Manmeet Kaur has 20+ years of experience in building intelligent digital solutions leveraging data, advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to guide insights, actions and Impact.

She is currently focused on applying AI to help Global Emancipation Network, a non-profit organization committed to combating human trafficking globally by utilizing cutting-edge data analytics.

Before focusing full time on applying AI for social good, Manmeet was a Sr. Data Scientist at Accenture, where she led the Artemis project which utilized machine learning-text analytics to combat human trafficking. This was also in partnership with the Global Emancipation Network.

Manmeet was a Sr. Data Scientist and Product Lead at Kogentix, a Big Data & Applied AI startup, which was acquired by Accenture. At Kogentix, she built many forecasting models for Retail and CPG client and a risk scoring model predicting Patient Decline to help Rapid Response Team drive real-time clinical intervention, improve outcomes, and enhance resource utilization. 

Before Kogentix, Manmeet worked at Walgreens as a Business and System Analyst lead in Inventory Department where she developed and managed applications for ordering system to suspend control drug orders which seemed suspicious as per DEA mandates

Nicole is an IT manager at Accenture Federal Services focused on business process architecture and healthcare technology consulting. She brings a passion for Health and Public Service, as well as 7 years of experience in technology product management, business process improvement, and quality assurance to GEN.

Nicole also holds a B.S. from Cornell University College of Engineering and is an avid baker and runner.

Paul brings over 7 years of experience in Product and Project Management to deliver technical solutions for federal and state agencies. He leads custom-build technical solution efforts for Public Service, with a focus in Health Insurance Exchanges that serve millions of people annually. Paul enjoys traveling to experience different cultures and ways of thinking to better solve problems and improve business processes.

Joe Percivall is the Development Lead at the Global Emancipation Network. As his day job, Joe is the VP of Engineering at Anno.ai, a machine learning (ML) application that enables customers to rapidly build and iterate ML models on unstructured data in operational environments.

Previously, Joe was the second developer hired at Dragos, the world leader in Industrial Cybersecurity. As a keystone member of the Engineering team, Joe did everything from building core portions of the Dragos Platform to leading diverse development teams and triaging critical field deployments. In Joe’s four years at Dragos, it grew from a seed-stage company with no customers to one with a global footprint, a total headcount of 220+, and a series C raise greater than any in the space. Before Dragos, Joe worked as a software engineer in companies focused on government contracting and open-source software, including Onyara, an IoT software company that was acquired by Hortonworks. Joe earned his BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland: College Park.

Dr. Deborah Frincke is a leading voice and pioneer in cybersecurity and technology.  Serving professionally as the National Security Agency (NSA/CSS) Research Director she serves the Global Emancipation Network privately as a technology expert contributing to the vision of using technology and science to better human endeavors.  Her background includes: Chief Cybersecurity Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (PNNL), Professor at University of Idaho, Affiliate Professor at University of Washington, co-founder of TriGeo Network Systems, and serves on the editorial boards for numerous prestigious publications such as Journal of Computer Security, the Elsevier International Journal of Computer Networks, and the International Journal of Information and Computer Security. Dr. Frincke received her PhD from the University of California, Davis in 1992.

Dr. Christopher Ahlberg is the CEO of Recorded Future, Inc. and Chairman of Hult International Business School. He advises a series of start up companies. Earlier Ahlberg was the president of the Spotfire Division of TIBCO, which he founded in 1996 and in 2007 sold to TIBCO (Nasdaq: TIBX). Spotfire was founded based on his ground-breaking research on information visualization. Dr. Ahlberg earned his doctorate from Chalmers University of Technology, worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Maryland, and has lectured and consulted extensively for industry, academia, military, and intelligence communities – as well as published & lectured in computer science, cyber security, psychology, linguistics, biology, and chemistry. He has five granted software patents, and multiple pending. Dr. Ahlberg was named among the World’s Top 100 Young Innovators by Technology Review, MIT’s Magazine of Innovation in 2002. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

Ann Barron-DiCamillo is Partner and Chief Technology Officer at Strategic Cyber Ventures (SCV). Due to the evolving cyber landscape resulting from changing approaches adversaries take to circumvent cybersecurity measures, Ms. Barron-DiCamillo leverages her expertise gained from 18 years in information technology development and cybersecurity operations to identify emerging technologies that fulfill capability gaps as they are created in the dynamic environment of the internet.

Prior to joining SCV, Ms. Barron-DiCamillo was the Director of the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) where she led DHS’s 24X7 cyber operations center responding to major cyber intrusions and other relevant incidents, analyzing associated threats, and sharing the resulting critical cybersecurity information with trusted partners around the world.

She has held positions in Departments of Defense, Commerce and in US Congress. Outside of government, Ms. Barron-DiCamillo has experience working with system integration firms in software development and applications development.

Ms. Barron-DiCamillo most recently was selected by FCW Magazine as a 2016 Top Fed 100 award winner. She is the 2016 recipient of the Technology Champion Award by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers. In 2016 and in 2015 she was named “Top 10 Women Power Players in IT Security” by SC Magazine and in 2015 “Top 10 Women Cyber Guardians You Should Know” by NextGov.  She is a graduate of Baylor University and earned her Master of Science Degree in Information Systems from American University. She completed Harvard University Kennedy School’s Senior Executive Fellows program and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) since 2003.  She is currently an Adjunct Professor at American University Kogod Business School teaching graduate/undergraduate level courses on Cybersecurity, Risk Management and Governance.

Marina Elefante combines her 15 years of legal expertise in human rights to combat the evils of child labor, human trafficking, and child marriage.  Originally from Italy, she has worked in the Ukraine, Turkey, Switzerland, and the United States in various capacities surrounding trafficking in persons.  She presently works at the World Bank and consults for the International Labour Organization (ILO).

Sergio Caltagirone hunts evil. He spends his days hunting hackers and his evenings hunting human traffickers. After 9 years with the US Government, over 3 years at Microsoft and now at Dragos, Sergio not only hunted the most sophisticated targeted threats in the world but also applied that intelligence to protect billions of users worldwide and safeguarding civilization through the protection of critical infrastructure and industrial control systems. He co-created the Diamond Model of Intrusion Analysis proudly helping thousands of others bring more pain to adversaries by strengthening hunters and intelligence analysts. He also proudly serves as the Technical Director of the Global Emancipation Network, a non-profit non-governmental organization (NGO), leading a world-class all-volunteer team hunting human traffickers and finding their victims through data science and analytics working towards saving tens of millions of lives.