Phil McKinney is President and CEO of CableLabs. In this capacity he heads the research and development organization responsible for charting the cable industry’s technology and innovation roadmap.

Prior to joining CableLabs, he was the vice president and chief technology officer of the $40 billion (FY12) Personal Systems Group at HP. He was responsible for long-range strategic planning, research and development (R&D) and product roadmaps for the company’s PC product lines, including mobile devices, notebooks, desktops and workstations.  In addition, Phil was founder and leader of HP’s Innovation Program Office (IPO). The IPO was chartered to identify, incubate and launch adjacent and fundamentally new technologies, products and services that would become the future growth engines for HP.

Recently (February 2012), Phil released his first book on innovation and personal creativity titled Beyond The Obvious, published by Hyperion. The book is available in hardcover, digital and audio formats. The book will soon be available in Russian, Chinese, Portuguese (Brazil), Korean and Japanese.

His influence on innovation and creativity includes:

• Sharing his expertise in innovation and creativity, free of charge (in an approach he refers to as “paying it forward”) through his award winning podcast Killer Innovations™ (available on iTunes). It has been named by CIO Insight as a “must listen” podcast.
• Vanity Fair named him the “The Innovation Guru”
• MSNBC and FOX Business both call him “The Gadget Guy”
• His uncanny ability to predict what’s coming next caused him to be dubbed as the “chief seer” by The San Jose Mercury News.
• He was named as one of the “25 Most Influential People in Mobile Tech” by LAPTOP Magazine.
• He is a contributing columnist for Forbes where he writes the column “The Objective” for Forbes.com

Phil serves on the:

• Advisory Board for Hacking Autism
• Board of Directors for The Computer History Museum
• Executive Board of the Santa Clara County Council for the Boy Scouts of America

As President of CrowdStrike Services, Shawn leads a world-class team of cybersecurity professionals who aggressively and effectively investigate and mitigate targeted attacks on computer networks. He retired as FBI Executive Assistant Director (EAD) in 2012, overseeing all
criminal and cyber investigations worldwide, as well as international operations and the FBI’s critical incident response to major investigations and disasters. During his 24-year career, he held a wide range of operational and leadership roles in three FBI Field Offices and FBI -HQ.
Having served in multiple positions rel ating to cyber intrusions since 1999, Shawn was the Bureau’s outspoken top agent on cybersecurity issues, credited with boosting the FBI’s computer crime investigative capabilities. In addition to his last position as EAD, he served as both
Deputy Assistant Director and Assistant Director of the Cyber Division at FBI Headquarters; Supervisor of the FBI Cyber Crime Squad in Baltimore; and Chief of the Computer Investigations Unit within the FBI-led National Infrastructure Protection Center.

During his tenure, Shawn oversaw major computer crime and cyber investigations spanning the globe, from denial -of-service attacks, to major bank and corporate breaches, to nation-state sponsored intrusions. Shawn led the establishment of the National Cyber Investigative Joint
Task Force (NCIJTF), a multi-agency center led by the FBI, and forged partnerships domestically and international within governments and the
private sector. Early in his cyber career, Shawn served on the U.S. delegation to the G8 as a member of the High-Tech Crimes Subgroup.

Shawn was an original member of, and key contributor to, the National Cyber Study Group, under the direction of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. This organization developed the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), the U.S. government’s national strategy to mitigate threats and secure cyberspace.

Shawn has been a keynote speaker in some of the largest cyber conferences in venues around the world. His cyber expertise has been recognized by many media organizations and he has been featured on every major television network, including 60 Minutes; CBS Evening
News; CNN; C-SPAN; Dateline; FOX News; Good Morning America; and The Today Show. He has been interviewed extensively on radio and quoted in numerous print and online publications, including The Associated Press, Business Week, Forbes Magazine, The New York Times, Reuters, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.

Shawn’s professional achievements have been recognized throughout his career. In 2009, he received the Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Executive for his leadership in enhancing the FBI’s cyber capabilities, and SC Magazine recognized him as one of the top industry
pioneers who shaped the information security industry. In 2010 he was named one of the most influential people in security by Security Magazine; received the Federal 100 Award as a government leader who played a pivotal role in the federal government IT community; and was
selected as cybercrime fighter of the year by McAfee Inc.

