An author, politician, and former international civil servant, Shashi Tharoor straddles several worlds of experience. Currently a second-term Lok Sabha MP representing the Thiruvananthapuram constituency and Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs, he has previously served as Minister of State for Human Resource Development and Minister of State for External Affairs in the Government of India. During his nearly three-decade long prior career at the United Nations, he served as a peacekeeper, refugee worker, and administrator at the highest levels, serving as Under-Secretary General during Kofi Annan’s leadership of the organisation. Dr. Tharoor is also an award-winning author of works of both fiction as well as non-fiction, with his fifteenth book due for release in December 2014.

Born in London in 1956, Dr. Tharoor was educated in India and the United States, completing a PhD in 1978 at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at the Tufts University. While there, he received the Robert B. Stewart Prize for Best Student and also helped found and served as the first Editor of the Fletcher Forum of International Affairs, a journal now in its 39th year. Dr. Tharoor was also awarded an honorary D.Litt by the University of Puget Sound and a Doctorate Honoris Causa in History by the University of Bucharest. In 1998 the World Economic Forum in Davos named him a “Global Leader of Tomorrow”. He is also a recipient of several awards that include a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, India’s highest honour for overseas nationals. In 2012 the King of Spain awarded him the Encomienda de la Real Order Espanola de Carlos III. Among numerous other awards are one for "New Age Politician of the Year" from NDTV, the Hakim Khan Sur Award for National Integration, and the Priyadarshini Award for Excellence in Diplomacy.

Dr. Anja Kovacs directs the Internet Democracy Project in Delhi, India, which works for an Internet that supports free speech, democracy and social justice in India and beyond. Anja’s research and advocacy focuses especially on questions regarding freedom of expression, cybersecurity and the architecture of Internet governance. She has been a member of the of the Investment Committee of the Digital Defenders Partnership and of the Steering Committee of Best Bits, a global network of civil society members. She has also worked as an international consultant on Internet issues, including for the Independent Commission on Multilateralism, the United Nations Development Programme Asia Pacific and the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, Mr. Frank La Rue, as well as having been a Fellow at the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India.

Prior to focusing her work on the information society, Anja researched and consulted on a wide range of development-related issues. She has lectured at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, and Ambedkar University, Delhi, India, and has conducted extensive fieldwork throughout South Asia. She obtained her PhD in Development Studies from the University of East Anglia in the UK.

Ms. Pang is a Criminology Consultant. Ms. Pang moved to Canada from the United Kingdom after receiving her B.A. Hons. in Developmental Psychology with Cognitive Studies, which included Artificial Intelligence programming. After completing her M.A. Degree in Criminology in Vancouver, Ms. Pang has been working in various fields of Criminology. While working at the BC Forensics Psychiatric Commission in Vancouver and the National Headquarters of Correctional Services Canada in Ottawa, Ms. Pang specialized and published research in profiling risks/needs of juvenile and adult sex offenders, women offenders, and dangerous offenders.

Ms. Pang was commissioned by the B.C. Forensic Psychiatric Commission to develop the first comprehensive Standards and Guidelines for the, Assessment, Treatment and Management of Sex Offenders in British Columbia. Ms. Pang also has extensive experience in programme evaluation, and development of policies and standards, including staff training, equity employment, risk assessment and management of ethnic youth gangs, community policing, and domestic violence.

Ms. Pang is one of the founders of The Society For The Policing Of Cyberspace (POLCYB). Based in Vancouver, Canada, POLCYB is an international society devoted to enhancing international collaboration amongst private and public sectors to combat cybercrime. In addition to other consultation projects, Ms. Pang also assumes the role of the Executive Director of POLCYB.

Ms. Pang was awarded the prestigious Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2013. The medal was presented to Ms. Pang in recognition of her significant achievements and continuous contributions to the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) mandate of “leading progressive change in policing”.

Scott Warren leads a team that specializes in cybersecurity, data privacy and digital data disclosures in Japan and Asia. He advises on digital compliance, eDiscovery and corporate data privacy for global and local corporations. He also has significant experience in compliance, intellectual property, litigation, dispute resolution and government regulatory and internal investigations. He has provided advice to global multinational corporations in the hi-tech, software, retail, healthcare, pharmaceutical, automotive, banking, trading, telecommunications and professional services industry.

Scott started his career as a civil litigator in California and is experienced in all phases of disputes resolution, from pleadings through conducting jury trials. He moved to Japan in 1993 and wrote the “Japan Employers Handbook” for CCH, a large international publishing company. While general counsel at Sega Corporation, he handled various intellectual property issues, including licensing and anti-counterfeiting on infringers on every continent except Antarctica. He also oversaw their anti-competition and internal investigation issues.

