BLACK HAT USA - Whether you are hitting the Mandalay Bay for the Black Hat USA 2018 conference this week or peeking at the news feeds from afar, keep your browser open here from 2 pm to 6 pm Eastern (11 - 3 Pacific) on Wednesday, Aug. 8 and Thursday Aug. 9. The Dark Reading News Desk will once again be streaming live right here at https://darkreading.com/drnewsdesk or watch live on YouTube., bringing you over 40 video interviews with speakers and exhibitors at the show.

Keep tabs on the action on Twitter by following @DarkReading and #DRNewsDesk. Here's our all-star lineup, in order of appearance (subject to change): 

Wednesday, August 8

• Allison Bender, Counsel, ZwillGen PLLC and Amit Elazari, Doctoral Law Candidate, Berkeley Law, CLTC, MICS Program
• Hugh Njemanze, CEO, Anomali
• Cathal Smyth, Machine Learning Researcher, Royal Bank of Canada and Clare Gollnick, CTO and Chief Scientist, Terbium Labs
• Haiyan Song, SVP and GM of Security Markets, Splunk and Oliver Friedrichs, VP of Security Orchestration and Automation, Splunk
• Dr. Paul Vixie, CEO & Co-Founder, Farsight Security
• Carsten Schuermann, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen
• Rohyt Belani, CEO, Cofense Inc.
• Marc Ph. Stoecklin, Principal Research Scientist and Manager of Cognitive Cybersecurity Intelligence, IBM Research
• Balint Seeber, Director of Vulnerability Research, Bastille
• Scott Schneider, Chief Revenue Officer, CyberGRX
• Justin Engler, Technical Director, NCC Group and Tyler Lukasiewicz, Security Consultant, NCC Group
• Andrew Blaich, Head of Device Intelligence at Lookout and Michael Flossman, Head of Threat Intelligence at Lookout
• Ben Gras, Security Researcher, PhD Student, VU University
• Chester Wisniewski, Principal Research Scientist, Sophos
• Mark Dufresne, VP of Threat Research and Adversary Prevention, Endgame
• Jonathan Butts, CEO, QED and Billy Rios, Founder, Whitescope
• Mike Hamilton, Chief Executive Officer, Ziften
• IJay Palansky, Partner, Armstrong Teasdale LLP
• Russ Spitler, SVP Product, AlienVault

Thursday, August 9:

• Daniel Crowley, Research Baron, IBM X-Force Red and Jennifer Savage, Security Researcher, Threatcare
• Mark Orlando, Chief Technology Officer, Cyber Protection Solutions, Raytheon
• Brittany Postnikoff, Researcher, University of Waterloo and Sara-Jayne Terp, Data Scientist, AppNexus
• Chris Eng, Vice President of Security Research, CA Veracode
• Ruben Santamarta, Principal Security Consultant, IOActive
• Justin Shattuck, Principal Threat Researcher, F5 Networks
• Ofer Maor, Director of Solutions Management, Synopsys Software Integrity Group
• Andrea Carcano, PhD, Co-founder and CPO, Nozomi Networks and Younes Dragoni, Security Researcher, Nozomi Networks
• Kingkane Malmquist, Information Security Analyst, Mayo Clinic
• Jordan Wright, Principal R&D Engineer, Duo Security and Olabode Anise, Data Scientist, Duo Security
• Celeste Lyn Paul, Senior Researcher, NSA and Josiah Dykstra, Deputy Technical Director of Cybersecurity Operations, NSA
• Juan Pablo Perez-Etchegoyen, CTO, Onapsis and Michael Marriott, Research Analyst, Digital Shadows
• Ofer Israeli, CEO, Illusive Networks
• Andrei Costin, Assistant Professor at University of Jyvaskyla, JYU.FI and Security Researcher at Firmware.RE
• Tanuj Gulati, CTO and Co-founder, Securonix
• Ashley Holtz, Intelligence, NBCUniversal
• Michelle Johnson Cobb, Chief Marketing Officer, Skybox Security
• Kenneth Geers, Chief Research Scientist, Comodo