Annual Tech Conference 2024: The Next Frontier.. is Here!
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Thursday
May 16, 2024
11:30 am - 6:00 pm
The Next Frontier… is Here!
Keynote: Sheldon Cuffie VP & CISO at American Family Insurance
Sheldon is a technology thought-leader of 30 years focused on enabling business outcomes through technology and innovation. As Vice President & Enterprise Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at American Family Insurance, he is responsible for cybersecurity engineering, incident response, information risk management, and disaster recovery across the American Family portfolio of companies.
Previously, Sheldon was VP & Chief Information Officer of American Family Insurance, VP & Global CISO of Dell Technologies, and VP & CISO at Northwestern Mutual. Earlier in his career, Sheldon started as an IT analyst, assuming increasing levels of leadership responsibility in engineering and architecture disciplines for Kohl’s, M&I Bank, Harley-Davidson, Abbott Laboratories, and Northwestern Mutual. Sheldon also served nine years in the Wisconsin Army National Guard as an enlisted soldier in telecommunications, signal, and artillery roles.
Sheldon is a proud graduate of Milwaukee Trade and Technical High School (now Bradley Tech) within Milwaukee Public Schools. He earned a BA in Management and Communications from Concordia University Wisconsin and an MS in Organizational Leadership with honors from Quinnipiac University.
Sheldon actively volunteers his time and resources to the Milwaukee community serving as a Board Director of the United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County, the Audit Committee of UW Hospital System / UW Health, and Trustee & Vice-Chairman of Greater Mt. Sinai Church.
Sheldon is married to his wife, Celeste, of 30 years. They have two adult children, Alyssa and Zach.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheldonc/
More info coming shortly!
2024 Technology Conference Agenda:
- TBD – Cyber in AI
- TBD – Manufacturing IOT Topic
- Enabling Enterprise Monitoring Observability to make Data Driven Decisions
– Mani Sundaram – Observability Product Owner & Ron MacDonald – Observability Lead Architect @ Northwestern Mutual - TBD- Electric Vehicle Topic
- How to be Human in the era of Machines
- Presenters TBD
Kathi Bellotti, CISSP
Kathi is a graduate of Cardinal Stritch University and has 30+ years of experience in business, IT, and risk management. She has worked various industries both locally and globally. Presently she is the Director of Information Security at U.S. Venture. Prior to information security, she was in sales and marketing and was a small business owner with her husband.
Kathi is a founding member of Women in Technology, Wisconsin and played a key role in the development of the WIT4Girls pillar. She volunteers her time to do security training for smaller businesses and schools. She was a speaker at 2018’s SANS Security Awareness Summit. She is passionate about cyber security and helping everyone become more security aware.
She has three children, two girls and a boy; 20, 17 and 15. Her interests outside of work are gardening, hockey, walking, reading, and anything that her kids want to do.
Venue: Brookfield Conference Center
Venue Phone: 262-789-0220
Venue Website: http://www.brookfieldconferencecenter.com
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