This document outlines the agenda for a cybersecurity innovation workshop hosted by MIT. The agenda includes introductory remarks and keynote speeches from industry leaders on trends in cybersecurity, investment, and policy. There will also be lightning talks from startup founders and executives. The workshop will conclude with a panel discussion on important trends in cybersecurity innovation, the ecosystem, corporate priorities, and investment focus areas. The panel will be moderated by the Executive Director of Cybersecurity@CSAIL at MIT.

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Cybersecurity Innovation Workshop
May 28, 2015 One Main Street, Cambridge, MA
AGENDA
8:30am Breakfast and Registration
8:45am Welcome: “MIT’s Cybersecurity Startups,” Trond Undheim, Ph.D., Lead, Startup Initiative, MIT Industrial Liaison Program (host)
9:00am
Introductory remarks: “Connecting Industry to Research, Innovation, and Startups” Karl Koster, Executive Director,
MIT Industrial Liaison Program
9:10am Keynote I: “Corporate trends in cybersecurity,” George Wrenn, Chief Security Officer, and VP Cybersecurity, Schneider Electric
9:30am Keynote II: “Cybersecurity investment trends,” Chris Lynch, Partner, Atlas Ventures
Coffee break (10 min)
9:45am “Securing your money – a FinTech perspective,” Devon Watson, Vice President, Software Research & Strategy, Diebold
10:00am Keynote III: “The urgent need for cybersecurity policy,” Daniel Weitzner, Director, MIT CSAIL Decentralized Information Group
10:15am
Lightning Talks – (MIT-connected startups, ILP member companies, MIT innovators, etc.)
Tavish Baker, Marketing Manager, MIT; Vincent Civetta, VP Product Development, Automatic Data Processing (ADP); John Henry
Clippinger, Executive Director/CEO, ID3, and Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab; Andrew Cockerill, Director, Strategic University
Research Relations, BP; Dr. Wafik Farag, President and CEO, SkyPrise, Inc.; Gagan Prakash, Founder, CEO, Astra IDentity, Inc.;
Steve Whittaker, Head of Strategic U.S. University Research Partnerships, BT
Coffee break (10-15 min)
PANEL DISCUSSION
10:30am Panel Discussion: What’s Next in Cybersecurity Innovation?
• What are important trends in security/trust/cybersecurity tech startups from MIT (and elsewhere)?
• What does the cybersecurity innovation ecosystem look like (infrastructure, interoperability, technology, use cases, stakeholders,
success stories)?
• What are corporate priorities in cybersecurity?
• What is the smart money focused on?
Panelists:
• Chris Lynch, Partner, Atlas Ventures
• Jean Yang & Frank Wang, co-founders, Cybersecurity Factory, MIT CSAIL. Also, see Students launch Cybersecurity Factory
to help launch startups (CSAIL News, 3/31/15)
• Devon Watson, Vice President, Software Research & Strategy, Diebold
• Daniel Weitzner, Director, MIT CSAIL Decentralized Information Group
• George Wrenn, Chief Security Officer, and VP Cybersecurity at Schneider Electric
MIT-connected startup executives:
Eugene Kuznetsov, Co-founder & CTO, Abine
Tina Srivastava, COO, Gigavation
Adam Towvim, CEO, TrustLayers, Inc.
The panel will be moderated by Lori Glover, Executive Director, Cybersecurity@CSAIL, MIT
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Panelists
Karl F. Koster, Executive Director, MIT Office of
Corporate Relations/Industrial Liaison Program
Karl F. Koster is the executive director of the MIT Office
of Corporate Relations. The Office of Corporate Relations
at MIT includes the Industrial Liaison Program, which
celebrated 60 years of service to the Institute and its
corporate partners in 2008.
In that capacity, he and his staff work with the senior
administrative and faculty leadership of MIT in developing and implementing
strategies for enhancing corporate involvement with the Institute. Mr. Koster
has been involved with faculty leaders in identifying and designing a number
of major international programs for MIT. Many of these programs focus on
institutional development and are characterized by the establishment of strong,
international, programmatic linkages between universities, industry, and
governments.
