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Tuesday, January 24 • 4:50pm - 5:40pm
Panel: Women in Security

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Girls Who Code. Lean In. Grace Hopper. Women in Cybersecurity. Brain Babe. With so many targeted initiatives to increase the number of women in cybersecurity careers, what is really happening on the ground with girls and women entering and staying in the field of cybersecurity. Can we hope to get the balance of women/men to 50/50 or is this goal missing the point? Who is getting this right and how are they doing it? What efforts can each of us make to influence girls and women in our communities and organizations?

Moderators
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Marian Merritt

Deputy Director NICE, NIST/NICE
Marian Merritt is the Lead for Industry Engagement for the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Marian has over 18 years of experience working in the cybersecurity industry. She previously was with Symantec... Read More →

Speakers
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Deidre Diamond

CEO, Cyber Security Network
Talent and Technology Veteran, Deidre Diamond, Founder and CEO of CyberSN, created the largest cybersecurity talent acquisition service and technology firm in the U.S. Deidre's vision is to remove the pain from job searching and matching for cybersecurity professionals. This vision... Read More →
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Kelly FitzGerald

Senior Principal Information Security Analyst, Veritas Technologies LLC.
Kelly FitzGerald is a Senior Principal Information Security Analyst managing both the Customer and Supplier Trust Offices at Veritas Technologies LLC.  Prior to her work at Veritas, Kelly worked at Symantec and has held positions in the Product Security, Consumer and Enterprise organizations... Read More →
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Julie Medero

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Harvey Mudd College
Julie Medero, PhD, researches natural language processing, machine learning and educational applications of language technology. Her research integrates ideas from computer science, linguistics, and electrical engineering to develop new applications of natural language processing... Read More →
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Chenxi Wang, Ph.D.

General Partner, Rain Capital
Dr. Chenxi Wang is ,Managing General Partner at Rain Capital.  Chenxi built an illustrious career at Forrester Research, Intel Security, and CipherCloud. At Forrester, Chenxi covered mobile, cloud, and enterprise security, and wrote many hard hitting research papers. At Intel Security... Read More →


Tuesday January 24, 2017 4:50pm - 5:40pm PST
Sand and Sea Room