Steering Committee
Bruce Coffing, CISO, City of Chicago
Laszlo Gonc, Founder, Next Era Transformation Group
Dr. John Johnson, Founder/President/CISO, Docent Institute
Dimitra N. Kane, Sr. Business Architect Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Dr. Fred Kwong, CISO, DeVry University
Adam Lewis, Director, Product & Services Cybersecurity, Motorola Solutions
Michael Phillips, Founding Partner vSEC LLC
Ramona Ratiu, Zurich Insurance Company Ltd
Conferences
Wynona Lam, Founder, Winlight
Sam Moyer, Lead, Cybersecurity Engineer
Rahul Patel, Director of Cybersecurity, Office of Cook County Clerk
Kasi Paturi, President, PAABC
Dr. Devi Prasad V. Potluri, Associate Provost, CSU
Dr. Federico Sciammarella, CTO, MxD
Ray Trygstad, Assoc Chair, Industry Prof of Information Technology & Management, IIT
Richard Warner, Faculty Director, Center for Law and Computers, Chicago Kent College of Law
Advisors
Collin Canright, Canright Communications
Gregg Friedman, Security Advisor at Splunk
Tina Hauri, President, Bradford Garrett Group, Inc.
Wayne Johnson, Chicago CISO of the Year Award Founder
Walter Lefmann, Director of Security, Chicago Trading
John Mirkovic, Deputy Clerk – Public Policy at Office of the Cook County Clerk
Steve Moscarelli, Major Account Manager: Illinois & Wisconsin, Thales Cloud Security
Sean O’Kelly, CEO, Meetings & Events International
Mark Ramshaw, Information Security & Risk Manager at Weber-Stephen Products LLC
Peter Tapling, Managing Director, PTap Advisory, LLC
Tellis Williams, CISO, The Dream Exchange