Anthropic, where he was the first CISO and is now the Deputy CISO. In his roles, he has specialized in defense against advanced persistent threats, SDLC, and finance security.

Will Grannis serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Google Cloud, where he focuses on industry-defining transformations and emergent technologies like Generative AI and Digital Sovereignty. Since joining Google in 2015, he has held several pivotal roles, including founding and serving as the initial CEO of Google Public Sector. Grannis brings over two decades of experience in global information systems, having previously served as CTO at L-3 Communications, an engineer at Boeing’s Phantom Works, and a founder of the big data firm What’s Next. A former U.S. Army officer, he holds a B.S. in operations research from West Point and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Daniel Rohrer is VP of Software Product Security, Architecture and Research at NVIDIA. In his 24 years at NVIDIA, he's led efforts to enhance AI security, deliver GPU Confidential Computing, and advancing research efforts in secure platform design. Daniel has taken his integrated knowledge of "everything NVIDIA" to hone security practices, explore novel cybersecurity solutions, and help deliver some of the world’s most advanced and trustworthy computing platforms.

Mark Russinovich is CTO, Deputy CISO, and Technical Fellow for Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s global enterprise-grade cloud platform. A widely recognized expert in distributed systems, operating systems and cybersecurity, Mark earned a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He later co-founded Winternals Software, joining Microsoft in 2006 when the company was acquired. Mark is a popular speaker at industry conferences such as Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft Build, and RSA Conference. He has authored several nonfiction and fiction books, including the Microsoft Press Windows Internals book series, Troubleshooting with the Sysinternals Tools, as well as fictional cyber security thrillers Zero Day, Trojan Horse and Rogue Code.

Mengmei Ye is a Staff Research Scientist at IBM Research working on LLM-d and confidential computing in the hybrid cloud department. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rutgers University in 2021. Her research work has been recognized with a Best Paper Award at IEEE ICCD 2016 and a Best Paper Nomination at IEEE HOST 2018.