Mr. Koster graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in geology
and economics in 1974, and received an M.S. from the MIT Sloan School of
Management in 1980. At the Sloan School he concentrated in international
business management and the management of technological innovation. Prior
to returning to MIT, Mr. Koster worked as a management consultant for seven
years in Europe, Latin America, and the United States on projects for private
and public sector organizations.
Eugene Kuznetsov, Co-founder & Chairman,
Abine, Inc.
Eugene Kuznetsov, Abine Chairman and co-founder, has
earned recognition for both his business and technical
leadership, including the prestigious InfoWorld Top 25
CTOs of 2005 and regional Ernst & Young Entrepreneur
of the Year 2006 awards.
He was most recently an executive at IBM, with responsibility for
product management and marketing of SOA appliances. Eugene joined IBM
through acquisition of DataPower in October 2005. He founded DataPower in
1999 and served as President until Spring 2003 as it grew from one to 75
employees, raising over $20M from investors and building a customer list of
household names.
Kuznetsov's articles have appeared in numerous tech publications,
and he has spoken at conferences and events including Digital ID World,
NetSec, JavaOne, Networld+Interop, and the IT Security & Privacy
Conference.
Eugene earned a BSEE from MIT.
Chris Lynch, Partner, Atlas Ventures
Chris is a founder of FKA (the technology team formerly
at Atlas Venture) and focuses on big data and disruptive
infrastructure.
At FKA, Chris is responsible for their investments in
Captricity, Data Robot, Nutonian, Sqrrl, and Threat Stack,
as well as Objective Logistics, Recorded Future, and
Reddo Mobility. Chris also led FKA’s investment in Hadapt, where he served
as chairman prior to the company’s sale to Teradata (NYSE: TDC), and was
instrumental in the sale of Lagoa to Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK). He
previously served as chairman of Azuki Systems before its sale to Ericsson in
2014. Chris is an advisor and mentor to many Boston area entrepreneurs and
is the co-founder of hack/reduce, a non-profit community space in Cambridge
focused on big data technology.
Prior to joining Atlas in 2012, Chris was CEO of Vertica Systems,
where he led the company from late-stage startup to the number one ranked
big data company in the market and its acquisition by HP in March of
2011. Before that he was an executive at four successful early-stage startups
that were acquired by public companies.
Chris received an M.B.A. from the McCallum Graduate School of
Business at Bentley University, and a B.S. in business administration from
Suffolk University. He received an honorary doctor of commercial science
from Bentley University.
Tina Srivastava, COO, Gigavation
Dr. Tina P. Srivastava has held senior engineering
leadership and technical management roles across the
aerospace, national security, and commercial sectors. She
was awarded the National Industry Technical Innovation
Award as Chief Engineer of a >$40M advanced program.
She also serves on the Board of Directors of the
International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) as an elected
officer. She has been published in the areas of aerospace systems, lean product
and service platform strategies, design structure matrices, hybrid vehicle
design, advanced thermal management, and radar systems.
She holds a Ph.D. from MIT in strategy, innovation, and
engineering; a S.M. in engineering management from MIT; and a S.B. in
aeronautics and astronautics engineering from MIT.
Dr. Srivastava was awarded the MIT Legacy Award for “making a
sustained and outstanding contribution to the MIT community.” She was also
awarded the inaugural David Wright Leadership Award by INCOSE for
demonstrated technical and interpersonal skills in the art and practice of
system engineering as a means for solving the great challenges of our planet.
Tina is a certified pilot and flies a Cessna 172S. She volunteers at
the Amelia Earhart events, MIT Flying Club, and FIRST robotics to
encourage young women and men to pursue careers in engineering, science,
and aviation.
Adam Towvim, CEO, TrustLayers, Inc.
