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Andrew has over 20 years of experience in the IT and IT security industry. He is currently heading up the Asia business as the Area Vice President at Imperva covering the ASEAN, India and Korea market. In this role, Andrew is pivotal in building a success sales and sales engineering team demonstrating in-depth knowledge within IT Security and CyberSecurity space.

Prior to joining Imperva, Andrew has worked at leading technology organisations like Firemon, CrossBeam Systems, Fortinet as well as Aventail and Ascend.

Based out of Singapore, Andrew travels extensively within the region to meet and present to customers and partners. Andrew holds a Bachelor degree from Deakin University, Australia and is recently named as the Top AVP within Imperva.

Ben has over 10 years of experience in IT security industry. He is currently the Research Group Manager at Imperva. In this role, Ben lead a group of data scientists, application & network security experts who are responsible for the innovative development on a large variety of platforms & technologies. He also spearheads proof of concepts and security for the Imperva Incapsula and SecureSphere products. Prior to joining Imperva, Ben was the CTO for Cynet, a precise threat detection company. He was developing & managing the product from a prototype to a customer ready product. In his other roles, Ben had experience in hacking, writing code, and was a red team leader.

Global experience with Information risk and technology leadership roles for 23 over years. Majority of this tenure, with large financial institutions in Singapore and India. Joined Deutsche Bank in Singapore in 2000 as Regional Head for Information Security Engineering, Moved to Mumbai in 2004 Presently, Director - Country Head CISO for Deutsche franchise in India , responsible for Information Security for the banking franchise in India and Org leadership responsibilities for 300 plus roles within India Security Operations Center Prior to this, Director Technology, responsible for COO / Chief of Staff Functions for 700 FTE Technology Operations Centres in India requiring management oversight of technology organization, operations, financials and client relationships for Deutsche franchise in India Held other diverse roles such as Global technology relationship lead for captives in US, UK, and APAC. Information technology relationship for India captives and retail bank and Setup of Information Security Center within India captives Prior to joining DB in Singapore in 2001, he was responsible for conceptualising , designing and implementing a multi-year strategic Information Security middleware program delivery for Global Applications portfolio with Standard Chartered Bank within their Singapore Region.

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Rishikesh Kamat heads the Private Cloud and Managed Services practice at Netmagic, an NTT Communications Company. He is responsible for evangelizing, development and Go-to Market of Global managed services, managed security services and private cloud portfolio.

With over 14 years of experience in IT Infrastructure Services, Rishikesh has been a key driving force in the growth of Netmagic’s Managed Services revenues over the last half decade.  He has been instrumental in Netmagic entering and winning complex, multi-year IT outsourcing contracts. Passionate about IT security, he has led the development and roll-out of innovative security services offerings at Netmagic. Rishikesh works closely with delivery teams to bring innovation in IT service delivery and ensure a consistent and quality customer experience. His key strengths are in understanding customer challenges and positioning the right solution which delivers business value to the customer. A senior member of the team at Netmagic, Rishikesh is a key influencer and driver of multiple strategic projects in the company. He contributes regularly to leading publications and is a regular speaker at customer events and conferences.

Prior to joining Netmagic, Rishikesh has worked with Tata Consultancy Services, in multiple roles ranging from program management to ITSM consulting.

An MBA graduate from XLRI, Jamshedpur; Rishikesh is an amateur astronomer with a special fondness for tracking solar eclipses. He also holds an amateur radio license and is an active runner participating in marathons. Rishikesh is based in Mumbai.

Sahir Hidayatullah is the CEO of Smokescreen Technologies -- one of India's hottest new cybersecurity companies. Smokescreen’s proprietary technology detects targeted hacker attacks before they cause business impact. Sahir was one of India's first ethical hackers and is a serial entrepreneur. His companies have investigated many of the highest-profile data breaches in the country, with clients that include critical national infrastructure, global financial institutions, and Fortune 500 companies. His work has been a cover feature story in Fortune India magazine, and his thoughts on technology risk management appear regularly in the print and television media.

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Shivakumar Sriraman is the Chief Risk Officer for India & South Asia covering Srilanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan & Maldives. Shiva joined Visa in Oct 2014 and part of AP Risk Leadership team. He is responsible to develop and execute a comprehensive risk plan that is consistent with local market landscape, country priorities & global risk strategy. In his role, he closely works with issuers, acquirers, merchants, payment processors, service providers, regulators & law enforcement.

Shiva’s professional journey spans 22 years across banks. Prior to joining Visa, Shiva was Vice President, Head of Risk with focus on Fraud Prevention & Detection for all the payment products of the bank. Shiva had been with HDFC Bank for 12 years. Prior to this, he spent 7 years with various banks such as HSBC, Centurion Bank, ANZ Grindlays in various functions covering credit, operations & risk management.

Shiva has played active roles in various industry forums like IPRC (India Payment Risk Council), FIU, RBI & Industry working groups.

Shiva holds an MBA from Great Lakes Institute of Management.

Responsible for ensuring Infosys’ compliance to Data Protection Regulations globally, in over 30+ countries.  In his career span of 27 years which includes about 9 years at Tata Steel, he was associated in various capacities with a diverse set of enterprise functions such as Quality Management, Manufacturing, Risk Management and Governance for Information Security, Business Continuity, Intellectual Property and Security Incident Management, apart from Data Privacy.

Srinivas is a member of Asia Advisory Board of IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals), and has been associated with various privacy & security initiatives driven by DSCI (Data Security Council of India). He is a designated expert in ISO’s Privacy Working Group of SC 27 committee, as part of which he actively contributes in the development of Security & Privacy standards. Since May 2014, Srinivas is the DSCI Bangalore Chapter Anchor.

Srinivas is a B.Tech from IIT, Varanasi, and has cleared certification exams relevant to his profession, such as CIPP (US), CIPT, CISM, CSQA, DCPLA, DCPP.

Vikram Gidwani currently serves as the Sales Director- South Asia, for the Digital Security Solutions Division at Entrust Datacard, a leader in the Security, Identity and Payment Solutions. In his currently role he is tasked with driving sales for digital security solutions, including Public key Infrastructure (PKI) and Strong Authentication initiatives, in the South Asia market.
He brings with him over 18 years of experience in the Information Security Industry, most recently with Vasco Data Security, as Country Manager. He has previously worked with companies like IBM, RSA Security (EMC) and Wipro InfoTech and driving Sales in their security divisions.
He holds an Engineering degree in Electronics, and a Master’s in Business Administration.

Vinayak Pai is a Program Director with the Big Data Analytics group in Mindtree based in Bangalore. This group comprises of Data Scientists, Statisticians, Big Data Architects, Functional Consultants and Data Analysts. He has worked on multiple Global Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and Advanced Analytics projects for leaders in the area of Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Global Money transfer providing solutions in the area of customer behavioral analytics and supply chain analytics. He has worked on the complete Analytics Spectrum starting from Descriptive Analytics to Prescriptive Analytics. He is a continuous learner and speaker on topics related to Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Advanced Analytics and Data Science. On the leadership front he is passionate about shaping the careers of aspiring professionals by mentoring them to realize their strengths and work on building high performance careers.