Speakers

Join inspiring keynotes, hands-on labs, and meaningful networking opportunities.

New York
September 1-3 2026

Shachar Menashe

VP Security Research
Shachar is VP of Security Research at JFrog. With over 15 years of experience in security research, including low-level R&D, reverse engineering and vulnerability research, Shachar is responsible for leading a team of researchers in discovering and analyzing emerging security threats, specializing in automated analysis of security vulnerabilities. Before joining JFrog, Shachar worked at AR giant Magic Leap, in charge of Magic Leap’s low-level OS security team, where he continued specializing in areas such as Linux & Android security architecture, implementing custom kernel and bootloader mitigations, and securing development lifecycle processes. This led to a successful release of Magic Leap’s OS which has remained unhacked to this day. Shachar holds a BSc in Electronics Engineering and Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University.
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Jason Clinton

When AI Commits Your Code: Reinventing Security for the AI-Native SDLC
Jason Clinton is Deputy Chief Information Security Officer and was the first CISO at Anthropic. Previously, he led Chrome Infrastructure Security at Google. Earlier work includes ChromeOS build integrity, Android Pay security, digital coupons, beowulf computing, and secure thin clients. He’s the Author of “Ruby Phrasebook” and contributed to the GNOME project.
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Anantha Kalusivalingam

Solutions Architect, JFrog
JFrog AI Masterclass: Governance & Security in the Agentic SDLC
Builds and executes JFrog’s solution strategy globally, working closely with our leadership team to understand the business goals and architect strategic, long term DevSecOps processes to meet customer’s needs.

Shlomi Ben Haim

Co-Founder & CEO | JFrog
Opening Keynote
As Co-founder and CEO of JFrog, Shlomi Ben Haim has led the company from an early-stage startup into a global technology leader redefining how software is built, delivered, and secured in the AI era. Under Ben Haim’s leadership, JFrog has grown into a publicly traded, multi-billion-dollar company, advancing the vision of Liquid Software fueled by the world’s leading Software Supply Chain Platform; the power grid behind a secure, end-to-end software delivery flow. Before co-founding JFrog, Shlomi was CEO of the open-source company AlphaCSP, which was acquired in 2005. Previously, he served as a Major in the Israeli Air Force, shaping his leadership style, mission focus, teamwork, and commitment to excellence.
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Krishna Nadiminti

Developer Experience Leader | NVIDIA
Building a Trusted Software Supply Chain for AI Agent Skills: Lessons from NVIDIA and JFrog
Krishna Nadiminti leads Developer Experience at NVIDIA, focusing on improving developer productivity and application lifecycle efficiency. She is an award-winning leader recognized across the tech industry for her contributions to engineering excellence and innovation.

Gal Marder

Chief Strategy Officer
Gal Marder brings over 20 years of experience across various tech leadership positions. Prior to joining JFrog, Marder was the co-founder and CEO of Trainologic – a cutting-edge DevOps technology consulting company that provided comprehensive development, consulting, and training services for leading software technologies. In 2018, JFrog acquired Trainologic with Marder taking on the role of VP of DevOps Acceleration, scaling and leading the team providing solutions engineering and professional services to JFrog’s global top enterprise customers. Marder’s passion for making software development more efficient started early in his career when he was a software developer for the Israel Defense Forces.
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Manjari Akella

Software Engineer at Uber
Modernizing Artifact Storage at Uber
Manjari Akella is a Software Engineer on Uber’s Developer Platform team. Since joining in 2018, her work has spanned multiple workstreams aimed at enhancing and modernizing developer experience and productivity at Uber. Her most significant achievements include contributing to the establishment of Go Monorepo, implementing improvements to Go libraries, optimizing artifact management, and merge queues.
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Ran Romano

VP, Product & Engineering | JFrog
Trusting Your Agentic Workforce: From Skills to Assets to Shipping
Ran Romano is Vice President of Product and Engineering for AI/ML at JFrog, where he leads the teams building the next generation of AI and MLOps platforms. With deep expertise spanning software engineering, machine learning infrastructure, and product strategy, Ran helps organizations accelerate AI adoption while maintaining the security, governance, and reliability required for enterprise scale. Prior to JFrog, he co-founded and led engineering initiatives focused on cloud-native AI platforms, bringing a unique perspective on the intersection of AI innovation and trusted software delivery.
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Devashri Datta

