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Kelvin Coleman is Executive Director at the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA). A dynamic cybersecurity leader, Kevin has two decade’s of experience in high-stakes cybersecurity posts at the White House, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the private sector.

As NCSA’s Executive Director, he is responsible for leading organizational growth; facilitating strategic partnerships and alliances with government, industry and non-profits; and acting as NCSA’s primary spokesperson.

During his career, he has conducted cybersecurity awareness tours in 49 states, briefing tech giants, local store owners and politicians alike, including 35 governors He is recognized for his work forging partnerships between the public and private sectors – developing cybersecurity policy and products, improving national and local cyber-threat awareness and readiness, and establishing guidelines for workforce cybersecurity safety.

He has collaborated and worked closely with a variety of top government agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Defense, National Defense Information Sharing and Analysis Center, National Security Agency and internally with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Cybersecurity and Communications.

He has also worked on the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee during portions of the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations. In the early stages of Obama’s first term, Coleman served as a member of the White House National Security Staff, coordinating cybersecurity policy with the intelligence community as well as state, local, international and private-sector organizations.

Kelvin is a proud native son of Blair, SC and a graduate of the University of South Carolina Aiken.

Tom Burt leads Microsoft’s Customer Security and Trust (CST) team.

CST is a cross-disciplinary team of engineers, lawyers, policy advocates, project managers, business professionals, data analysts, and cybercrime investigators. Burt’s team drives continuous improvement to advance customers security and trust in Microsoft’s products and online services. Working with engineering and security teams across the company, CST is responsible for ensuring Microsoft products and online services comply with internal and regulatory security policies and leads programs to provide transparency of our products to governments globally. Burt’s team is formulating and advocating cybersecurity policy globally – advancing the Digital Geneva Convention, the Cybersecurity Tech Accord, and the Defending Democracy Program – and collaborating with public and private organizations to disrupt cyberattacks and support deterrence efforts.

Burt joined Microsoft in 1995 and has held several leadership roles in the Corporate External and Legal Affairs Department. He led the company’s Litigation Group from 1996 to 2007, and most recently led the Digital Trust team.

Burt received his bachelor’s degree in Human Biology from Stanford University and his law degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Washington Law School.

Susie joined the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) in September 2011 as Chief Executive.

Susie is a Director of the UK Safer Internet Centre. She is also a member of the NCA CEOP Command Strategic Governance Group; the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Child Online Protection Working Group and the Broadband Commission Working Group. She’s an Executive Board member of the UK Council Internet Safety (UKCIS).

Susie is a Clore Fellow and was a finalist for a European Woman of Achievement Award in 2004 Susie was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2016 for ‘Services to Child Online Safety’.

Sadie Creese is Professor of Cyber Security in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, where she teaches operational aspects of cybersecurity including threat detection, risk assessment and security architectures.

lsewhere in Oxford, she is a member of the faculty of the Blavatnik School Executive Public Leaders Programme, teaching cybersecurity topics relevant to senior leaders in public policy from around the world, and is a regular contributor to the leadership programmes and MBA teaching of the Said Business School. Her current research portfolio includes: threat modelling and detection with particular interest in the insider threat and threat from AI, visual analytics for cybersecurity, risk propagation logics and communication, resilience strategies for business, privacy requirements, vulnerability of distributed ledgers and block-chains, understanding cyber-harm and how it emerges for single organisations, nations and the potential for systemic cyber-risk, and the Cyber Security Capacity Maturity Model for Nations. She is Principal Investigator on the AXIS sponsored project “Analysing Cyber-Value-at-Risk, Residual Risk and models for Systemic Cyber-Risk” focused on developing a method for predicting potential harms arising from cyber-attacks. She leads the Oxford team’s collaboration with the World Economic Forum’s Shaping the Future of Cybersecurity and Digital Trust Platform, research sponsored by AXIS, which is considering the cybercrime challenges that world leaders will need to address in the near and far technology future – part of the Platform’s Futures Series – “Futures Series: Cybercrime 2025”.

