Kurt Andersen was one of the co-chairs for SREcon-Americas in 2017 and 2018. He has been active in the anti-abuse community for over 20 years and is currently the senior IC for the Product SRE team at LinkedIn. He also works as one of the Program Committee Chairs for the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG.org) and serves on the Board of Directors for USENIX. He has spoken at M3AAWG, Velocity, SREcon, and SANOG on various aspects of reliability, authentication and security.