As senior attorney for Microsoft, Scott was responsible for the Xbox launch in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. He was the head of anti-piracy for Xbox worldwide, and the head of anti-piracy for all Microsoft products in North Asia. He also served as the head of internet safety, working with law enforcement and governments to better protect the public from cyber threats. In this capacity, he became involved with The Society for the Policing of Cyberspace, a non-profit organization, where he serves on the executive board.

He was the managing director of Kroll in Japan and regional managing director of Kroll Ontrack in Asia, providing clients with investigative, computer forensics and e-Discovery services. Later, he opened Epiq Systems in Japan and built the team and services in order to provide eDiscovery solutions to global organizations.

Having served as in-house counsel for more than 13 years and having built two successful legal services companies in Asia, Scott brings a unique understanding, expertise and global perspective to his clients.

Scott is also a Certified International Counter-Cyber Crime Professional.

Sunil Varkey, CISO and Head Information Risk Management & Policy Compliance has over 20 years of IT and Information Assurance Leadership experience with banking, telecom, ITES and manufacturing businesses in US, Middle East & India.

He has bachelor’s degree in Electronics engineering with an M.B.A in Investments, also CISSP, CIPP/US, CGEIT, CRISC, CISA, ABCP, ITIL- V2 (Red Badge), and Six Sigma GB certified. He has published and presented various articles related to information assurance domain.

Daud was born in Bareilly, India. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Western Michigan University, Michigan, USA. Prior to working for the FBI, Mr. Daud was an Electrical Engineer in Michigan, USA.

Daud entered on duty as a Special Agent (SA) of the FBI on April 18, 2004. From 2004 through 2010, SA Daud was assigned to the Chicago Division, where he worked in the National Security section for eight years. SA Daud’s focus was on threats to National Security from various segments to include Counterterrorism actors. In 2012, SA Daud was promoted to a Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) at the FBI Headquarters in Washington DC, where his responsibility included managing National Security threats emanating from Cyber domain. In 2014, SSA Daud was appointed as the Assistant Legal Attaché (ALAT) at the US Embassy in New Delhi. SSA Daud will remain in India till 2018.

As the ALAT at the US Embassy in India, SSA Daud is one of two FBI agents assigned in India and covers topics including counterterrorism, cyber (criminal and national security related), criminal and training matters. SSA Daud coordinates all the FBI activities in India with the Indian law enforcement and intelligence agencies. SSA Daud also specializes in Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT), which allows for official exchange of evidence between India and the USA. MLAT is the tool used by Indian agencies to obtain all the cyber data from the US ISPs.

Chief Information Security officer and Global Head of Information security compliance Group in Tech Mahindra which is 100 thousand people strong.

He is a Postgraduate with 28 years of experience as programmer, network administrator, entrepreneur, head of business operations in his early career.

Global certifications like CISM, CBCP, CEH, CPISI, DCPP, DCPLA and Lead Auditor for ISMS & BCM to credit the current role

Led Tech Mahindra team to be the finalist thrice for “DSCI excellence national award for Information Security Implementation” and won it in 2012.

Along with DSCI, represents the IT industry for ‘Cross border data flow dialogue’ with the European delegation. He is an active evangelist on Information Security and Business Resilience.

He is also an avid lover of music, fine arts & sports.

Ben has years of experience in hacking stuff, writing code, and in his past was a red team leader, and technical leader as a CTO. Ben is now the group manager of Imperva-Incapsula's security research group, consisting of elite security researchers and developers - researching applications, traffic, protocols & trends in cyber threats.

As the Executive Director, Public Affairs & Strategic Engagements, Harish leads Cisco’s strategic engagement with National and State Governments of India on wide range of public policy issues that concerns Cisco in India - as an investor, globalization hub, business unit and as a corporate citizen. Harish plays a key role in Cisco’s India External Advisory Board which has oversight on transformational project and strategic issues on a 3-5 year horizon. Harish is based in New Delhi, India and is with Cisco since May 2007.

An industry veteran of over 23 years, Harish actively participates in public policy forums in India and is the Chairman of CII’s Broadband committee and Co-Chair of USIBC’s digital task force, Executive Council Member of the Manufacturing Association of Information Technology, Co-chair of Corporate Social Responsibility committee of American Chamber of Commerce in India. Harish is also the co-founder of Public Affairs Forum of India.

From 2003 to 2007, Harish was an Executive in the Governmental Program function of IBM specially focused providing leadership to IBM’s policy engagement with the Government of India on Innovation, Global Resourcing & HR issues.

