Denise currently serves as Chair of the National Council of ISACs and participates in a number of industry groups such the Cross-Sector Cyber Security Working Group (CSCSWG). She was instrumental in implementing a CI/KR industry initiative to establish a private sector liaison seat at the National Infrastructure Coordinating Center (NICC) to enhance information sharing between the private sector, CI/KR community and the federal government and serves as one of the liaisons. She is a financial and health sector representative to the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) — a Department of Homeland Security-led coordinated watch and warning center that improves national efforts to address threats and incidents affecting the nation’s critical information technology and cyber infrastructure. She sits on the Cyber Unified Coordination Group, (UCG) – a public/private advisory group that comes together to provide guidance during a significant cyber event – where she also represents the financial and health sectors. Denise is certified as an EMT (B), Firefighter I/II and Instructor I/II in the state of Virginia, and is an Adjunct Instructor at the Fire and Rescue Academy in Fairfax County, Virginia. She is also certified under the National Incident Management System (NIMS). In addition, she has served on the Board and as Officer and President of an international credit association, and has spoken at events all over the globe.

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Laura Élan is a Cybersecurity Practice Lead for UL’ Life & Health Sciences Business Unit. Ms. Elan rejoined UL in 2012 adding to her tenure the opportunity to engage and support great companies innovating in extraordinary ways to improve healthcare through novel device and and software design. Her experience is grounded in several decades of R&D senior leadership roles in Medical Device, Commercial and Consumer Electronics organizations. She holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and is currently a Computer Science Graduate Student. She is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Illinois and holds the RAC credential from the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society.

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Jeremy Feigelson, a litigation partner, leads the firm’sCybersecurity & Data Privacy practice and is a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property andMedia Group. He frequently represents clients in litigations and government investigations that involve the Internet and new technologies. His practice includes litigation and counseling on cybersecurity, data privacy, trademark, false advertising, copyright, and defamation matters. Mr. Feigelson has a broad and active practice in financial services matters, including securities litigation, investment management disputes and counseling of fund boards, the conduct of internal reviews, defense of government investigations, and complex commercial litigation. In 2015, Law360 recognized himas a “PrivacyMVP,” and The National Law Journal named him a Cybersecurity & Data Privacy “Trailblazer.” Similarly,World Trademark Review 1000 recognizes Mr. Feigelson for Intellectual Property.

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Jeffrey Fortin is head of product management at Vector Software. In this role, Mr. Fortin leads product management, driving business for all VectorCAST product lines into legacy markets as well as emerging market segments. Previously, Mr. Fortin served more than 16 years at Wind River. As director of product management, he oversaw product planning and strategy for Wind River’s Intelligent Device Platform (IDP), an IoT gateway software product. Also during his time there, he served as director of field engineering where he led field teams focused on Industrial, Medical, IoT, and Aerospace and Defense (A&D) applications.

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Jon Hagar is a systems-software tester consultant and trainer supporting software product integrity, testing, verification, and validation with a specialization in embedded, IoT, and mobile software systems. Jon has worked in software, particularly testing for 40 years. Projects he has supported include: control system (avionics, medical, and automotive), mobile-smart devices (IoT, home, industrial), and ground systems (IT and PC). Jon publishes and writes regularly including his books: Software Test Attacks to Break Mobile and Embedded Devices, CRC press and eBook IoT Dev-Testing on leanpub.com as well as part in 4 other books. Jon is lead editor/author on numerous international standards including ISO 291119 software testing, UML testing profile (OMG), and IEEE 1012. Jon owns and consults via Grand Software Testing, Colorado, USA.

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Marcia Hofmann is founder and principal of Zeitgeist Law PC, a boutique law firm in San Francisco, California that focuses on computer security, electronic privacy, free expression, and intellectual property issues. She also serves as special counsel to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit digital rights advocacy organization, and teaches as an adjunct professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law. Prior to starting her law practice, Marcia was a senior staff attorney at EFF focusing on digital civil liberties issues. In addition to cutting-edge litigation, her work included counseling and defending researchers, hackers and others who need help navigating the murky laws surrounding access to computers and digital information. Before joining EFF, Marcia was staff counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a non-profit educational center in Washington, DC that works to focus public attention on emerging privacy and civil liberties issues. Marcia’s alma maters are Mount Holyoke College and the University of Dayton School of Law.

