WIS: Unlocking the Neurodiverse Advantage: Cybersecurity Beyond the Spectrum

Mark Meulemans – Director of Cloud Solutions Architecture, VMware

Mark Meulemans is a seasoned cloud solutions architect with over 15 years of experience delivering network, security, and cloud computing solutions for a diverse range of customers and industries. His career has focused on enabling customers to be successful with new technologies and solutions, which is a result of his passions for novel thinking and developing others. Mark leads the Cloud Solution Architecture team for VMware’s hyperscaler platforms in the Americas, supporting VMware Cloud solutions in partnership with Microsoft, Google, and Oracle. Mark has spent the past several years as a champion for mental health awareness, striving to enable himself and others to be better allies and supporters of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Alexandra McCoy – Site Reliability Engineer, VMware

Alexandra McCoy is an SRE Engineer at VMware. She is passionate about Cloud Native, Open Source, and Reliability Engineering communities. Although VMware is home, she was introduced to the Cloud industry while in IBM – Public Sector and then transitioned into IBM Cloud. She later gained additional hybrid cloud experience at Diamanti, focusing on E2E product support for their on-prem Kubernetes based appliance, utilized for its storage and networking virtualization capabilities. She is excited about the industry’s direction and hopes to contribute in a way that only helps improve the cloud space.

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Nathan Chung – Neurodiversity Evangelist

My name is Nathan Chung I am a Top 50 Global Neurodiversity Evangelist. I am a multi-award winner: 2022 DEI Champion Award from United Cybersecurity Alliance 2022 Sponsor Award from Women in Cloud 2020 Male Ally of the Year Award from Inteligenca I am an accessibility and disability champion I am openly Neurodivergent with diagnosis in ADHD, Autism, and Complex PTSD I run the NeuroSec podcast that is at the intersection between Neurodiversity and Cybersecurity I write articles about Neurodiversity and Cybersecurity in my NeuroSec newsletter I have done conference talks about Neurodiversity at UWIC (Uniting Women in Cyber), the United Nations, and more I have organized events for the past 2-3 years to shine a spotlight on amazing women who are both Neurodivergent and LGBTQ+ I am a Cloud Security Architect specializing in Azure I have worked in IT and Cybersecurity for 25 years at many amazing organizations such as Microsoft, EY, Lockheed Martin, Supreme Court of the United States, Office of the Governor State of Hawai’i, Honolulu Police Department, and more I have 21 certifications including CISSP, CISM, CCSP, MCSE, and more I have two master’s degrees I am on the SANS advisory board

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Amber Buening – Senior Vice President and Security Outreach Director, The Huntington National Bank

Amber Buening is the Security Outreach Director, SVP at Huntington Bank. In this capacity, her team works alongside Fraud, Risk, Physical Security, and Cybersecurity to protect the bank and its customers by raising awareness of security threats and best practices to protect against these threats.
Amber is also responsible for fostering partnerships with community, industry, and governmental organizations to raise security awareness and collaboration.
Before joining Huntington, Amber worked for 12 years at The Ohio State University where she served most recently as the Associate Director of Disaster Recovery and Security Outreach. In previous roles at Ohio State, Amber served on the leadership teams of the Information Security (NIST) Framework, Multi-Factor Authentication, and Digital Flagship enterprise projects.
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