Prior to joining IBM, Harish worked for over 11 years with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) – India’s Premier Industry organization in a variety of roles. In his last role as CII’s Director for Information Technology, Harish worked with top CEOs of corporate India on issues affecting the IT & BPO industry.

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Pradeep Sharma has been working with RSA as Systems Engineer since October 2014 and is based in Bangalore, India. In this role, He helps customers to design and build advanced security operation center and improve their capability to discover and respond to advanced cyber threats.

Pradeep started his career in 2005 as Network engineer with an ISP and acquired multiple roles in between where he acquired strong understanding about Networking, security and Cloud Computing before moving into Security Consultancy.

He Holds a Bachelor Degree in Electronic & Telecommunication Engineering with active CISSP and other industry recognized certifications.

Dinesh is an Information Security, Management and Audit professional practising in the domain for over a decade. He is a specialist in cybersecurity, critical infrastructure protection, national security policy and strategy. He has worked with Government and Enterprise for Security Audits, Architecture, Strategy, Policy Definition, Planning, and re-Engineering.

Staying current with technology, his present interest areas are Cyberwar, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Cyber Insurance, Cybercrime, Threat Intelligence, Managed Security and more.

He enthusiastically supports security awareness and career mentoring activities and firmly believes that the use of common-sense may be the silver bullet for information security woes.

A recognized authority in the cybersecurity domain and a regular speaker at conferences in India, Middle East and Africa.

He is a regular writer, blogger and a hobbyist photographer.

Principal Consultant: Pyramid Cyber Security & Forensics, Dubai & India

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, CISA, CISM, ITIL, ISO27001, Certificate holder in IPR and ERM

Meera Subbarao is the Director of Secure Development Practice who has over 20 years of experience in software development organizations in a variety of roles including Architect, Lead Developer, and Project Manager, and Security Architect. Meera has worked with a number of Fortune 250 companies and various government organizations. Meera has overseen and performed secure code reviews, static analysis implementations, architectural risk analysis, secure design reviews and threat modeling of systems built from a few thousand lines of code to systems containing tens of millions of lines of code (Java, JEE, .Net, Rails, and C/C++). Meera has authored OWASP Top Ten, C# Defensive Programming, Java/JEE Defensive Programming classes taught by Cigital. She is a certified instructor in Architectural Risk Analysis, Threat Modeling, Defensive Programming Generic, Defensive Programming Java EE, and Defensive Programming C#.

Experienced IT Infrastructure & Security professional with over 16 years of work experience, successful and steady career growth in reputed organizations viz., Sify Limited, Primus Telecommunications India Limited, Wipro Infotech, Gateway Terminals India, PCS Technology Limited, Fullerton India Credit Company Limited and currently with Credit Information Bureau (India) Limited.

Currently Heading the IT Infrastructure & Security Operations for CIBIL. Leads the Digital Cyber Forensic team of CIBIL for investigating any Data Breach or attempts. Succeeded in positioning the Technology function as a Business Transformation initiative, with major contributions in Security technology implementations focusing on protection, prevention, monitoring and alerting. Lead end to end design, implementation and operationalization of security infrastructure at CIBIL.

Key achievements in the current and earlier stints include setting up of the complete IT Infrastructure and security operations including SOC from the scratch for two start up MNCs in India viz., Gateway Terminals India and Fullerton India. Implemented Virtualization on Open platform, which was the first of its kind in India. Automated the Business Continuity by building robust DR setup with seamless switch over from Primary site to DR site.

He holds a Engineering Degree in Computer Science & Engineering and Management Degree in IT. Certified Ethical Hacker, Prominent Speakers and contributes inputs to many security forums for combating cyber threats. Recognized as Most Innovative CIO's of India, Top 100 CISO's & CSO's consistently over last 3 years by various media groups.

Julie Gommes is cybersecurity consultant at DEVOTEAM, Iso/CEI27001 Lead Auditor. She's working on audit, risk analysis, security gap analysis and CISO support. Also, for several years she’s been studying the „jihadist“ movement and the rise of anonymisation and encryption techniques in the Middle East and is the author of a book about the revolutions in several of these countries /“Il était une fois les révolutions”/ (Ed. La Mouette, 2012).