Sadie is also co-Chair of the Lloyds Register Foundation sponsored Foresight review of cyber security for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), which is considering operational cybersecurity technology gaps in future IIoT environments.

Sadie is the founding Director of the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre (GCSCC) at the Oxford Martin School, where she continues to serve as a Director conducting research into what constitutes national cybersecurity capacity, working with countries and international organisations around the world. She was the founding Director of Oxford’s Cybersecurity network launched in 2008 and now called CyberSecurity@Oxford, a member of the World Economic Forum’s Cyber Security Centre’s Strategic Advisory Board, and was a Technical Advisor to the Government of Japan (GOJ) and the World Economic Forum joint project on International Data Flow Governance ‘Advancing the Osaka Track’.

From May 2009 to June 2018 he was the General Director of the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies (IEEE) in the Higher Center for Defense Studies (CESEDEN).

Brigadier General of Artillery.

For the last three years, General Ballesteros Martín has been an associate professor in the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has also been a professor at the Pontifical University of Salamanca (Madrid Campus) for 17 years.

He holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences with 2015 extraordinary honors from the Pontifical University of Salamanca (Madrid Campus). He is a General Staff Diplomate. General Ballesteros Martín has a degree in Operational Research from the University of Valencia. He has taken specialization courses in strategic studies at the University of Distance Education in Spain, at the NATO School in Germany and at the NATO College (NADEFCOL) in Rome.

He has also taken Helios satellite system specialization courses in Paris and Toulouse. General Ballesteros Martín holds a diploma in Fire-Control Systems and Detection and Location of Targets.

In addition to assignments as a field artillery and anti-aircraft officer, he has been stationed at the Ministry of Defence’s Military Operational Research Centre, in the Intelligence Division of the Defence Joint Staff. He was the first head of the Helios Satelite Center in Spain. The General was also Head of the Department of Strategy and International Relations of the College of the Armed Forces (ESFAS) of the Higher Center for Defense Studies (CESEDEN).

He is the author of two books: "En busca de una Estrategia de Seguridad Nacional” (Publicaciones Defensa, Madrid, 2016) and "Yihadismo” (Editorial la Huerta Grande, Madrid 2016).

He also coauthored 33 collective books or papers, and has published numerous articles in specialized journals and newspapers such as El País, ABC and La Razón.

Mark Ryland is the Director of the Office of the Chief Information Security Officer (OCISO) at Amazon Web Service (AWS). Ryland reports to Steve Schmidt, the CISO for AWS, and leads a global team of Security Architects who help customers to understand more deeply how AWS builds and operates its highly secure cloud platform, and how they can best leverage that modern platform to enhance their own IT security. In addition, the OCISO works as a key channel for incoming customer requirements, making sure customer needs in the area of security and compliance are understood and prioritized across AWS engineering and service teams. The OCISO also supports a number mechanisms for deeper customer engagement in the security space, including the bi-annual meetings of CISO Advisory Council, and other regional events and groups.

Ryland has more than 27 years of experience in the technology industry across a wide range of leadership roles in cybersecurity, software engineering, distributed systems, technical standardization, and public policy. Most recently he was the Director of Solutions Architecture and Professional Services for the AWS Worldwide Public Sector team, founding the team and growing it to a large global organization from 2011 through early 2018. Prior to AWS, Ryland worked for Microsoft for 13 years in two different stints (1991-2000 and 2008-2011) in multiple roles including Director and founder, Standards Strategy Group. In between stints at Microsoft, he was co-founder and CTO of two start-ups, and served as vice-president of a public policy think tank.

She is the Operational Director of CSIRT of the Under-Secretariat of Internal Affairs in the Government of Chile and an influential woman in cybersecurity, recognized by the Chilean Cybersecurity Alliance.

Her various missions include coordinating the continuous and efficient operation of the State's networks (NOC), supervising the security of the State's Connectivity Network (RCE) and the Government's SOC. In this role, she is also responsible for supervising the continuous operation of incident responses in the entities monitored by the Chilean Goverment, as well as in the organizations associated to it, promoting and executing standards defined in laws, policies, decrees and instructions of the State.