Shawn has lectured on a variety of policy and strategy topics at major universities, including American; George Washington; Georgetown; Harvard; and Johns Hopkins. He served previously as a Director on the board of SecureBuy, and currently sits on the cyber advisory board to the Governor of New York. Shawn is on the Faculty and a Board Leadership Fellow at the National Association of Corporate Dire ctors (NACD), where he speaks to Corporate Boards and Directors about complex cybersecurity issues.

Shawn earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Hofstra University and a Master of Science in Criminal Justice Administration from Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a graduate of the Homeland Security Executive Leaders Program of the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security.

Matt is currently Vice President of Broadband Technology at the NCTA – The Internet & Television Association.  At the NCTA, Matt provides technical expertise on all areas of broadband technology and cybersecurity to the NCTA and its members in support of technology and public policy.

Matt has participated on a number of the past FCC’s Communications Security Reliability Interoperability Council’s (CSRIC) cybersecurity working groups.

Matt was also actively involved in the development of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, where he led the cable industry’s efforts in providing its inputs on how to apply the principles of risk management to cybersecurity.

In his role at NCTA, Matt works closely with industry working groups such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), North American Network Operators Group (NANOG), Messaging Malware Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG), and the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG) in developing techno-policy.

Prior to the NCTA, Matt was the Vice President of Global Services, at Sandvine, where he was responsible for the strategic direction and delivery of Sandvine’s Global Services.  Matt’s teams led the creation of new network services in the areas of traffic management including Fairshare, network analytics, usage-based billing, network security, and subscriber notification.

Prior to joining Sandvine, Matt was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of CableMatrix, which developed one of the first Policy Servers for broadband service providers, most notably in the cable market. CableMatrix was acquired by Sandvine in 2007.

Matt helped to develop one of the industry’s first Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) while he was at 3Com. Matt has been a key contributor and author to the cable industry’s PacketCable Multimedia (PCMM) Specification and PacketCable 2.0 QoS Specification.

Matt holds a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Bachelors of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Evansville.

Allan Friedman is the Director of Cybersecurity Initiatives at National Telecommunications and Information Administration in the US Department of Commerce.

Prior to joining the Federal government, Friedman was a noted cybersecurity and technology policy researcher. Wearing the hats of both a technologist and a policy scholar, his work spans computer science, public policy and the social sciences, and has addressed a wide range of policy issues, from privacy to telecommunications. Friedman has over a decade of experience in cybersecurity research, with a particular focus on economic, market, and trade issues. He is the coauthor of Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2014).

His work has taken him between the technical and policy research world.  From 2014-215, he was a Research Scientist at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at George Washington University based in the Cyber Security Policy Research Institute. Before that, Friedman was a Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and the research director for the Center for Technology Innovation. Prior to moving to Washington, he was Postdoctoral Fellow in the Harvard University Computer Science department, where he worked on cyber security policy, privacy-enhancing technologies and the economics of information security. Friedman was also a Fellow at the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, where he worked on the Minerva Project for Cyber International Relations. He has also received fellowships from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and the Harvard Program on Networked Governance. He has a degree in Computer Science from Swarthmore College, and a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University.

Rob Alderfer is Vice President of Technology Policy at CableLabs, the global innovation and R&D consortium of the cable industry. Rob brings sound science to bear in policy decisions by harnessing CableLabs’ technology expertise. His focus is empowering the industry to address technology policy matters of substantial strategic consequence.

Rob joined CableLabs in 2012 from the Federal Communications Commission, where he guided United States wireless broadband policy as chief data officer of the agency’s wireless bureau. Previously, he shaped communications policy at the White House Office of Management and Budget.

Rob has been engaged in significant policy decisions for over a decade, helping to shape today’s communications technology landscape. He has deep expertise in wireless spectrum, and has facilitated the development of mobile and Wi-Fi technologies and services by bringing new spectrum to market. He is now responsible for CableLabs’ multinational technology policy and standards work, and he regularly provides strategic guidance to board-level audiences.