Adam Towvim, is CEO and co-founder of TrustLayers, a
new company commercializing MIT research to automate
data policy compliance. He has over two decades of
experience with data and privacy.
Prior to TrustLayers, Adam was Jumptap’s vice
president of Business Development, where he was
responsible for Jumptap’s data, audience monetization, and
privacy strategy. While at Jumptap, Adam co-founded the DAA’s Mobile
Advisory Committee.
Previously to Jumptap, Adam led Radialpoint’s entry into the U.S.
security market to create a $25mm subscriber data business. Before
Radialpoint, he directed Lightbridge’s product management organization to
define new subprime growth areas. Adam has also served as a consultant with
Diamond Management & Technology Consultants (now PwC Diamond
Advisory), where he served on the interim executive launch team of
Switzerland’s first true 3G operator and Europe’s first app marketplace.
Before Diamond, he led launch teams for American Management Systems’
U.S. and European Mobile Telecom practice. Adam holds a B.A. from
Columbia University, where he studied under Alan Westin, and an M.B.A.
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Trond Undheim, Ph.D., Lead, Startup Initiative,
MIT Industrial Liaison Program
Trond heads up the Startup Initiative at MIT’s Industrial
Liaison Program (ILP), facilitating productive
relationships between industry and MIT’s startup
ecosystem. He is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan
School of Management.
Trond is a serial entrepreneur with Scandinavian roots and is currently the
founder of Yegii, Inc., the insight network, and managing director of Tautec
Consulting.
Trond is a leading expert on technology development across industries
such as IT, Energy, and Healthcare. His knowledge spans entrepreneurship,
strategy frameworks, policymaking, action learning, virtual teamwork,
knowledge management, standardization, and e-government. He wrote the
book Leadership From Below (2008). Trond speaks six languages and is a
frequent public speaker on business, technology, and wine. Trond was a
strategy/business development executive at Oracle Corp. (2008-12) and a
policymaker in the EU (2004-8) where he built the ePractice.eu web platform
with 120,000 members. He has worked with multinational companies, with
mid-caps and startups in Brazil, China, Colombia, France, Indonesia, Norway,
the UK, and the U.S.
Trond holds an M.A. in sociology and a Ph.D. in sociological
technology and policy studies from the Norwegian University of Science and
Technology.
Frank Wang, Co-founder, Cybersecurity
Factory, MIT CSAIL
Frank Wang is a Ph.D. student at MIT focusing on
building secure systems. He did his undergraduate at
Stanford, focusing on cryptography.
He runs the MIT security seminar and is a member of the student team at
Roughdraft Ventures, which provides small capital to early stage student
startups.
John has interned at the security teams at Google and Facebook as well
as consulted for various security companies, such as Qualys.
Devon Watson, Vice President, Software
Research & Strategy, Diebold
Devon Watson leads Diebold's software research &
strategy team developing novel solutions spanning
payments, fin-tech and banking experience. Prior to
Diebold, Devon held various roles in venture capital, start-ups and technology
consulting. In his most recent positions he led business development at
Apprenda, a leading cloud computing platform and was Vice President at
Primary Ventures, a venture capital fund in New York.
Devon holds a B.S. in Management, Information Systems from
Clarkson University.
Daniel Weitzner, Director, MIT CSAIL
Decentralized Information Group
Daniel Weitzner is the Director of the MIT CSAIL
Decentralized Information Group and teaches Internet
public policy in MIT’s Computer Science Department.
His research includes development of accountable
systems architectures to enable the Web to be more responsive to policy
requirements.
From 2011-2012, Weitzner was the United States Deputy Chief
Technology Officer for Internet Policy in the White House. He was
responsible for the Obama Administration’s Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights
and the OECD Internet Policymaking Principles.
Weitzner has been a leader in the development of Internet public policy
from its inception, making fundamental contributions to the successful fight
for strong online free expression protection in the United States Supreme
Court, and for laws that control government surveillance of email and web
browsing data.
