Conference Talks & Presentations

Keynotes and technical presentations at major industry conferences including SuriCon, Splunk .conf, Databricks Data & AI Summit, and more.

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2024

Supercharging Security with RAG

SuriCon 2024
Madrid, SpainNovember 2024

Presented BNY Mellon's flagship innovation for security analysts, demonstrating how Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) accelerates rule development, redundancy detection, and threat intelligence automation.

RAGLLMAISecurity AnalyticsBNY Mellon

2022

Building an Operational ML Org from Zero

Databricks Data & AI Summit 2022
San Francisco, CAJune 2022

Detailed the process of standing up enterprise ML capabilities at BlockFi, from infrastructure to governance, scaling data science maturity in financial services.

Machine LearningMLOpsDatabricksBlockFiFinancial Services

2021

Using Machine Learning to Take Crypto Safety to the Moon

Splunk .conf 2021
VirtualOctober 2021

Demonstrated real-world crypto transaction monitoring and fraud detection through graph analytics and machine learning at BlockFi.

CryptocurrencyFraud DetectionGraph AnalyticsBlockchain

2018

Beyond Operational Intelligence: Splunk Advanced Analytics

SuriCon 2018
Washington, DCNovember 2018

Explored the journey from reactive to prescriptive analytics in security operations, covering the advanced analytics maturity model and ML-driven incident response automation.

Machine LearningSecurity AnalyticsPrescriptive AnalyticsSplunk

Turning Security Use Cases into SPL

Splunk .conf 2018
Orlando, FLOctober 2018

Taught security teams how to transform real-world threat models into actionable Splunk queries and automated detections.

SplunkSPLSecurityThreat Detection

2017

Everyone Can Build A Security App

Splunk .conf 2017
Washington, DCOctober 2017

Hands-on workshop teaching security practitioners how to build operational Splunk apps, covering methodology, data enrichment, visualization, and machine learning techniques.

SplunkWorkshopSecurity AppsMachine Learning

2016

Applying Data Science to Suricata

SuriCon 2016
Washington, DCNovember 2016

Keynote on applying machine learning toolkits to Suricata data for threat detection, covering data exfiltration, port analysis, and advanced threat use cases.

Machine LearningSuricataData ScienceThreat Detection

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