Mr. Leuvering has 35+ years of experience in the Industrial Automation Business. He started his career as an application developer for both PLC and SCADA solutions. In 1993 he co-founded DeltaLink, the Dutch-Flemish distributor for USDATA SCADA and MES products. There he was, as the CTO, responsible for the product development, professional services and support. He was the lead-developer for the FactoryLink Distributed Alarm System and the FactoryLink Traceabillity (MES) Solution. After that he was the founder and CEO for the most successful ObjectAutomation distributor in the World. He is an active member of the ISA-88 (Batch), ISA-95 (MES) and ISA-99 (Cyber Security) committees and helps defining the standards. Through that experience he is also a certified Subject Matter Expert (SME), certified trainer and course developer on behalf of ISA for all three standards. He is Past- President for the ISA Netherlands Section.

Currently he is active as developer, consultant and trainer specializing in secure industrial integrations. He is also an ISO 17025 / ISO 17065 Technical Assessor for Cyber Security on behalf of the Dutch Accreditation Council (RvA).

Mr. Leuvering holds a Bachelor’s degree of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Technology from the Hogeschool ‘s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands and is fluent in three languages: Dutch, English and German.

Mr. Leuvering has 35+ years of experience in the Industrial Automation Business. He started his career as an application developer for both PLC and SCADA solutions. In 1993 he co-founded DeltaLink, the Dutch-Flemish distributor for USDATA SCADA and MES products. There he was, as the CTO, responsible for the product development, professional services and support. He was the lead-developer for the FactoryLink Distributed Alarm System and the FactoryLink Traceabillity (MES) Solution. After that he was the founder and CEO for the most successful ObjectAutomation distributor in the World. He is an active member of the ISA-88 (Batch), ISA-95 (MES) and ISA-99 (Cyber Security) committees and helps defining the standards. Through that experience he is also a certified Subject Matter Expert (SME), certified trainer and course developer on behalf of ISA for all three standards. He is Past- President for the ISA Netherlands Section.

Currently he is active as developer, consultant and trainer specializing in secure industrial integrations. He is also an ISO 17025 / ISO 17065 Technical Assessor for Cyber Security on behalf of the Dutch Accreditation Council (RvA).

Mr. Leuvering holds a Bachelor’s degree of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Technology from the Hogeschool ‘s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands and is fluent in three languages: Dutch, English and German.

Brian Peterson is an Information Risk Consultant who works for ISAGCA including ICS4ICS, LOGIIC, and other companies as a program and project manager. Mr. Peterson has been a program and project manager for over 25 years. Mr. Peterson has 30 years of cybersecurity experience of IT systems, applications, and SCADA/DCS systems, such as those used in the oil and gas, and manufacturing sectors. In the last 20 years, he has concentrated on establishing cybersecurity programs, incident response and management capabilities, and other processes related to Information Security, ICS Security, and other risk programs. 

Mark Boddy is a Security Development and Support Engineer with Monico Monitoring, Inc. Mr. Boddy has worked in remote monitoring for over 15 years primarily in Oil and Gas but also in the EPG and Mining sectors. His IT experience goes back more than 25 years in the private sector supporting workstations and servers running Unix, Linux, and Windows. His work with the Incident Command System started in the late 1990’s as a Volunteer Firefighter when the county he volunteered for adopted it He is currently active and participates regularly on an All Hazards Type 3 Incident Management Team.

The Lord Provost of Aberdeen is an ancient office with its roots in the 13th century. The Lord Provost acts as Convener of the City Council, Civic Head and His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Aberdeen.

The current Lord Provost is Councillor David Cameron.

The Lord Provost’s family moved from Glasgow to Middlefield in Aberdeen when he was 15 years old. In 1962 he became the first Aberdeen scout to achieve the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award.

He started a career in food safety as a laboratory technician and then as a quality manager before attending the University of Aberdeen, graduating in 1973. He was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Nutritional Science at the Robert Gordon Institute of Technology (now the Robert Gordon University).  

In 1990, Dr. Cameron launched his own food safety consultancy, which was Grampian Small Business of the Year 1994.  He was twice the President of the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland has provided food safety advice to industry, including oil and gas, around the world.

Dr. Cameron has been a councillor for the Kingswells, Sheddocksley and Summerhill ward of Aberdeen City Council since 2012.

Immediately prior to becoming a councillor, he completed two terms of office as the Chairman of NHS Grampian Board, having been a Board Member since January 2005. He was also a UK board member of the Food Standards Agency and Chair of the Scottish Food Advisory Committee.

Megan Samford is the former chair of the International Society of Automation's Global Cybersecurity Alliance (ISAGCA), a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Cyber Statecraft Initiative under the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), and currently Vice President and Chief Product Security Officer for energy management at Schneider Electric. Presently the only female Chief Product Security Officer (CPSO) for a major industrial, Samford is a security executive with a focus on industrial control systems security, critical infrastructure protection, and risk analysis. Samford drives the product security strategy and program for Schneider Electric’s energy management business.

