Izar Tarandach is Lead Product Security Architect at Autodesk inc.. Prior to this, he was the Security Architect for Enterprise Hybrid Cloud at Dell EMC, and before that he was a Security Consultant at the EMC Product Security Office. He is a core contributor to SAFECode and a founding contributor to the IEEE Center for Security Design. He holds a masters degree in Computer Science/Security from Boston University and has served as an instructor in Digital Forensics at Boston University and in Secure Development at the University of Oregon.

Matthew Coles is the Product Security Leader at Bose Corporation, where he leverages over 15 years of product security and systems engineering experience to enable teams to build security into the products and personalized experiences Bose delivers to customers worldwide. Prior to that he was Lead Product Security Architect for Analog Devices, and Consulting Product Security Architect at EMC. He has been a technical contributor to community standard initiatives such as ISO 27034, CVSS version 3, and the CWE/SANS Top 25 project. He holds a Masters in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and has previously served as an instructor in Software Security Practices at Northeastern University.