About our Speakers

Ms Daisy Radford

Daisy Radford is a serving member of the ISC2 Board of Directors and a Principal at Control Risks. With extensive experience across cyber, technology and strategy, she focuses on the intersection of emerging technology, national security and business risk. Daisy has held senior leadership roles across the defence and technology sectors in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and UK. She is passionate about strengthening cyber resilience, developing cyber talent and helping organisations navigate an increasingly complex and unpredictable digital risk landscape

Mr Dan Wendlandt

Vice President, Product management, Cisco

Dan has been a leader in open source networking and security world since 2008 when he helped start Nicira, the company that created and led the software-defined networking (SDN) movement. At Nicira, Dan drove the creation of the Open vSwitch and OpenStack Networking open source projects, and led product strategy for their commercial product, the Nicira Network Virtualization Platform (NVP). In 2012 VMware acquired Nicira for $1.2B, where the Nicira technology and team formed the foundation of what would become VMware NSX.

In 2017, Dan co-founded Isovalent, the company behind the foundational cloud native open source technologies eBPF (ebpf.io) and Cilium (cilium.io). Dan led Isovalent as CEO, helping build Cilium into the de facto standard for Kubernetes cloud-native networking and security across both cloud and on-premises environments while partnering with leading enterprises, growth-stage startups, and telcos on the adoption of Isovalent’s enterprise offerings. Isovalent was acquired by Cisco in April of 2024, and Dan continues to lead the Isovalent team, which operates as an independent unit inside of Cisco.

Mr J.M. Porup

CISO, Berachain

J.M. Porup secures billions of dollars of fungible, non-reversible digital cash as CISO of Berachain, his third crypto CISO role. He has 25+ years of experience as a security practitioner, including seven years as a cybersecurity reporter for Ars Technica, The Economist, CSO Online, Motherboard, and the Christian Science Monitor.

Traditional enterprise security approaches don't work in crypto. Compliance-driven security programs often mitigate regulatory risk and neglect adversarial risk, because data breaches are the cost of doing business. But if North Korea steals all your money, then you go bankrupt.

"Hello, Pyongyang Police Department, I'd like to file a complaint?"

His writing on adversary-first security governance -- including "The Security Event Horizon" -- appears on his Substack, https://www.jmporup.com

He holds a Master of Information and Cybersecurity (MICS) from UC Berkeley, and was a member of the Berkman Klein Assembly at Harvard.

Dr Kawin Boonyapredee

CISO Advisor APJ, KnowBe4

Dr. Kawin Boonyapredee is a CISO Advisor at KnowBe4 based in Singapore, where he serves the Asia-Pacific & Japan region. He has over 25 years of experience in information security, risk management, and compliance across North America and Asia. In his current role, he delivers strategic insights and practical solutions tailored to the evolving threat landscape, with a particular focus on fostering robust security cultures. Kawin is a frequent contributor to industry discussions, sharing his expertise through strategic advisory services and speaking engagements on topics ranging from digital transformation to the security implications of emerging technologies.

Mr Loi Liang Yang

Lead Solutions Architect, XBOW

Loi is a Lead Solutions Architect at XBOW, specializing in autonomous offensive security with AI. He previously served as a Principal Security Technical Account Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he advised large enterprises on security strategy and protection against advanced threats. Before AWS, Loi was a Security Software Segment Leader at IBM. He holds the CISSP, Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), and CompTIA Security+ certifications, and is a 14× AWS Certified Golden Jacket holder. Loi holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computing from the National University of Singapore and runs a YouTube channel on cyber-security with 1.2M subscribers.

Ms Rowena Lee

Founder & Principal Consultant, HRS Talents

Rowena Lee is the founder of HRS Talents, Singapore's first Cybersecurity-Only recruitment and career consulting company, providing Executive Recruitment of Senior Position Hires across both red and blue team functions, and Career Consultancy to institutions and individuals, organizing bootcamps and workshops on Cybersecurity Career Strategy topics.

Rowena actively contributes back to the communities (Division Zero, ISC2, ISACA and SCS) and is also deeply involved in conferences regionally, such as SINCON, Hack In The Box, Black Hat Asia, DEF CON, Off-by-One and OWASP AppSec Days.

Mr Willis Lim

Executive Director, CyberSG Talent, Innovation and Growth (TIG) Collaboration Centre

Willis Lim is the Executive Director of the CyberSG Talent, Innovation and Growth (TIG) Collaboration Centre, where he leads a team to drive cyber security talent, industry and ecosystem development in Singapore. Prior to joining NUS, he was Director of the National Cyber Threat Analysis Centre within the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA), which performs all source analysis of cyber threats and other developments that threaten security in cyberspace. Willis has also been in other roles in public service, including the National Security Coordination Secretariat in the Prime Minister’s Office, the Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning Programme Office, as well as the Singapore Police Force.

Mr Yihao Lim

Lead Threat Intelligence Advisor (Middle East and Asia Pacific), Google

Yihao Lim is an accomplished cybersecurity professional with deep expertise in cyber threat intelligence (CTI) across the Asia-Pacific and Middle East region. He serves as Google’s Lead Intelligence Advisor, where he heads regional engagement efforts, builds strategic partnerships, and acts as a trusted advisor to clients on leveraging threat intelligence to manage cyber risk. Throughout his career, Yihao has focused on identifying and proactively mitigating sophisticated cyber threats, ranging from cyber espionage to financial crimes. He is highly experienced in working with government agencies and multi-national corporations, with a particular specialization in industrial control systems (ICS) and critical infrastructure protection. A recognized industry thought leader, he shares his insights with the media, global conferences, webinars, and via publications like the Journal of Information Warfare. He holds a Master of Science in Security by Design from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).