Speakers

Thomas K. Billington is the Founder of Billington CyberSecurity, a leading independent education company established in 2010 with an exclusive focus on cybersecurity. Billington CyberSecurity is best known for producing the world’s leading government cybersecurity summit, which convenes senior leaders from the U.S. government, allied partners, industry, and academia. The Summit has featured the last five Directors of the National Security Agency and every Commander of U.S. Cyber Command. Beyond the annual Summit, Billington CyberSecurity delivers year-round programming including monthly webinars, partner breakfasts, CyberBytes video insights, innovation roundtables, and high-level networking receptions. The company also operates a private membership service that brings together senior public- and private-sector leaders through monthly leadership council breakfasts focused on peer-level knowledge sharing. Billington brings decades of experience producing cybersecurity events across both government and industry. Beginning in 1999, he launched his first cyber summit at BNA (later acquired by Bloomberg) and has since produced hundreds of events, publications, and articles. Prior to founding Billington CyberSecurity, he spent nearly two decades working with leading media organizations including Reader’s Digest, Phillips Business Information, BNA, and Thomson Reuters. Billington CyberSecurity events have been cited by major media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, Politico, CNN, NBC, and C-SPAN. Mr. Billington holds an MBA from Georgetown University and a B.A. from Brown University, and is a member of the Metropolitan Club and the Economic Club of Washington, D.C.