Dave Lewis has 30 years of industry experience. He has extensive experience in IT security operations and management. He is the founder of the security site Liquidmatrix Security Digest & podcast. He is currently a member of the board of directors for BSides Las Vegas. Dave has previously worked for companies such as Cisco, Akamai, AMD, and IBM. Previously he served on the board of directors for (ISC)2 as well as being a founder of BSides Toronto conference. Dave was a DEF CON speaker operations goon for over 10 years. Lewis also serves on the advisory board for the Black Hat Sector Security Conference and the CFP review board for 44CON and BSides Athens. Dave has previously written columns for Forbes, CSO Online, Huffington Post, The Daily Swig, and others. For fun, he is a curator of small mammals (his kids) plays bass guitar, grills, and is part owner of a whisky distillery and a soccer team.