World Game Protection Conference 2027

Thomas has 30 years of experience in the casino industry working across both tribal and commercial gaming sectors for organizations including the Ho-Chunk Nation, MGM Resorts International, Station Casinos, and the Forest County Potawatomi Gaming Commission. He has held a variety of roles within the casino industry, from surveillance operator to director, as well as positions in table games, security, and training and development. Thomas is an Army Veteran and holds a degree in Police Science from Madison College.

Bill Zender is widely recognized as one of the industry’s leading authorities on casino management, gaming mathematics, and table game protection. With over 40 years of diverse experience in the casino industry, Bill has held roles spanning live games dealing, regulatory enforcement, licensee, owner, senior executive management, casino operations, and professional gambling. He is the author of seven gaming books and provides training and consulting services to casino organizations.

Dr. Chase Cunningham—widely known as Dr. Zero Trust—is a retired Navy Chief Cryptologist and the architect behind the ZTX (Zero Trust eXtended) framework. Chase has authored best-selling books (including Buy the Breach and The No Bullsht Marketing Guide for Zero Trust ), hosts The Dr. ZeroTrust Show podcast, and serves as a strategic advisor to leading security vendors and innovators. Chase splits his time between coaching executives on Zero Trust transformations, building evaluation frameworks that cut through marketing fog, and evangelizing a simple idea: security isn’t hard when you align controls to how attackers actually operate.

Marc Evans is a Cybercrimes and Fraud Detective, a Certified Fraud Examiner and the Founder of Fraud Hero, where he provides training and education to financial institutions, law enforcement, and senior communities. He has investigated cyber and fraud related crimes and has been in law enforcement for over 13 years.

Tony’s responsibilities include training and consulting for the Mohegan Tribe’s owned and managed foreign and domestic properties. He has a combined 40+ years of surveillance and table games experience. Tony was the co-founder and editor of the Atlantic City Surveillance News, a valuable online industry source of casino protection surveillance articles from 2008-2010. He also developed an executive level surveillance overview training workshop for Stockton University, SIGMA program in New Jersey. In 2019, Tony was honored with the WGPC Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions to the industry.

Nicholas Irving is an entrepreneur and technical leader, currently serving as the Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Eulerion Technologies Inc. Nick has won major hackathons including HackMIT and brings extensive expertise in artificial intelligence and custom computer vision architecture, paired with a deep understanding of casino operations. Eulerion Technologies, founded out of MIT, specializes in AI-driven surveillance and focuses on advanced behavior analysis for casinos.

Craig Silverman is an award-winning journalist and author and one of the world’s leading experts on online disinformation and digital investigations. He is the cofounder of Indicator, a newsletter and website dedicated to exposing digital deception and to equipping professionals with knowledge and skills to help them investigate it. Prior to Indicator, he was a national reporter for ProPublica covering voting, platforms, disinformation, and online manipulation. Craig previously served as media editor of BuzzFeed News, where he pioneered coverage of digital disinformation and media manipulation. Craig is also the editor of the European Journalism Centre’s Verification Handbook series.

Justin “Hasard” Lee is a former fighter pilot, decorated combat veteran and #2 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Art of Clear Thinking. Hasard has flown over 80 combat missions and is the only pilot to fly jets from two different squadrons into combat on the same day. He served as Chief of Training Systems for the U.S. Air Force’s largest fighter training base, where he architected a transformation of how the Air Force builds elite teams.

Darrin Hoke has over 30 years of experience in commercial gaming. Before retiring in 2019 Darrin held the position of Vice President of Operational Protection at L’Auberge Lake Charles. In that role he provided property specific guidance for compliance, information technology, risk management, security, and surveillance. He also served as a corporate resource for Surveillance company-wide at 17 other Penn Entertainment facilities across various jurisdictions. Recently returned to the workforce Darrin now serves as President of CQ Gaming and Chief Gaming Security Officer of CQ Systems and is a member of the company’s Board of Advisors. He is also Principal Consultant of Darrin Hoke Consulting.

Gaming Hall of Famer Debi Nutton is a trailblazing former casino executive, gaming consultant, and executive coach. Debi began her career in 1980 as one of the few female dice dealers on the Las Vegas Strip. She was on the opening team of the Mirage as the only female dice pit manager and went on to work for MGM/Mirage for twenty-four years, reaching the role of Senior VP of Casino Operations and Marketing for MGM and Bellagio. Debi later joined Wynn Resorts in 2013 as the Executive Vice President of Casino Operations. In 2020 she launched her coaching and consulting business.

Mishaal Khan is a subject matter expert in cybersecurity, Open Source Intelligence, social engineering, ethical hacking, and privacy. Mishaal has worked with multinational companies for over 20 years, securing their networks and providing executive-level consultancy as a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to manage risk and avoid breaches. He is the author of The Phantom CISO.

Megan Munoz is a highly accomplished Senior Intelligence Analyst, Program Manager, Master Instructor, and Military Veteran with over 19 years of specialized experience. She has served as the Director of Education, Senior Instructor and Curriculum Developer, and Senior Intelligence Analyst for both public and private organizations, and most recently in academia.

38-year cybersecurity veteran and author of 15 books.

Former F-35 fighter pilot.