Prior to Schneider Electric, Samford was the global Director of product safety and security for Rockwell Automation, product security leader for GE Global Research, and lead for the GE Product Security Incident Response Team. While working in the public sector, she served as the Commonwealth of Virginia’s critical infrastructure protection coordinator and special assistant for homeland security projects within the offices of former Governors Tim Kaine and Bob McDonnell.

Samford brings a unique perspective to the security community based on her diverse security background with an interest in utilizing proven concepts from traditional critical infrastructure protection and emergency management foundations, such as Incident Command System and preparedness, and applying those to cyber, in particular for industrial control systems incident response.

In addition to her role at Schneider Electric, she is currently the chairperson for the ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance. She is also leading a community-driven effort known as Incident Command System for Industrial Control Systems (ICS4ICS), which seeks to establish a common language for responding to cyber incidents and provide avenues for mutual assistance between organizations. Lastly, she is the co-chair of the US Department of Homeland Security’s Control Systems Working Group.

Samford has served on numerous boards, including Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Security Analysis and Risk Management Association, Department of Homeland Security’s Control Systems Security Working Group, Trusted Computing Group, and Virginia Aviation Security Advisory Council. She is also a returning 2022 program chair for the RSA Conference “Secure All the Things” track.

Samford holds a bachelor’s degree in homeland security and emergency preparedness as well as a master’s in public administration, both from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Stuart is the winner of the King’s Award for International Trade 2023. He is the Co-Chair UK Energy Supply Chain ministerial taskforce and Energy Co-Chair UAE-UK Business Council. He is a speaker, author, and energy policy strategist in the UK.

-Lead Engineer, cybersecurity at Eaton

-17 years work history at IT and ICS cybersecurity​

-Master’s degree in Computer Science​

-Certified Penetration Testing Engineer (CPTE)

-Specialized in auditing and penetration testing IT and ICS infrastructures ​

-Previous work history: e.g. Nuclear power plan senior inspector, Team Lead in ICS pentesting, Auditor and penetration tester to critical infrastructure and industrial control systems

Steve works with companies to improve their performance through the identification of process bottlenecks and the intelligent introduction of technology to remove them. Steve is originally from the United Kingdom (UK) and is now based in Houston, Texas, USA. He is a UK registered Chartered Engineer and European registered Eur Ing with development and management experience in business process automation across multiple sectors. A Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and an ISA Certified Automation Professional (CAP). Former Chairman of the IET’s Americas Regional Board.

Steve Mustard has been in the software development business for over 20 years. His career has included development of embedded software and hardware for military applications as well as the development of products for the remote control and monitoring of utility assets. He is currently working with BP and their new "Argos" offshore production project. 

During his career, Steve has gained extensive experience of the benefits of integrating Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), real time processing, decision support and other disparate systems to improve business processes and now couples this with knowledge of the Six Sigma methodology to allow him to analyze existing processes and identify bottlenecks and other issues. Steve’s previous and current client list includes the UK Ministry of Defence, NATO; major utilities such as Anglian Water Services and Sydney Water Corporation; Oil and gas majors such as BG Group and Aera Energy; and leading commercial organizations such as Quintiles Laboratories.

He is a former ISA President and is currently a very active Treasurer serving on the ISA executive board. 

Allan Friedman is Senior Advisor and Strategist at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. He coordinates the global cross-sector community efforts around software bill of materials (SBOM). He was previously the Director of Cybersecurity Initiatives at NTIA, leading pioneering work on vulnerability disclosure, SBOM, and other security topics. Prior to joining the Federal government, Friedman spent over a decade as a noted information security and technology policy scholar at Harvard’s Computer Science department, the Brookings Institution, and George Washington University’s Engineering School. He is the co-author of the popular text Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know, has a C.S. degree from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Steve works with companies to improve their performance through the identification of process bottlenecks and the intelligent introduction of technology to remove them. Steve is originally from the United Kingdom (UK) and is now based in Houston, Texas, USA. He is a United Kingdom (UK) UK registered Chartered Engineer and European registered Eur Ing with development and management experience in business process automation across multiple sectors. A Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and an ISA Certified Automation Professional (CAP). Former Chairman of the IET’s Americas Regional Board.

Steve Mustard has been in the software development business for over 20 years. His career has included development of embedded software and hardware for military applications as well as the development of products for the remote control and monitoring of utility assets. He is currently working with BP and their new "Argos" offshore production project. 

During his career, Steve has gained extensive experience of the benefits of integrating Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), real time processing, decision support and other disparate systems to improve business processes and now couples this with knowledge of the Six Sigma methodology to allow him to analyze existing processes and identify bottlenecks and other issues. Steve’s previous and current client list includes the UK Ministry of Defence, NATO; major utilities such as Anglian Water Services and Sydney Water Corporation; Oil and gas majors such as BG Group and Aera Energy; and leading commercial organizations such as Quintiles Laboratories.

He is a former ISA President and is currently a very active Treasurer serving on the ISA executive board. 

