BLU VENTURE INVESTORS
PRESENTS
CYBER SUMMIT 2020
1:00 - 7:30 PM
Valo Park - Tysons Corner
7950 Jones Branch Dr, McLean, VA 22102
AGENDA
Keynote | Maria Lewis Kussmaul
Panel 1: Cyber Startups - Pathways to Success
Panel 2: Selling Cyber to the Enterprise
Cyber Tank Pitch Competition
Reception
ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT, SUPERIOR RESULTS
2020 Speakers and Panelists
Maria Lewis Kussmaul
Co-Founder, AGC Partners
Keynote
Jeff Bathurst
Director, SC&H Group
Panel Moderator
Yong-Gon Chon
Co-Founder, GROCYBER
Cyber Tank Moderator
Michael Denning
Principal, Blu Venture Investors
Cyber Tank Judge
Ron Gula
President, Gula Tech Adventures
Cyber Tank Judge
Rick Howard
CSO, Palo Alto Networks
Panelist
Merritt Maxim
VP - Research Director, Forrester
Panel Moderator
Mathew Newfield
CISO, Unisys
Cyber Tank Judge
Henry Praw
VP Technical Operations - CISO, OpenTable
Cyber Tank Judge
Niloo Razi Howe
Senior Operating Partner, Energy Impact Partners
Cyber Tank Judge
Roselle Safran
Entrepreneur in Residence, Lytical Ventures
Panelist
Bryan Sartin
Executive Director - Global Security Services, Verizon
Panelist
Neill Sciarrone
Co-Founder and President, Trinity Cyber
Panelist
Michael Sutton
Principal, Blu Venture Investors
Panelist
Paul Hamman
SVP Cyber Security - Truist
Cyber Tank Judge
About the Summit
Apply to Cyber Tank
Are you a cybersecurity entrepreneur? Apply to Cyber Tank, a national pitch competition for startups with the top three finalists presenting in front of a panel of CISO judges from YouTube, OpenTable, and Unisys as well as VC judges from Gula Tech Adventures, and Blu Ventures; moderated by GROCYBER's Yong-Gon Chon.
Sharing Deep Cyber Expertise
The Summit brings together investors, entrepreneurs, and business professionals in the cyber community for a content-rich afternoon that generates professional relationships, builds new business, and guarantees a strong presence with our audience of investors and entrepreneurs.
Prior events focused on successful exits, M&A activity, and market trends from experts in the field, including Maria Kussmaul and General (Ret.) Keith Alexander.
Corporate Sponsorship
The Summit provides an opportunity for Corporate Sponsors to meet entrepreneurs in the cybersecurity space whose businesses are primed to grow and in need of service partners.
About Blu Venture Investors
Blu Venture Investors (BVI) is a venture capital firm that supports early stage companies primarily in the Mid-Atlantic region. We make venture capital and private equity investments in early stage companies, and typically invest $500k-1M in a single round. Our goal is a successful exit in 3 to 5 years.
BVI invests in seed stage cybersecurity companies. The firm has a portfolio of 24 companies and typically invests $50k-$250K in 5 to 10 companies per year. Ideal portfolio companies have management teams with deep cyber domain expertise, a product in a defensible and defined market space, and several customers/revenues. They are also committed to an exit for the seed investors in 3 to 5 years.
Previous Speakers and Panelists
Maria Lewis Kussmaul
AGC Partners
Serge Leef
DARPA
Michael Denning
Blu Venture Investors
Yanek Korff
Expel.io
Randy Caldejon
CounterFlow AI
Michael Sutton
Blu Venture Investors
Jason Syversen
Siege Technologies
Aaron Perry
Trilagen
Yong-Gon Chon
Portfolio Cyber, LLC
Rick Howard
Palo Alto Networks
Paul Klick
The McLean Group
General (Ret.) Keith Alexander
IronNet Cybersecurity
Frank Marsala
Gartner
Steven Chen
Blu Venture Investors
Ron Gula
Gula Tech Adventures
Thank You to Our Past Sponsors
Maria Lewis Kussmaul
AGC Partners
Michael Denning
Blu Venture Investors
Yanek Korff
Expel.io
Randy Caldejon
CounterFlow AI
Michael Sutton
Blu Venture Investors
Jason Syversen
Siege Technologies
Aaron Perry
Trilagen
Yong-Gon Chon
Portfolio Cyber, LLC
Rick Howard
Palo Alto Networks
Paul Klick
The McLean Group
General (Ret.) Keith Alexander
IronNet Cybersecurity
Frank Marsala
Gartner
Steven Chen
Blu Venture Investors
Ron Gula
Gula Tech Adventures
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