Perry Carpenter, C|CISO, MSIA, currently serves as Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer for KnowBe4, the world's most popular security awareness and simulated phishing platform.

Perry has been a recognized thought leader on security awareness and the human factors of security for well over a decade. His broad background makes him uniquely positioned to understand nuances of awareness, behavior, and culture strategies that can be elusive. Perry's security culture influence-related experiences span multiple pivotal roles: from being a general employee receiving awareness training; to being an awareness program manager running complex global programs; to being the primary market analyst advising security leaders about awareness trends, success practices, and vendor platforms; to now helping lead the efforts of the world's largest and most successful security awareness and simulated phishing platform. Perry draws from this experience, along with cutting-edge research in the fields of marketing, communication, behavior science, and organizational culture management to inform his perspectives and advice for creating security culture influence programs that are transformational.

Before joining KnowBe4, Perry led security awareness, security culture management, and anti-phishing behavior management research at Gartner Research (NYSE:IT), in addition to covering areas of IAM strategy, CISO Program Management mentoring, and Technology Service Provider success strategies. With a long career as a security professional and researcher, Carpenter has broad experience in North America and Europe, providing security consulting and advisory services for many of the world's best-known brands.

Perry's previous book, Transformational Security Awareness: What Neuroscientists, Storytellers, and Marketers Can Teach Us About Driving Secure Behaviors (Wiley, 2019) quickly gained a reputation as being the go-to book for security awareness professionals worldwide, and, in 2021, received the honor of being inducted into the Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame, a collection of “must-read books for all cybersecurity practitioners—be they from industry, government, or academia—where the content is timeless, genuinely represents an aspect of the community that is true and precise, reflects the highest quality and, if not read, will leave a hole in the cybersecurity professional's education that will make the practitioner incomplete.” Institute for Cybersecurity & Digital Trust (2022).

Perry is also the creator and host of the popular 8^th Layer Insights podcast (8thlayerinsights.com), an immersive narrative nonfiction exploration into the intersection of cybersecurity and the human condition. His guest list is a who's who of voices from cybersecurity, behavior sciences, creators, and more.

Perry holds a Master of Science in Information Assurance (MSIA) from Norwich University in Vermont and is a Certified Chief Information Security Officer (C|CISO).

You can connect with Perry on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter.

Kai Roer currently serves as Chief Research Officer for KnowBe4, the world's most popular security awareness and simulated phishing platform.

Kai has been providing actionable advice founded on empirical evidence to public and private organizations around the world since the 1990s. His work over the past decades has focused on helping organizations understand what culture they currently have, what culture they would like to have, and more importantly, how to get there. Kai works with the information security community on a global stage to educate the importance and impact that security culture has.

In 2010, he created the Security Culture Framework (SCF), a framework and methodology to build and maintain security culture. Kai later gifted the SCF to the open-source community, and it evolved into several spin-offs, including the Cybersecurity Culture Framework by The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) in 2015. Kai has authored and co-authored several books on leadership and technology. His popular book Build a Security Culture (IT-Governance, 2015) is widely considered as the guiding resource on the topic of security culture.

Before joining KnowBe4, Kai founded the security culture measurement company, CLTRe (pronounced culture), the world's first SaaS-platform built to measure and manage an organization's security culture. This new ability to measure security culture made it possible for organizations worldwide to understand exactly where and how to improve their security. KnowBe4 acquired CLTRe in 2019. After which, Kai built KnowBe4 Research, the research arm of KnowBe4, where he leads a team of researchers dedicated to improving the knowledge and understanding of the human factors that influence security.

Recognized by many as a leading global authority on the topic of security culture, he has received several awards, including the Ron Knode Service Award by the Cloud Security Alliance CSA for his extensive volunteer work in the security community around the world. Thanks to his invaluable contributions to the industry and his unique background that combines leadership, communication, and technology, Kai is a popular keynote speaker and guest lecturer. He focuses on presenting complex challenges in easy-to-understand language. He is also a frequent guest on podcasts, radio, and TV, where he explains security in ways that resonate with non-security people.

When Kai is not working, he enjoys riding his motorcycles, spending time in the outdoors, and BBQing with his family and friends.

You can connect with Kai at www.linkedin.com/in/kairoer and twitter.com/kairoer.