Katherine Fick, Esq. in her role as Senior Counsel at IBM, provides legal advice to the IBM Security business unit as it makes cybersecurity services and offerings available to external clients. She counsels IBM on legal issues associated with its own cybersecurity posture, and has served in IBM’s Privacy Office. She is an Adjunct Professor at the Woods College of Advancing Studies at Boston College, where she co-teaches a course on cybersecurity law and policy. Katherine also volunteers as a Response Team Member with ShelterBox, an international disaster relief organization that provides short-term shelter and recovery supplies to families rebuilding after natural and political disasters.

Sayoko Blodgett-Ford is a member of GTC Law Group PC & Affiliates. Her practice focuses on data privacy and security and intellectual property in mergers and acquisitions. She has extensive expertise in connection with technology M&A transactions. Sayoko is an Adjunct Professor at Boston College Law School, where she teaches a new Mobile App Development & Big Data class in the Spring and Privacy Law in the Fall. She is also a Lecturer in Law at the University of Hawai’i law school, where she has taught Internet Law & Policy, Intellectual Property, Contracts Drafting, High-Growth Entrepreneurship, and Administrative Law, among other subjects. She is rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell. She serves as a Court Appointed Arbitrator for the Hawai’i State District Court – First Circuit.

Sayoko previously served as general counsel of Tetris Online, Inc. and as Senior Manager of the Intellectual Property Group at Nintendo of America Inc. in Redmond, Washington. At Nintendo, Sayoko was responsible for domestic and international intellectual property clearance, defense, registration, and enforcement. Her particular areas of focus included patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, and advertising, as well as privacy law compliance and video game ratings compliance. Sayoko has also taught advertising law in the University of Washington IP LLM program. Prior to Nintendo, Sayoko practiced at Foley Hoag LLP and was a law clerk for Judge Douglas P. Woodlock, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Sayoko holds a B.S. in Physics from the College of William and Mary, an M.S. in Physics from the University of Maryland, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

Chris Poulin has almost 35 years of experience in digital and physical security, spanning diverse roles from the deeply technical to executive management. He started his journey in the U.S. Air Force as a software developer for the DoD intelligence community and built his own boutique consultancy after separating from the military. Chris sold FireTower after ten years of growth and joined Q1 Labs as the Chief Security Officer, which was acquired by IBM in 2012. During his five years at Big Blue, Chris led threat research activities for the X-Force and built a prototype of Cyber Watson. He took an interest in the IoT and was instrumental in founding IBM’s IoT security practice, including authoring their points of view on connected car security. As a result, he was recruited into Booz Allen Hamilton as a Principal/Director leading the Dark Labs embedded systems vulnerability analysis practice. Chris returned to the startup community and is currently at BitSight Technologies, empowering enterprises to manage third- and first-party risk. He can be found speaking on a variety of infosec topics at conferences and private events when he’s not making or breaking new technology as a hobby, hiking, rock climbing, or appreciating fine wine and craft brews.

Caleb Barlow is the Vice President of Threat Intelligence at IBM Security. He is a globally recognized security professional and leads IBM’s X-Force Threat Intelligence Organization. In 2016, he built X-Force Command as part of a $200M investment in a global incident response service; it is the industry’s first immersive cyber range and incident command system for responding to major cyber incidents. Last year, Caleb invented the Cyber Tactical Operations Center, a first-of-its-kind training, simulation, and security operations center on wheels.

Caleb has a broad background of leading technical teams in product development, product management, strategy, marketing, and cloud service delivery. Caleb has appeared on the TED stage, the Today Show, and regularly appears on national news broadcasts. He has testified to the U.S. Congress and was invited by the president of the UN General Assembly to discuss his views at the United Nations.