Chris Christensen is the Cybersecurity Director for Honeywell Building Automation (BA). He leads a team that is responsible for educating and helping customers’ efforts to protect their operational technology (OT) critical infrastructure environments. Chris oversees the cybersecurity business globally, including the integration with development, partnerships, marketing of solutions, sales, and operations. Chris joined Honeywell in 2019 and in each of his previous roles he worked to address challenges, drive new breakthrough growth opportunities, develop efficiencies, and promote best practice excellence across the ever-changing IT and OT cybersecurity landscape. Chris is on the board of the Michigan InfraGard and currently serves as the President, he has his bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah and a Juris Doctorate from Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Chris passionately believes that cybersecurity is everyone's shared responsibility and through awareness, education, accountability and positive reinforcement, everyone in an organization can work together to create a safer environment.

 

Scott Hawk has over 30 years of experience in technology, beginning with engineering positions in U.S. national defense and telecommunications. A large portion of that time has been in customer-facing roles designing and selling solutions to large global organizations. Scott has worked in several disciplines around the world, including a multi-year stint in Europe where he ran a global solutioning organization. Scott’s experience in cybersecurity began over 20 years ago when firewalls and VPNs became part of modern networking services. In the last 10 years, he has held a number of cybersecurity roles that include leading a global cybersecurity architect team, consulting on new product development, and serving as a virtual CISO. Scott currently works for Acalvio Technologies where he is an evangelist for cyber deception and is passionate about the broad range of use cases it supports. Scott has a bachelor’s in electrical engineering, a master’s in business administration and a number of industry certifications in leadership, security, and networking.

 

Yu-Gene Chen is a professional in product development, product management, project management, engineering, Marketing, and Business management. He is a Georgia Tech (Georgia Institute of Technology) engineering graduate with over 35 years in discovering customer needs and creating solutions that solve customer problems. He started out as a practicing Nuclear Power Plant Engineer and Field Engineer and shifted focus to gain broad cross-industry experience in oil and gas, chemical, food and beverage, pulp and paper, manufacturing, medical, and IT networking that has led to 10 granted patents in wireless mesh networking, security, and control applications. His expertise covers business-to-business, consumer, and industrial markets; and includes three business start-ups with a proven track record driving business growth through innovative solutions for small and large businesses.