Adam Dennison brings more than 20 years of media, events, and technology marketplace experience to his role as VP, Midsize Enterprise Services (MES), at The Channel Company (TCC). In this role, Dennison is responsible for driving the MES strategy and product development across live and digital events, fostering growth within the MES IT Leadership Network, creating engaging midmarket research, and more. Dennison spends his time with midmarket IT leaders and the vendors that serve them, to best understand how MES can support networking, collaboration, and engagement between both parties. Prior to rejoining TCC, Dennison spent 13 years with IDG, most recently as SVP Publisher at CIO, and GM at IDG Events, responsible for the CIO brand and all US events.

Tracy Fischer has 11 years of experience helping Solution Providers and IT Executives gather the knowledge and partnerships for growth and development.

Ted Harrington runs Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), the elite security researchers who pioneered car hacking, were first to exploit the iPhone, first to exploit Android OS, pioneered medical device hacking, and run hacking event IoT Village. Since inception in 2005 out of the PhD program at The Johns Hopkins University, ISE has served technology pioneers such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Disney, Qualcomm and many more as their trusted security advisor.

If your problems include difficulty understanding how attackers think, how they operate, and how they break systems; if you want to actually achieve security excellence (as opposed to just meeting a minimum, or being “compliant”); if you aren‘t yet sure whether your approach is effective or if your security investments are good ones; if you’re concerned about how expensive, difficult, and uncertain security is; if you need to demonstrate to your customers, shareholders, board, and industry that you take security seriously and are worthy of their trust & business … Harrington is the security expert for you.

Matt Hoeper is a Senior Cybersecurity Consultant with Edwards Performance Solutions. He has over 25 years of experience in IT. Prior to joining Edwards, Hoeper served as the Chief Information Security Officer with a managed services provider (MSP). Along with IT Security Leadership and Consulting, Hoeper has extensive experience with IT Business Analysis, IT Project Management, Strategic Planning and Risk Management. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies and small businesses, in areas ranging from engineering to marketing and supply chain to health care. He has a Master’s Degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Illinois and holds several certifications, including a CISSP and PMP.