Allan Friedman is Senior Advisor and Strategist at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. He coordinates the global cross-sector community efforts around software bill of materials (SBOM). He was previously the Director of Cybersecurity Initiatives at NTIA, leading pioneering work on vulnerability disclosure, SBOM, and other security topics. Prior to joining the Federal government, Friedman spent over a decade as a noted information security and technology policy scholar at Harvard’s Computer Science department, the Brookings Institution, and George Washington University’s Engineering School. He is the co-author of the popular text Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know, has a C.S. degree from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Megan Samford is the former chair of the International Society of Automation's Global Cybersecurity Alliance (ISAGCA), a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Cyber Statecraft Initiative under the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), and currently Vice President and Chief Product Security Officer for energy management at Schneider Electric. Presently the only female Chief Product Security Officer (CPSO) for a major industrial, Samford is a security executive with a focus on industrial control systems security, critical infrastructure protection, and risk analysis. Samford drives the product security strategy and program for Schneider Electric’s energy management business.

Prior to Schneider Electric, Samford was the global Director of product safety and security for Rockwell Automation, product security leader for GE Global Research, and lead for the GE Product Security Incident Response Team. While working in the public sector, she served as the Commonwealth of Virginia’s critical infrastructure protection coordinator and special assistant for homeland security projects within the offices of former Governors Tim Kaine and Bob McDonnell.

Samford brings a unique perspective to the security community based on her diverse security background with an interest in utilizing proven concepts from traditional critical infrastructure protection and emergency management foundations, such as Incident Command System and preparedness, and applying those to cyber, for industrial control systems incident response.

In addition to her role at Schneider Electric, she is currently the chairperson for the ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance. She is also leading a community-driven effort known as Incident Command System for Industrial Control Systems (ICS4ICS), which seeks to establish a common language for responding to cyber incidents and provide avenues for mutual assistance between organizations. Lastly, she is the co-chair of the US Department of Homeland Security’s Control Systems Working Group.

Samford has served on numerous boards, including Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Security Analysis and Risk Management Association, Department of Homeland Security’s Control Systems Security Working Group, Trusted Computing Group, and Virginia Aviation Security Advisory Council. She is also a returning 2022 program chair for the RSA Conference “Secure All the Things” track.

Samford holds a bachelor’s degree in homeland security and emergency preparedness as well as a master’s in public administration, both from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Cheri Caddy is the Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity in the Office
of Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CESER) within the Department of Energy. In this role, she leads strategy and execution of cybersecurity operations, technology, and critical infrastructure protection programs, implementing DOE’s role as the Sector Risk Management Agency for the Energy Sector.

Ms. Caddy leads the Department’s program for cybersecurity supply chain vulnerability testing of digital components, CyTRICS™, and is the Executive Director of the Securing Energy Infrastructure Executive Task Force. Previously, Ms. Caddy spent five years as the National Security Agency’s Executive Director of Enduring Security Framework, a joint program among the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Intelligence Community, and industry leaders in the defense, IT, and communications sectors to collectively address technical and operational cyber vulnerabilities and risks to national security systems and critical infrastructure.

Prior to NSA, Ms. Caddy was Director for Cybersecurity Policy at the National Security Council during the Obama Administration. In her 2.5-year tenure at NSC, she led the development of numerous national cybersecurity policies, in particular, leading efforts on cybersecurity for state governments, representing the NSC at the Council of Governors and the National Governors Association. She also led national cyber engagements with industry and academia, directing the work of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, and coordinating White House initiatives on growing the nation’s skilled cyber workforce.

Prior to serving in the White House, Ms. Caddy was a Senior Advisor for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. In this role, she led national teams in solving complex policy and technical issues related to classified threat information sharing among federal and state governments, and helped stand up the national
network of State and Major Urban Area Fusion Centers.

Ms. Caddy has been a non-resident Senior Cybersecurity Fellow at the McCrary Institute for Cybersecurity & Critical Infrastructure at Auburn University since 2017. Ms. Caddy holds a B.A. in International Studies from Norwich University, Military College of Vermont; an M.A. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia; and an M.P.A. in Public Administration from
the American University in Washington, DC.

Paul is an experienced IT/OT professional with a decade of experience within the Life-Science, Food & Beverage and Utilities sectors. He has competent technical skills across multiple technologies and has strong people skills with a customer focus.

Tim is an experienced, certified Security Capability Development leader with over 40 years experience in the wider intelligence and security arena. This includes excellent knowledge of strategic workfoce development, tactical Security Awareness and Training development processes, methodologies, tools and prototyping techniques, high level strategy for the design and delivery of security L&D.

The Lord Provost of Aberdeen is an ancient office with its roots in the 13th century. The Lord Provost acts as Convener of the City Council, Civic Head and His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Aberdeen.

The current Lord Provost is Councillor David Cameron.

The Lord Provost’s family moved from Glasgow to Middlefield in Aberdeen when he was 15 years old. In 1962 he became the first Aberdeen scout to achieve the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award.

