Member since October 2025
Eva Benn is a globally recognized leader in cybersecurity and AI. With a graduate degree in ethical hacking, she has reshaped the field through innovative leadership. A multi-award winner, Eva is renowned for her captivating keynotes, blending philosophical insight with clear storytelling to make AI, adversarial tactics, and cybersecurity accessible, transforming complex ideas into thought-provoking stories anyone can connect to.
What puts a smile on my face is making people feel seen and capable. I love taking the most technical, intimidating topics in AI and cybersecurity and breaking them down in a way that not only makes sense, but inspires people to believe they belong in the conversation. My greatest passion is shifting mindsets, helping people move from doubt to confidence, from fear to possibility. Because when you can spark that change, you don’t just teach skills, you change lives.
On stage, I often share how the mountains have been my greatest teachers. I have summited some of the biggest peaks in the Pacific Northwest and the Swiss Alps, and I’ve faced more near-death situations than I can count, from storms that came out of nowhere, to cliffs where one wrong step meant the end. Those moments stripped the ego and the courage to take one more step when your body and mind are screaming to stop.
The mountains taught me what success really means. It isn’t strength or speed. It’s resilience. It’s choosing to keep moving when every part of you wants to turn back. And I bring those lessons into every stage I step onto. Because what I’ve learned in the thin air of the mountains is the same truth we face in business, technology, and life: the summit is never reached by talent alone—it’s reached by refusing to quit.
On stage, I return to one moment: it’s 1 a.m. on the glaciers of Mount Rainier, 12K+ feet up, the air razor-thin, the wind roaring, my crampons biting into the ice as exhaustion and altitude tear at every part of me. Ahead yawns a crevasse beneath a looming icefall—one wrong step could end everything. Stripped of ego, stripped of distraction, I learned the hardest lesson: success isn’t about strength or speed. It’s about moving forward when every fibre of your being is screaming to stop.
Since then, I’ve stood on some of the biggest peaks in the Pacific Northwest and the Swiss Alps, always as the only woman on the rope team. Those climbs taught me more than how to survive storms or cross icefalls. They taught me what it means to carry resilience when you feel outnumbered, to step forward when no one looks like you, and to hold the line not just for yourself, but for those who will follow.
The mountains force you to embrace discomfort, to find power in thin air, bitter cold, and fear at every step. They remind you that progress often looks like struggle, and that the summit belongs not to the strongest or the fastest, but to those who refuse to quit.
And that is what I bring to every stage. Because in business, in technology, and in life, the climb is the same: the summit is never reached by talent alone—it’s claimed by persistence, by courage, and by the audacity to rise even when you are the only one tied into the rope.
On stage, I often share how the mountains have been my greatest teachers. I have summited some of the biggest peaks in the Pacific Northwest and the Swiss Alps, and I’ve faced more near-death situations than I can count, from storms that came out of nowhere, to cliffs where one wrong step meant the end. Those moments stripped the ego and the courage to take one more step when your body and mind are screaming to stop.
The mountains taught me what success really means. It isn’t strength or speed. It’s resilience. It’s choosing to keep moving when every part of you wants to turn back. And I bring those lessons into every stage I step onto. Because what I’ve learned in the thin air of the mountains is the same truth we face in business, technology, and life: the summit is never reached by talent alone—it’s reached by refusing to quit.
On stage, I return to one moment: it’s 1 a.m. on the glaciers of Mount Rainier, 12K+ feet up, the air razor-thin, the wind roaring, my crampons biting into the ice as exhaustion and altitude tear at every part of me. Ahead yawns a crevasse beneath a looming icefall—one wrong step could end everything. Stripped of ego, stripped of distraction, I learned the hardest lesson: success isn’t about strength or speed. It’s about moving forward when every fibre of your being is screaming to stop.
Since then, I’ve stood on some of the biggest peaks in the Pacific Northwest and the Swiss Alps, always as the only woman on the rope team. Those climbs taught me more than how to survive storms or cross icefalls. They taught me what it means to carry resilience when you feel outnumbered, to step forward when no one looks like you, and to hold the line not just for yourself, but for those who will follow.
The mountains force you to embrace discomfort, to find power in thin air, bitter cold, and fear at every step. They remind you that progress often looks like struggle, and that the summit belongs not to the strongest or the fastest, but to those who refuse to quit.
And that is what I bring to every stage. Because in business, in technology, and in life, the climb is the same: the summit is never reached by talent alone—it’s claimed by persistence, by courage, and by the audacity to rise even when you are the only one tied into the rope.
