Mehdi Mirakhorli is Kodak Endowed Chair, Associate Professor and Director of Research at ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute and Software Engineering Department. Mirakhorli is also the director of Software Design and Productivity Laboratory. His research is the broad area of software engineering, he has carried out various projects of national importance in the areas of trustworthy software, software assurance, cybersecurity, resiliency, scientific software development, and software enabled sustainable disposal.

Title: Security-by-Design and -Default. 

Daniela Soares Cruzes is a Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and a Lead Security Researcher in VISMA. Previously, she worked as a senior research scientist at SINTEF in Norway. She has also been a researcher fellow at the University of Maryland and Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering-Maryland. Dr. Daniela Cruzes received her Dr.ing in experimental software engineering from the University of Campinas - UNICAMP in Brazil in 2007. Her research interests are empirical software engineering, research methods and theory development, synthesis of SE studies, software security, software testing and agile and DevOps.

Title: Prioritizing Security in Software Development