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Recently returning to Boston Scientific, he works with internal and external stakeholders to drive and improve processes and practices for pre- and post-market cybersecurity risk management across the company’s products and services. Hoyme is the co-chair of AAMI’s Device Security Working Group and a member of AAMI’s BI&T Editorial Board. Mr. Hoyme spent 3.5 years at Adventium Labs, performing government funded research on the intersection of safety and security for cyber-physical systems. Prior to joining Adventium Labs, Mr. Hoyme was a Senior Fellow at Boston Scientific where he was the systems lead for the development of the LATITUDE Remote Patient Management system. Prior to joining Boston Scientific, Ken spent 18 years at Honeywell’s Corporate Research lab, where he was a Senior Fellow in their real-time computer systems group. He was awarded the H.W. Sweatt Award, Honeywell’s highest technical recognition for his work on the Boeing 777.

Ken has been granted 39 US and 9 International patents. He is a member of IEEE and INCOSE. He received the Bachelors and Master’s Degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota.

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Mr. Iliadis is a full stack developer and researcher with over 20 years of experience, currently leading the technology efforts at MedSec. He is well known in the security research community, allowing him to attract development talent normally unavailable to a startup. At MedSec, Mr. Iliadis has made many substantial research findings including a pacemaker vulnerability which resulted in an FDA cybersecurity advisory. Mr Iliadis has also architected a new groundbreaking product for medical networks called MedScan which is quickly attracting interest from top domestic and international hospitals. Prior to MedSec, Mr. Iliadis was the head developer at Immunity where he developed a number of security assessment tools, including the popular SILICA that has set a new standard in wireless penetration testing and exploitation. Aside from Immunity he has also served as lead security assessment consultant for customers such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Citibank for intrusion defense. Mr. Iliadis has also discovered many vulnerabilities in major products such as Microsoft Windows, Apple OSX and other popular vendor products such as Cisco Routers. Mr. Iliadis gained a lot of publicity at the age of 16 after discovering a major security vulnerability in the biggest internet provider (ForthNet) at that time. He has been interviewed for his technological achievements by many national broadcasters in Greece. At the age of 23 he started a security company which garnered contracts from several top 100 Greek companies. Mr. Iliadis has architected and implemented many products from the ground up which are still in use.

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Dave Kleidermacher is dedicated to the vision of a trustworthy, scalable Internet of Things, including mobile devices, connected embedded systems, and cloud infrastructure. He recently took a As Chief Security Officer at BlackBerry he was responsible for product security and security research. He is a leading authority in systems software and security, including secure operating systems, virtualization technology, and the application of high robustness security engineering principles to solve computing infrastructure problems. Dave earned his bachelor of science in computer science from Cornell University and is a frequent speaker and writer in the area of computer security, including delivering the 2014 Embedded World Conference Keynote, “Securing the Internet of Things” and author of the book “Embedded Systems Security”, Elsevier 2012.

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William H. Maisel, MD, MPH is Chief Scientist and Deputy Center Director for Science at FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). He is responsible for providing leadership in the development, implementation, execution, management and direction of the Center’s broad national and international biomedical science programs.

Prior to joining FDA, Dr. Maisel was Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School with more than 15 years of clinical experience as a Board-certified cardiologist.

He is former Chair of the FDA Circulatory System Medical Device Advisory Committee and is a former member of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Coverage Advisory Committee. Dr. Maisel received his undergraduate degree in biology from MIT, his medical degree from Cornell Medical College, and his Masters in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. He has published more than 120 research manuscripts, book chapters, and scientific abstracts on regulatory science, device innovation, cybersecurity and medical device safety and effectiveness.

