April 23, 2025 Illinois Institute of Technology (565 West Adams Street, Chicago, IL 60661)
Mastering Organizational Risk – Connecting the Dots
8:30am Registration
8:45 – 9:00am Welcoming Remarks-Lance Fortnow, Dean, College of Computing, IIT
9:00 – 9:50 am Distinguished Speaker – Jake Braun, Executive Director of the Harris School of Public Policy – Cyber Policy Initiative
9:50 – 10:30 am CISO Panel
Moderator: Bruce Coffing, CISO, City of Chicago
Speakers:
Richard Warner, Faculty Director, Center for Law and Computers, Chicago Kent College of Law
Dr. Fred Kwong, CISO, DeVry University
Ray Trygstad, Assoc Chair, Industry Prof of Information Technology & Management, IIT
Stella Danso, Sr. Director, Security Governance, Risk, Compliance and Privacy, Expedia Group Security and Privacy
10:30 – 10:45 am Networking Break
10:45 – 11:10 am Fireside Chat with Tellis Williams, CISO, The Dream Exchange
interviewer: John Lothian, Executive Chairman at John J. Lothian & Company, Inc.
11:10 – 11:55 am Panel on Cybersecurity for highly regulated areas Healthcare, Fintech and Insurance
Moderator: Dr. John Johnson, Founder/President/CISO, Docent Institute
Speakers:
Dan Manley, CISO, CME
Michael Phillips, Founding Partner vSEC LLC, CISO/vCISO, Adjunct Professor, DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media
Joe Gaczewski, CISO, Tokio Marine Highland
Adam Lewis, Deputy CISO, Alliant Credit Union
Noon – 1:00 pm Networking Lunch
1:00 – 1:30 pm Fireside Chat – with Ricardo Lafosse, CISO, The Kraft Heinz Company
Interviewer: Laszlo Gonc, CEO, Next Era Transformation Group
1:30 – 2:00 pm Fireside Chat – Doug Brush, Brush Cyber
Interviewer: Gregg Friedman, CyberSecurity Advisor, Brush Cyber
2:00 – 2:15 pm Networking Break
2:20 – 3:10 pm Board Level discussions – 21st Century Executive Board Diversity of Expertise
Moderator: Kasi Paturi, President, PAABC, Member, BOD (BBT, a Wintrust Community Bank, DePaul University Arditti Risk Management Center)
Speakers:
Bob Zukis, Founder and CEO, Digital Directors Network
JC Vega, Founder, Executive Security Advisors, LLC
David Cagigal, CXO Advisor for Zscaler and ex-CIO of the State of Wisconsin
Wendy Betts, Information Security Officer, Rotary International, Member BoD, Cardio Diagnostics Inc
3:10 – 3:25 pm Networking Break
3:25 – 4:05 pm CxO Panel
Moderator: Mark Rorabaugh, CEO, InfraShield
Speakers:
Oai Huynh, Director of Information Security/CISO, Pace Systems, Inc
Sejal Vaishnav, CIO, IIT
Daniel Mayer, CISO, Morningstar
John Kellerhals, President Emeritus, INFRAGARD Chicago
4:05 – 4:45 pm Distinguished Speaker – Todd Fitzgerald, CISO Compass Cybersecurity Leadership Author/Keynote Speaker (Todd will sign books between sessions and the breaks)
Title: Cybersecurity Failures: Should the CISO Pay the Price?
4:45-5:00 pm Closing Remarks – Kasi Paturi, President, PAABC
5:00-6:00 pm Networking
We (GCSI 2025) Thank our hosts