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Now serving as Kering Head of CERT. Created and continuously improved the group's global incident response capability over the last 4 years—covering SOC, CSIRT, VOC, and CTI for 15 Houses and 47,000 employees across 75 countries—achieving TF-CSIRT certification and SIM3 maturity level. Over 15 years' experience from energy sector (CEA, EDF) to luxury retail, spanning full security stack: SOC tooling, management, and luxury-specific threats.
French cybersecurity community contributions include authoring *Cybersecurity & PowerShell* (ENI), 8 MISC magazine articles, EPITA engineering school instruction, and podcast appearances. Passionate mountaineer; graduated from the regional alpinism team in 2019.

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I am Kelly Butler, the Head of Cyber for Marsh UK, where I lead the strategic development and delivery of innovative cyber insurance solutions.
With over 24 years of experience in the insurance industry, I drive growth and retention strategies through dedicated regional practices, ensuring our clients receive cutting-edge advisory and placement services. As a passionate leader and respected voice in the industry, I champion clients' needs, educating stakeholders on business risks and customizing coverage to address specific challenges.
My commitment to excellence empowers organizations to navigate the complexities of cyber, technology, and media risks effectively.

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Following a successful 21-year military career, Liz moved into the private sector in 2018. Despite having initially said “not a bank and not Cybersecurity.” her first role was in cyber at HSBC. Liz subsequently held impactful roles in financial services, cyber-vendor and retail enterprise organisations, deepening her cross-sector expertise in education, leadership behaviours, and human factors led security.
Liz now serves as Chief of Staff for the Security Awareness and Special Interest Group (the SASIG), driving resilience and risk discussions across cybersecurity best practice, mental health and wellbeing, cyber incident preparedness, safeguarding vulnerable people online, diversity and inclusion, and STEM career development.

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With nearly 50 years' experience in the security and crime prevention industries, Martin Smith is a well-known and highly respected personality in the cyber security world. In 2004 he founded The Security Awareness Special Interest Group (SASIG) as a subscription-free networking forum for cybersecurity practitioners. Its 11,000+ membership represents some 4,500+ organisations from both the public and private sectors and is drawn from CIOs, CTOs, CSOs, CISOs and their staff with responsibility for security, privacy and data protection within their organisations. Professionals from other disciplines (risk, HR, legal, supply etc.) and representatives from government, law enforcement and academia are also being increasingly welcomed at its events.
Martin is a Fellow of The Security Institute and a Freeman Emeritus of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists. In 2017, he received a lifetime achievement award for his services to the security industry. In 2024, he received a Commendation from the City of London Police Commissioner and the National Police Chiefs' Council for his lifetime's work in combatting cybercrime.

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Michael Vaughan assured his place in cricket history with England's historic Ashes victory in 2005 and has gone on to become one of the sport's most respected commentators.
Michael underlined his status as a household name by appearing on BBC's 'Strictly Come Dancing' in 2012 and the Christmas Special in 2018.
A keen golfer, Michael has participated in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship on a number of occasions.

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Matt Middleton-Leal is Managing Director for EMEA North & South at Qualys. With 20 years spent working in the security industry, Matt brings significant experience to his role at Qualys. He has worked for many organisations, specialising in areas such as risk management, identity and access management, application, network and database security. Matt most recently held the position of General Manager EMEA and Board member at Netwrix Corporation. Previous to this role Matt was V.P. Northern Europe at CyberArk Software, where he oversaw five consecutive years of 45%+ per annum revenue growth. Prior to CyberArk he held the position of Business unit executive at IBM Security Systems. Matt joined IBM from CA where he had spent six years, working on their largest information security projects. Matt is a CISSP® – Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

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With over 20 years of industry experience, predominantly in the operational space, Ben is currently working in the Aviva/Direct Line Group as the Head of Cyber Assurance with the Direct Line Cyber Defence Centre. Passionate about optimizing people, processes, and technology to deliver maximum organizational benefits. Known for challenging the status quo, ensuring that all outputs effectively address the critical “So What?” question.

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Courtney Holm is an award-winning senior leader in sustainable business development and climate adaptation, with over 20 years’ experience working across global sustainability disciplines. A respected executive and advisor, she is recognised for helping organisations and individuals navigate risk, complexity, and uncertainty in a rapidly changing world. She is the Managing Director and Founder of The Holm Edit, Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter Business School (Environment, Science and Economy), Chair of the Board at The Orchard Project, and a Board Director and Co-Chair of the Standards Steering Committee at Green Seal. Courtney specialises in driving systemic change, shaping sustainable markets, addressing geopolitical and climate risk, and transforming consumer and organisational behaviour. She views climate change as a threat multiplier and works with leaders to develop practical adaptation strategies that move beyond resilience to long-term protection and future-proofing of livelihoods and enterprises. A leading advocate for Tech for Good, Courtney brings more than 15 years’ expertise in upstream supply-chain traceability strategy and solution design. She has delivered hundreds of global programmes focused on transparency, accountability, and sustainable growth across complex value chains. A sought-after public speaker and commentator, Courtney has spoken at COP26 and COP27, the World Climate Summit, Sustainability LIVE, GO TECH World, SAP Sapphire, Dreamforce, Nyenrode University, and the University of Exeter. Her work and insights have been featured by Bloomberg News and published in the Financial Times, Edie Sustainability Magazine, The Grocer, and Your Business with James Caan. She also serves as a trusted board-level advisor, mentor, and executive coach

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Matthew Frost, delivery lead for Qualys in BT. Worked alongside Qualys for 2 years to drive risk reduction across BT. Lead development and testing teams to both roll out capabilities and improve risk measures through a variety of different mechanisms.

