Mayank Verma

Rowan Macfarlane is a leading expert in OT cybersecurity, with over 15 years of hands-on experience spanning both operations and consulting. As a Principal Industrial Consultant at Dragos, he specializes in architectural assessments, network vulnerability assessments, compromise assessments, and tabletop exercises, helping organizations strengthen their cyber defenses.

Rowan’s deep technical expertise stems from his experience commissioning and operating LNG plants, building OT risk management frameworks, and leading the design of secure industrial network architectures. His work in the Asia-Pacific region includes penetration testing and implementing zones and conduits-based security to protect critical infrastructure.

A Murdoch University graduate in Internetworking and Computer Security, Rowan holds multiple industry-recognized certifications, including SCADA Security Architect, OSCP, SABSA Chartered Security Architect, and ISA/IEC 62443 Cybersecurity Fundamentals Specialist.

With his wealth of real-world experience and a passion for bridging IT and OT security, Rowan is a sought-after speaker who provides practical, actionable insights to help organizations mitigate threats and build resilient industrial environments.

Conor McLaren is the International Intel Analysis Practice Lead at Dragos, where he focuses on enhancing the value of the intelligence service offering and guides an incredibly talented team of intel analysts in the APAC region. Conor also specialises in the research and analysis of a plethora of adversarial threat activity relevant to ICS/OT organisations in the APAC region. Conor has an immense passion for threat intelligence due to its profound impact on shaping business decisions, organisational security strategy and aiding frontline defenders.

Before joining Dragos, Conor worked as a cybersecurity professional in a diverse range of sectors, including resources, fast-moving consumer goods, government, technology, and consulting. Most recently, Conor was a Senior Threat Response Analyst at Crowdstrike's OverWatch Elite team, performing sector-specific and hypothesis-driven threat hunts for a range of global organisations.

Conor possesses an unwavering commitment to developing innovative solutions to adapt to the ever-changing threat landscape and ensuring the protection and forewarning of our nation's most critical assets.

Volven D’Souza is a Principal Solutions Architect focussed on industrial cybersecurity for Dragos since March 2020, where he collaborates with customers across APAC to build solutions to defend against cyber threats that could impact the safety and resiliency of industrial systems.

Volven has over 20+ years of proven experience working with big 4 consulting firms, global system integrators and Oil and Gas operator delivering consulting, risk and compliance, architecture, solution design, implementation and project management services specifically in security, networks and infrastructure problem areas.