He started a career in food safety as a laboratory technician and then as a quality manager before attending the University of Aberdeen, graduating in 1973. He was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Nutritional Science at the Robert Gordon Institute of Technology (now the Robert Gordon University).  

In 1990, Dr. Cameron launched his own food safety consultancy, which was Grampian Small Business of the Year 1994.  He was twice the President of the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland has provided food safety advice to industry, including oil and gas, around the world.

Dr. Cameron has been a councillor for the Kingswells, Sheddocksley and Summerhill ward of Aberdeen City Council since 2012.

Immediately prior to becoming a councillor, he completed two terms of office as the Chairman of NHS Grampian Board, having been a Board Member since January 2005. He was also a UK board member of the Food Standards Agency and Chair of the Scottish Food Advisory Committee.

Megan Samford is the former chair of the International Society of Automation's Global Cybersecurity Alliance (ISAGCA), a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Cyber Statecraft Initiative under the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), and currently Vice President and Chief Product Security Officer for energy management at Schneider Electric. Presently the only female Chief Product Security Officer (CPSO) for a major industrial, Samford is a security executive with a focus on industrial control systems security, critical infrastructure protection, and risk analysis. Samford drives the product security strategy and program for Schneider Electric’s energy management business.

Prior to Schneider Electric, Samford was the global Director of product safety and security for Rockwell Automation, product security leader for GE Global Research, and lead for the GE Product Security Incident Response Team. While working in the public sector, she served as the Commonwealth of Virginia’s critical infrastructure protection coordinator and special assistant for homeland security projects within the offices of former Governors Tim Kaine and Bob McDonnell.

Samford brings a unique perspective to the security community based on her diverse security background with an interest in utilizing proven concepts from traditional critical infrastructure protection and emergency management foundations, such as Incident Command System and preparedness, and applying those to cyber, for industrial control systems incident response.

In addition to her role at Schneider Electric, she is currently the chairperson for the ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance. She is also leading a community-driven effort known as Incident Command System for Industrial Control Systems (ICS4ICS), which seeks to establish a common language for responding to cyber incidents and provide avenues for mutual assistance between organizations. Lastly, she is the co-chair of the US Department of Homeland Security’s Control Systems Working Group.

Samford has served on numerous boards, including Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Security Analysis and Risk Management Association, Department of Homeland Security’s Control Systems Security Working Group, Trusted Computing Group, and Virginia Aviation Security Advisory Council. She is also a returning 2022 program chair for the RSA Conference “Secure All the Things” track.

Samford holds a bachelor’s degree in homeland security and emergency preparedness as well as a master’s in public administration, both from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Wayne works with his customers to drive industry cybersecurity solutions and strategies in combination with best in class secure by design products, world class partnerships, IIoT and software solutions, combined with our world class industrial knowledge makes Siemens the perfect partner. He deploys in depth concepts driven by the IEC 62443 Standards to support customers in all aspects of their cybersecurity journey from Consulting, Implementation and Security Optimization.

Soliman Almadi is a senior engineering consultant with the Process
& Control Systems Department at Saudi Aramco. Almadi is a member
of the International Society of Automation, part of two working groups contributing to ISA standards development, and is currently the ISA Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) District Vice President. He has been supporting the ISA standards since 2007. Almadi has been instrumental in ensuring international learned experience is reflected in Aramco engineering standards related to cybersecurity and networking.

Steve works with companies to improve their performance through the identification of process bottlenecks and the intelligent introduction of technology to remove them. Steve is originally from the United Kingdom (UK) and is now based in Houston, Texas, USA. He is a UK registered Chartered Engineer and European registered Eur Ing with development and management experience in business process automation across multiple sectors. A Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and an ISA Certified Automation Professional (CAP). Former Chairman of the IET’s Americas Regional Board.

Steve Mustard has been in the software development business for over 20 years. His career has included development of embedded software and hardware for military applications as well as the development of products for the remote control and monitoring of utility assets. He is currently working with BP and their new "Argos" offshore production project. 

During his career, Steve has gained extensive experience of the benefits of integrating Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), real time processing, decision support and other disparate systems to improve business processes and now couples this with knowledge of the Six Sigma methodology to allow him to analyze existing processes and identify bottlenecks and other issues. Steve’s previous and current client list includes the UK Ministry of Defence, NATO; major utilities such as Anglian Water Services and Sydney Water Corporation; Oil and gas majors such as BG Group and Aera Energy; and leading commercial organizations such as Quintiles Laboratories.

He is a former ISA President and is currently a very active Treasurer serving on the ISA executive board. 

Cheri Caddy is the Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity in the Office
of Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CESER) within the Department of Energy. In this role, she leads strategy and execution of cybersecurity operations, technology, and critical infrastructure protection programs, implementing DOE’s role as the Sector Risk Management Agency for the Energy Sector.