Open Source Cybersecurity Program Manager, NVIDIA
From SBOM to Decision Intelligence: Turning Software Supply Chain Data into Actionable Risk Signals
Cybersecurity and Open Source Software governance leader with 14+ years of experience establishing enterprise secure product and software Core Competencies • Cybersecurity Governance & Risk (NIST 800n53, FedRAMP readiness, ISO 27001,SOC2) • Software Supply Chain Security (SBOM governance, SPDX/CycloneDX, OSS-Third Party notices report) • DevSecOps Workflows and governance. • Secure PLC / Secure SDLC implementations. • Security Metrix and dashboard.

Tali Notman

Chief Revenue Officer
Tali has been running the Sales team at JFrog from the early days of the company. Over the years Tali developed the JFrog sales funnel, built a global sales team and established well-defined customer and partner relationships. In the 10 years of her career prior to JFrog, Tali fulfilled various executive Human Resources roles at AlphaCSP, Malam, the Prime Minister’s Office and SQLink. Tali holds a BA in Social Sciences and an MA in Law from Bar Ilan University.
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Mitchell Giannini

Prin Software Cloud Engineer | Medtronic
Operationalizing SBOMs at Scale: Lessons in a Regulated World
Mitch Giannini is a software engineering and developer experience leader focused on building secure, scalable platforms in highly regulated environments. At Medtronic, he leads work across internal developer portals, CI/CD standardization, security tooling, SBOM automation, and cloud enablement—helping teams move faster while improving quality, compliance, and operational visibility.
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Tim Brown

Tim Brown Former CISO of SolarWinds now Team8 Partner
The Future of Security: Securing the Agentic Supply Chain and Preventing the Next AI-driven Sola, Redefining Resilience: From Landmark Supply-Chain Breaches to Frontier Model Risk
Tim Brown is a Partner and CISO in Residence for Team8. He is responsible for the Team8 CISO Village and working with the portfolio of incubators and early stage companies. Tim Brown is also the former CISO for SolarWinds. After the SUNBURST attack in December 2020, Tim Brown led the response and remediation efforts. Tim has spoken to thousands of customers and has been instrumental in all customer remediation support and services. As a former Dell Fellow and CTO, Tim deeply understands the challenges and aspirations of the person responsible for driving digital innovation and change. He’s also an avid inventor and holds 18 issued patents on security-related topics.
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Yoav Landman

Co-Founder & CTO | JFrog
The Agentic Software Supply Chain: Rebuilding the Trust Model
As the creator of JFrog Artifactory and a co-founder of JFrog, Yoav has spent his career rethinking how the world builds, manages and secures software. With a background that spans both law and design, he has a unique gift for seeing patterns before they become mainstream, such as anticipating the critical role of software binaries. This multidisciplinary mindset has helped reshape modern DevOps, DevSecOps and DevGovOps, and continues to power JFrog’s architecture and approach in a rapidly-evolving marketplace. Yoav isn’t just a CTO; he’s a forward-thinker who has reimagined the future of the software supply chain. He combines deep technical expertise with a designer’s eye to ensure JFrog continues to power engineering teams at scale.
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Preetam Dwivedi

Staff Engineer at Uber
Modernizing Artifact Storage at Uber
Preetam Dwivedi is a Staff Engineer on Uber’s Developer Platform team, where he leads the core systems that power code collaboration, including code hosting, code review, merge queues, and artifact management. With a background in distributed systems, he focuses on scaling developer workflows and improving the reliability and productivity of large engineering organizations.
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Daniel Meppiel

Software Global Black Belt @Microsoft
Agent Package Manager, the New Agent Supply Chain
I work at the intersection of AI, business strategy and enterprise software engineering at Microsoft as a Software Global Black Belt, incubating frontier innovations with our enterprise customers and developer community. I created APM at Microsoft — an open-source Agent Package Manager used by thousands of developers including several Fortune 500 companies to distribute SDLC standards to coding agents (github.com/microsoft/apm). I designed the PROSE specification framework for Agentic Primitives and I wrote The Agentic SDLC Handbook on making AI-native development work at enterprise scale. I write about what I’m learning on LinkedIn and on my newsletter theainativemind.com.
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Ronny Belenitsky