He is a founder of the Center for Democracy and Technology, led the
World Wide Wed Consortium’s public policy activities, and was Deputy
Policy Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Weitzner received his B.A. in philosophy from Swarthmore College and
his J.D., Law from Buffalo Law School.
George Wrenn, Chief Security Officer, and VP
Cybersecurity, Schneider Electric
George Wrenn presently serves as CSO & vice president
of cybersecurity for Schneider Electric. He has more than
20 years of experience in the field of cybersecurity.
He is a research affiliate in management science at
the MIT Sloan School of Management.
George is expert in cloud security and has been awarded U.S. patents in
this area. Other roles in his career have spanned from Managed Security
Services (MSS) to Security Product Development and Secure Cloud
Computing.
He is a USAF/Aux Pilot and Officer, serving as 1st. lieutenant, and has
received a National Commander's Commendation Award for outstanding duty
performance with the Hanscom Composite Squadron (HCS-MA-043) based at
Hanscom Air Force Base.
George is a graduate of Harvard University and has attended executive
programs at Harvard Business School. As a graduate fellow at MIT since
2001, he has conducted research and advanced coursework at the MIT Media
Lab, the Sloan School of Management, the School of Engineering, the School
of Architecture and most recently the MIT Security Studies program working
on cyber warfare frameworks.
Jean Yang, Co-founder, Cybersecurity Factory,
MIT CSAIL
Jean is a final-year Ph.D. student at MIT. Jean creates
programming languages and tools that make it easier for
people to write the programs they intend to write. During
her Ph.D. she created a language, Jeeves,that automatically enforces
information flow policies for security and privacy.
She graduated with a degree in computer science from Harvard
University in 2008, and has interned at Google, Facebook, and Microsoft
Research. She won Best Paper Award at the Programming Languages and
Implementation conference in 2009 for her paper "Safe to the Last Instruction:
Automated Verification of a Type-Safe Operating System.”
Moderator
Lori Glover, Executive Director
CyberSecurity@CSAIL
Lori Glover is the managing director of Alliances CSAIL
MIT and the Executive Director of
CyberSecurity@CSAIL.
Lori leads global partnerships and alliances in the U.S., Asia, Europe
and Latin America for the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory (CSAIL) - the largest lab at MIT and home to BigData@CSAIL,
CyberSecurity@CSAIL, and Wireless@MIT.
Her team is responsible for corporate and organizational engagement
through the CSAIL Alliance Program, the Visiting Industry Researcher
program, CSAIL start-ups and technology ecosystem, the professional
education partnership with EdX and MIT Professional education, as well as
talent acquisition/recruiting programs within CSAIL.
Lori received her B.A. in English from Providence College and her Juris
Doctor, Law from Suffolk University Law School.

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Lightning Talk
Tavish Baker, Marketing Manager, MIT
Tavish Baker is the marketing manager at MIT.
He attended Long Island University and
Northeastern University.
Vincent Civetta, VP Product Development,
Automatic Data Processing (ADP)
Vincent is the Vice President of product development for
Automatic Data Processing (ADP), an international data
services company with over $12 billion in revenues and
600,000 clients.
He has been instrumental in implementing ADP’s software-as-a-service
strategy – including the pioneering of ADP’s Identity & Security Service.
Today that service is responsible for managing over 40 million users accounts
and growing at about a million new users per month.
Vincent has held senior posts in research & development, infrastructure
engineering and information security.
John Henry Clippinger, Founder and Executive
Director, ID3, and Research Scientist, MIT
Media Lab
John Henry Clippinger is research scientist at the MIT Media
Lab Human Dynamics Group, where he is conducting
research on trust frameworks for protecting and sharing personal information.
With Professor Alex Pentland of MIT, he is founder and executive director of the
newly formed ID3
(Institute for Institutional Innovation & Data Driven Design)
which is developing an open governance platform to support an ecosystem for
data-driven services, infrastructures, and enterprises.
