Janine Medina, MSL, MEng, MSc

Janine (Nina) is a cybersecurity and regulatory strategist whose work bridges medical technology, public policy, and grassroots security research. She has been the Executive Director of the Biohacking Village for the past decade—a pioneering community that explores the intersection of healthcare and cybersecurity through hands-on engagement, open collaboration, and public education.

With over 20 years of experience across biotechnology, biomedical engineering, and security, Nina has focused on modernizing legacy systems in healthcare, enhancing infrastructure, and improving the integration of electronic health records. Her work brings a systems-thinking approach to regulatory cybersecurity, particularly in high-stakes environments where patient care, clinical workflows, and connected devices intersect.

She emphasizes cross-sector collaboration, the advancement of responsible innovation, and building public trust in medical technologies—especially where vulnerabilities in connected systems can have human consequences. Through years of involvement in hacker spaces such as DEF CON, Code Blue, HIMSS, and various BSides conferences she has worked to bridge the cultural and technical gaps between healthcare institutions and security researchers.

At B-Sides Kristiansand, she co-presents a session on attributing cyberattacks as a cause of death. Her lens—shaped by regulatory strategy and deep community engagement—underscores why we must reframe how harm is recognized, recorded, and prevented in digitized health systems where lives increasingly depend on resilient infrastructure.