Richard Stiennon is Chief Research Analyst for IT-Harvest, the firm he founded in 2005 to cover the 4,070+ vendors that make up the IT security industry. He has presented on the topic of cybersecurity in 32 countries on six continents. He was a lecturer at Charles Sturt University in Australia. He is the author of Surviving Cyberwar (Government Institutes, 2010) and Washington Post Best Seller, There Will Be Cyberwar. His research appears on Substack. Stiennon was Chief Strategy Officer for Blancco Technology Group, the Chief Marketing Officer for Fortinet, Inc. and VP Threat Research at Webroot Software. Prior to that he was VP Research at Gartner. His latest book Security Yearbook 2025 will be published by Wiley in May, 2025. 

Dakota Cary is a China-focused consultant at SentinelOne and a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub. Dakota previously was a research analyst at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology on the CyberAI Project. He focuses on China’s efforts to develop its hacking capabilities. His reports examine artificial intelligence and cybersecurity research at Chinese universities, the People’s Liberation Army’s efforts to automate software vulnerability discovery, China's vulnerability collection system, and policies to improve the country’s cybersecurity-talent pipeline. 

Jeff Williams is the President of Halcyon, an operating executive that has transformed numerous cybersecurity companies from small startups into full-fledged market leaders. Previously Jeff held executive leadership positions at high-profile companies like Armis Security, FireEye/Mandiant, and IronPort/Cisco. Along with his long tenure as a cybersecurity executive, Jeff has served on the Board of Directors at Meraki Wireless, Adallom, OpenDNS, Evident.io, Observe IT, and Armis..

Eoin Wickens, Director of Threat Intelligence at HiddenLayer, specializes in AI security, threat research, and malware reverse engineering. He has authored numerous articles on AI security, co-authored a book on cyber threat intelligence, and spoken at conferences such as DEF CON AI Village, BSides SF, LABSCON, and 44CON, and delivered the 2024 SCORED opening keynote.