DevGovOps Director of Product | JFrog
Shattering The Compliance Illusion: Your Path to Built in, Continuous, Automatic DevGovOps
A recognized leader in cloud-native technologies and application lifecycle management, Ronny helps shape the future of the JFrog Platform, enabling organizations to accelerate software delivery while strengthening security, governance, and developer productivity. Known for bridging the gap between engineering, business, and customer needs, he is passionate about helping enterprises navigate the rapidly evolving world of software and AI-driven development.
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Brad Schlicht

Distinguished Engineer | Medtronic
Operationalizing SBOMs at Scale: Lessons in a Regulated World
Brad Schlicht is a Distinguished Engineer at Medtronic, where he focuses on modernizing cloud architecture and building out next-generation platform capabilities to accelerate product development. His background spans building distributed on-premise infrastructure solutions, platform engineering, DevSecOps, and cloud architecture across several premier Minnesota-based companies. Currently, Brad is focused on embedding Generative AI and Agentic AI workflows throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC), building intelligent developer experience (DevEx) platforms that eliminate friction and increase engineering velocity at scale.
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Eyal Dyment

Vice President, AppSec | JFrog
Frontier vs Frontier: Securing the Software Supply Chain in the Age of Autonomous AI
Eyal Dyment leads P&E for AppSec at JFrog, where he is responsible for driving the company’s security product strategy and innovation across the software supply chain. With a deep background in AI, machine learning, and data-driven product development, Eyal brings a unique blend of technical expertise and business acumen to the evolving DevSecOps landscape.
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Rekha Sivakolundhu

Lead Software Engineer, Capital One Financial Services
The AI-Augmented Developer: Automating Artifactory Lifecycle Management at Enterprise Scale
Rekha is currently a lead software engineer at Capital One, contributing to the Enterprise Platforms Technology (EPTech). She has 15 years of experience as a software engineer and tech lead who loves learning and adapting the new technologies for a better developer experience. She has a Bachelors of Engineering degree from Chennai, India. She is an active core member of Capital One Women in Tech and also part of Capital One technical interview panel. During her free time, she mentors the kids in her village and around her about higher studies and their career path.
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Yossi Shaul

SVP & GM, Artifactory & System of Record | JFrog
Trusting Your Agentic Workforce: From Skills to Assets to Shipping
Yossi joined JFrog as the Development Manager bringing with him vast hands-on Java experience and several years of Artifactory development, knowledge and practice. Previously Yossi worked at AlphaCSP and has been involved in numerous projects for clients such as Viola Networks, NITE, IDI, Cisco. He led development teams and gained experience with enterprise scale applications, build technologies, SW engineering, and Agile methodologies. An active committer in several open-source projects. Yossi holds an MSc in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University and BA in Computer Science from the Ha’Universita Ha’Petuha.
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Amina Emenena

D.Sc. Cybersecurity Candidate, George Washington University | Founder, Build Flow Labs
Zero Trust for Build Pipelines: Closing the 55% Governance Gap
Amina Emenena is a D.Sc. candidate in Cybersecurity at George Washington University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where her research on build environment risk governance was awarded Best Paper of Track at the ASBBS 33rd Annual Conference. She is the founder of Build Flow Labs, creator of the Build Chain of Custody (BCoC) evidence standard, and author of the forthcoming book “Pipeline Trust: Automating Trust and Engineering Compliance in the Modern Software Supply Chain.” She holds over 15 years of technical and engineering leadership experience including leading remediation for a major platform breach, unmanned aircraft software development, and an Intelligence Community engineering background.
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Vitor Xisto