Ms. Caddy leads the Department’s program for cybersecurity supply chain vulnerability testing of digital components, CyTRICS™, and is the Executive Director of the Securing Energy Infrastructure Executive Task Force. Previously, Ms. Caddy spent five years as the National Security Agency’s Executive Director of Enduring Security Framework, a joint program among the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Intelligence Community, and industry leaders in the defense, IT, and communications sectors to collectively address technical and operational cyber vulnerabilities and risks to national security systems and critical infrastructure.

Prior to NSA, Ms. Caddy was Director for Cybersecurity Policy at the National Security Council during the Obama Administration. In her 2.5-year tenure at NSC, she led the development of numerous national cybersecurity policies, in particular, leading efforts on cybersecurity for state governments, representing the NSC at the Council of Governors and the National Governors Association. She also led national cyber engagements with industry and academia, directing the work of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, and coordinating White House initiatives on growing the nation’s skilled cyber workforce.

Prior to serving in the White House, Ms. Caddy was a Senior Advisor for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. In this role, she led national teams in solving complex policy and technical issues related to classified threat information sharing among federal and state governments, and helped stand up the national
network of State and Major Urban Area Fusion Centers.

Ms. Caddy has been a non-resident Senior Cybersecurity Fellow at the McCrary Institute for Cybersecurity & Critical Infrastructure at Auburn University since 2017. Ms. Caddy holds a B.A. in International Studies from Norwich University, Military College of Vermont; an M.A. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia; and an M.P.A. in Public Administration from
the American University in Washington, DC.

Allan Friedman is Senior Advisor and Strategist at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. He coordinates the global cross-sector community efforts around software bill of materials (SBOM). He was previously the Director of Cybersecurity Initiatives at NTIA, leading pioneering work on vulnerability disclosure, SBOM, and other security topics. Prior to joining the Federal government, Friedman spent over a decade as a noted information security and technology policy scholar at Harvard’s Computer Science department, the Brookings Institution, and George Washington University’s Engineering School. He is the co-author of the popular text Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know, has a C.S. degree from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Megan Samford is the former chair of the International Society of Automation's Global Cybersecurity Alliance (ISAGCA), a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Cyber Statecraft Initiative under the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), and currently Vice President and Chief Product Security Officer for energy management at Schneider Electric. Presently the only female Chief Product Security Officer (CPSO) for a major industrial, Samford is a security executive with a focus on industrial control systems security, critical infrastructure protection, and risk analysis. Samford drives the product security strategy and program for Schneider Electric’s energy management business.

Prior to Schneider Electric, Samford was the global Director of product safety and security for Rockwell Automation, product security leader for GE Global Research, and lead for the GE Product Security Incident Response Team. While working in the public sector, she served as the Commonwealth of Virginia’s critical infrastructure protection coordinator and special assistant for homeland security projects within the offices of former Governors Tim Kaine and Bob McDonnell.

Samford brings a unique perspective to the security community based on her diverse security background with an interest in utilizing proven concepts from traditional critical infrastructure protection and emergency management foundations, such as Incident Command System and preparedness, and applying those to cyber, for industrial control systems incident response.

In addition to her role at Schneider Electric, she is currently the chairperson for the ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance. She is also leading a community-driven effort known as Incident Command System for Industrial Control Systems (ICS4ICS), which seeks to establish a common language for responding to cyber incidents and provide avenues for mutual assistance between organizations. Lastly, she is the co-chair of the US Department of Homeland Security’s Control Systems Working Group.

Samford has served on numerous boards, including Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Security Analysis and Risk Management Association, Department of Homeland Security’s Control Systems Security Working Group, Trusted Computing Group, and Virginia Aviation Security Advisory Council. She is also a returning 2022 program chair for the RSA Conference “Secure All the Things” track.

Samford holds a bachelor’s degree in homeland security and emergency preparedness as well as a master’s in public administration, both from Virginia Commonwealth University.

- IT / OT Cybersecurity Professional & High Net-worth Investor (Professional Landlord)
- Applying Standards (i.e. ISA/IEC62443, NIST CSF, NIS - Directives, CIP for ICS etc.) and regulations for Industrial Control Systems
- Understanding system architecture, and how to apply hardening mechanisms
- Understanding the threats to the security of process control systems
- Technologies used to carry out security audits

Governance & Risk Management:- Global security standards, Practices and regulations, Security lifecycle, Security policies.
Security Essentials:-Types of threat, Attacks and incidents
System Security:-Tenets of security, Security awareness, Physical Security, Cryptography
ICS Architecture:- Communication mediums, Device architecture, Process control systems., Industrial protocols, Network protocols, Network segmentation, Wireless security
Hardening ICS:- Updating systems, Application security, Embedded devices, Hardening network security, Operating system security, Securing removable media
Access Controls / Change Management / Incident management / Business Continuity / System Auditing

Develop high level of Techno-Commercial skills and deliver Business results with Add-on Profits. Constantly adapt to new technology and innovative skills. Independently contribute to high level and high potential International business in Industrial Automation.

