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Ron Bowes is known for his contributions to open source security software including the Nmap Security Scanner, for which he has written dozens of scripts covering a number of complex protocols. He also has a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Manitoba, runs a Winnipeg-based security consulting company (Dash9 Security), and is a founding member of SkullSpace – Winnipeg’s first and only hackerspace.

Doug Burks is the author and father of Security Onion, a Linux distro for IDS (Intrusion Detection) and NSM (Network Security Monitoring) which is based on Ubuntu and contains Snort, Suricata, Bro, Sguil, Squert, Snorby, Xplico, NetworkMiner, and many other security tools.

Charles is a Chinese hacker who is one of the core members of the Network Crack Program Hacker (NCPH), a Chinese hacker group based out of Zigong in Sichuan Province - responsible for the development and deployment of exploit codes related vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word Malformed OLE Structure Code Execution and Microsoft Excel Malformed BIFF Structure Code Execution with over a period of 90 days during the summer of 2006.

Dan Boneh was born in Israel in 1969. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University in 1996 under the supervision of Richard J. Lipton. He is a known researcher in the fields of applied cryptography and computer security. His work includes cryptosystems with novel properties, web security, security for mobile devices, digital copyright protection, and cryptanalysis. He is the author of over a hundred publications in the field and a recipient of the Packard Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Award, and the RSA award in mathematics.

Timothy Tomes a.k.a LaNMaSteR53 is a Technical Security blogger for PaulDotCom Security Weekly, the world's largest computer security podcast, and has presented at security conferences such as Hack3rCon II, 2011. He enjoyed a 9-year career as an Officer in the United States Army where he was the principle designer and manager of the Army's first Cyber Defense Training program. Tim also spent 3 years as the Army Red Team's Senior Team Leader where he managed and led teams in full scope security assessments on Department of Defense systems.

Koushik Dutta is the guy behind ClockworkMod Recovery (CWM) - a replacement recovery option for Android devices, Klaxon (an Android app), and Rom Manager for Android rooting. He is also a core member of the UnrEVOked team.

Pranav Mistry is an Indian hardware geek and computer scientist who is famed for inventing SixthSense, a wearable gestural interface device. It is rumored that Facebook tried to acquire the technology from Pranav for a reportedly $2 billion and 5% ownership of Facebook, but Pranav decided to open source it instead. The open source code for the project can be found at SixthSense Google Code and SixthSense Github Repo. The source code is currently being ported into Java from C# to allow the developers to make mobile ports.

Paul Lamb is the website administrator of paulscode.com, a website for programmers, web developers, gamers, beta testers, and people interested to his emulator projects. He has recreated several of the old Atari arcade games for his computer in MSDOS Turbo Basic before he was even in high school. In his college years, he recreated Super Mario Brothers from the ground up, using Borland C++.

He is known as the main developer of Mupen64Plus, Android Edition (AE) which is a fully open-source Android port of the Nintendo 64 emulator Mupen64Plus.

Ahmed Al-Khabaz is a former student of Montreal’s Dawson College and a of the school’s software development club who discovered a flaw in the computer system used by most Quebec CEGEPs (General and Vocational Colleges), one which compromised the security of over 250,000 students’ personal information. During this time, he was working on a mobile app to allow students easier access to their college account when he and a colleague discovered what he describes as “sloppy coding” in the widely used Omnivox software which would allow “anyone with a basic knowledge of computers to gain access to the personal information of any student in the system, including social insurance number, home address and phone number, class schedule, basically all the information the college has on a student.” The Director of Information Services and Technology François Paradis congratulated Mr. Al-Khabaz and colleague Ovidiu Mija for their work and promised that he and Skytech, the makers of Omnivox, would fix the problem immediately, things started to go downhill.

Two days later, Mr. Al-Khabaz decided to run Acunetix, designed to test for vulnerabilities in websites, to ensure that the issues he and Mija had identified had been corrected. A few minutes later, the phone rang in the home he shares with his parents - he was then warned by the president of Skytech (Edouard Taza) that what he was doing was a cyber attack because it was the second time that they saw his IP in the logs. He was then expelled at Dawson College as approved by the Dean and his professors.

David Brumley is a security researcher who is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and has worked for 5 years as a Computer Security Officer for Stanford University. He is into software security, network security, and applied cryptography. He has received the USENIX Security best paper awards in 2003 and 2007, selected for the 2010 DARPA CSSP program, a 2010 NSF CAREER award, and the 2010 United States Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Obama.