Jill Heinze helps product leaders make smarter AI decisions through strategic intelligence and ground truth research. As founder of Saddle-Stitch Consulting, she reveals the gap between what organizations assume about AI and what users actually experience, helping them spot opportunities competitors miss and avoid expensive mistakes before they happen.
With 20 years of experience in user research, competitive intelligence, and digital product strategy, she's worked with Fortune 500 clients across financial services, healthcare, and technology. As Research Director and Lead of the Data and AI Research team at a major consultancy, she built an AI evaluation framework that guided high-stakes implementations and founded the firm's first executive AI governance committee.
Her approach combines market research rigor with practical implementation experience, bridging strategy and execution to help organizations navigate AI uncertainty with confidence.
She serves as Responsible AI Program Director for The American College of Financial Services, is a member of the AI Leadership Institute, and hosts Responsible Tech Talks on LinkedIn Live.
Based in Charlottesville, Virginia, Jill enjoys local wineries, sci-fi shows, cake decorating, and cat wrangling.
Lee is a former Group Leader at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he established the Cyber System Assessments Group, which became a nationally recognized centre of excellence. He led the group in cyber range development, cyber test and evaluation, cyber red teaming, and cyber exploitation as well as the deployment of the LARIAT traffic generation tool. As Group Leader, Lee worked with DARPA, testing, and evaluating over 30 classified and unclassified programs. He also worked with the Air Force.
Lee led several national studies for the Department of Defense to identify and assess existing capabilities, develop an approach and roadmap for their consolidation and advancement and provide the roadmap for the future, which laid the foundation for the National Cyber Range Complex, the Persistent Cyber Training Environment, and other specialized testing and training facilities.
Since 2015, Lee has served as the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder at SimSpace. The SimSpace platform is being used as the solution for USCYBERCOM’s Persistent Cyber Training Environment and for other militaries around the world as well as many commercial customers.
Tyler is the Founder of Compass Calendar, an app that helps busy people get more done by planning their day quickly. He provides simple principles to help you get more done … without being miserable.
Recognized as the media’s go-to cybersecurity expert and creator of The Strategic Human Firewall™, Robert Siciliano is a private investigator, Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), and the CEO of Protect Now, LLC. As one of the nation’s most trusted voices on cybercrime and identity theft, he has built an unparalleled media track record, appearing on over 500 television shows, contributing to over 1,000 radio programs, and being featured as an expert source in over 3,000 articles.
A fierce advocate for personal and professional security, Robert is the architect of the CSI Protection certification and a bestselling author who strips away technical jargon to deliver “straight talk” solutions. His expertise is regularly sought by every major network—including CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and The Today Show—where he empowers millions of viewers to protect their data, privacy, and wealth from modern threats.
Robert is a Boston-based media personality and a dedicated “girl dad.” When he's not on stage or on air, you can find him riding his ’87 Harley Davidson. His delivery is direct, high-energy, fun and often funny—proving that security training doesn't have to be boring to be effective.
