[ Meet the Program Committee ]

Mark Dowd

Co-founder, Vigilant Labs & [un]prompted.au

Mark Dowd is the co-founder of Vigilant Labs, and of [un]prompted.au (the Australian subsidiary of the US Unprompted conference run by Gadi Evron). Prior to that, he co-founded Azimuth Security (now L3Harris Trenchant) and was an author of “The Art of Software Security Assessment”. He has spent most of his career as a researcher and has uncovered major vulnerabilities in server software, browsers, and mobile platforms.

Gadi Evron

Founder & CEO, Knostic — Chair, [un]prompted

Gadi Evron is Founder and CEO at Knostic, an AI agent security company, CISO-in-Residence for AI at CSA, and chairs the [un]prompted conference. Previously, he founded Cymmetria (acquired), was the Israeli National Digital Authority CISO, founded the Israeli CERT, and headed PwC's Cyber Security Center of Excellence. He wrote the post-mortem analysis of the “First Internet War” (Estonia 2007), founded some of the first information-sharing groups, wrote APT reports (Rocket Kitten, Patchwork), and the first paper on DNS DDoS Amplification Attacks (2006). Gadi has written two books on cybersecurity and speaks at industry events from Black Hat to Davos.

Aaron “dyn” Grattafiori

Stealth

Aaron “dyn” Grattafiori is currently working in stealth. Previously, he was a Principal Offensive Security Researcher focused on AI at NVIDIA. Before that, he was an AI Red Teaming lead at Meta, following more than six years leading the “cyber” Red Team performing full-scale operations against a wide array of real-world objectives. Before Meta, Aaron was a Principal Consultant at NCC Group/iSEC Partners. He has spoken at security conferences such as unprompted US, Offensive AI Con, Black Hat US, DEF CON, Enigma, Toorcon, and Red Team Summit. Aaron can also be found on the slopes, in the garage working on an old car, or hiking the front range of Colorado.

Kylie McDevitt

CEO, InfoSect

Kylie McDevitt is the CEO of InfoSect, an Australian security research and training company specialising in vulnerability research and exploit development. She has over a decade of experience in the Australian Signals Directorate, where she worked across a range of technical and leadership roles. Kylie is a co-founder and organiser of BSides Canberra, Australia's largest hacker conference, and runs CSides, a monthly technical meetup. She is passionate about supporting deep technical research and fostering collaboration across the Australian security ecosystem.

Thomas Ptáček

Principal, Fly.io

Thomas Ptacek is a principal at Fly.io and cohost of the Security, Cryptography, Whatever podcast.

Ryan Stortz

Security Researcher

Ryan Stortz has over 20 years experience in reverse engineering, vulnerability research, program analysis, and is pretty good at the computers. Lately, he's been focused on Mac and iOS endpoint security.

Window Snyder

Founder & CEO, Thistle Technologies

Window Snyder is founder and CEO of Thistle Technologies. A leading cybersecurity expert, she has built and led security programs at major technology companies including Fastly, Square, Intel, Apple, Mozilla and Microsoft. She is co-author of Threat Modeling and a frequent keynote speaker on topics including device security, software supply chain integrity, and securing AI systems. Her work has been recognized with the IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice.

Casey Ellis

Founder, Bugcrowd — Co-founder, disclose.io

Casey is best-known for founding Bugcrowd and co-founding The disclose.io Project. He has spent nearly 30 years inventing things, hacking things, and generally getting technology to do things it isn't supposed to do. A Sydney native based in the San Francisco Bay Area, his current work intersects offensive security, AI, policy, and startups.

Maria Markstedter

Founder, Azeria Labs

Maria Markstedter is the founder of the security training company Azeria Labs. She has spent her career focused on all things Arm, from reverse engineering to exploit development, teaching thousands of people around the world. She is the author of Blue Fox: Arm Assembly Internals & Reverse Engineering (Wiley, 2023). Maria has delivered keynotes at the Arm Research Summit and Black Hat USA 2023, and has earned recognition as a Forbes “30 Under 30” honoree (2018) and Forbes Person of the Year in Cybersecurity (2020). She serves on the Cybersecurity Advisory Committee for Inditex and is an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS.

Michael Coppola

Co-founder & Principal Security Researcher, Catalyst Security

Michael Coppola is a Co-Founder and Principal Security Researcher at Catalyst Security. He previously worked at Azimuth Security (now L3Harris Trenchant) and has nearly 20 years of vulnerability research experience. Michael is based in NYC and his main focus areas include mobile exploitation and using AI to automate bug discovery.

Tarjei Mandt

Senior Security Researcher, Catalyst Security

Tarjei Mandt is a senior security researcher at Catalyst Security. Previously, he worked at Trenchant / Azimuth Security and has more than 15 years of experience researching iOS and macOS device security. He holds a Master’s degree in Information Security from NTNU Gjovik and has spoken at security conferences such as Black Hat, CanSecWest, Hack in the Box, and RECon. In his free time, he enjoys spending countless hours challenging security mechanisms and researching intricate issues in low-level system components. Previously, Tarjei discovered several vulnerabilities in both Windows and macOS/iOS operating systems. More recently, he has focused on local AI and actively contributed to various LLM inference projects.

Call for Papers is closed

Submissions closed 31 July 2026. The committee is reviewing now — the full schedule is announced 18 August 2026.