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Speakers

Practitioners from SOCs, red teams, threat intelligence and competitive CTF.

Mara Okafor

Director of Detection Engineering · Northbank Financial

“Detection engineering that survives contact with a real incident”

Mara has built and run detection programs at two banks and a cloud provider. She writes about alert quality, not alert quantity.

Dmitri Volkov

Principal Red Team Operator · Sable Security

“Living off the land in 2026: what actually still works”

Dmitri leads adversary emulation for Fortune 500 clients and maintains two open-source red team toolkits.

Lena Hartwig

SOC Manager · Helios Energy

“Running a SOC through a ransomware weekend: a postmortem”

Lena runs a 24/7 SOC for critical infrastructure and speaks regularly about incident command and analyst wellbeing.

Sam Delacroix

Staff Security Engineer · Parcelpoint

“Cloud posture management without the spreadsheet”

Sam automates cloud guardrails for a logistics platform spanning four clouds and far too many accounts.

Priya Nair

Threat Intelligence Lead · Civic Trust

“Tracking initial access brokers: from forum post to fingerprint”

Priya tracks financially motivated actors and briefs national CERTs on initial access trends.

Tom Ikeda

CTF Captain · Team Nullroute

“How we won three majors in a row — and what we practice”

Tom captains one of the top-ranked competitive CTF teams and coaches university players in his spare time.