2025-04-28 –, MAIN TRACK
OPENING KEYNOTE
OPENING KEYNOTE
Malcolm Harkins is Chief Security and Trust Officer at HiddenLayer. Harkins has more than two decades of experience in information security leadership roles at top technology companies, including Intel, Cylance, and others. He’s written multiple books on risk management, information security, and IT and earned awards from the RSA Conference, ISC2, Computerworld, and the Security Advisor Alliance. Harkins has testified before the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Harkins is a Fellow with the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, a non-partisan think tank providing cybersecurity expertise to the House of Representatives, Senate, and various federal agencies. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from UC Irvine and an MBA from UC Davis. Harkins also previously taught at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and Susquehanna University.
Eoin Wickens is the Director of Threat Intelligence at HiddenLayer and specializes in AI security, threat research, and malware reverse engineering. He has authored numerous articles on AI security, co-authored a book on cyber threat intelligence, and spoken at conferences such as the SANS AI Cybersecurity Summit, BSides SF, LABSCON, 44CON, and delivered the 2024 ACM SCORED opening keynote. Eoin also serves as a co-lead of the OpenSSF Model Signing Project, an initiative under the Open Source Security Foundation's AI/ML Working Group, aiming to build a more secure AI supply chain. Eoin lives off the coast of mainland Ireland, and when he's not out at sea, he’s probably thinking about how to get back there.