Jarad’s career at Frost & Sullivan spans 20+ years in the USA and Europe. He spent 14 years in Frost & Sullivan’s growth consulting practice and 6+ years in the research practice. During his tenure at Frost & Sullivan he has worked on numerous strategic projects for international clients of all sizes in North America, Europe, and Asia in areas including, but not limited to: managed security services, mobile threat defence (MTD), digital risk protection (DRP), digital trust, IoT security and privacy, end-to-end encrypted voice and text messaging, automated breach and attack simulation (BAS), IT/OT security convergence, regulatory compliance, and corporate governance.

Kevin Cross serves as Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer for Dell Technologies’ Security and Resiliency Organization. In this role, Kevin leads the Cybersecurity team which supports Dell Technologies’ business by managing risk, maintaining compliance and securing the enterprise environment.

Kevin has extensive experience leading incident analysis and response, threat intelligence, threat hunting, ethical hacking, forensics and e-discovery, penetration testing and vulnerability management functions for large organization in both the public and private sectors.

Prior to joining Dell, Kevin served as Vice President and Deputy Chief Information Security Officer at Sony and was responsible for all global security shared services. Kevin also founded and developed world-class security operations centers at Sony, the U.S. Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA), the Pentagon and the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Under Patrick Morley’s leadership, Carbon Black has grown from niche startup into endpoint security leader. He joined the company as CEO in 2007 and, since then, has led the team through several major milestones including: a merger with Bit9, three acquisitions, a company transition to a SaaS model, a successful IPO on NASDAQ (in 2018) and, most recently, a $2.1 billion sale to VMware. Patrick now serves as the General Manager for VMware’s Security Business Unit. He has been recognized as one of the industry’s most thoughtful and reputable leaders.

Bernard Marr is an internationally bestselling author, futurist, keynote speaker, influencer and strategic advisor to companies and governments. LinkedIn has ranked Bernard as one of the top 5 business influencers in the world. He has authored 18 best-selling books, is a frequent contributor to the World Economic Forum and writes a regular column for Forbes. Bernard has about 2 million followers across different social media platforms where he generously shares content every day.