Dr. Eric Cole Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, McAfee 

Bio:    Dr. Eric Cole is an industry-recognized security expert with over 20 years of hands-on experience. Cole currently performs leading-edge security consulting and works in research and development to advance the state of the art in information systems security. Cole has experience in information technology with a focus on perimeter defense, secure network design, vulnerability discovery, penetration testing, and intrusion detection systems. Cole has a master's degree in computer science from NYIT and a PhD from Pace University with a concentration in information security.

Ryan Linn Security Engineer at SAS Institute and a columnist at EthicalHacker.net

Bio:      Ryan Linn (CISSP, CSSLP, MCSE+Security, MCTS, CCSP, GPEN, GWAPT, GCWN, NOP, OSCP) is an Information Security Engineer at SAS Institute and a columnist at EthicalHacker.net. As a security researcher, Ryan regularly presents his security knowledge at conferences, and has spoken at SecTor, CarolinaCon, ChicagoCon and many others. He is the creator of Nsploit, a toolkit which demonstrates the extendibility of Metasploit and Nmap, and is also a code contributor to the Metasploit project, the Browser Exploitation Framework (BeEF), and other open source security tools.

John Paul Dunning - Graduate Student at Virginia Tech

JP will be discussing/demonstrating his Katana product (opensource) where he converges live distro's like Backtrack, Ophcrack, and many others to utilize a single 8GB usb sdrive.   This is every pen testers dream to have all utilities on 1 usb stick. 

Bio: JP is currently a Graduate Student at Virginia Tech doing research in IT Security. He enjoy's writing tools in his spare time making ethical hacking easier.  JP recently completed his undergraduate in Computer Science from Virginia Tech and is in the lab continuing research in mobile device intrusion detection and developing questions about code security for SANS.  You can find him and his tools at http://www.hackfromacave.com