# John Madelin

> Chief Product Officer, The Hacking Games, as Web Summit lists them; 1 session in our programme.

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| **Name** | John Madelin |
| **Role, as listed** | Chief Product Officer |
| **Organisation, as listed** | [The Hacking Games](../../companies/the-hacking-games/index.md) |

## At the summit {#summit}

- **14:55** [The real threat isn’t a nation-state, it’s a teenager.](../../events/the-real-threat-isn-t-a-nation-state-it-s-a-teenager/index.md) *Thu 12 Nov, until 15:25 · [Stage 8](../../places/stage-8/index.md)* `Our pick`

## Where this comes from {#sources}

- [websummit.com/sessions/lis26/e70c32c5-0639-4bde-b105-f77b39b49419/the-](https://websummit.com/sessions/lis26/e70c32c5-0639-4bde-b105-f77b39b49419/the-real-threat-isn-t-a-nation-state-it-s-a-teenager/), read 2026-11-04 by programme@web-summit.vicky: Chief Product Officer, The Hacking Games ([The real threat isn’t a nation-state, it’s a teenager.](../../events/the-real-threat-isn-t-a-nation-state-it-s-a-teenager/index.md)).
- [websummit.com/attendees/lis26/796b1533-252c-42db-a9ff-badf2bdef3b3/joh](https://websummit.com/attendees/lis26/796b1533-252c-42db-a9ff-badf2bdef3b3/john-madelin/), read 2026-11-01 by curator@web-summit: Chief Product Officer, The Hacking Games.

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