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# 16 years plus of service having rich experience in Information Warfare, Technology Management, HRM/HRD, Training & Development, Personnel Management and General Administration.
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Ajit is a co-founder of "SecurityMonx", an initiative to create open source tools for Crypto-Auditing and Threat-Intel. He also co-founded “null - Open Security Community”. With 13+ years of experience in the Infosec domain, he specializes in Development and Testing of crypto-implementations. Over 5 years he has worked extensively on Crypto-Implementations for critical systems at Emerson & Symantec corporation.
From last 3 years Ajit is providing consultation & training on Cryptography to Government/Defense officials, National Banks & Security professionals across the globe. He has been researching and speaking on security issues in crypto-implementations through Defcon-CnPV, Nullcon, Cocon & Ground Zero Summit and also at BlackHat. A hardcore volunteer and contributor through the community efforts of Null, Nullcon, BSidesLV, C0C0N, Ajit is also a Marathon Runner and Organizes "World Run By Hackers" during these conferences.

Tamaghna Basu “, co-founder/CTO of neoEYED Inc. He is a security researcher at heart and has been his main areas of research include Web app security and network pen‐testing, exploit development, incident handling and cyber forensic. Being a software developer earlier, he worked in python, java, .net, ruby etc. and various domains like finance, insurance, gaming etc. He also presented in other security conferences like NULLCON, C0C0N, OWASP, ISACA etc. and member of NULL, DSCI and other communities. He has accomplished various certifications like OSCP, GCIH, RHCE etc.”

Rahul has over 8 years of experience in security, research and product development. He has presented his papers in 28 different forums in 14 different countries. He is the founder and CTO of CloudSek a Machine learning based threat detection technology . Prior to founding Cloudsek he was a Sr Engineer at Citrix where he held the responsibility of making citrix products secure.

Ajay Fuloria, is II year M Tech student from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He has always been fascinated by technology. He has been active in the field of Cyber Security for past few years. He shifted his focus from web application security to radio communications when he realized the incredible power of Software Defined Radio to receive and transmit arbitrary radio signals.

He enjoys coming up with creative solutions to technical problems. For past year, he has been involved in studying the Global System for Mobile communication out of interest. He has been motivated and moved by the open-source community to make the learning curve for GSM operations smoother. He has been active participant in various campus hackathon and recently won award in Microsoft's CodeFunDo hackathon organised in Chennai.

He wishes to audit the security of TETRA ( Terrestrial Trunked Radio ) and GMR (Geo Mobile Radio) protocols subsequently.

Philip Varughese is the Co-founder & CEO of Datum Informatics Pvt. Ltd, a BigData Analytics firm, with deep focus into Contextual Intelligence using AI & Machine learning on unstructured data.

Philip brings around 14 Years of rich and extensive cross functional experience and expertise in the IT field with 12+ Years of Experience in Enterprise Data Strategy, Analytics, BigData, BI, DWH, Dashboard Reporting with Experience in Consulting, Research, Deal-Making, Delivery & Centre of Excellence.

He is a passionate Digital Transformation & Innovation specialist in the field of Enterprise Analytics, Contextual Intelligence, Information Ranking, Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence.

Philip is an invited Speaker on BigData and Analytics in various National Conferences and leading institutions.

Prior founding Datum, Philip was heading the business for Chimera Technologies, a software services firm in Bangalore and also, he was handling key business management roles with IBM, Synaptris, Seventhsense Technologies and Socratic Learning Inc. at Domestic and International level.

Philip is a Post Graduate in Mathematics and also holds Master of Philosophy in Mathematics.

Prajwal Panchmahalkar is a lead security engineer at VMware Inc., He has contributed to public security research and has been the Development Lead for Matriux since 2009. In the past he was a Research Assistant at Texas Tech University working on Security of Critical Infrastructure and Smart Grid Energy Systems, with journal published on Elsevier. A Finalist for America's Information Security Leadership Award 2012 (AISLA) by (ISC)2. Previously Prajwal was a speaker at BSidesLV and GrrCon. He was a chapter lead for n|u, Hyderabad an open security community. Prajwal holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Texas Tech University at Lubbock

Akash has more than 10 years of experience in Application and Network Security. Before starting his own company he was a technical lead for one of the leading American commercial security software companies specialising in end point security. He started in security working on web infrastructure for the government of India.

Akash is the founder and community Manager at null - The Open Security Community where he has made major contributions in making the community a national phenomenon.


He is currently one of the Chapter Leaders of Open Web Application Security Project Bangalore (OWASP Bangalore).

He founded and runs The AppSec Lab a company focussed on Application Security where he works with small and medium companies in securing their web server security, web security, mobile security and guiding them to stay secure while being competitive. Current areas of research for him include devops, secops, security in SDLC, Cloud Security, Security awareness through community building. He does a lot of trainings as well including the extremely popular Xtreme Web Hacking.

