Speakers

Haegley serves as the senior Department of the Air Force expert and Director of Control Systems, Cybersecurity, and Cyber Resilience. Responsibilities include providing technical oversight for world-wide operations of Air and Space Force objectives in cybersecurity, defense, and resiliency for infrastructure and control systems. In addition, he provides direction and recommended action to the Deputy Chief of Staff of Logistics, Engineering, & Force Protection on matters pertaining to formulation, review, and execution of plans, policies, and programs related to all Control Systems activities in the DAF.

Haegley’s distinguished career includes more than 30 years of military, federal, civilian, and commercial consulting experience. For over a decade, Mr. Haegley has become easily recognized as the leading champion in bringing awareness to the ever-increasing cyber threat to control systems and his unprecedented leadership resulted in measurable changes in government and industry.

He has four certifications, three masters degrees, two children, and one patent.

Rahul Mittal is currently the Cybersecurity Advisor for Washington D.C in Region 3 with DHS CISA and is responsible for proactively engaging with members in private and public sector to increase the nation’s critical infrastructure resiliency and further protect it from cyber-attack. Previously, Mr. Mittal has worked at the National Institute of Standards in Technology (NIST), Health and Human Service (HHS), and the Chief Administrative Office (CAO) for the House of Representatives. In his career, he has served as a subject matter expert on cybersecurity topics related to risk management, incident response, cybersecurity analysis, and cyber policy. At HHS, he was the Branch Chief for the Office of the Secretary (OS) Cybersecurity Customer Engagement and Compliance Support and the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Assistant Secretary of Preparedness and Response (ASPR). Mr. Mittal currently holds a Bachelor of Science in Mass Communication and a Master of Business Administration and possesses the following professional industry certifications: Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) and the Certified Network Defense Architect (CNDA).

Dr. Streilein supports efforts focusing on concept, strategy, and program development in bioengineering, bioinformatics, and biodefense. He leverages his technical and leadership experience to emphasize the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to solve national biosecurity, health, and human performance challenges.

Prior to his current position, Dr. Streilein led the Cyber Analytics and Decision Systems Group, where his work focused on the application of AI and machine learning to problems in cybersecurity, including threat detection and characterization. Other work in the group included the development of quantitative cybersecurity measurement and modeling capabilities, cyber moving target techniques, and technologies to enhance system resiliency.

Dr. Streilein holds a BA degree in mathematics from Austin College, an MM degree in electronic and computer music from the University of Miami, and a PhD degree in cognitive and neural systems from Boston University.

Mark Bentkower is a data protection and cybersecurity expert with over two decades of experience, currently serving as Principal Technologist, Americas, at Veeam Software. He helps organizations enhance data resiliency, security, and compliance in an evolving threat landscape.

With international experience, including time with Veeam in Singapore, Mark has a broad perspective on IT challenges. He has played a key role in modernizing data protection strategies across Asia-Pacific and brings deep expertise in cloud and hybrid environments to help organizations implement resilient, scalable, and secure data solutions.

As an active thought leader, Mark frequently speaks at industry conferences and roundtables. He recently participated in a discussion on ransomware resilience, addressing challenges like service-level agreements and recovery objectives in multi-vendor environments.

A Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Mark is committed to advancing cybersecurity and data resiliency best practices. He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and enjoys traveling, live music, and theater.

Gina Scinta is Thales TCT's Deputy Chief Technology Officer (CTO). In this role, Gina
serves as the company’s technology evangelist. Her mission is to help Thales TCT’s
U.S. Federal Government customers learn effective ways to solve their mission critical
cyber security challenges. Gina also leads several strategic initiatives for the company such as the collaboration with NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, ACT-IAC, and more.

Gina has over 30 years of experience in the technology community. Prior to joining Thales TCT, Gina served as a Senior Solutions Architect with Thales Digital Identity & Security. In this role, she focused on providing solutions for protecting data using world class encryption and key management for data at rest in data centers and cloud infrastructures.

Nick Wakeman is the editor-in-chief of Washington Technology and joined the publication in 1996 as a staff writer. He's a graduate of Bridgewater College and earned a masters degree from American University. When he isn't writing about government contractors, he's thinking of cooking large pieces of meat over fire and dreaming of ways to embarrass his two sons.