Rob serves as vice chair of the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) program committee, the world’s foremost communications policy conference. He is also a partner with Social Venture Partners of Boulder County, helping promising non-profits in Colorado deliver stronger results.

Gerald R. Faulhaber is Professor Emeritus of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Professor Emeritus of Penn Law School. He served as Chief Economist of the Federal Communications Commission in 2000-01.  His research is the microeconomics, management, and public policy aspects of technology and telecommunications firms. Professor Faulhaber’s current research is wireless telecommunications, public policy and the Internet, and the political economy of regulation. He has also written on file sharing and music copyright, public safety radio, and network neutrality. He has published widely in professional journals, and is the author of several books, including European Economic Integration: Technological Perspectives and Telecommunications in Turmoil: Technology and Public Policy. He has served on numerous scholarly boards and review committees and was Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference in Washington, D.C. He was formerly an Associate Editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics, and serves on the Board of Editors of Information Economics and Policy. He served on the National Research Council’s Committee for the Study on Issues in the Transborder Flow of Data. He was the founding director of Wharton’s Fishman-Davidson Center for the Study of the Service Sector, from 1984 to 1989.

Prior to his academic career, Professor Faulhaber was Director of Strategic Planning and Financial Management at AT&T, after holding the position of Head, Economics Research at Bell Laboratories.

Professor Faulhaber has been invited to address academic and corporate audiences on economic policy and management issues in Australia, Korea, Germany, Italy, Spain, Guatemala, Great Britain, Canada, Sweden, Finland, Hungary, and the (former) Soviet Union. He has held visiting appointments at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France; Institut d’Anàlisi Econòmica, Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona, Spain; and Tsinghua University, Beijing, PRC.  He has consulted on telecommunications privatization for the World Bank in Venezuela and Peru.

Chaz Lever is a PhD student in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech and a co-founder of Netrisk. His research interests include networking, computer security, and large scale data analysis. He holds a MS in computer science from Wake Forest University and a BS in computer science from Duke University.
Building on years of experience building scalable solutions for the financial services and distributed assets industries, his research has focused on large scale studies of current security problems—including malware, abuse of the DNS, and the Internet of Things. This research has been presented at prestigious academic and industry security conferences as well as receiving special coverage by numerous technical publications.

Jason Livingood serves as Vice President of Technology Policy & Standards at Comcast. He serves as the public face of Comcast’s Internet services and network, both to governments and regulators, as well as to standards forums and other groups. As part of this role, he coordinates Comcast’s efforts to do things including (1) develop open standards such as at the IETF, (2) spur R&D such as via leading the Comcast Innovation Fund and engaging with universities around the world to conduct research of interest to Comcast, (3) apply research and standards to initiate new network and services’ concepts and (4) engage with governments, regulators and other external key stakeholders.

Jason has several patents and IETF RFCs in his field, and currently serves on the BITAG. He has also served on the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society, the FCC’s CSRIC, and ICANN’s SSAC. He holds a M.B.A., concentrating in Technology Management, as well as a B.S. from Drexel University.

Mitch leads Kyrio’s strategy, business development and operations across Kryio’s multiple lines of business. As an entrepreneur and a technology leader, he brings over twenty years of experience creating new products and services in the security, internet, telecommunications, and banking industries.

Prior to joining Kyrio, Mitch held a variety of entrepreneurial and leadership roles in startup and established companies. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Information Technologies at CableLabs, delivering technology solutions for the cable industry’s global research and development organization. Before that, Mitch was co-founder, CTO, CIO and VP of Engineering at StillSecure, a leading provider of award winning network security products to the U.S. Department of Defense, federal civilian government agencies, and large and medium sized enterprises. Previously, as CIO and VP of Engineering at Jato Communications, Mitch led the creation of a national broadband network. He spearheaded the creation U S West’s early Internet online services, and led the development and deployment of video-on-demand, home shopping, and other services for U S West’s HFC cable network in Omaha, Nebraska. He was a founding member and leader of EDS’ Advanced Technology Group, and was instrumental in creating and building the Future Systems banking division business. Mitch also co-founded and created multiple other businesses, including BoldTech Systems, Vozle, The CISO Group, and his first company started during college, Softform Software.