ICSS Specialties: Working Experience
- TUV Certified Functional Safety Engineer
- Daniel Flow Metering, Batch Controller
- Field Instrumentation
- GE-Fanuc PLC System
- DCS Honeywell (i.e. Experion, TDC 3000, C200 & C300 Controller)
- PLC System of Honeywell (i.e. MasterLogic)
- Safety System (i.e. SIL3 FSC & Safety Manager)
- Yokogawa DCS System (i.e. Centum CS, Centum CS 3000, Centum VP)
- Yokogawa Safety System (i.e. SIL3 ProSafe RS, SIL4 ProSafe SLS)

Paul is an experienced IT/OT professional with a decade of experience within the Life-Science, Food & Beverage and Utilities sectors. He has competent technical skills across multiple technologies and has strong people skills with a customer focus.

Lydia is the energy sector lead in Bridewell's CNI function with a focus on supporting organisations implementing and managing leading industry frameworks and regulations, risk and threat management, strategic planning, and supply chain security. With a strong IT/OT background in operational roles and consultancy, Lydia has worked across the CNI sector for over 12 years with multiple energy organisations and sits on the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) Community of Interests group. 

Mark Boddy is a Security Development and Support Engineer with Monico Monitoring, Inc. Mr. Boddy has worked in remote monitoring for over 15 years primarily in Oil and Gas but also in the EPG and Mining sectors. His IT experience goes back more than 25 years in the private sector supporting workstations and servers running Unix, Linux, and Windows. His work with the Incident Command System started in the late 1990’s as a Volunteer Firefighter when the county he volunteered for adopted it He is currently active and participates regularly on an All Hazards Type 3 Incident Management Team.

Cheri Caddy is the Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity in the Office
of Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CESER) within the Department of Energy. In this role, she leads strategy and execution of cybersecurity operations, technology, and critical infrastructure protection programs, implementing DOE’s role as the Sector Risk Management Agency for the Energy Sector.

Ms. Caddy leads the Department’s program for cybersecurity supply chain vulnerability testing of digital components, CyTRICS™, and is the Executive Director of the Securing Energy Infrastructure Executive Task Force. Previously, Ms. Caddy spent five years as the National Security Agency’s Executive Director of Enduring Security Framework, a joint program among the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Intelligence Community, and industry leaders in the defense, IT, and communications sectors to collectively address technical and operational cyber vulnerabilities and risks to national security systems and critical infrastructure.

Prior to NSA, Ms. Caddy was Director for Cybersecurity Policy at the National Security Council during the Obama Administration. In her 2.5-year tenure at NSC, she led the development of numerous national cybersecurity policies, in particular, leading efforts on cybersecurity for state governments, representing the NSC at the Council of Governors and the National Governors Association. She also led national cyber engagements with industry and academia, directing the work of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, and coordinating White House initiatives on growing the nation’s skilled cyber workforce.

Prior to serving in the White House, Ms. Caddy was a Senior Advisor for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. In this role, she led national teams in solving complex policy and technical issues related to classified threat information sharing among federal and state governments, and helped stand up the national
network of State and Major Urban Area Fusion Centers.

Ms. Caddy has been a non-resident Senior Cybersecurity Fellow at the McCrary Institute for Cybersecurity & Critical Infrastructure at Auburn University since 2017. Ms. Caddy holds a B.A. in International Studies from Norwich University, Military College of Vermont; an M.A. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia; and an M.P.A. in Public Administration from
the American University in Washington, DC.

Chris is a passionate executive with an exceptional reputation for driving organizational performance guided by a vision of technology. Over 20 years of information security and infrastructure experience leading the vision for a highly complex manufacturing company. Strategic leader who has a solid understanding of technology trends and the value that technology can deliver to a business.

Carlos possesses a degree of Electronic Engineering and a master's degree in telecommunications with more than 30 years of progressive experience in the control systems and telecommunications field. Carlos’ history includes positions such as Principal Systems Engineer, Senior ICS Cybersecurity Consultant, Solutions Architect and Technical Account Manager and Principal Solutions Architect around the world. Carlos has been actively involved in several brown and green field industrial control systems projects in Manufacturing, mining and Oil and Gas, from the concept definition to the commissioning stages of the projects. Carlos has spent the last 5 years of his career operationalizing cybersecurity Solutions focusing on industrial networks.

James Deacon is the Head of International Standards, International Engagement and Enterprise IoT Policy for the UK’s new Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) after 3 years ar the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). He is a member of standards committees working on IoT in ETSI, ISO, and ITU, a member of the World Economic Forum’s ‘Role of Government’ group for consumer IoT, and previously chaired the Agile Nations Working Group for Consumer IoT. He previously worked for DCMS on the development of the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (PSTI) Bill that will introduce baseline security requirements for consumer IoT products. James has wider experience of working at a high growth cyber security start-up and a boutique investment bank.

He is now working with the ISA GCA on several programs as well. 

Jalal Bouhdada: Global Segment Director for Cybersecurity at DNV and Founder of Applied Risk.

