Co-founder and CEO of Open-Xchange, Rafael Laguna has been building and growing software companies for over 25 years. A long-time advocate and campaigner for open-source software and the open web in particular, his companies have repeatedly proven that open approaches can produce profitable high-grade commercial software without compromising the privacy or safety of its users. Since founding it in 2005, Open-Xchange has partnered with many of the largest providers in the world in order to deliver email and productivity solutions that include secure storage, file and document management, and best-in-class IMAP and DNS management.

Hank Shocklee is a rap and hip-hop pioneer. He is a co-founder of rap group Public Enemy, legendary producer of countless hip-hop classics along with his production team The Bomb Squad, former high-powered record label executive, and recent inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. For over the last decade, he has been working to help music find its proper place in the digital world. He has been in on the innovation as record labels, copyright holders, and musicians have worked to adapt to new models of distribution and payment. Through his group Shocklee Entertainment, he seeks to find the ‘future frequency’ that takes us to new places in music, art, and commerce, using the Internet as a vehicle. Come hear him tell us what that future frequency will bring.

Brian Behlendorf was a primary developer of the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software on the Internet, and a founding member of the Apache Software Foundation. He has also served on the board of the Mozilla Foundation since 2003 and the Electronic Frontier Foundation since 2013. He was the founding CTO of CollabNet and CTO of the World Economic Forum. Most recently, Behlendorf was a managing director at Mithril Capital Management LLC, a global technology investment firm.

Tatiana Tropina has more than 10 years of involvement in both legal research and various applied cybercrime projects at the international level. This includes carrying out a cybercrime study for the ITU Global Symposium of Regulators 2010, serving as a consultant to the UNODC Comprehensive Cybercrime Study 2013, World Bank's World Development Report 2016, Atlantic Council's report "Big Data: A Twenty-First Century Arms Race", and many others. Tatiana was the first Russian lawyer to defend a PhD thesis on cybercrime (Far Eastern Federal University, 2005). She also holds a Master of Communications Management degree from Business School of Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK. She calls Freiburg, Germany her home, but mostly lives up in the air.

Mark Russinovich is Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s global enterprise-grade cloud platform. A widely recognized expert in distributed systems and operating systems, Mark earned a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He later co-founded Winternals Software, joining Microsoft in 2006 when the company was acquired. Today he remains the primary author of the Sysinternals tools and website, which include dozens of popular Windows administration and diagnostic utilities. Mark is a popular speaker at industry conferences such as IPExpo, Microsoft Ignite and Build, and RSA Conference. He has also authored several nonfiction and fiction books, including the Microsoft Press Windows Internals book series, as well as fictional cyber security thrillers Zero Day, Trojan Horse and Rogue Code.