Brandon Falk is a Pwnie award winner for Vectorized Emulation, an extremely high-performance fuzzing engine leveraging AVX-512 SIMD instructions for fuzzing multiple instances of a program in parallel on a single core.

Vectorized emulation easily can handle billions of fuzz cases per second on a single server and can consume over a terabyte per second of fuzz inputs. This leads Brandon down many creative paths of custom operating systems, data structures, protocols, and emulators to generate high quality inputs, handle trillions of instructions per second of emulated execution and coverage reporting, and store all of this information in formats that can be kept in sync between multiple servers with sub-millisecond syncing and statistics reporting for real-time fuzzer monitoring.

Brandon is also known for his popular Twitch and YouTube channels where he experiments and demystifies fuzzing black magic for the masses.

Alex Radocea & Philip Olausson first met at the wargames.unix.se games and have ever since been having fun hacking CTFs as the "lollerskaters dropping from rofl copters” team and playing for “Hacking For Soju”. Professionally at longterm they have been training & advising startups to secure their technology.

Previous claims to fame include Calchands.exe — a world's first public memory corruption exploit in Virtual Reality (Steam Engine), cracking iCloud Keychain’s end-to-end encryption, decrypting LINE + Kakao encryption over the wire.

David Manouchehri started his professional cybersecurity career half a decade ago after being recruited by the Department of National Defense, and later for Linchpin Labs. Since then, he has found and disclosed half a dozen Chrome 0days.

Tracy is a New York City based Lead Security Research Engineer for Trenchant (formerly Azimuth Security). With a degree in Computer Engineering from University of Maryland and over 8 years in the industry, Tracy specializes in vulnerability research, reverse engineering and development for embedded devices. She has led teams focused on telecommunications equipment and has worked on many other devices. Her first degree is in theatre so you may have seen her presenting at conferences, attending trainings or performing on stage.

Michael Coppola is the Associate Director of Research at L3Harris Trenchant (formerly known as Azimuth Security). Michael has over a decade of experience in professional vulnerability research and focuses primarily on hacking mobile platforms.

Travis Goodspeed is an embedded systems reverse engineer from Tennessee, where he drives a Studebaker and collects memory extraction exploits for microcontrollers.

Jordan Wiens has done: CS, NIDS, RE, VR, MGMT for .EDU, .COM and .GOV, then he was cured from acronymphilia and he co-founded Vector 35 (makers of Binary Ninja) where he is still trying to figure out how to price software and write documentation (both harder than program analysis).

Tom started his career in Biostatistics before moving to Cyber in 2019. He enjoys building scalable data analysis pipelines to support reverse engineer tools, and leveraging ideas from ML and scientific computing to expand what those tools can do.

Lars Haulin (LarsH) is an experienced CTF player, and has been a member of HackingForSoju since it was founded in 2010. He is a cyber security engineer with passion for for embedded systems, electronics and fancy maths. Besides coaching a student CTF-team at Uppsala University, he also enjoys disc golf, chess and choir music - both as a singer and a conductor.

Viivi Lehtinen is a Project Leader (MSSc.) of Cybercrime Exit –NBI’s Cyber Offender Prevention program. She is experienced in governmental Security field (National Bureau of Investigation & the Finnish Defence Forces) and management of inter-administrative projects. Viivi has a thing for Cyber, and loves to combine human and technical approach to Prevent juvenile cybercrime. She participated in the making of Generation Z Hack Challenge.

Martin Westman has worked in the mobile device technology field since 1994. He has held many roles within MSAB over the last 20 years, bouncing back and forth between tech and development, and he is currently working as Exploit Research Manager. He is part of the Interpol Digital Forensics Expert Group and has on several occasions, assisted law enforcement and government agencies in successfully acquiring mobile data from challenging and complex high-profile cases to support major investigations. Martin is also the only known person to have successfully completed a forensic physical extraction of a phone whilst in freefall. He once combined skydiving with mobile forensics and recorded the moment - to invent a new sport called extreme hexdumping. So far there is only one practitioner.

Carl Fredrik Wettermark is the coordinator for cyber affairs and new technologies at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He works in the intersection of geopolitics, technology and cyber security. Before joining the foreign ministry, he worked in the Swedish startup sector as well as the Armed Forces.

Elena Dubrova received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of Victoria, Canada, in 1998. Since 2008 she has been a professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. She has over 100 publications and 15 granted patents. Her work has been awarded prestigious prices such as IBM faculty partnership award for outstanding contributions to IBM research and development. She is in the list of world's top 2% scientists according to the Stanford University ranking from 2020. Her research interests include hardware security, lightweight cryptography, and fault-tolerant design.

Colonel Patrik Ahlgren is the Head of Cyber Defence Section at the Command Staff of the Swedish Armed Forces.