Senior DevOps Engineer | WEX Inc
From 1,400 Users to Zero Tickets: How WEX Scaled JFrog with Fabric and an AI-Powered Gemini Gem
Vitor Xisto (@vxisto) is a Senior DevOps Engineer at WEX Inc. with 10 years of experience in the digital space. Based in Brazil, I serves as a subject matter expert for both JFrog and GitHub at WEX, where the team I’m part of leads Artifactory administration and developer enablement for 1,400+ engineers. Internally I’ve participated for the architecture of the Fabric ecosystem’s Artifactory integration and built an AI-powered Gemini Gem that cut internal JFrog support by over 80%. His focus is empowering developer environments with the right tools, patterns, and DevEx — fueled by plenty of coffee, Bash, and Go. Always automating the business to keep things simple.
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Diana Kelley

CISO, Noma Security
The Executive Brief: The Macro Shift
Diana Kelley is CISO at Noma Security and serves on the boards of WiCyS, EWF, InfoSec World, CyberFuture Foundation, TechTarget Security Editorial, and DevNet AI/ML. She previously held leadership roles including CISO at Protect AI, Cybersecurity CTO at Microsoft, and executive positions at IBM Security, Symantec, Gartner, KPMG, and SecurityCurve. She has contributed to ACM, CompTIA, RSAC, and multiple advisory boards. A frequent keynote speaker, she hosts BrightTALK’s The (Security) Balancing Act, co-authored two cybersecurity books, and teaches AI/ML security. Diana is a Hall of Fame inductee, EWF Executive of the Year, and an AuditBoard Top 25 Resilient CISO.
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Paul Davis

Field CISO | JFrog
AppTrust Essentials: Get NIST & SLSA Ready: Mastering DevGovOps & Supply Chain Integrity, Redefining Resilience: From Landmark Supply-Chain Breaches to Frontier Model Risk
Paul Davis is a distinguished IT security leader with over 20 years of experience shaping secure solutions for organizations worldwide. His career highlights include serving as CISO for a Fortune 10 company, CSO for critical infrastructure sectors, Director of Security Operations at a major stock exchange, and head of a global incident response team. In his role as Field CISO at JFrog, Paul draws on this extensive expertise to help organizations strengthen their software supply chains and implement end-to-end security. His background encompasses systems engineering, program management, software development, and operations. Paul has successfully launched software companies, developed innovative solutions, and delivered transformative services for global enterprises
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Harish Gaggar

Staff Software Site Reliability Engineer | Intuit Credit Karma
From Artifacts to Agents: Turning Artifactory into an AI-Native DevOps Brain
Harish Gaggar is a Staff Software Site Reliability Engineer at Credit Karma, where he builds AI and analytics infrastructure platforms that empower developers, enable scalable innovation, and drive measurable operational excellence. His work plays a central role in Credit Karma’s secure adoption of generative AI, acceleration of engineering productivity, and support for large scale business critical analytics platforms that protect sensitive financial and customer data while enabling trusted, data-driven business decision making within highly controlled cloud environments. In his free time, Harish enjoys hiking, and spending time with his family
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Seetaram Rayarao

VP, Senior Lead Engineer
Inside Our Container Pipeline: A Developer’s View of JFrog in Action
Seetaram Rayarao is a Vice President and Senior Lead Engineer at JP Morgan Chase with over 18 years of experience driving innovation in cloud computing, AI, and microservices. He leads transformative projects, including the LLM Suite, integrating Generative AI frameworks such as LangChain and LangGraph with enterprise cloud solutions to deliver scalable, AI-driven applications. A Delaware AWS Community Leader (AWS Builder), Seetaram is an invited speaker at the New York AI Summit, where he presented on real-world enterprise adoption of Generative AI and agent-based systems, sharing practical lessons on scaling and governance.
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Stephen Chin

VP of Developer Relations, Neo4j
Human or Agent? Using Context Graphs to Govern Autonomous DevOps
Stephen Chin is VP of Developer Relations at Neo4j, conference chair of the LF AI & Data Foundation, and author of numerous titles including the upcoming GraphRAG: The Definitive Guide for O’Reilly. He has given keynotes and main stage talks at numerous conferences around the world including AI Engineer Summit, AI DevSummit, Devoxx, DevNexus, JNation, JavaOne, Shift, Joker, swampUP, and GIDS. Stephen is an avid motorcyclist who has done evangelism tours in Europe, Japan, and Brazil, interviewing developers in their natural habitat. When he is not traveling, he enjoys teaching kids how to do AI, embedded, and robot programming together with his daughters.
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Brett Smith

