Technology leader and communicator with proven success in building, growing, and leading high-performing engineering teams. Sasha is a VP of Software Engineering at Mastercard where he leads an effort to build a secure privacy-first global data science platform. With over 20 years of experience in the industry, his interests are in cybersecurity, distributed systems, and AI/ML. Sasha is currently enrolled in the NYU MSc Cyber Fellows degree program with a specialization in cybersecurity.

“I believe that people are everything and that technology should be used to improve our society and the environment. I’m a husband and a father of two wonderful boys, one and four years old. When the boys are not chasing me around the home, I enjoy biking, swimming, tennis, and am an amateur woodworker.”

Aarti Gadhia is a changemaker and has dedicated her entire career to breaking down barriers and boundaries to achieve equality for underrepresented groups in STEM and in leadership. She founded Standout and SHE (Sharing Her Empowerment) to close the gender diversity gap. The outcome has been a 50% increase in the number of women being hired within the organization and 30 women in cybersecurity have begun their board journey.

She has worked with prestigious companies including Sophos, Trend Micro, Carbon Black (VMware), Bugcrowd and currently at Tines. She serves as the Board Director for ObserveID, an identity intelligence and automation platform. Aarti volunteers her time and serves on the OWASP Vancouver Board and WiCYS Western Canada Board. She was quoted in Canadian Security Magazine as she shared her views on the importance of soft skills to break down barriers in traditional hiring. Aarti was honored for her contribution to the cybersecurity community by being named as one of the Top 20 Women in Cyber Security in Canada. She is a speaker and one of the authors of the book “The Rise of the Cyber Women: Volume Two” as she shared her Safari of experiences as a change agent paving the path for future generations.

Due to her international background, she loves to travel and learn different cultures. If you’ve seen her post on LinkedIn titled Phulka Roti, you’ll know that she enjoys cooking.

Nancy is a Senior Developer Advocate for the GitHub Security Lab, where she helps security researchers and developers collaborate and communicate better. In her spare time co-leads the OWASP DevSlop Project and is a member of the AWS Community Builder group. Nancy was named one of the Top 20 Women Leaders in Cyber in Canada, 2021.

Mrigakshi is passionate about speaking for cybersecurity and following best practices to create a cybersafe world. She is currently working at Finning International as an Information Security Engineer and has worked in Application Security at Optiv, Bugcrowd and Accenture in the past.

With about 8 years in the IT industry and Masters’ in Cybersecurity, she is here to present on File upload bypass as an emerging threat. She believes that while the OWASP top 10 is focused on shifting left, vulnerabilities like File upload restriction bypass are still important areas to research on.

Tanya Janca, also known as SheHacksPurple, is the best-selling author of ‘Alice and Bob Learn Application Security’. She is also the founder of We Hack Purple, an online learning academy, community and podcast that revolves around teaching everyone to create secure software. Tanya has been coding and working in IT for over twenty years, won countless awards, and has been everywhere from startups to public service to tech giants (Microsoft, Adobe, & Nokia). She has worn many hats; startup founder, pentester, CISO, AppSec Engineer, and software developer. She is an award-winning public speaker, active blogger & streamer and has delivered hundreds of talks and trainings on 6 continents. She values diversity, inclusion and kindness, which shines through in her countless initiatives.

Advisor: Nord VPN, Cloud Defense, NeuraLegion, ICTC PAC, WoSEC

Founder: We Hack Purple, WoSEC International (Women of Security), OWASP DevSlop, #CyberMentoringMonday

Dr. Baljeet Malhotra, is an award-winning researcher known for his work in Open Source and API Data Management. He conceptualized the world’s first “API Composition Analysis” based on source code static analysis. He founded TeejLab in 2017 and steered the team to build API Discovery and Security™, world’s first comprehensive end-to-end API Management platform. Prior to TeejLab, he established the R&D unit of Black Duck Software in 2016 (acquired by Synopsys), he has also served as Research Director at SAP. He received a PhD in Computing Science from the University of Alberta and won several awards including NSERC (Canada) scholar in 2005 and Global Young Scientist (Singapore). He concurrently holds Adjunct Professor positions at the University of British Columbia, University of Victoria and University of Northern BC.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidibmartin/

Harsh is an offensive security professional, whose experience is diversified with various aspects of penetration testing such as Web, Mobile, Network, Iot, Infrastructure. He has found various bugs and received hall of fame or bounties on platforms like Bugcrowd and Hackerone. Currently he is a Senior Security Consultant at PwC. Moreover, he is among the top 20 in Canada on platforms like Hackthebox and Tryhackme. He has won several ctf events and takes immense pleasure in mentoring/guiding other beginners in the field of cybersecurity. He has done various pentesting projects with the financial and e-commerce sectors. Harsh will be delivering the talk on bypassing file upload restrictions in modern web applications. He has spoken previously at Owasp and Null conferences respectively.

Betsy is a Security Engineer on the team at Amazon that is responsible for securing all the applications in Amazon’s Consumer Payments Infrastructure. Prior to this, she was a Product Security Engineer for the Salesforce AppExchange and other core Salesforce products. Having spent most of her career in application security, she is passionate about proactive security and developer enablement. She was an active member of the Bay Area security community and hopes to do the same with her move to Vancouver.

Jeff brings more than 20 years of security leadership experience as co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Contrast Security. He recently authored the DZone DevSecOps, IAST, and RASP refcards and speaks frequently at conferences including JavaOne (Java Rockstar), BlackHat, QCon, RSA, OWASP, Velocity, and PivotalOne. Jeff is also a founder and major contributor to OWASP, where he served as Global Chairman for 9 years, and created the OWASP Top 10, OWASPEnterprise Security API, OWASP Application Security Verification Standard, XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet, and many more popular open source projects. Jeff has a BA from Virginia, an MA from George Mason, and a JD from Georgetown.