Mitch received his B.S. in Business Administration and Computer Science from the University of Nebraska.

Dylan Davis is a senior security analyst at RiskSense, Inc. Dylan has extensive knowledge in vulnerability discovery, fuzzing, exploit research and development, source code analysis and incident response.

Dylan’s area of focus is enterprise wide web application, IoT and network security posture assessments, penetration testing and incident response. During assessments for enterprise RiskSense customers, Dylan has identified and exploited vulnerabilities in public web applications that resulted in an organization-wide compromise. While at RiskSense, Dylan has discovered and reported multiple undiscovered vulnerabilities in  widely used vendor software products.

Dylan holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from New Mexico State University, in addition to GIAC GPEN and GIAC GWAPT security certifications. Dylan is also an EMC Certified Data Science Associate and MicroStrategy Certified Developer.

Mr. Dunlap spent over fives years as an intelligence analyst, programmer, trainer, and speaker with the US National Security Agency (NSA) before starting Tactical Network Solutions in 2007. Back then, his company provided military units, the intelligence community, and law enforcement agencies the means to collect, analyze, and exploit data from embedded devices for actionable intelligence as well as the ability to conduct low-profile computer network operations in high-risk/denied areas.

Today his company specializes in cyber risk mitigation of IoT and other connected devices. Through meticulous examination of the heart and soul of IoT devices — firmware — Mr. Dunlap’s company discovers hidden attack vectors that place IoT devices squarely into the crosshairs of hackers. Prior to his NSA experience, Mr. Dunlap held network security positions at Western Kentucky University and Deloitte & Touche, LLP. Prior to that Mr. Dunlap worked at Fidelity Investments. Mr. Dunlap earned a Master of Science in Network Security from Capitol College (now Capitol Technology University) and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Economics from Case Western Reserve University.

Is “information technology polymath” a thing? If so, James Plouffe fits the bill. With over 15 years’ experience, he has provided IT and InfoSec services and insight for customers ranging from mid-size enterprises to the Global 10. Plouffe is currently employed as a Sr. Solutions Architect with a San Francisco Bay Area company that provides security tools which enable organizations to adopt consumer technologies such as smartphones and tablets. In this role, he is responsible for developing and enhancing technical integrations with other platforms and products, and helping customers be successful in making these technologies a seamless part of their IT and InfoSec strategies. Prior to that, he spent nearly a decade as the Network Architect for for a major automotive OEM where he was responsible for designing and building the LAN, WAN, and perimeter security infrastructure for operations throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico. He is also a technical consultant for the hacker drama ‘Mr. Robot’ on USA Network.

Ron has been involved in various sectors of the high technology industry for over 25 years. Ron started in computer systems at Sun Microsystems as a hardware engineer and moved to semiconductors as an early employee at Silicon Image where he was one of the drivers for adoption of TMDS (Transition Minimized Differential Signaling) into LCD monitors. TMDS technology became the basis for HDMI which is the digital interface used in almost every flat panel monitor and television today. From displays and serial links, Ron became the product line manager for asymmetric cryptographic co-processor products at Atmel Corporation and drove certificate-based authentication for security in IoT applications. Currently, Ron is the Director of Business Development for Kyrio’s Security Solutions business unit and is working to define solutions that address the evolving security needs for the Internet of Things.

Ron has an MSEE from the University of Delaware and a Masters of Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Dr. Dan Massey is a Program Manager in the Cyber Security Division, Science and Technology Directorate, US Department of Homeland Security. At DHS, his portfolio includes security for Cyber Physical Systems (CPSSEC), Distributed Denial of Service Defense (DDoSD),  Secure Protocols for Routing Infrastructure (SPRI), and Homeland Open Security Technology (HOST). The CPSSEC program is particularly interested in cyber security for medical devices, automotive, and building controls. Prior to joining DHS, Dr. Massey was a tenured associate professor at Colorado State University and served as a PI on research funded by DHS, DARPA, and NSF.

