Bianca Slocombe, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations, Coventry University. Dr. Slocombe focuses on behavioral and psychological aspects of protective security. She has worked to understand the capacity for security measures to change or ‘nudge’ behavior in intended and unintended ways. She has worked as a research assistant for Defense Science and Technology Australia and her research is currently funded by the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST).    

Matt Kriner is the Senior Research Scholar at Center on Terrorism, Extremism and Counter-terrorism (CTEC) and Managing Director of the Accelerationism Research Consortium (ARC). He has almost a decade of experience researching and analyzing US domestic violent extremism, transnational far-right extremism, and radicalization. Most recently, Matt supported U.S. law enforcement agencies with domestic extremism investigations, briefed emerging trends and insider threats to government agencies and private sector companies, and served as a Senior Intelligence Analyst for a market-leading California technology firm’s Global Security Center overseeing real-time triaging of terrorist incidents and natural disasters. Matt’s research has been featured in several academic and media publications, including the CTC Sentinel, Perspectives on Terrorism, RAND Blog, GNET, and Slate. He has also appeared on The Loopcast to speak about the Boogaloo movement. He holds a Master’s in Government from the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy at Reichman University (IDC Herzilya), Israel’s first private university. 

Kevin A. McGrail, or KAM as he is better known, is the principal evangelist for Dito where he helps organizations securely migrate, modernize & maximize their use of the cloud.  He is a Google Workspace Top Contributor, Developer Expert, and Ambassador as well as member expert in the U.S. Marine Corps Cyber Auxiliary.

KAM enjoys working with Open Source Software and is a proud member of the Apache Software Foundation.  He has battled spammers for decades and his research protects hundreds of millions of Internet users every day.

KAM is also the CEO Emeritus for Peregrine Computer Computer Consultants Corporation, a Center for Innovative Technology MACH37 Cyber Security Incubator Graduate and a member of the board of advisors for Virtru.com & SecurityUniversity.edu. KAM serves as an Expert on the Armed Services Institute (ASI) at Thomas University.

Kristen Kuhn, Research Fellow, Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations, Coventry University. She specializes in security governance, including risk and decision-making within the domains of protective security and cybersecurity with emphasis on the maritime industry.  She has worked in the past on projects which improve cyber readiness through custom risk scenarios. She has over eight years of experience in international affairs and four years of top-level management at non-governmental organizations. Her research has been funded by Lloyds Register Foundation and the UK National Cyber Security Centre.

Justin Olmstead serves as an ASI expert and is currently Associate Professor of History and Director of History Education at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, OK. He has a concurrent appointment in the College of Arts and Humanities at Swansea University in Wales. His current research includes leadership, the diplomacy of alliances, economic warfare, and the evolution of protective security. He presents on television, podcasts, and at national and international conferences on the First World War, British history, and Diplomacy, including invited lectures at The National Archives of the UK and the Institute for Historical Research, London. Dr. Olmstead gained his Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield, England and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.