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James Mault, MD, FACS, is the Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Qualcomm Life after its 2013 acquisition of HealthyCircles, a Care Coordination and Remote Patient Monitoring Platform Company founded and led by Dr. Mault since 2009. His leadership responsibilities at Qualcomm Life include Strategic Planning and Business Development, Mergers and Acquisitions, New Product Innovation including Intelligent Care Analytics, Clinical Program and Regulatory Oversight, Global Health Policy, Government Affairs and External Affairs, Global Spokesperson and Public Relations. Prior to starting HealthyCircles, Dr. Mault was the Director of New Products, Business Development and Clinical Programs for the Health Solutions Group at Microsoft. Dr. Mault has more than 30 years of experience in senior executive positions in the Health IT and Medical Device industry as well as clinical medicine. Dr. Mault has founded multiple Health IT and medical device companies, raising over $100 million in working capital and leading these companies to develop novel devices and software technologies, FDA approvals, and strategic partnerships with numerous Fortune 500 companies, culminating in M&A and IPO exit transactions. He is the named inventor of over 80 issued and pending US Patents for a variety of novel health information and medical device innovations. He has been board-certified in both General Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery, having specialized in heart and lung transplantation, thoracic oncology and critical care. He has conducted academic medical research under numerous grant awards from the National Institutes of Health, American Cancer Society, and others. He is the author of more than 60 scientific articles, chapters and books in the published medical literature. Dr. Mault holds a B.S. in Biology and a Medical Degree from the University of Michigan, and conducted his General Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery residency training at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Mault provides global thought-leadership on the future of technology and healthcare delivery, serving on numerous Boards and leadership positions including the Consumer Technology Association’s (CTA) Executive Board and Chairman of the CTA Health & Fitness Technology Board, the American Telemedicine Association, the Advanced Medical Technology Association, the National Science Foundation Nanosystems Engineering Research Center, and the World Economic Forum Healthcare Working Group.

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Gavin O’Brien is a computer scientist with the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He launched the center’s first health IT use case and, since early 2013, has been overseeing a use case for mobile device security. Prior to joining the NCCoE in 2012, Mr. O’Brien spent 13 years at NIST’s IT Laboratory where he spent much of his time working on healthcare testing tools. While working with groups inside the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN), he also participates as a monitor for the IHE USA North American Connectathon. Before his career with NIST, Mr. O’Brien worked in the startup community during the dot-com era in the mid 90’s for a few B2B companies. Mr. O’Brien received a bachelor’s of science in mathematics from Bates College and subsequently earned a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Tennessee.

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With degrees in Mechanical engineering and Spanish, as well as an MBA, Ryan Pardee joined the FBI shortly after 9/11 to fulfill a lifelong dream of being a Special Agent. His initial assignment was to the Washington DC field office, where he spent his early years working violent crimes and investigating drug trafficking organizations. During that time, he also served on the Underwater Search and Evidence Recovery Team collecting evidence in bodies of water all across the nation in support of FBI investigations. In 2008, he transferred to San Juan Puerto Rico, where he was assigned to a Counterterrorism squad. Ryan was also selected to serve on San Juan’s SWAT team. Ryan was promoted in 2009, and returned to the DC area to serve as a Supervisory Special Agent in the Counterterrorism Division where he managed several Counterterrorism operations. In 2012, SSA Pardee was transferred to the newly reorganized Cyber Division to manage Cyber National Security investigations and later to manage international cyber operations. In 2014, Ryan was promoted to Field Supervisor in the Oakland office of the San Francisco Division, where he has supervised both an intelligence squad, and currently the San Francisco Cyber Fusion Cell.

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Christine is a security and privacy professional with over 25 years in the healthcare technology industry. Proficient in providing technical consultancy and advisory services to healthcare startup organizations, Christine has executed security and data privacy due diligence on acquisitions for both equity firms and their portfolio companies, working with those companies through the acquisition process to mitigate identified risks.

As President and Principal Consultant, Christine is responsible for providing advisory and consultant services to healthcare organizations to review their operating environment business policies and processes, assess risks, and develop security and privacy strategies. Her specialty is taking a bare bones or nonexistent security and privacy strategy and building one from the ground up to meet the strict standards of data protection of regulated data and intellectual property. She holds advisory roles with several leading health tech companies.
Selected in 2016 to participate on the HHS Healthcare Industry Cybersecurity Task Force, she also participates on several advisory boards including the El Camino Hospital Board of Director’s Security, Privacy, Compliance & Audit Committee. She is a member of InfraGard, ISSA, ISACA, IAPP and HIMSS.

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Global Segment Lead for Healthcare at Renesas Electronics Inc. With over ten years of experience in the semiconductor industry, Kaushal has worked in several technology areas including healthcare, telecom infrastructure, and solid-state lighting. At Renesas Electronics, he leads a global team responsible for defining and developing end-to-end solutions for the Company’s healthcare segment. Kaushal maintains a strong grasp of both the medical and health & wellness industries, as well as an in-depth knowledge of technology trends, key players, and market needs for meeting regulatory requirements.beck