Security Innovation Forum

Urs joined Google as its first vice president of engineering after having been an associate professor of computer science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Until 2023, he was leading the teams building and operating the infrastructure that powers Google's services and Google Cloud. Today, Urs focuses on solving technical challenges as a Google Fellow. With a good search engine, you can find out much more about him.

Ashish Kathapurkar is a business development executive known for driving revenue growth through strategic partnerships. Currently, he serves as Global Strategic Technology Partner Manager at Google Cloud, significantly boosting the security segment revenue via strategic product alignment and go-to-market strategies. Previously, at AWS, he doubled revenue for container, database, and serverless products, and at Zscaler, he grew annual recurring revenue via OEMs and technology partnerships, aiding the 2018 IPO. With an MBA from Santa Clara University and a Master’s from Michigan State University, Ashish excels at stakeholder relationships. A Bay Area resident, he enjoys golf and the outdoors.

Vishwas Manral is the Founder and CEO of Precize Inc., where he is pioneering a System of Action for dynamic assets and identities to enable secure AI adoption. With over two decades at the intersection of cloud, security, and automation, he has founded and scaled multiple companies, including NanoSec (acquired by McAfee). Vishwas has authored IETF standards, holds patents across networking and security, and contributes to global AI and security governance initiatives.

Based in California, Shree is a Strategic Partnerships Manager at Google Cloud. With a background in engineering and sales, she helps build partnerships that support customers with their digital transformation goals, focusing on cloud security.

Exabeam is a global cybersecurity leader and creator of New-Scale SIEM. They help organizations detect threats, defend against cyberattacks, and defeat adversaries, offering a new way for security teams to approach threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR). By combining the scale and power of the cloud with the strength of their industry-leading behavioral analytics and automation, organizations gain a more holistic view of security incidents, uncover anomalies missed by other tools, and achieve faster, more accurate and repeatable responses.

Shan Rao leads Google's AI Security and Privacy initiatives as the Group Product Manager. He has spearheaded the development of innovative products that ensure the security and privacy of billions of users across Google's core infrastructure, Google Cloud, and Android devices. Before joining Google, Shan held the position of Vice President of Products at Shape Security, and led security engineering teams in well known silicon valley companies. He is also a published security researcher. A resident of California, Shan maintains a keen interest in history and global affairs, and enjoys watching the Golden State Warriors basketball team.

Based in Chicago, IL, Joe Crawford is a Strategic Partner Manager at Google Cloud. He draws on a rich background in cloud security engineering, consulting, and business development to help partners drive revenue and accelerate innovation through collaboration with Google Cloud.

Kevin Tian is the co-founder and CEO of Doppel, the AI-native social engineering defense platform. Backed by a16z and Bessemer Ventures, Doppel’s multi-channel threat graph powers enterprise brand protection and executive protection. Kevin is a Georgetown University alum who has spent his career as an engineer in Silicon Valley, building real-time distributed systems at scale for Uber and Lyft to power intelligent dispatch systems and flying cars.

"Varun Badhwar is a three-time founder, and luminary in the cyber security industry. He currently serves as the Founder & CEO of Endor Labs, a startup focused on software supply chain security. Prior to starting Endor Labs, Varun was the founding GM and SVP of Prisma Cloud at Palo Alto Networks, where he built the cloud-native security business from scratch to over $300M ARR in 3 years. Varun joined Palo Alto Networks through the acquisition of RedLock, a CSPM startup he founded three years prior and sold for over $230M. Prior to that, Varun’s experience included founding a CASB company (CipherCloud), spending 4 years leading the platform security team at Salesforce, and serving as a Consultant at KPMG, where he advised Fortune 500 Clients on various cyber-security initiatives. Varun earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California."