Featured Speaker(s)

Confirmed Panelists:
Erika Voss: Head of Information Security, Risk, & Compliance, Zillow
Erika Voss is an Information Security, Risk, and Compliance leader who partners with Executives across the board to help educate, drive awareness, and deliver meaningful security guidance that helps push businesses forward. After spending nearly, a decade working in public sector, Erika knows what truly drives people to talk, communicate, and share how to best protect, detect, and solve for the security flavor of the week; what is it today, “threat hunting?” It’s how well you connect with the heart-beating people you’re trying to not only keep secure but communicate why security is important beyond a badge and a door. You must engage with your audience, help them understand the risk to their business operations, their people, and their growth, then educate the why. Erika’s extensive background in Security and Compliance has been focused heavily on Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, Utilities/Gas, Government, Financial Services, and Private Sector verticals for Cloud Service Providers dealing specific with HI TRUST, HITECH, HIPAA, ITAR, FINRA, ISO, NIST, PIPEDA and Data Privacy of Records for over 15 years.

Jeannie Warner: Security Manager, WhiteHat Security
Jeannie Warner has worked in security since 2001, with the first 10 years in network security in analysis and operations at IBM. From there she moved on to Microsoft’s Security Research Center, then down to the Bay area with Symantec and Fortinet. She acquired international hiring and team-building experience as the Global Security Operations Center Manager for Dimension Data in Australia. Her experience ranges from analysis, product management, product marketing, senior operations management, and occasional forensics investigation and compliance. Application Security is her most recent passion. She is an advocate and evangelist for security process policies and maturity, and finding integration points for application security and network security to manage risk.

Lauren Walson, Sales Manager at Darktrace.
Lauren Walson is a manager at Darktrace, the world’s leading AI company for cyber defense. She has worked with companies across industries and sectors, helping companies of all sizes defend their networks from sophisticated threats with Darktrace’s AI. One of Lauren’s flagship customers is the City of Las Vegas, who is using Darktrace’s Enterprise Immune System and Industrial Immune System to secure its ground-breaking smart city initiative. Lauren graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of California, Los Angeles and is based out of Darktrace’s San Francisco headquarters.


Moderator: Lenka Vanek: Sr. Director, Software Engineering, Quest Software
Lenka Vanek has a long standing technical and management background in software engineering and product lifecycle management, particularly in database and data technologies. She is passionate about delivering timely, high quality and innovative software. Products under her leadership were recognized with numerous and prestigious industry awards and are earning Net Promoter Score above 80%. Lenka is also working towards the future where more girls and women consider a career in information technology. Lenka is currently Senior Director of Software Engineering at Quest Software, in Orange County, CA.