HackaDay 2021 - Securing the cloud - Conference speakers

Regional Director

CSC

Alban Kwan is the East Asia regional director for CSC® based in the Hong Kong office. He has been with CSC’s Digital Brand Services business and affiliated companies since 2009, and leads the team responsible for all key accounts within the Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan markets.

Alban has developed a deep understanding of online brand protection, digital assets management, and cyber security, specifically for the Asia-Pacific region, and he advises top global and local companies. Alban frequently engages with local policy makers and is often invited to speak at conferences, where he shares his invaluable insight on brand protection, security, and local policies affecting businesses.

Prisma Cloud Solutions Architect, Greater China

Palo Alto Networks

Felix Cheng designs and deploys mission critical infrastructure for service providers, airports, and casinos. Over the last few years, he focused on software solutions such as application performance monitoring and analytics, cloud services and cybersecurity solutions. In his spare time, Felix has developed a simple mobile app that helped Wi-Fi engineers to perform quick site surveys.

Cyber Security Evangelist

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd

Kev Hau is the Head of Security Engineering, Hong Kong and Taiwan at Check Point Software Technologies and the Cyber Security Evangelist, a member of the CTO office. Kev has over 10 years of experience in cyber security industry.

At Check Point, he works closely with all the Check Point partners and customers through his team of security experts by providing consultation and advice on how to deal with the cyber threat. He is also the leadership point of contact between partners, strategic customers and channels, as well as Check Point’s product research and development team.

Kev holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Brunel University.

Partner, Cybersecurity and Privacy

PwC Hong Kong
 

Kok Tin Gan is a partner at PwC in the Risk Assurance practice with over 12 years of experience in IT governance, cyber security strategy and framework, cyber security governance, security management, IT risk, technology architecture and ethical hacking.

Kok Tin is extremely well-versed in developing a holistic cyber security strategy, banking technology risk management guidelines and technical review tools. He is also a co-author of many technology risk management guidelines issued by the financial regulators in Asia.

Kok Tin is a Certified Chartered Account (CCA), Certified Information System Auditor (CISA) and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).

Chief Technologist

AWS

Olivier is a hands-on technologist with more than 10 years of experience in the industry and has been working for AWS across APAC and Europe. Olivier helps customers to build resilient, scalable, secure and cost-effective applications, and to create innovative and data driven business models.
  

He advises on how emerging technologies in the Artificial Intelligence (AI), ML and IoT space can help create new products, make existing processes more efficient, provide overall business insights and leverage new engagement channels for end-consumers. He also actively helps customers build platforms that align IT infrastructure and service spending with revenue models, effectively reducing waste and disrupting how product development had been executed over the past decades.

Account Executive

OneTrust

Rob Hinson is a privacy professional with OneTrust, based in Hong Kong. He holds two IAPP certifications, the CIPP/E and CIPM, and works with companies throughout Asia Pacific looking to leverage privacy tech to advance their privacy programs.

Originally from the United States, Rob and his wife, Elissa, have lived in Hong Kong for eight years and have a son and daughter, ages four and two. In his free time, Rob enjoys playing sports, listening to music, cooking, and spending time with family and friends.

Regional Solution Architect

Fortinet

Solutions Engineer

NetApp

Benjamin Hui is a Solutions Engineer of NetApp in Hong Kong focusing in the FSI industry.

With demonstrated background in DevOps and financial industry, he is responsible for designing and architecting hybrid multicloud solutions for enterprises to help organisations take control of their own data, for example data sovereignty, multicloud adoption, and data protection.

Prior to his current role, Benjamin worked in the banking sector and tech consulting for cloud digital transformation projects. He has also attained NetApp Certified Hybrid Cloud Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, GCP Professional Cloud Architect, and AWS Solution Architect, Developer & SysOps Admin Associates.

Senior Sales Engineer

Barracuda Networks

Conrad Lee is the Senior Sales Engineer at Barracuda Hong Kong. In this role, he is responsible for supporting business growth with his technical expertise and gaining customer acceptance by demonstrating value propositions.

Conrad is a software engineering expert, with over 20 years of experience impacting corporate performance by defining and pursuing winning strategies for technical products for sales teams and company partners.

Prior to joining Barracuda, he spent over 10 years at different companies (i.e. Citrix System, Nutanix and Rubrik Inc.) in various technology, sales and leadership roles across Asia Pacific.

Solution Account Manager

H3C

With experience as both a solution architect and an account manager at H3C, Leo Lu has amassed a wealth of Enterprise ICT knowledge. He has led numerous cyber security projects, including C-RAF solutions and cyber security services.

Head of IT Risk and Security

Cathay Pacific Airways Limited

Naresh Sharma is an innovative and forward-thinking executive, with 20 years of leadership in various areas of technology, operations, cyber security, IT risks and program management. He is an expert in building strategies to assess new threats and risks to business, and introduce policies, processes, controls, and defences with overall governance to strengthen IT landscape and maturity.
   

A change catalyst to foster infosec culture and awareness amongst stakeholders. As a pragmatic thinker, Naresh considers IT, cybersecurity and risk management as key business enabler in current corporate landscape.

Solution Architect

ReaQta

Sam Lai is Solution Architect at ReaQta and based in Hong Kong, with over 10 years of experience across Cybersecurity domains like IT strategy and governance, data privacy and protection.

Sam has built a longstanding career in cybersecurity with a focus on system and cloud security. He is experienced in advising and working with partners and customers to enable the transformation journey from a legacy antivirus approach to an AI-driven endpoint threat response.