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Jacob Kosoff is the head of model risk management and validation at Regions Bank. The opinions expressed in the presentation are statements of the authors’ opinion, are intended only for informational purposes, and are not formal opinions of, nor binding on Regions Bank, its parent company, Regions Financial Corp. and their subsidiaries, and any representation to the contrary is expressly disclaimed.

Nadya Knysh is a managing director at a1qa, which is a software testing provider helping clients including Fortune 500 companies release high-quality solutions. Nadya has a Master’s Degree in informatics, management and modeling and is a certified scrum master. Nadya strives to transfer the knowledge on the significance of QA processes for improving overall quality of the products and eliminating a financial loss due to failures detected.

Christine Runnegar is senior director, Internet Trust at the Internet Society, a global non-profit organization that promotes the open development, evolution and use of the Internet.

Emil Abedian is a Certified Public Accountant and founder of Anchor Bookkeeping, a service offering affordable yet personalized one-on-one bookkeeping services for small business owners.

Deepen Desai is the vice president of security research and operations at Zscaler. He has more than 15 years of experience in security research and the analysis of advanced threats.

Harley Lippman is founder and CEO of Genesis10.

Amit Unde, CTO, Insurance, LTI, leads LTI’s Insurance Solutions Office and Enterprise Architecture Practice in North America. He has almost 20 years of experience working with insurance companies across the globe. He has a blend of technology and insurance domain expertise, and has helped leading carriers, brokers and reinsurance firms in defining their Enterprise Architecture and IT Strategy Roadmap. Amit specializes in Commercial Underwriting and Risk Management Solutions, and has been at forefront of leveraging modern technologies such as Location Intelligence and Big Data Analytics, for better risk selection and pricing.

Leo R. Moretti, CPA, CGMA, is an assurance services partner at Top 100 Firm Marcum, based in Providence, R.I. He currently serves as chairman of the AICPA New England Peer Review in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Rhode Island.

Acacia Parks, Ph.D., is chief scientist at Happify, a digital wellness company. Park’s research focuses on self-help methods for increasing happiness via books and digital technology, with an emphasis on objective and observable outcomes such as physical health indicators. She received her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where her graduate research helped build the foundation for research on bringing happiness interventions to the general public. She regularly publishes articles in scientific journals, has edited three books and is also associate editor at the Journal of Positive Psychology. When she isn't doing research with Happify, she is an associate professor of psychology at Hiram College.