I’m Smitty and I am afraid of robots
Wrangling Third Party Dependencies: Electric Sheep and JFrog
Distinguished Software Architect/Engineer/Developer with 25+ years of experience. Specialties: Event Driven Automation, Continuous Integration/Delivery/Testing/Deployment, Supply Chain Security, AI Security Expertise: Linux, packaging, and tool design. Currently Engineering and Securing the Supply Chain with Event Driven CI/CD gitOps Pipeline Architectures that leverage Kafka, Go, Rust, and Python running in Containers on Kubernetes and SBOMs.
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Chris Schneider

Senior Software Engineer | WEX Inc
From 1,400 Users to Zero Tickets: How WEX Scaled JFrog with Fabric and an AI-Powered Gemini Gem
Been in the software engineering business for almost two decades doing every aspect related to the trade from full-stack, cicd, infrastructure and admin. I’m a lifelong learner and lover of technology and I am always looking for interesting problems to solve.
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Sri Rang

Bootstrapped founder — Grug-brained, open-source developer
Open Source Culture Transformed Agentic Engineering
Bootstrapped founder. Minimalist, grug-brained software developer. Creator of Tusk for macOS and GNOME. Background in engineering, research and sales, it is my mission to filter out the cruft in tech and orgs, and maintain a steady focus on value, delivering sustainable, long-term business outcomes.
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Yonatan Arbel

Developer Advocate, JFrog
Agent Package Manager, the New Agent Supply Chain
I’m a software developer with rich experience spanning nearly 15 years. I have a genuine passion for technology, which has been a guiding force throughout my career. My work at JFrog has included significant contributions to the development of the JFrog Platform, and more recently as an advocate to and for the developer community. My journey is a testament to dedication and the opportunities that the tech industry offers to those who are eager to learn and grow. As a speaker, I am excited to share my experiences and insights with others in the tech community.
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Jeremy Adams - Casañas

Dev Advocacy, Solutions, Partnerships, Neo4j
Human or Agent? Using Context Graphs to Govern Autonomous DevOps
Jeremy one of those curious folks with both a technical and a strategic streak. Passionate about people and entrepreneurship, integration and automation. Through technical/business roles at Neo4j, Dagger, GitHub, Twistlock, and Puppet, Jeremy has both zoomed in and zoomed out a lot, acquiring an appreciation for the details and an ever-broader sense of the big architectural picture.
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Khue Pham

DevOps Engineer, Enterprise Tools Team | Candescent
SaaS Migration & Security Enablement
Khue Pham is a DevOps engineer with more than 20 years of experience in the industry.
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Nireesh Thiruveedula

Lead Software Engineer | Capital One
AI-Driven Cellular Architecture: Orchestrating a Predictive JFrog Fabric at scale
I am a Lead Software Engineer and Artifactory administrator at Capital One with 18 years of experience in developing enterprise solutions in the Financial Tech and Insurance domains. I hold a patent for a Business-to-Enterprise application developed for StateFarm Insurance, showcasing my innovative approach and technical expertise. My role involves designing and managing scalable solutions, ensuring robust artifact governance. Outside of work, I enjoy cycling, which keeps me energized and focused. Originally from the southern part of India, I bring a diverse perspective to problem-solving and team collaboration.
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Ricardo Aravena

AI & Cloud Infrastructure Lead | CNCF/Independent
From Sandbox to Supply Chain: Securing the Full Lifecycle of AI Agents
Ricardo is a Cloud Native AI Lead. He’s an open-source enthusiast, currently serving on the CNCF TOC as a shadow. He has also co-chaired the CNCF TAG-Runtime. Recently, he led the publication of the Cloud Native AI Whitepaper and is currently helping with various initiatives within the Cloud Native AI and PyTorch ecosystem, including the PyTorch Technical Advisory Council (TAC). He has a diverse professional background spanning over 25 years in tech and software engineering at both large companies, such as Snowflake, Rakuten, Cisco, and VMware, and startups.

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