Trainers

Joe Gray is a U.S. Navy Submarine Force veteran, OSINT researcher, and author specializing in social engineering and human centered security. He is the Founder and Principal Instructor at The OSINTion and Blue Team Fusion, and the author of Practical Social Engineering published by No Starch Press. His work focuses on ethical OSINT methodology, adversary tradecraft, and practical application for defenders, investigators, and security practitioners.

Pavan Reddy is an AI security researcher and the founder of Adversarial Lab, an open-source framework for red-teaming machine learning models. His work focuses on adversarial attacks, prompt injection vulnerabilities, and the systemic weaknesses of foundation models. He’s presented research at venues like HCI International and FLAIRS, and has taught workshops at conferences like BSides, SquadCon, ACM SIGCITE and many more and educates a wide audience online, where over 80,000 followers tune in for his insights on AI risk and resilience. At Automata, he is a software engineer, leading the company's effort towards FIPS, FedRAMP ATO and AI initiatives in Vulnerability and Compliance management.

Adam "Abe" Abernethy is a recovering security analyst who blends technical experience with accessible storytelling. He designs scalable enablement programs, reverse‑engineers broken corporate processes, leads the design of world-class CTFs, and turns complex security requirements into direction that teams can actually act on and organizations can make decisions around. Currently, he spends his days wandering the remote halls of Graylog, clipboard in hand, assisting their customer experience programs.

Annie Zempel is the VP of Technical Communications at Graylog and has spent more than a decade turning complex systems into documentation that security teams can actually use. Before Graylog, Annie worked on defense contracts supporting NORAD and USNORTHCOM communications systems, producing procedural documentation and response plans for high-stakes operational environments. Today, she builds learning resources designed to help security teams get value quickly and operate more effectively with Graylog.