2024 Speakers
Our speakers will cover topics such as AI, new disclosure requirements, enterprise risk management, operationalizing sustainability, nonprofit board experience and more.
Brian Stafford
President & CEO
Diligent
Erin Brockovich
Renowned Consumer Advocate and Environmental Activist
Cody Scott
Senior Analyst
Forrester
Dr. Anastassia Lauterbach - Lang
CEO AI Edutainment, Professor of AI and Cybersecurity
AI Edutainment GmbH
Pav Gill
Founder & CEO
Confide Platform
Nithya B. Das
Chief Legal & Administrative Officer
Diligent
Dottie Schindlinger
Executive Director
Diligent Institute
Phil Venables
Chief Information Security Officer
Google Cloud
MarKeith Allen
Chief Customer Officer
Diligent
Michael Rasmussen
GRC Analyst & Pundit
GRC 20/20 Research
Adam Bailey
Senior Vice President & Global Head of Product
Diligent
John Horn
Director, Cybersecurity Practice
Datos Insights
Renee Wardlaw
Vice President, Corporate Compliance and Administration
Bristol Bay Native Corporation (BBNC)
Stephanie Benton
Senior Manager, Corporate Governance Lead
MN8 Energy LLC
Laura Zizzo
Co-Founder and CEO
Manifest Climate
Lisa Edwards
Executive Chair
Diligent Institute
Inna Barmash
Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary
Amplify
Dani Glascock
System Director of Governance & Office of the General Counsel Operations
Hospital Sisters Health System
Dr. R.J. Gravel
Deputy Superintendent
Glenbrook High School District 225
Cytha Guynes
Associate Director, Professional Development
Pennsylvania School Boards Association
Dieu Tran
Executive Director, IT Audit & Data Analytics
Mercy Hospital System
James Wade
Chief Information Security Officer
MCS, LLC
Cindy Fornash
Foundation Adminstrator
McCoy College of Business Foundation
Ruth Shirley
Executive Administrator & Board Liaison
CUES
Elizabeth Thompson
Executive Assistant to the President Corporate Secretary Corporate Compliance Officer
Presbyterian SeniorCare
Shiona Nash
Executive Assistant to the Superintendent and Board of Education
Fountain-Fort Carson School District #8
Frances Aguilar
City Secretary
City of Pearland
Heindrek Allen
ESG Manager
Magnit Global
Lance Arbuckle
Superintendent
Pocahontas School District
Priya Cherian Huskins
SVP & Partner
Woodruff Sawyer
Jaime Durkowski
A veteran District level Administrative Assistant
Marquardt School District 15
Catherine Hill
Executive Secretary
Vigo County School Corporation (VCSC)
Ricard Kelly
Global Vice President, Information Security and Technology
Copperleaf Technologies
Tina Khail
Governance Advisor
BoardEffect, a Diligent Company
Wendy David
Manager, Solution Engineering
Diligent
Sarah Miller
Manager, Customer Success
BoardEffect, a Diligent Company
Suzanne VanSligtenhorst
Director of Corporate Governance and Assistant Corporate Secretary
dentalcorp
Alice Black
Executive Assistant to the Superintendent and the Board of Education
Aspen School District
Savannah Washco
Corporate Paralegal
Barings
Melissa A. Wilmoth
Corporate Operations
OrthoVirginia
Michael Volkov
CEO and Founder
The Volkov Law Group LLC
Tom Faraday
Senior Director, Product Management
Diligent
Samer Rahim
Director, Advisory & Consulting Services
Diligent
April Van Epps
Chief of Staff
Centerstone
Dominique Shelton Leipzig
Privacy & Cybersecurity Partner
Mayer Brown
Keith Enright
VP and Chief Privacy Officer, Google; Board Director, ZoomInfo
Google
Curtis McNeil
Risk Management Officer
Architect of the Capitol
Lori Nishiura Mackenzie
Co-Founder Stanford VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab
Ben Foss
Solution Engineer
Diligent
Billy Cheung
Solutions Architect
Diligent
Carrie Forrester
Customer Success Manager
Diligent
Curtis Duncan
Senior Manager, Customer Success
Diligent
Daniel Smith
Director, Product Marketing
Diligent
Elvin Isic
Customer Success Manager
Diligent
Emily Williams
Director, Thought Leadership
Diligent
Geoffrey Weinberg
Managing Director, M&A and Activism Advisory Group
Morrow Sodali
James Edwards
Training Manager
Diligent
Janie Alexander
Customer Success Team Lead
Diligent
Myra Lomahan
Executive Assistant
Southwestern College
Richard Barber
CEO
MindTech Group
Steve Schroeder
Board member
Sun Prairie Schools
Phil Lim
Director, Product Management
Diligent
Dale Waterman
Solution Designer, Strategic Market Solutions, EMEA
Diligent
Russell Dover
Principal Solution Designer
Diligent
Hope Cannon
Director of Legal Operations
Diligent
Cathy Cartieri
Senior Director, Customer Success
Diligent
Yu-Kuan Lin
Vice President, Product Management
Diligent
Tolu Ajimoko
Vice President, Product Management
Diligent
Jay Cameron
Director, Product Marketing
Diligent
Jason Venner
Audit, Risk, & Compliance SME
Diligent
Nonie Dalton
Vice President, Product Management
Diligent
Jeff Schaefer
Senior Director, Continuity Brands
Diligent
Chandramathi Vemuri
Executive Assistant
Sun Prairie Schools
Katja Freeman
Solutions Sales Director
Diligent
Warren Jagger
Director, Solutions Engineer
Diligent
Derek Vadala
Chief Risk Officer
Bitsight
Jim Myers
Deputy General Counsel, Corporate Governance
Fannie Mae
Bill Pecor
Product Manager
Diligent
Dr. Bradford Saron
Superintendent
Sun Prairie Schools
Melissa Kaufman
Senior Corporate Paralegal
Klaviyo
Daniel Cossio
Associate Product Manager
Diligent
Adam Habberley
Lead Advisory Specialist, Professional Services
Diligent
Tom Keaton
Director of Internal Audit
Crown Castle
Carolina Stasium
Corporate Governance Legal Analyst
Chevron
Bing Goldsworth
Executive assistant
Organically Grown Company
Felix Salmon
Chief financial correspondent at Axios and the host of the weekly Slate Money podcast; Author of The Phoenix Economy: Work, Life, and Money in the New Not Normal
Sumit Pal
Senior Manager, IT Compliance
Ooma
