James has a wealth of cybersecurity experience as CISO at Mimecast and Global Director of Cyber Risk at JPMorgan Chase. He also ran a successful consultancy practice for nearly 10 years, building security operations for over 90 organizations. He is skilled at understanding operational issues and constraints in various industries and has co-founded the Security BSides London conference. James previously worked as Field CISO at Rubrik and ServiceNow.

Victor has close to 30 years of InfoSec experience around the globe, bringing his rich tapestry of cross-border/cultural/deep technical perspectives from the data center to the cloud, and translating these key challenges to board-understandable priorities. Prior to joining Cohesity, Victor was Cisco Systems’ and Checkmarx’s inaugural Senior CISO Advisor for Asia Pacific, Japan & China.

Mark has 26 years of experience in IT, communications, and global finance. Before joining Cohesity, he was UK Business Development CTO at Dell Technologies, leading hybrid and multicloud conversations. Prior to that, Mark spent over 12 years at Barclays as Director of Group Storage, Virtualisation, and Public Cloud. His background gives him valuable insights into customer decision-making and budgetary considerations.

In this session, we explore how Cohesity, Cisco, and NVIDIA deliver a full-stack sovereign AI architecture. Cohesity Gaia activates governed, trusted enterprise data for agents and platforms, while Cisco UCS infrastructure powered by NVIDIA GPUs provides optimized compute, security, and observability. Together, this enables organizations to run AI workloads directly on sensitive, distributed data – maintaining compliance, performance, and control.

Brian will co-host this session alongside Jason Schroedl, Director of Product Marketing, Enterprise Platforms, at NVIDIA.

For 20-years, Dr. Z has advised major healthcare, public sector, finance, retail, entertainment, and manufacturing organizations in over 50 countries. He’s also been a popular moderator and participant in numerous industry panels. His expertise comes from experience in information technology, regulatory compliance, research and development, marketing, and sales. Before joining Cohesity, Dr. Z worked for the likes of Symantec, Proofpoint, Veritas, SunGard, and IBM.

Matt works with our top customers to help them achieve their strategic objectives around data management and data security. He has been deeply involved in product development for over 20 years, always working on the cutting edge of technology in a range of executive roles. At Cohesity, he was previously Head of Product, a position he has also held at Puppet and the Data Protection Division at DellEMC. Matt holds over 20 patents and has degrees from Clark University and Northeastern University.