James McQuiggan

Advisory CISO / Founder, Apparent Security

James McQuiggan, CISSP, and author brings over 25 years of experience to the cybersecurity field and is the founder and Advisory CISO of Apparent Security, a consulting practice to help organizations deal with Human Risk Management, Artificial Intelligence, and social engineering, as well as vCISO for various organizations. His extensive background includes CISO Advisory at Knowbe4, providing thought leadership on various cybersecurity topics. McQuiggan was a senior cybersecurity roles at Siemens Energy and Wind Divisions, where he developed expertise in industry standards, incident response, and industrial control system (ICS) security. In addition to his corporate work, James serves as part-time faculty at Full Sail University, teaching Cyber Threat Intelligence. A dedicated community leader, he currently volunteers with ISC2 as Co-chair of the North American Region Advisory Council and Chair of the Southeast Chapter Regional Management Committee, following an eight-year tenure as President of the ISC2 Central Florida Chapter.

Bill Kim

SVP & Chief Information Security Officer, Security Bank of Kansas City

After a two-decade career in radio and television where automation began to replace many announcers, Bill spent some time acquiring multiple vendor certifications and has enjoyed the last 26 years in several aspects of IT, IT Security, Compliance and Regulatory, Networking, etc. Through leading the federal compliance efforts for a municipal electric utility to re-tooling awareness programs to adapting the stack to meet the ever-shifting risk and threat landscape, Bill has tried to bridge a cooperative understanding between IT and security and standards, guidelines and recommendations. As CISO for Security Bank of Kansas City, Bill appreciates his team as they continually monitor for risks and vulnerabilities, behavioral changes, abnormalities and chasing all the ghosts.

Shawn Geib

Chief Information Security Officer - Department of Energy's Kansas City National Security Campus

Shawn Geib is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at the Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC), managed and operated by Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies (FM&T). With nearly 7,000 employees in Kansas City, Missouri, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, KCNSC provides national security support through its diverse engineering, manufacturing and secure supply chain management activities. As CISO, Shawn leads a multidisciplinary cybersecurity team responsible for everything from incident response and data‑privacy governance to the development of policies that protect enterprise communications, systems and assets against internal and external threats. Under his direction, the team continuously assesses risk, implements proactive defenses and neutralizes threats to ensure the resilience of the campus’s critical infrastructure. With almost 30 years of experience spanning both physical and cyber security, Shawn joined KCNSC in 2008 as a Security Officer. He has since progressed through senior roles — including Senior Security Manager and Director of Security — before assuming the CISO position. In each capacity, he has designed, executed and overseen comprehensive security programs that protect personnel, facilities and materials from a full spectrum of hazards, ranging from minor incidents to major events. His leadership has been pivotal in aligning security operations with KCNSC’s mission, mitigating risks and reducing liabilities across the organization. Prior to his civilian career, Shawn served more than a decade in the U.S. Marine Corps. He commanded a military police team during Operation Enduring Freedom, directing over 200 combat and training missions and completing worldwide assignments in Haiti, Afghanistan and Greece. This operational background informs his strategic approach to modern national‑security challenges. In addition to professional responsibilities, Shawn co-chairs both the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce Military Affairs Committee and the KC Tech Council Executive Roundtable. Shawn’s academic degrees include a bachelor’s degree in business administration and management from the University of Phoenix, a Master of Business Administration from Baker University and a Master of Science in management, strategy and leadership from Michigan State University.

Tyrone Watson-Furgeson

Deputy CISO of Infrastructure Services, Burns & McDonnell

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Yaron Levi

Chief Information Security Officer, Dolby Laboratories

A global multi-industry Cyber Security Leader offering Startup and Enterprise security leadership. Expertise include Security Practice Creation, Strategy Development, Defense Doctrine Implementation, Security Architecture Development, Security Evangelism and Multi-Level Collaboration (including: C-Suite, Board, Clients and Industry), Team development, Coaching and more. My Unique CliftonStrengths Assessment Results: Woo - Strategic - Ideation - Communication - Positivity - Arranger - Futuristic - Relator - Responsibility - Self-Assurance Education: BA, Social Sciences and Management; The Open University, Tel-Aviv, Israel Security Practice Development: Established a cyber security practice from the ground up including: Cyber Defense and Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Security Architecture and Engineering, Identity and Access Management, Vulnerability Management, Application Security, Governance Risk and Compliance, Data Security, Education and Awareness, and 3rd Party Risk management. Security Strategy Development: Defined and maintained an innovative forward-looking security strategy that balanced business objectives, business risk appetite, cyber threat landscape and regulatory requirements. The strategy prioritized “Secure from the start”, building security IN (instead of bolting it ON), and automation. Defense Doctrine Implementation: Developed and implemented a defense doctrine based on militaristic practices in order to empower the organization to effectively defend against cyber threats including: Attack surface mapping, Adversary Simulations, Purple-Team Exercises, Defense Capabilities validation, Response Manuals, Threat Intelligence, Defense Alliances development, and Law Enforcement and industry collaboration. Security Evangelism: Led various initiatives to educate and increase awareness about the importance of risk management, threat modeling, defense, security best practices and the benefits to the organization. Frequent speaker at industry conferences including RSA, SecureWorld, Dark Reading and more. Team Development, Mentoring and Coaching: Recruited, developed, mentored and coached team members at all levels, from Interns to Directors. Developed a team member from a Project Manager to a CISO in 6 years. Guided and developed people to well-deserved promotions from dark place in their careers to positive forces on the team.