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Nathan Hayes is a seasoned IT executive with over 25 years of experience turning technology into a strategic enabler in the legal sector. He is currently Director of IT at Three Crowns LLP, where he oversees global IT operations and strategy and leads a team across offices in the US, UK, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Previously, as International IT Director at Osborne Clarke LLP, he led a transition to a cloud-first, mobile-enabled infrastructure and aligned technology with business goals to improve efficiency. Known for driving innovation and security, he has spearheaded large-scale IT transformations and championed advancements in cybersecurity and information governance.

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As a Security Consultant, I work closely with clients to design, implement, and enhance robust cybersecurity strategies tailored to their specific needs. I focus on proactively identifying risks and deploying advanced security solutions. I am currently working with Hachette UK, the second-largest book publishing group in the UK and act as an SME for Qualys.

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Richard Hallarde CISO at Circuit Foil, with a strong focus on building effective and pragmatic cybersecurity practices. I have hands-on experience in strengthening organizational security and enjoy sharing real-world insights while engaging with the security community.’

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As the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of the Qualys Cloud Platform, Dilip is responsible for leading global product development, data and platform engineering, DevOps, site reliability engineering, cloud operations and customer support across Qualys’ broad security product portfolio. Dilip joined Qualys in 2016 to drive Qualys’ own internal digital transformation efforts and has been instrumental in helping scale the technology and organization in support of the company’s accelerated product growth and transformation into a unified security platform. Prior to joining Qualys, Dilip served in multiple engineering leadership roles at various mid-sized and large organizations to build and deliver complex, scalable, distributed enterprise SaaS products and big data cloud platforms. Dilip has a bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering from the University of Mumbai and a master’s degree in computer science from Ball State University.

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Ivan Milenkovic is a Vice President for Cyber Risk Technology at Qualys, a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions designed to streamline and consolidate customers' security and compliance solutions in a single platform. Ivan has over 20 years of experience aligning complex technology landscapes and fluctuating risks with business objectives. His professional background includes servicing as Group CISO at a $4.8bn multi-national BPO, leading a cyber advisory business, and holding multiple advisory board positions. Ivan is a Certified Information Security Officer (S-CISO®) and instructor for the CISO2.0 course by SECO Institute. His ongoing pursuit of domain knowledge continues at Lancaster University, where he is a Cyber MBA candidate in the first NCSC-accredited programme in the UK.

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Kunal is currently VP of Product Management for the CyberSecurity Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM), Web App and API Security product line at Qualys HQ in Foster City, CA. He is Qualys boomerang. He worked at Qualys for 3 years and incubated the XDR product line from inception. Kunal has spent 15+ years working at startups, and big and mid-size companies in cybersecurity, networking, and application security in both product and engineering roles at Juniper Networks, Extreme Networks, Sun Microsystems and Infinera. Prior to re-joining Qualys, Kunal was heading products at Israeli startup in API security and bot management AppSec space.

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As the Chief Risk Technology Officer at Qualys, Richard helps customers and the broader security community measure, communicate, and eliminate risk. With over 10 years of experience as a CISO, he's led and supported security strategy, operations, and governance across critical infrastructure and cloud-native organizations. Richard has published two books, "How To Measure Anything In Cybersecurity Risk" and "The Metrics Manifesto: Confronting Security With Data." Each provides practical and innovative approaches to quantifying and reducing security risk. His first book is the main curriculum at the US Dept of Defense (DoD) CISO program at Carnegie Mellon University and numerous other institutions of higher education.

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As Chief Product Solutions Officer, Shailesh Athalye leads Qualys’ product and security solutions organizations. He oversees product management and go-to-market functions, including product marketing, while also leading the cyber risk advisory and technical solutions architecture teams that help CISOs operationalize cyber risk reduction. He helps drive strategy for the Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform, empowering organizations to measure, communicate, and eliminate cyber risk in the AI era.

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Himanshu Kathpal is VP, Product Management, Platform and Technologies at Qualys. He has over 13 years of experience in cybersecurity and product management, with a specialization in vulnerability management, remediation, and next-generation endpoint security. Himanshu is passionate about developing security solutions that align with the company's cybersecurity product strategy to meet customer needs, reduce the attack surface, and strengthen the organization's security posture. He holds a master's degree in engineering from D.Y.Patil University, Pune, as well as an MBA in International Business Management from NMIMS, Mumbai.

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Abhinav Mishra is Product Management Director at Qualys, where he drives strategic initiatives to advance the company’s container security offerings. With a strong focus on risk-based operations and go-to-market alignment, he works across product, engineering, and field teams to deliver impactful security outcomes for global enterprises. He brings over a decade of experience spanning product leadership, software engineering, and GTM strategy. Prior to Qualys, Abhinav led container security at Uptycs, a CNAPP vendor, and spearheaded Kubernetes multi-tenancy and developer self-service initiatives at Rafay. He began his career at VMware, where he spent five years as a software engineer focused on cloud networking and security. Abhinav holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Columbia University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management

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Eran Livne is Senior Director, Endpoint Remediation at Qualys, leading a team tasked with helping customers improve their security posture through cross-platform vulnerability remediation. He has more than 20-years of product management and computer science experience working in diverse IT and security markets. In 2014, Eran founded mobile security company, LetMobile, acquired by Ivanti. Following the acquisition, he drove Ivanti's enterprise security and endpoint security and management solutions. Eran holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Tel Aviv University and an MBA in high-tech business administration from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.