Chris Romeo is a leading voice and thinker in application security, threat modeling, and security champions, and is a General Partner at Kerr Ventures. Chris hosts the award-winning “Application Security Podcast,” “The Security Table,” and “The Threat Modeling Podcast” and is a highly rated industry speaker and trainer, featured at the RSA Conference, the AppSec Village @ DefCon, OWASP Global AppSec, ISC2 Security Congress, InfoSec World, and All Day DevOps. Chris founded Security Journey, a security education company, leading to an exit in 2022. Chris also founded Devici in 2023, which exited in 2025. Chris was the Chief Security Advocate at Cisco, spreading security knowledge through education and champion programs. Chris has thirty years of security experience, holding positions across the gamut, including application security, security engineering, incident response, and various Executive roles.

Robert Hurlbut is a Principal Application Security Architect @ Aquia. He is a long-time software developer, architect, and application security/threat modeling leader. He works to help developers, software architects, project managers, and others on project teams to understand more about secure software design and architecture through threat modeling and other secure application initiatives.

He is a strong advocate for creating, building, and sustaining a Threat Modeling Program in an organization and creating, building, and sustaining Security Champion Programs.