Frank Abagnale
Frank Abagnale spent his teenage years posing as a Pan Am pilot, a pediatrician, and a lawyer, cashing forged checks worth roughly two and a half million dollars before he was caught and later became a security consultant to the FBI. Steven Spielberg turned his story into "Catch Me If You Can," and here Abagnale takes the stage himself to fill in what the film left out, speaking directly to a conference audience rather than through actors. He walks through how he built each false identity, what actually got him caught, and how he thinks about the gap between the true events and their dramatized version. The talk stays close to his own account: the choices behind each impersonation, the mechanics of the fraud, and the years afterward spent explaining to institutions exactly how he beat them. It is Abagnale narrating his own case file, in his own words, from the other side of the con.