Jalal Bouhdada is the founder of Applied Risk and Amsterdam based Industrial cybersecurity specialist firm established in 2012. In 2021, Applied Risk joined forces with DNV. Jalal is recognized as thought leader on Industrial Control Systems (ICS) security and Critical Infrastructure Protection. He’s a board of advisor for EE-ISAC and active member of several professional security societies and has co-authored ICS security best practices for ENISA and ISA. 

Experienced IT/OT manager with a demonstrated history of working in both municipal and manufacturing environments with a focus in industrial cyber security. Passionate about IT/OT collaboration, workforce development, strategic planning, industrial cyber security, and development of reasonable and useful corporate standards for process control networks.

Chris is a passionate executive with an exceptional reputation for driving organizational performance guided by a vision of technology. Over 20 years of information security and infrastructure experience leading the vision for a highly complex manufacturing company. Strategic leader who has a solid understanding of technology trends and the value that technology can deliver to a business.

Soliman Almadi is a senior engineering consultant with the Process
& Control Systems Department at Saudi Aramco. Almadi is a member
of the International Society of Automation, part of two working groups contributing to ISA standards development, and is currently the ISA Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) District Vice President. He has been supporting the ISA standards since 2007. Almadi has been instrumental in ensuring international learned experience is reflected in Aramco engineering standards related to cybersecurity and networking.

Anna specialises in cyber security within the industrial environment having over 20 years’ experience, as a CISSP qualified cyber security consultant with prior experience as an Industrial Control Systems (ICS/SCADA) engineer. For public and private sector organisations she has delivered national cyber security guidance, global strategy and technology solutions.

She leads assessment and strategy, delivering risk remediation and architecture to integrate Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) across the industrial sector and enables business transformation and operational improvement.

She has worked extensively at all lifecycle stages prior to specialising in securing critical infrastructure and operational technology, utilising her skills within the rail, manufacturing, water, oil and gas, energy and maritime/shipping industries.

Andre Ristaino is the Managing Director of the ISA Automation Standards Compliance Institute (ASCI) based in Research Triangle Park, N.C. He provides staff leadership for ISA’s conformance certification programs, including the ISASecure IACS certification program managed under the ISCI. The ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute functions as an operational group within ASCI. Before ISA, Ristaino held positions at NEMA, Renaissance Worldwide, and Deloitte & Touche Consulting’s Advanced Manufacturing Technology Group, where he was a recognized leader in system life-cycle methodologies. Ristaino earned a BS in business management from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an MS in computer systems applications from the American University in Washington, D.C., with a focus on expert systems and artificial intelligence. Ristaino holds an APICS CPIM certification.

Johnny is a strategy and transformation consultant with nearly 10 years of experience, focusing on advisory to the board’s cyber resilience agenda.
Being part of the world’s leading cyber strategy consultancies, his client portfolio is within the Fortune Global 500. There, he's taken leadership roles in very complex, multi-million dollar cyber transformation programs, as well as incident response and recovery. He is currently focused on IoT and Industrial cyber security mainly in the UK, given the world’s direction towards “smart” everything. Renewables is his specialty. He has been the co-lead of Deloitte UK's Cyber eminence program - the Cyber Academy - since its inception.

Cheri Caddy is the Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity in the Office
of Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CESER) within the Department of Energy. In this role, she leads strategy and execution of cybersecurity operations, technology, and critical infrastructure protection programs, implementing DOE’s role as the Sector Risk Management Agency for the Energy Sector.

Ms. Caddy leads the Department’s program for cybersecurity supply chain vulnerability testing of digital components, CyTRICS™, and is the Executive Director of the Securing Energy Infrastructure Executive Task Force. Previously, Ms. Caddy spent five years as the National Security Agency’s Executive Director of Enduring Security Framework, a joint program among the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Intelligence Community, and industry leaders in the defense, IT, and communications sectors to collectively address technical and operational cyber vulnerabilities and risks to national security systems and critical infrastructure.

Prior to NSA, Ms. Caddy was Director for Cybersecurity Policy at the National Security Council during the Obama Administration. In her 2.5-year tenure at NSC, she led the development of numerous national cybersecurity policies, in particular, leading efforts on cybersecurity for state governments, representing the NSC at the Council of Governors and the National Governors Association. She also led national cyber engagements with industry and academia, directing the work of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, and coordinating White House initiatives on growing the nation’s skilled cyber workforce.

Prior to serving in the White House, Ms. Caddy was a Senior Advisor for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. In this role, she led national teams in solving complex policy and technical issues related to classified threat information sharing among federal and state governments, and helped stand up the national
network of State and Major Urban Area Fusion Centers.

Ms. Caddy has been a non-resident Senior Cybersecurity Fellow at the McCrary Institute for Cybersecurity & Critical Infrastructure at Auburn University since 2017. Ms. Caddy holds a B.A. in International Studies from Norwich University, Military College of Vermont; an M.A. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia; and an M.P.A. in Public Administration from
the American University in Washington, DC.