Jovin works as an Inforamtion Security analyst for a development firm. He is an active member of null - The Open security community and serves as one of the chapter leads for the null Pune chapter. He defines himself as a 'security enthusiast', his primary interest is in the field of web-security and has recently started exploring radio security. He has spoken previously at conferences like c0c0n, nullcon and GNUnify and presents regularly at null meets. He blogs at http://foohck.in

Aditya works as an Information Security Analyst. He marks out himself as an one of the security geek who is also an active member of Null - The open security community. He gives chief importance to the web-security and in the near times has developed interest in the Mobile forensics and security. He regularly presents in the Null on some interesting security issues. He blogs at http://adeetyablog.wordpress.com

Riyaz Ahemed Walikar Web Application Pentester, Security evangelist and a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), he has been active in the security community for the better part of the last 8 years. He has been actively involved with the Bangalore OWASP and null chapter for the last 4 years and is one of the OWASP Bangalore chapter leads.

He is actively involved with Vulnerability Research in popular Web Applications and Network aware services and has disclosed several security issues in popular software like Apache Archiva, Openfire, Joomla!, EJabberd, .NET Script Injection Bypass and has had luck with finding vulnerabilities with popular web applications like Facebook, Twitter, Google, Cisco, Symantec, Mozilla, PayPal, Ebay, Apigee, Yahoo, Adobe, Tumblr, Pinterest etc. for which he is on the Hall of Fame for most of these services. He has also been a speaker and trainer at several security conferences including OWASP AppsecUSA 2012, BlackHat Abu Dhabi 2012, nullcon Delhi 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and c0c0n 2011.

His technical interests lie with programming, bug bounty, malware analysis, breaking web applications, playing CTFs, researching devices that fall under the Internet of Things category and penetration testing networks exposed to the Internet. When he is not writing/breaking code, you can find him dabbling in photography, stargazing, playing football, reading or fishing.

Rugved Mehta is an Information Security Enthusiast working as a Technology Auditor in an Investment Bank. He has always been interested in security, be it national or international, physical or system security. His areas of interest and research include PsyOps, Perception Management, Mind Control, Aviation security, Open Source Intelligence, Human Intelligence, Signal and Technical Intelligence, Cyber Warfare, Surveillance among other such covert ops.

When not in office, he keeps reading and understanding covert things trying to uncover whatever he can.

Gaurav Trivedi is a Consultant with one of the Big Fours and an Information Security Enthusiast. He is extremely passionate about aviation and follows the aviation industry very closely. His other areas of interest include surveillance, human intelligence and the ever changing world of Information Security.

Suraj Pratap is a security analyst working in freecharge. He works on securing e-commerce application, and payment gateways and iOT devices. Beside the part of job he is an active member of Null, and security explode community.

Having 3 years of experience in development and information security. Developed various in-house tools and an active researcher in wireless security. His interests include programming, bug bounty, research on wireless protocols and breaking devices. Apart from work he likes playing badminton and adventure travels

Having 3 years of experience in information security. Working in health care domain securing the infrastructure, risk analysis and mitigations. His interests lie with breaking medical devices, playing CTF's, researching IoT security and fuzzing mobile applications.

Swaroop Yermalkar is a cybersecurity enthusiast who works as Senior security Engineer at Philips Healthcare on securing medical devices, mobile apps, hardened systems, web services, and healthcare infrastructure.. He is the author of popular iOS security book 'Learning iOS Penetration Testing', Packt Publishing and also one of the top mobile security researchers worldwide, working with Synack, Inc.

He also gives talks and training on wireless pentesting and mobile app pentesting at various security conferences, such as GroundZero, c0c0n, 0x90, DefconLucknow, and GNUnify. He has been acknowledged by Microsoft, Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Dropbox, Evernote, Simple banking, iFixit, and many more for reporting high-severity security issues in their mobile apps.

He is an active member of NULL, an open security community in India, and is a contributor to the regular meetups and Humla sessions at the Pune chapter. He holds various information security certifications, such as OSCP, SLAE, SMFE, SWSE, CEH, and CHFI. He has written articles for clubHACK magazine and also authored a book, An Ethical Guide to Wi-Fi Hacking and Security.

He has organized many eminent programs and was the event head of Hackathon—a national-level hacking competition. He has also worked with Pune Cyber Cell, Maharashtra Police, in programs such as Cyber Safe Pune.

Raashid Bhatt is working as a malware researcher for blueliv where his main role is to analyse malware and write technical reports .In 2013 Bhatt started working in Threat Intelligence domain. His experience in malware analysis include technical analysis and botnet monitoring . During his Spare time he maintains a technical blog at http://int0xcc.svbtle.com