Some of his projects have included the Named Data Networking project that is developing a new information centric architecture, editor for the DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC), internet BGP monitoring and analysis, and infrastructure security enhancements such as the Route Origin Verifier. He earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer science and master’s degree in applied mathematics all from the University of California, San Diego and his doctorate in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Matthew Perry is a Partner Group Program Manager at Microsoft where he leads the IHV and IoT ecosystems for the Windows & Devices Group.  Dr. Perry is responsible for driving strategy, relationships and enablement for silicon, hardware components and peripherals running or connecting to current and future Windows 10 based products including desktops, notebooks, tablets, phones, embedded devices and Maker boards.  To prepare for the 2015 launch of Windows 10, he founded the Windows Hardware Engineering Community (WinHEC) which consists of ongoing conferences, workshops and online collateral to assist IHVs, OEMs and ODMs to engineer Windows 10 products quickly and ship with high quality.  His team works with manufacturers worldwide to develop and sell peripherals that enable Windows 10 users to enjoy delightful features such as Windows Hello Face Authentications and Cortana with Voice for upgraded PCs or new PCs which lack in-box hardware support.  For IoT, Matt drives strategy and ecosystem enablement for embedded devices that run on Windows 10 or products that work well with Windows 10.  To simplify the discovery, communication and orchestration of multiple IoT devices, Matt led Microsoft’s effort, along with key partners, to form the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF), the world’s largest open IoT standard group.
Before joining Microsoft five years ago, Dr. Perry held the position of President and CEO for Transmeta, Montalvo Systems and RPO.  In addition, he held leadership positions at Sun Microsystems, Cirrus Logic and AMD.  Matt is currently on the Board of Directors for the Open Connectivity Foundation, a former member the Consumer Electronics Association’s Board of Directors and a former ISO/MPEG US delegate.  He holds a Ph.D., M.S. and B.S degrees in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University.

Tobin J.M. Richardson serves as President and CEO of the zigbee alliance, leading the alliance’s efforts to develop and promote world-leading open, global standards for the Internet of Things. In this role, he works closely with the alliance Board of Directors to set strategy and to advance the adoption of zigbee standards around the globe.
Tobin has two decades of experience in executive leadership, strategy and development for technology firms and organizations. His experience spans large-scale technology implementations, new service and product rollouts, and transformational change in Fortune 500 companies and world-leading firms. He currently serves in a number of industry leadership roles, including Co-Chair of NAESB’s Energy Usage Information standards committee, and participates actively on NEMA’s Smart Grid Task Force and the CEA’s Smart Grid Working Group. He holds a Master’s degree from Georgetown University, and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Davis.

Rich Compton has been working at ISPs for the last 20 years.  He started his carreer working on the first Internet Exchange Points at WorldCom back in 1997. From there he went on to work at a start-up with only 20 employees and helped to take it to a company with a nationwide DWDM fiber network with MPLS in only two years.  He then went on to become the very first Network Security Engineer at Charter Communications and has been working in the cable industry for the past 15 years.  In his tenure at Charter he has dealt with all facets of network security.  He now focuses on DDoS detection and mitigation, stopping botnets, and keeping Charter’s network infrastructure secure.

Michael leads the cybersecurity program at CableLabs, an innovation and R&D consortium for the global cable industry.  Michael and his team work in a variety of ecosystems and technologies to ensure strong security principals are incorporated into the design and specification of products and services.  Areas of focus include broadband (DOCSIS), wireless, PKI, IoT, SDN/NFV, DDoS, medical, and next generation services such as blockchain and the impact of quantum computing.

Prior to joining CableLabs, Michael spent nearly 15 years at Qwest/CenturyLink in a variety of security and engineering positions including backbone and enterprise security, access network architecture and certification, backbone services and data center certification.  Michael was the CISO for Qwest and lead the development of the Enhanced Cybersecurity Services (ECS) and Einstein 3 Accelerated (E3A) services in cooperation with the US intelligence community which protect private and civilian government critical infrastructures.  In 2005, Michael and his team developed the first tier 1 ISP botnet notification and remediation system which continues to provide tens of thousands of notifications to infected residential customers each year.

