Our Keynote speakers bring unique insights and alternative perspectives to RSAC™ Conference each year. Keynotes take place across two stages—the Main Stage and YBCA Theater. All Keynote speakers are listed in alphabetical order, with more being added until Conference.

H.E. Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti

Head of Cybersecurity
UAE Government

General Keith Alexander (Ret.)

Former Director and First Commander
NSA and US Cyber Command

Meg Anderson

President
MSA InfoSec, LLC

The Rt. Hon. Dame Jacinda Ardern

Prime Minister of New Zealand (2017-2023); Patron, Christchurch Call Foundation; Board Member, The Earthshot Prize; Founder, Field Fellowship for Empathetic Leadership

Lawrence Baldwin

Chief Connection Officer
Ground to Growth

Heather Barnhart

Head of Faculty and Senior Forensic Expert
SANS Institute and Cellebrite

Charles Blauner

President
Cyber Aegis LLC

Roland Cloutier

Founder & Partner
The Business Protection Group

Chase cunningham

DrZeroTrust
DrZeroTrust

Whitfield Diffie

Honorary Fellow
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Cynthia Dwork

Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science
Harvard University

Jen Easterly

CEO
RSAC

Yaki Faitelson

CEO
Varonis

Fred Frey

Director, Software Engineering
Splunk, a Cisco Company

Ali Ghodsi

CEO & Co-Founder
Databricks

Sarah Gosler

Head of Cyber Resiliency and Human Defense
Wells Fargo

Tim Haugh

Former Director and Commander (Ret.)
NSA and US Cyber Command

Richard Horne

CEO
UK National Cyber Security Centre

Ben Horowitz

Co-founder
Andreessen Horowitz

Jessica Hunter

Ambassador for Cyber Affairs and Critical Technology
Australia

Yoichi IIDA

National Cyber Director & Deputy National Security Advisor
National Cybersecurity Office, Japan

Chris Inglis

Board Member
MITRE, AIG, Huntington, Andesite

Nadir Izrael

CTO & Co-Founder
Armis

Vasu Jakkal

Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Security
Microsoft

Rebecca Jarvis

Emmy Award-Winning Journalist

Sandra Joyce

VP, Google Threat Intelligence
Google Security

Paul Kocher

Researcher
Independent Researcher

Brian Krebs

Author
KrebsOnSecurity.com

George Kurtz

CEO & Founder
CrowdStrike

Robert Lee

CEO & Founder
Dragos, Inc. and SANS Institute Fellow

Rob T Lee

CAIO & Chief of Research
SANS Institute

Michael Lewis

Author

James Lyne

CEO
SANS Institute

Kevin Mandia

Co-Founder & General Partner
Ballistic Ventures

John Morgan

SVP, GM of Splunk Security
Splunk, a Cisco Company

Paul M. Nakasone

Director, Institute of National Security
Vanderbilt University

Pat Opet

Global Chief Information Security Officer
JPMorgan Chase

Jeetu Patel

President & Chief Product Officer
Cisco

Nicole Perlroth

Cybersecurity Author, Investor & Advisor and Venture Partner
Silver Buckshot Ventures

Mike Rogers

Operating Partner
Team8

Adam Savage

Host, Scientist, and Educator; Known for MythBusters

Ted Schlein

Chairman & General Partner and General Partner
Ballistic Ventures and Kleiner Perkins

Bruce Schneier

Security Technologist, Researcher, & Lecturer
Inrupt, Inc.

Michael Sentonas

President
CrowdStrike

Adi Shamir

Borman Professor of Computer Science
The Weizmann Institute, Israel

Ed Skoudis

President
SANS Technology Institute

Dawn Song

Professor & Director
Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence

Despina SPANOU

Deputy Director General, Cybersecurity and Trust
European Commission

Dean Sysman

Executive Chairman and Co-Founder
Axonius

Hugh Thompson

Executive Chairman & RSAC Conference Program Committee Chair
RSAC

Phil Venables

Partner
Ballistic Ventures

Stephen Vintz

Co-CEO
Tenable

Tomer Weingarten

CEO & Co-Founder
SentinelOne

Joshua Wright

Faculty Fellow and Senior Technical Director
SANS Institute and Counter Hack Innovations