January 31, 2018

Bonnie Butlin is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Security Partners’ Forum (SPF), the first-of-its-kind agile international network of security professionals, bridging all domains and disciplines of security. Under the SPF banner she created the Women in Security and Resilience Alliance (WISECRA and the Canadian Cybersecurity Alliance (CCA), which has since become the largest inter-association cyber initiative in history.

Since 2013 Bonnie has received 12 international- and national-level awards and accolades related to security and resilience including most recently being appointed to the World Economic Forum Expert Network – Cybersecurity, in 2017. Bonnie is short-listed for the Women in IT Awards 2018 – “Global Leader of the Year” and recently won the "Women of the Decade" Award to be presented at the 2018 Women Economic Forum in India in April.

Christian Morin is the lead strategist for Cloud Services at Genetec. With over 18 years of experience in IT, telecommunications and physical security industries, Chris has a keen ability to anticipate technological trends and drive meaningful organizational growth. He is a multidisciplinary business leader, having managed the Operations, Customer Service, Sales Engineering, Technical Support, Professional Services, and IT Teams since joining Genetec in 2002. Chris’ executive leadership continues to support the strategic direction and success of the company.

Graham is the Operations Director and co-founder of Grantfen, a long standing Genetec partner based in the North West of England. Graham is considered amongst his peers to be one of the most experienced access control professionals around having operated in the electronic security industry for close to 35 years. Self-taught in electronic hardware design and embedded software development he has developed many hardware devices that exploit the simple communication protocol of the Wiegand reader interface that most access control systems still use today.

Phd in computer science, CISSP, ISO27001, ITIL V3 and several technical certifications, Nacira Salvan has been practicing, for more than 20 years, several trades in the field of cybersecurity including: project manager, architect, CISO, team manager network / security (SG2 subsidiary of Société Générale), consultant (CF6), responsible for the security architecture pole (SAFRAN), Cybersecurity Director (PWC), responsible for ISS operations and supervision (Thales).

Today, an independent consultant, she works on all the strategic, organizational and operational aspects of cybersecurity. Teacher at the Master Cybersecurity at the University of Paris Descartes, Member of the Board of UFR Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Paris 5. Speaker in several conferences, symposia and lectures on various topics in the field of cybersecurity.

In 2015, she created the CEFCYS (Women's Circle of Cybersecurity) association, to promote and advance the presence and leadership of women in this field.