Ms. Canales Madrid also oversees the implementation of some aspects of transitional cybersecurity governance, such as cybersecurity awareness programs, in addition to representing Chile before international bodies and other CERTs around the world.

General Coordinator of Multidimensional Security in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico. He is in charge of negotiations on cybersecurity, transnational organized crime, arms trafficking and arms control, world drug problem, corruption and emerging security challenges.

He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations (National University of Mexico); Master’s Degree in Diplomatic Studies (Matías Romero Institute); and PhD Studies in Political Science (UNAM). He also has graduated specialized studies in Spain (Jose Ortega y Gasset Institute), and the Institut de Hautes Études Internationales, Geneve, Switzerland.

He has represented Mexico in several global and regional meetings. He has been selected as a Member of the UNGGE 2019-2021 to Advance Responsible States Behaviour in Cyberspace; Representative of Mexico to the OAS Working Group on Confidence Building Measures in Cyberspace, and representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the National Specialized Committee on Cyber Security. He has publications and teaching experience on international security, foreign policy, peacekeeping and development issues.

Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar is Ambassador-at Large for Cyber Diplomacy at the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She started her work in Tallinn in September 2018 as Estonia’s first Cyber Ambassador. 

With two decades of experience in international security and cybersecurity, Ambassador Tiirmaa-Klaar has a proven track record of visionary leadership, excellent communication and management skills, an ability to manage multi-cultural teams and build consensus. Before returning to Tallinn, Ambassador Tiirmaa-Klaar was Head of Cyber Policy Coordination at the European External Action Service (EEAS) between January 2012 and August 2018. When creating the cyber coordination structure in the EEAS, her priority was to develop effective cooperation mechanisms between the 28 EU member states as well as to design and steer the development of the EU’s cyber security strategy and of the EU’s international cyber policy. In 2013 and 2017 she was responsible for both developing the cybersecurity strategies of the European Union and for the implementation of the EU Cyber Defence Policy Framework.

One of the major priorities of Ambassador Tiirmaa-Klaar’s work at the EEAS was to kick-start extensive EU capacity building programmes in third countries, with a focus on the fight against cybercrime and emerging cyber threats. This has allowed her to gain a global reach and develop a thorough understanding of key cyber challenges. She was also in the lead for developing the Framework of Joint EU Diplomatic Response to Malicious Cyber Activities.

Ambassador Tiirmaa-Klaar joined the Estonian civil service in 1995 and has held various managerial positions in national security fields. Between 2007 and 2010 she worked as the National Cyber Coordinator, developing the world’s first whole-of-government cybersecurity strategy and reorganizing the government structures to adequately address cyber issues. Shortly before joining the EEAS, she worked as a Cyber Security Policy Adviser to NATO where she drafted and negotiated the first comprehensive NATO Cyber Defence Policy in 2011.

As a result of her experience on NATO and EU cyber policy issues, the two organizations now work in a more coordinated and complementary manner.

Ambassador Tiirmaa-Klaar holds a Master’s degree in International Relations and Political Science. She was a Fulbright Scholar at George Washington University in 1998-1999. Between 2004 and 2006, she held an academic position as the Head of the International Studies Department at Tallinn University, where she set up the academic department and graduate programs on International Studies.

She is fluent in English, has a good knowledge of Russian, German and French, and basic knowledge of Swedish, Danish and Finnish. 

Chema Alonso is the current Chief Digital Consumer Officer of Telefónica and Chairmen of ElevenPaths, the Telefónica group cybersecurity company that he founded.

He is one of the world’s most popular speakers at hacking conferences. He has spoken at the world's leading hacking and cybersecurity conferences for over a decade, where he’s presented many of his research papers.

He was Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional for 12 years in the area of cybersecurity. Mr. Alonso holds a PhD in Computer Security from Rey Juan Carlos University, where he also received his Computer Engineering degree. He is also a Technical Engineer in Computer Systems from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, which named him Honorary Ambassador of the University School of Computer Science.

Mr. Alonso received the Civil Guard Cross of Merit with a white badge, and in 2020 was conferred the title of 'doctor honoris causa' from Rey Juan Carlos University.