Keil Hubert – Keynote Speaker

Keil Hubert is a leadership, cybersecurity, and organisational culture writer in Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A. Keil is currently the head of Security Training and Awareness for the Options Clearing Corporation, the world’s largest equity derivatives clearing organization, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Prior to joining OCC, Keil was a U.S. Army combat medic in high school and a medical IT officer following university graduation. He later served as a U.S. Air Force Public Affairs Officer during 9/11 and later as a Cyberspace Operations officer during the Forever War, spending over ten years commanding the IT support organisation for a combat airlift wing.

On the corporate side, Keil Hubert helped build the Dot Com start-up PetroCosm for KPMG Consulting, developed the streaming media consulting practice for Yahoo! Broadcast, and oversaw the creation of the first EU tech support centre for the cloud computing division of Verizon Enterprise Services.

Starting in 2014, Keil became the “resident American ‘blogger” for London-based Lyonsdown Ltd. He currently divides his weekly columns between Business Reporter under the “American View” byline and the security awareness beat at The European Information Security Summit site.

Keil Hubert has published 450 online columns, 33 print articles, 5 digital magazine articles, 7 ebooks, 5 audiobooks, and 2 white papers for the SANS Reading Room under his own name. As an independent consultant he’s ghost written 30 original ’blog posts, articles, & white papers for American cybersecurity start-ups.

Keil’s unconventional experience creating and leading IT and security teams in the defence, healthcare, media, tech, government, finance, and non-profit sectors has afforded him an eclectic perspective on how to effectively balance business needs and technical services, as well as on how to get excellent results out of creative employees. His primary academic and professional focus is on influencing human behaviour, dysfunctional company cultures, and ethical leadership.