Stephen Sparkes is the EVP, CISO & Enterprise Platforms at Scotiabank. Stephen is also FS-ISAC's Board Director. Prior to joining Scotiabank to lead Information Security and Control, Stephen was the head of Cyber Security Technology within the Global Information Security team at Bank of America. Stephen has held multiple leadership roles on Wall Street, including CIO for Barclays Capital in the Americas, CTO for Investment Banking and Capital Markets, co-head of Infrastructure, and head of Technology and Information Risk at Morgan Stanley. 

Earlier in his career, Stephen headed Fixed Income Technology for Credit Suisse First Boston, was a Stratus systems engineer for Salomon Brothers, and started out as a programmer for Logica working on ATM and point-of-sale systems. He also spent a year at an enterprise middleware startup, Incapture Technologies, before joining Bank of America. 

He is a long-standing champion of diversity and has cultivated diverse leadership teams - and invested in mentoring programs - to encourage greater diversity in the workplace.

Jonah Berger is a Marketing Professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an internationally bestselling author, and a world-renowned expert on change management, influence, word of mouth, natural language processing, consumer behavior, and how products, ideas, and behaviors catch on.

He has published over 50 articles in top-tier academic journals, teaches Wharton’s most popular online course, and popular accounts of his work often appear in places like The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review. Over a million copies of his books, Contagious, Invisible Influence, and The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone’s Mind are in print in over 35 countries around the world.

Berger often keynotes major conferences and events like SXSW and Cannes Lions, advises various early-stage companies, and consults for organizations like Apple, Google, Nike, Amazon,GE, 3M, and The Gates Foundation.