TECHCON 2026

Sandra is a cybersecurity leader with 27 years of intelligence experience. She leads Google Threat Intelligence following Google's acquisition of Mandiant in 2022. Sandra serves as a faculty member and on the Board of Visitors at the National Intelligence University. She is a Co-Chair of the Aspen Institute U.S. Cybersecurity Group, a member of the strategic council of the Silverado Policy Accelerator, and the Institute for Security and Technology’s Ransomware Task Force Steering Committee, a visiting fellow at the National Security Institute, and serves on the Board of Directors at Crane NXT. Sandra is pursuing her PhD at Johns Hopkins University as an Alperovitch Institute Fellow. She has an MBA from MIT and holds four additional master’s degrees in cyber policy, international affairs, science and technology intelligence, and military operational art and science. Sandra speaks English, Spanish, and German.

Adam Meyers serves as Senior Vice President of Counter Adversary Operations at CrowdStrike. Joining the company in 2011, he built the foundational threat intelligence framework underpinning the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform. Today, Meyers leads an elite global team of over 500 analysts, researchers, and threat hunters tracking cybercriminal and state-sponsored adversaries worldwide. Drawing on prior experience at the U.S. State Department, he regularly briefs government leaders, Congress, and corporate boards on emerging cybersecurity threats. Meyers holds degrees in Political Science and Computer Science from George Washington University.

Charles Li is the Chief Analyst at TeamT5. He leads the TeamT5 analyst team in threat intelligence research. He has been studying cyber attacks and campaign tracking for more than 10 years. His research interests include vulnerability research, reverse engineering and APT attacks. He often publishes research and gives training courses at security conferences.

Brendan Dolan-Gavitt is a Distinguished Engineer at XBOW, building AI agents to find and fix critical software vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them. Prior to joining XBOW, he was an associate professor at NYU Tandon, researching software security and machine learning. He has received the NSF CAREER award, two R&D 100 awards, and distinguished paper awards at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy as well as IEEE Euro S&P.

Shay Nahari is the Vice President of Offensive Security Services at Unit 42, Palo Alto Networks. He oversees teams specialising in strategic offensive threat emulation, cybersecurity research, and agentic offensive security, where he leads the development of AI-driven capabilities that emulate how modern adversaries operate. With two decades of cybersecurity experience, he's on the front lines helping global organisations improve their ability to detect and react to targeted attacks using adversary simulation and advanced, real-life tactics, techniques, and procedures. Nahari previously founded and served as CEO of Red-Sec Inc., a red team and consulting services provider. As a cybersecurity executive, he provides strategic leadership to protect organisations from evolving cyber threats.

Ken Bagnall is the Founder and CEO of Silent Push, the leading preemptive cyber intelligence platform that exposes threat actor infrastructure as it’s being set up using Indicators of Future Attack™ (IOFA™). Ken has an extensive track record of defending companies from cyber attacks. He is the founder of The Email Laundry, which was acquired by FireEye in 2017, where Ken then acted as Vice President of Product Management. Ken has a Cybersecurity Investment company called Phish Security that funds innovation in this sector, and sits on the advisory board of Strike Ready, a security operations platform. Ken was previously on the board of Information Security Ireland, on the executive council of CompTIA UK, and on the executive council of the EU PROTECTIVE threat intelligence project.

Moshe is a cybersecurity researcher with over six years of experience investigating advanced cyber threats and threat actor activity. As a Malware & Threat Intelligence Researcher at Check Point Research (CPR), he focuses on uncovering and analysing sophisticated threat actor campaigns. His work combines in-depth malware analysis, reverse engineering, infrastructure research, and threat intelligence to trace attacks end-to-end and expose the techniques, tools, and infrastructure behind them. His research provides insights into how threat actors operate, evolve their tactics, and build the infrastructure behind their campaigns.

Peng Boon is a Lead Technical Specialist at Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies (CSIT), with over 15 years of experience in cybersecurity, including vulnerability research and red teaming. He is passionate about uncovering security weaknesses, understanding how systems can be compromised, and translating offensive security insights into practical improvements that strengthen real-world systems.

Poon Jia Qi is a security researcher at Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technology (CSIT) with 3+ years of experience in cybersecurity. He first started out by playing CTFs, specialising in the pwn and web categories. More recently, his research has been focused on finding and exploiting bugs in web applications. His disclosures include RCEs, SQLis and authentication bypasses across different web applications.

Roberto Martinez is a Senior Analyst at Google Threat Intelligence, based in the Netherlands. Roberto specialises in threat intelligence and infrastructure hunting, with a specific focus on dismantling industrial-scale phishing operations. He is the author of several high-impact research reports, including the investigation into the "0ktapus" campaign targeting Okta identity credentials. Roberto has shared his findings at international technical forums including PIVOTcon, Countermeasures and The ONE Conference. He currently focuses on tracking sophisticated threat actors to protect Google’s global user base and clients.

Michael Chen is a Senior Analyst at Google Threat Intelligence, where he specialises in tracking, analysing, and disrupting financial crime and cyber threats. Prior to joining Google, he served as a Malware Researcher at Cisco Talos Intelligence Group, focusing on malware research and detection engineering.