Keynote Speakers

Dr. Joshua Dwight

Lecturer of Information Technology at RMIT in Hanoi

Dr. Joshua Dwight is a Lecturer of Information Technology at RMIT in Hanoi. He teaches and develops curriculum for several IT courses including cybersecurity, cloud computing, and software engineering project management. His current research focuses on cyber fraud and cybersecurity education. Additionally, he currently serves on a Southeast Asia work group to help prevent tech-enabled organized crime in the region. He has also taught at the City University of Seattle, the Banking Academy of Vietnam, and Shenzhen Polytechnic University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Information Technology from the University of the Cumberlands, an MBA from Louisiana State University, and an MSc in Information Systems Management from Seattle Pacific University.

Before his academic pursuits, Dr. Dwight spent over a decade working in industry. He worked for the Merchant Risk Council as a Senior Program Manager of Learning and Development where he established payment and payment fraud prevention professional courses and co-developed the Certified Payments and Fraud Prevention Professional (CPFPP) credential. Dr. Dwight spent the bulk of his career at Costco Wholesale, one of the largest retailers globally, working in the Ecommerce department, helping to implement many business technology projects. Additionally, he has worked at Boeing, Washington Federal Bank, and the United States Department of Justice in a variety of technology and business roles. He has professional credentials in project management, disaster recovery, cloud computing, and IT service management.

Mr. Pierre Lebrun

Telehealth Applications Software Engineer at Doximity

Pierre has been working remotely for the past 12 years writing code. Nowadays he works as a software engineer building telehealth applications for San Francisco-based healthcare technology startup Doximity. In his free time, he likes to tinker on side projects and more recently has been exploring topics like automation and AI with and specifically "autonomous agents": what happens when you give ChatGPT (figurative) arms and legs and the ability to do things.