OPENING
2024-10-31 , Main stage

Opening of WICCON2024

Chantal Stekelenburg is Head of Hackers at Zerocopter. She takes care of one of the most important aspects of Zerocopter's services: the community of hackers. As a co-founder and organizer of WICCA (Women in Cybersecurity Community Association), she is also involved in bringing infosec ladies and security enthusiasts together to learn about exploits, hacking, incident response, forensics, the low-level stuff, hardware hacking, and especially making bad crypto jokes! Her main goal is to build a community of badass women in the Netherlands and hopefully inspire future generations to join keyboards and get the hacking started!

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Jack of all trades. Master of some. Security engineer by day, cybercrime fiction writer by night. As a Security Engineer at GitLab, Valentine's work consists of putting out cyber fires, building automation to make her work easier, and designing value metrics for the division. Besides toying with digital systems, she’s a fiction writer who likes Star Wars, metal music, and useless things like chickens and D&D.

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Daniëlle Wagemakers is a DevSecOps consultant at Sogeti, where she helps clients with threat modeling, shift-left of security to earlier in the development lifecycle and security testing. In 2024 she joined the WICCA (Women In Cybersecurity Community Association) core team as an organizer. Daniëlle is passionate about threat modeling personal lives as ways of protection against stalkers and has presented on this topic at WICCON, Hacker Hotel and PancakesCon. Besides WICCA Daniëlle is also active in the WHY2025 hacker camp organization, because building up a supportive and inclusive community is what it's all about .

A former army officer who is guiding the Red Team of Northwave Cyber Security through the mazes of commercial ethical hacking. Loves tech but people in tech even more. Raises questions about leadership in general and especially female- and expert leadership. Loves cars, hates high latency during COD.

Faith Opiyo is a Senior Technical Staff Member and Threat Hunt Manager at IBM CISO, where she leads a team in proactively identifying advanced threats and threat actors. In addition to her day job, Faith volunteers as an organizer for Women in Cybersecurity Community Association (WICCA) and co-hosts OutofBand, a podcast that promotes cognitive diversity and honest conversations in cybersecurity. Above all, Faith’s favourite new role is being a mom to her little human.