Victor has over 30 years of industrial control and asset management experience  and was in 2006 a founding member of the Schneider-Electric Cyber Security business, where he has worked on a number of interesting projects, including the delivery of a secure “platform to beach” predictive asset management system for a UK Oil & Gas Major . Victors first role was as a Seismic Control and Instrument engineer following Graduation having read Physics with Solid-State Electronics at Heriot-Watt University.

Carlos possesses a degree of Electronic Engineering and a master's degree in telecommunications with more than 30 years of progressive experience in the control systems and telecommunications field. Carlos’ history includes positions such as Principal Systems Engineer, Senior ICS Cybersecurity Consultant, Solutions Architect and Technical Account Manager and Principal Solutions Architect around the world. Carlos has been actively involved in several brown and green field industrial control systems projects in Manufacturing, mining and Oil and Gas, from the concept definition to the commissioning stages of the projects. Carlos has spent the last 5 years of his career operationalizing cybersecurity Solutions focusing on industrial networks.

As AGSL’s CTO, Iain Rennie is responsible for leading the company’s technology strategy. Before co-founding AGSL in 2010, Iain worked for over 15 years as a process control and automation specialist, where he worked on projects in Europe, China, the USA and Azerbaijan. He is the company’s Quality Manager, and heads the Asset Guardian software solution development team.  Iain holds a Bachelor of Science - Honours degree in Mathematical Physics from the University of Edinburgh, and a Master’s degree in Control Systems Technology from Edinburgh’s Napier University, where he graduated with distinction. A Chartered Engineer, he is a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Institute of Directors.

Franky Thrasher is the Nuclear Cybersecurity Manager for ENGIE in this role he specializes in industrial control system security and has developed and successfully implemented a cyber-security program specifically dedicated to critical infrastructure, namely both nuclear power plants in Belgium along with all the companies gas fired, coal and combined heat cycle power plants. He has been active in information security roles for nearly 20 years in many different sectors, manufacturing, utilities and services. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Security from the University of Liverpool as well as many professional certifications.

Experienced IT/OT manager with a demonstrated history of working in both municipal and manufacturing environments with a focus in industrial cyber security. Passionate about IT/OT collaboration, workforce development, strategic planning, industrial cyber security, and development of reasonable and useful corporate standards for process control networks.

Soliman Almadi is a senior engineering consultant with the Process
& Control Systems Department at Saudi Aramco. Almadi is a member
of the International Society of Automation, part of two working groups contributing to ISA standards development, and is currently the ISA Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) District Vice President. He has been supporting the ISA standards since 2007. Almadi has been instrumental in ensuring international learned experience is reflected in Aramco engineering standards related to cybersecurity and networking.

Chris is a passionate executive with an exceptional reputation for driving organizational performance guided by a vision of technology. Over 20 years of information security and infrastructure experience leading the vision for a highly complex manufacturing company. Strategic leader who has a solid understanding of technology trends and the value that technology can deliver to a business.

Anna specialises in cyber security within the industrial environment having over 20 years’ experience, as a CISSP qualified cyber security consultant with prior experience as an Industrial Control Systems (ICS/SCADA) engineer. For public and private sector organisations she has delivered national cyber security guidance, global strategy and technology solutions.

She leads assessment and strategy, delivering risk remediation and architecture to integrate Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) across the industrial sector and enables business transformation and operational improvement.

She has worked extensively at all lifecycle stages prior to specialising in securing critical infrastructure and operational technology, utilising her skills within the rail, manufacturing, water, oil and gas, energy and maritime/shipping industries.

Massimiliano Latini is a senior engineering consultant at HON Consulting, an Italian company providing advisory services for industrial product security, safety and compliance at worldwide level. He works as Industrial Cyber Security manager working on industrial topics, mostly related on IEC 62443 and NIST framework, railways and automotive  (ISO 21434).  Other than this, Massimiliano worked to create an accredited ISASecure chartered lab (BYHON) and he is working in there as Quality and Cyber Security Certification manager. He supports ISASecure certification scheme as a member of the ISASecure Technical Steering Committee and follows the works of the ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance as a member. During his career, Massimiliano always also worked on industrial product compliance across different regulations and standards, testing and product safety, including functional safety.

Marty is the 2023 President of the International Society of Automation.  His ISA experience includes being an Executive Board member, VP of Membership and the ISA Edmonton Section President.  ISA has provided Marty the opportunities to solve technical challenges, learn how to manage a section, work with standards, and understands how the ISA Society can serve members and industry.  Marty's business experience includes being a former owner of a Wonderware distributorship covering Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest.   He has also been IEEE Chair of the Edmonton/Northern Canada Section and has provided papers at several conferences. He is a Business Development Manager with Eecol Electric focused on EcoStruxure and Aveva.

His industry experience includes a number of projects in the oil&gas industry, pipelines, mining, pulp&paper, forest products, water/wastewater, food/pharma, and manufacturing industries.