Sean Joyce is a globally recognized leader in cybersecurity, digital trust, and national security. As a Principal at PwC, Sean holds two strategic leadership roles: serving in the Office of the Chairman and as the firm’s Global Cybersecurity and Privacy Leader. He previously led one of PwC’s largest businesses—the multibillion-dollar Cyber, Risk & Regulatory platform—where he scaled client impact across industries and geographies.

With decades of experience advising CEOs, boards, and governments, Sean is a trusted advisor to Fortune 100 leadership teams, specializing in navigating the convergence of cybersecurity, regulation, and digital transformation. He provides strategic counsel on governance and risk oversight, with a focus on how cybersecurity and resilience serve as core business enablers, not just risk mitigators. He has been engaged by C-suites during some of the most high-profile cyber breaches of the last decade, supporting regulatory response, breach investigations, and long-term remediation strategies.

Kevin Mandia is one of the world’s most recognized cybersecurity experts, with more than 30 years of experience combatting cyber threats. As Co-founder and General Partner at Ballistic Ventures, he mentors entrepreneurs, leveraging his deep understanding of the threat landscape and his proven success as a founder and CEO.

Kevin founded Mandiant, serving as CEO from 2016 to 2024, including leading the company through its successful acquisition by Google in 2022. Beyond his leadership at Mandiant, Kevin has held influential roles in cybersecurity, including serving on the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) and the CISA Cybersecurity Advisory Committee. Earlier in his career, he contributed to the consulting divisions of Sytex (acquired by Lockheed Martin) and Foundstone (acquired by McAfee).

In the U.S. Air Force, Kevin served as a computer security officer at the Pentagon, and later a special agent in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. He holds a BS in computer science from Lafayette College and an MS in forensic science from The George Washington University.

Nicole Perlroth has committed her career to advancing cybersecurity awareness and fostering the innovation necessary to confront a new era of AI-enabled attacks.

She spent more than a decade leading cybersecurity reporting at The New York Times. Her investigations rooted out thousands of cyberattacks and helped compel the first U.S. hacking charges against the Chinese military, the blacklisting of Israel’s NSO Group, and earned several journalism awards.

Marshall Heilman is the Chief Executive Officer for DTEX Systems, the global leader for insider risk management. Marshall has more than 20 years of experience in cybersecurity (in startup and large public organizations), holding executive leadership and highly technical roles at Mandiant and Google.

He is an internationally recognized cybersecurity expert, regularly speaking at industry events. He also advises startups and growth companies as an adviser to multiple venture capital firms.

Marshall joined DTEX Systems from Mandiant (now part of Google Cloud) where he spent the past 17 years focused on protecting governments and companies around the globe.

Hart Rossman is the Vice President of Security including the AWS Security Office of the CISO and AWS CIRT. In this role he leads a global team helping customers implement AWS products and services securely, achieve their security goals, and respond to security incidents while innovating and deeply collaborating with teams across the broader Amazon organization and partners. Hart joined AWS in 2012 as an individual contributor and grew to lead Security & Infrastructure in AWS Professional Services, supporting enterprise customers design, build, and optimize their security, DevOps, and cloud infrastructure architecture at a planetary scale. 

Before AWS, Hart worked for over a decade as a systems integrator in the defense & intelligence, finance, and energy sectors. He is an Eagle Scout and has earned a CISSP, CSSLP, received his B.A. in Communication from the University of Maryland, College Park, and received his MBA from the University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Amanda Gerut has been a journalist and editor for more than 20 years and currently serves as Fortune’s West Coast Editor. She edits and reports on publicly traded businesses, executive compensation, Securities and Exchange Commission regulations and investigations. Amanda previously worked for 13 years at the Financial Times’ Agenda, a publication for corporate board members of publicly traded companies. She is the former managing editor of BoardIQ, an FT publication dedicated to the governance and oversight of mutual funds. She previously worked as a reporter at New Jersey’s Star-Ledger and The Herald News. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two sons, and three rescue cats.