As part of the FCC Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) IV, Michael co-chaired working group 5 on server based DDoS attacks and was a member of CSRIC III working group 7 which published a US ISP code of conduct around residential malware notification and remediation. Michael has contributed to several National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee’s (NSTAC) reports on cloud computing, the Internet of Things and ICT Mobilization.

Prior to joining Qwest in 2000, he worked at the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site in a variety of engineering and management roles. Michael received a Bachelor of Science degree from the Colorado School of Mines.  He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Colorado, and holds CISM and CISSP security certifications.

Brian is responsible for the implementation of new security platforms at AT&T. Projects
include the next generation Identity and Access Management platform, Virtualized Security,
Threat Analytics, and DDoS mitigation to protect AT&T infrastructure and AT&T customers
from cyber-threats. The team includes disciplines in security architecture, security analysis,
data science, systems engineering, data acquisition, data analysis, incident response,
computer forensics, and big-data processing systems. The team works closely with
software development and operations teams that support our needs. Threats we focus on
protecting against are destructive acts, data theft, fraud, distributed denial of service
(DDoS) attacks, and malicious botnets. Brian helped create AT&T ThreatTraq, which is a
publically accessible weekly video program that presents observed activities on the Internet
and discusses cyber-threat topics.
Mr. Rexroad’s professional work experience spans over 30 years in many disciplines of
information security and network security in both commercial and high-assurance
government environments. He joined AT&T in 1995 after 8 years of civilian service with
the Department of Defense. He earned a MS in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins
University. He earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University.
ThreatTraq videos: http://techchannel.att.com/ThreatTraq
Blog: http://networkingexchangeblog.att.com/author/brian-rexroad/

Clarke is Principal Architect of emerging technologies at Shaw Communications. In this role, he analyzes emerging technologies and works with senior executives to develop product strategy. Prior to Shaw, Clarke spent over a decade at CableLabs analyzing and developing new technologies for the cable television industry. He is a public speaker on the Internet of Things (IoT) and an active technical contributor to the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF), an international IoT standards organization. He has occasionally been a judge for the CES Innovation Awards. Clarke served on the board of directors of Universal Plug-n-Play Forum (UPnP), chaired the Technical Committee, and led the Internet of Things task force until UPnP was acquired by OCF. He has also chaired various task forces related to video and television in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). He has developed key technologies for the delivery of IP video and other cable services through the web. In general, Clarke relishes developing connected services as they cross traditional product boundaries.

Over his career Clarke has worked in engineering, research, product management and strategy around digital media and communications at Shaw, CableLabs, MediaOne, SonicBlue and Qwest. He built the world’s largest subwoofer and holds over twenty issued patents (and dozens not yet issued).  In his spare time, he designs and builds home recording studios, theaters and other custom home improvements. He holds MSEE degrees from Brigham Young University and Georgia Tech and an MBA from the University of Colorado.

Andre van der Walt is currently Interim Vice President and CISO for Liberty Global – the world’s largest international TV and broadband company – where he holds overall responsibility for information security. Previously he served as Director of Global Security Operations.

Prior to joining Liberty Global , Andre held a variety of security roles in the communications industry focusing on security incident detection and response in enterprise and managed service environments and was instrumental in setting up several Security Operation Centres.

He holds an MBA from the Cranfield School of Management and a B.Sc. (Hons) Computer Science from the University of Pretoria

Brian is a Principal Architect for Security at CableLabs and has been the chair of the Open Connectivity Foundation Security Working Group since 2015. Brian’s security experience includes PKI, encryption, algorithm design and analysis, secure coding, governance, networking, device hardening, data protection and satellite communications. Brian holds a B.S.E in Computer Engineering (University of Michigan) and a M.S. in Computer Science (University of Colorado), he has extensive experience in software development and architecture, networking, cloud technologies, web services, and development methodologies. Brian also has strong business involvement and holds an M.B.A. in Technical Strategy (University of Colorado) and has led multiple technology organizations in roles including Chief Scientist, CIO and CTO.