Dr. Hideto Tomabechi

Fellow, CyLab, Carnegie Mellon University
Visiting Professor, Center of Excellence in C4I&Cyber, George Mason University
Chairman, Resilience Japan, LLC.
Chairman, Cognitive Research Labs, Inc.

Linton Wells II, PhD

Executive Advisor, Center of Excellence in Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (C4I) and Cyber, George Mason University (GMU)
Special Advisor, Resilience Japan

Dr. Wells focuses on the links between policy, technology and decision-making, especially in cyber resilience and cybersecurity, smart cities and community resilience, disaster mitigation and response, and space-related issues. He also has studied resilience issues related to Japan’s Digital Society. He has extensive civilian government leadership experience in national security affairs, including service as U.S. acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration and Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Information Officer (CIO). He is Visiting Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at U.S. National Defense University (NDU) and Executive Advisor to the new Center for Resilient and Sustainable Communities (C-RASC) at GMU. He also was a career naval officer. In 2014 he completed 51 years with DoD. See also

Evan Dornbush

Point3 Security, Inc.
Co-Founder and CEO

Evan co-founded Point3 in 2014 and serves as Chief Executive Officer. He worked as a Computer Network Operator for the National
Security Agency back when Cyber meant something totally different. Before co-founding Point3 Evan was Director of Customer Experience at Vulnerability Research Labs, a security research firm acquired by Computer Sciences Corporation. He holds a M.S. in computer science from
The George Washington University and has four ridiculously good looking children.

Joe Saunders

RunSafe Security, Founder & CEO

Joe Saunders is the founder and CEO of RunSafe Security, a pioneer in immunizing software without developer friction enabling the continuous delivery of runtime protected embedded systems, open source software, software containers, and cloud workloads.
He leads a team of former U.S. government cybersecurity specialists who know how attackers think about problems, how they weaponize attacks, and how they choose targets. Joe is on a personal mission to inoculate software by disrupting hacker economics.
Over his career, Joe has built and scaled technology into companies servicing both private sector and public sector security needs. Prior to forming RunSafe Security, Joe advised and supported multiple security, AI/ML, and data management companies, including Kaprica Security, Sovereign Intelligence, Analyze Corp, Thomson Reuters Special Services, and Distil Networks.
With Thomson Reuters Special Services, Joe helped law enforcement agencies identify national security threats, including the theft of intellectual property. Joe was also a member of the management team and VP, Business Development at TARGUSinfo, which was acquired by Neustar for $650M in 2011.
Joe is a frequently sought-after speaker and panelist and is regularly asked to author articles on cybersecurity issues. He is particularly interested in the intersection of technology, economics, and geopolitics, and spends time on the security of 5G, AI/ML, autonomous systems, IoT, supply chain, high value assets, and weapons programs.
Joe earned a BS degree in Mathematics from the University of Michigan, an MS in Predictive Analytics from Northwestern University, and an MBA in Finance from George Mason University where he was voted by the faculty as the Outstanding MBA Student from a 225-person graduating class. He is the founder of Children’s Voice International, a 501(c) 3 non-profit which provides scholarships for survivors of child trafficking.

Michelle Watson

Cyber Intelligent Partners, Founder, President & CEO

Michelle C. Watson - brings 25+ years of experience in international business development, focusing on information security, telecommunications, cyber intelligence, and cyber risk management, applying entrepreneur expertise to her present role as founding President and CEO of Cyber Intelligent Partners (CIP) LLC. CIP is a Washington D.C. based consulting and executive training firm focusing on: Cyber Risk Management, Geopolitical Risks Impacting Businesses, 5G-Economic & National Security Risks, and Insider Threat Risks.
Previously Michelle served as the co-founder and Director of the Cyber Intelligence Initiative at the Washington DC based, Institute of World Politics, where she was also Vice-President of Corporate Relations, and co-created, co-taught the Corporate Statecraft and Cyber Statecraft graduate courses.
Michelle began her career in Silicon Valley working for Cable & Wireless plc, and British Telecom plc (BT), in Information Security and Managed Network Services, leading business development programs in the Hi-tech sector. As Vice-President of BT's Global Solutions Group, Michelle was responsible for leading North American and European based business development teams and partnering with AT&T Solutions on joint global managed network service engagements.
Her academic research as a Professor of Practice focused on Cyber Intelligence; Cyber Risk Management; Geopolitical Risks to Businesses; 5G: Economic and National Security Risks; Nation-State Adversaries & Threat Landscape; Cyber Statecraft; and Corporate Statecraft: The complex relationship between the Public-Private sectors and the impact of those relationships on U.S. Economic and National Security.
Michelle earned a Masters’ Degree in National Security and Statecraft from the Institute of World Politics, studied International Relations at University of Oxford, New College, earned a Certification in Cyber Risk Management from Harvard University, a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Kentucky and studied Data Communications at Golden Gate University.

Ren Kimura

Founder&CEO, Ricerca Security

Shigeya Tanabe

Datadog Japan
Enterprise Sales Engineer

Yusuke Nirahara

Organizer of DevSecOps Days Tokyo, Vice President & COO, Resilience Japan

Keisuke Tsukagoshi

Google Cloud
Application Platform Specialist

Cameron Townshend

Sonatype Lead Solution Architect, APJ

Cameron Townshend has extensive experience building large mission critical applications. Developed the WeatherChannel.com.au website and backend integration. This site won 2010 Kentico site of the year for Integration and 2011 Astra award for Most Outstanding Use of Technology. Initial project lead on NSW Biosecurity Information System. As well as being the Lead Solutions Architect for Sonatype, he is a hands-on developer and leader of project teams.

Saburo Yukawa

BrainPad, Inc. Manager, Engineering Group

Shingo Kitayama

RedHat　 Cloud Solution Architect　 OpenShift Architect

Mark Miller

Co-Founder, All Day DevOps
Senior Storyteller, Sonatype

Malu Milan

President, Cryptopon

Dr. Joshua W. Walker

President & CEO of Japan Society