Brian Barnier |
Topic :
Trends and Directions in Governance and Risk Management
Brian is a principal at ValueBridge Advisors, an advisory firm
focused on the intersection of business effectiveness, technology economics and decision making.
He advises overwhelmed business and technology leaders, helping them improve
decision making to get more business value from technology – especially in these challenging economic times when enterprises must reshape to stay ahead of competitors
and seize more opportunity during the recovery cycle. He teaches widely, researches
and serves on several industry best practice committees. For ISACA he serves on
the IT-Enterprise Risk Management Task Force (that created Risk IT), the program
committees for the IT-GRC and North America CACS conferences, the core faculty for
the IT Governance Forum, and the Professional Influence and Advocacy Committee.
In addition he has contributed to the ISACA Journal, COBIT Focus, Global Communiqué
and chapter newsletters.. |
Deepak Narain |
Topic : Emerging Technologies: Virtualization
and Clouds – The Future of IT
Deepak Narain is a Senior Technology Consultant for VMware Middle East &
North Africa. Deepak brings to VMware a rich background in the IT industry; prior
to VMware, he has held leadership positions in development, management and marketing
at EMC, Lucent Technologies, Ascend Communications and Stratus Computers. Deepak
is a patented software engineer and holds a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering
from the University of Notre Dame, a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Worcester
Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from Boston University. |
Georges Ataya
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Topic : Business Model for Information Security
Georges is the Professor at Solvay Business School in Brussels- Belgium. He is expert
in the Information and Communication technology (IT) specialized in the areas of
IT Governance and Strategic Management. He is involved in researches and publications
on IT Governance, IT Management frameworks, Information Security and Audit practices.
He has participated in many International Conferences. He is the Founder and Academic
Director of the ICT Audit & Security Postgraduate degree and of the Executive
Master in IT Governance at Solvay Business School in Brussels. He is Managing Partner
of ICT Control SA-NV, a Brussels based Management Consulting Firm. He is International
Vice President for the IT Governance Institute and Member
of the Board of ISACA.
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Robert J. Chandler |
Topic : eCrimes and Matter to consider
while initiating an Digital Investigation
Bob Chandler is the regional Head in Ernst & Young’s
Fraud Investigation
& Dispute Services (FIDS) practice in the Middle East. Prior to joining Ernst
& Young, Bob worked for 21 years post-qualification with another Big 4 firm.
He moved from the UK to the Middle East in 1999 and was responsible for setting
up that other firm’s investigations and disputes arm. When in the UK, he spent two
years seconded to the Investigations Division of the UK Department of Trade and
Industry (DTI) and was later appointed as a Companies Act Inspector in respect of
a UK bank in administration. The resulting report was subsequently published by
the DTI.Bob has over 20 years experience of providing businesses with FIDS services
during which time he has carried out numerous fraud investigations
and given evidence
(including oral evidence and expert testimony) at trial. He has also acted as accounting
expert, and as arbitrator, in various arbitrations involving the quantification
of financial losses. In addition, he has undertaken a number of regulatory investigations
involving issues of fraud and money laundering.
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A.Rafeq
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Topic : Auditors- Catalysts of Change in Implementing IT Governance
Rafeq is an IT Governance and Assurance professional from Bangalore, India, with
experience of over 25 years in varied roles such as CFO, CIO, IT implementer, IT
consultant, IT Auditor and COBIT Trainer. He is a COBIT user and implementer for
over 12 years and is a well-known COBIT evangelist. Rafeq has made presentations on IT Governance, IT Assurance and COBIT Implementation at International Conferences
of ISACA
across the world since a decade. He is a globally recognised trainer on
COBIT and has conducted more than 120 days of training on COBIT for ISACA and its Chapters and for public, private and government companies. |
Vinod Vasudevan |
Topic: The 3Ws and 1H of Data Protection
Vinod Vasudevan is a co-founder and CTO of Paladion. He has 14 years of experience
in technology and information risk management domain. As the CTO at Paladion, Vinod
has serviced large enterprise organizations across the globe for setting up of integrated
risk management systems and for stream lining system based operations. He regularly
presents in leading forums, conferences, recent one being RSA conference, Europe.
He sits on the expert panel of industry consortiums. He is the lead author of the
book “Application Security in the ISO 27001 Environment” from IT Governance, UK.
Vinod is also the co-author of "Enhancing Computer Security with Smart Technology"
published by Auerbach. He is a CISSP and a PCI QSA.
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