Accure.AI

Akshay Sharma is a technology visionary with Accure.AI and a former Gartner ResearchDirector. In the early 1990s, as a Visiting Advisor at Bellcore, he worked in the environmentwhere cryptographic timestamping — later foundational to blockchain — was developed.He contributed to formal methods supporting SWIFT, advised ARINC on deterministicaviation systems, and later helped shape the architectural thinking behind SASE for SDWAN at Gartner. He is the author of Y2Q: The Quantum Threat — This Time It’s for RealUnlike Y2K!

Aronetics

From an era of ethical boundaries that are denoted by ‘those who talk, don’t know, and those that know don’t talk,’ in the 80s and 90s, I am now the founder and CEO of a small organization that built software to defend against a myriad of threats to data and your identity.

Aronetics

BS Chemistry, GIAC certifications: GSEC, GCIH, GCFE, GFACT. Included as a member of Aronetics to advance special capabilities in various projects.

CTA

Mike leads association work on streaming media, cybersecurity, and quantum technology standards at CTA. He has been in the electronics industry for more than 40 years, in memory chip design, wireless communications and digital multimedia. He has two patents in semiconductor design and has contributed to various industry standards. He is a member of numerous cyber and internet technology fora.

enQase

Steven Menges, Executive Vice President, enQaseA B2B innovator, products and partnerships executive with 25 years of progressive experience, Steven is an industry author and speaker on enterprise computing, quantum security, OT (Operational Technology) Cybersecurity and IT Security, data analytics, managed service providers (MSPs), regulatory compliance, and risk management. Steven has also been an Adjunct Instructor and Capstone/Thesis advisor at the NYU M.S. in Management and Systems (STEM) and other business programs since 2010. Mr. Menges is an AFCEA (Armed Forces Communication & Electronics Association) member, is part of the ASIS International Utilities Security Community, and an active member of numerous critical infrastructure associations and groups.

Global Quantum Intelligence

Christian was born and grew up in Munich, Germany, until leaving for Businessschool in the US. He started his career at German Media company Bertelsmann inNew York City and made the company’s first investments in Silicon Valley,beginning his lifelong relationship with entrepreneurship. Christian has sincefounded several startups, been part of the leadership team taking Imax Corp.public and served as Head of Digital for Universal Music Group East Coast. He iscurrently COO at Global Quantum Intelligence, the leading Quantum market &business intelligence provider advising leaders, investors and governmentsglobally.Christian holds a Diploma in Economics from LMU in Munich and an MBA fromColumbia Business School. In Munich he received a merit scholarship forespecially gifted students and he was a winner of the Procter & GambleFellowship at Columbia Business School.

Lucero Foresight

Sam Lucero is a seasoned industry analyst with nearly 14 years of experience analyzing telecommunications and networking technology markets. He has spent the last ten years assessing the markets for machine-to-machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Sam has established leading M2M market research programs and managed international teams of industry analysts. He has authored numerous reports, forecast databases, and topical articles covering various aspects of the M2M/IoT market opportunity and has been widely quoted in news and trade journals, from the New York Times and the Economist to CNET and Wireless Week. Furthermore, Sam has moderated, presented, and judged at a number of industry events, including CTIA and Connected World. In 2014 Sam was named one of six “Augural Analysts” for M2M by Connected World Magazine.