He is the author of A Crowd of One: The Future of Individual
Identity (Perseus, Public Affairs, 2007, and The Biology of Business, Natural
Laws of Enterprise, (Josey Bass, 1998). Previously, he was director of
Intellectual Capital, Coopers & Lybrand and the founder and CEO of four
software companies. He is co-chair of Open Identity Exchange Advisory Board
and has lectured at Stanford, Brandeis, MIT, Yale, Boston University, Chinese
Academy of Science, Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth, UPenn, among others.
Dr. Clippinger is a graduate of Yale University and holds a M.A. and Ph.D.
from the University of Pennsylvania.
Andrew Cockerill, Director, Strategic University
Research Relations, BP
Andrew graduated in mechanical engineering from the
University of Manchester and has over 30 years experience in
the oil and gas industry. He began his career as a plant
engineer with BP Chemicals in Scotland. Following an assignment with a
subsidiary business in flare system design and marketing, he moved to the
Exploration and Production segment and held a variety of roles in project
management, materials & corrosion, and field operations based in London, Houston,
San Francisco and Alaska.
Over the last several years his focus has shifted to enhancing the overall
technical capability of the company and has worked in the areas of Knowledge
Management, Team collaboration, Visualisation and Resource planning. Several
years ago he established BP’s Advisor Program for senior engineers and scientists in
the company.
In his current role as Director, University Relations, he established BP’s
framework for strategic university partnerships and leads efforts to build synergies
between research, recruitment, executive development, and policy development. He
is currently based at MIT in Boston.
Dr. Wafik Farag, President and CEO, SkyPrise, Inc., Dr. Wafik Farag is
a visionary business and information strategist. Currently at SkyPrise, Inc., Dr.
Farag’s consulting capacity integrates multi-discipline
technologies for clients to smartly capitalize on the “business
of information” converting it into competitive business
growth.
As a business executive, he provides leadership
consulting to Fortune 100, mid-cap, and startup companies,
both domestic and international. Dr. Farag is the inventor of
a game-changing paradigm: “Dynamic Information”
enabling novel business strategy to deliver actionable value for companies in
flux.
Dr. Farag was a co-founder of Justa, an information infrastructure
company, acquired by Wallaware Inc. Dr. Farag was also formerly a Director at
Perot Systems, where he advised global Fortune 100 companies on strategies for
process optimization to improve productivity, during which time PerotSystems
(Dell) went public.
He holds a U.S. patent in managing dynamic contextual-information to
deliver next generation solutions.
Dr. Farag received both his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science and
Engineering from the University of Michigan.
Gagan Prakash, Founder, CEO, Astra Identity, Inc.
Gagan Prakash is the founder of Astra IDentity, the makers
of PhishingGuardian a product that helps protect
organizations against phishing and spear phishing attacks.
Prior to Astra IDentity, Gagan co-founded a company,
which provides enterprise-class IT services such as Microsoft Exchange Server &
Microsoft SharePoint as hosted services, which are now used by thousands of
organizations worldwide. Gagan is a software developer with a B.S. degree from
Iowa State University and an M.B.A. in Innovation and Global Leadership from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management.
Steve Whittaker, Head of Strategic U.S. University
Research Partnerships, BT
Steve Whittaker is a Chief Researcher at BT and is
responsible for its partnerships with U.S. universities and
business schools. He splits his time between Cambridge, MA
and Vienna VA, and has spent over ten years as a visiting scientist at the MIT
Media Lab.
Prior to moving to the U.S., Steve spent fifteen years at BT’s Adastral
Park research center in the U.K. where he held a range of research, research
management and consulting roles.
He has a wide range of interests in emerging technologies and their
impact on business and society, including privacy and cyber-security policy.
He has a particular focus on the management of innovation.
Steve received his B.Sc. (Hons) in computing and electronics, from the
University of Durham, United Kingdom.