Wanted: Women in Science, Technology, Engineering & Math

Join this webinar to hear from past students and current champions discuss how the SANS CyberTalent program is changing lives and closing the workforce gap. The cybersecurity workforce gap can be partly solved through increasing diversity. Organizations like SANS CyberTalent and the WSC are reaching into communities throughout Maryland and the US searching for professionals with technical appitude but new to cybersecurity.

These academies are designed to help qualified veterans and women receive training and certifications to quickly and effectively launch careers in cybersecurity. The Immersion Academy is an intensive, accelerated program designed for completion in six to eight months, depending upon program selected. The program is at NO COST to the students selected.


Come listen to learn:
• What the selection process includes and important application tips
• Understand what kind of training is provided (length and format)
• Hear from a recent graduate who will share her experience
• How this training academy and related certifications can help your career

Do you have a LinkedIn profile simply because you feel you ought to? Or, have you been meaning to set one up, but don’t know where to start? Chances are, even more advanced users of LinkedIn are not maximizing the platform to its fullest. With careful curation, it can be one of the most powerful tools in your arsenal, enabling new opportunities, driving new business and partnerships, and giving you the power to position yourself as a thought leader in your space. In this workshop, LinkedIn novices and vets alike will learn quick wins and ninja tricks to get LinkedIn to do the heavy lifting. Hear how to increase your profile strength, strategically grow your network, boost your search value, and much more. Discover how investing less than an hour per week can pay big dividends in achieving your personal and professional aspirations.

About the presenter:
Amanda Healy is an award-winning marketing demand generation leader, national speaker and keynote, and social media advocate. She currently works as a Senior Marketing Manager at TIBCO Software, driving global campaigns for the company’s enterprise integration and cloud solutions. She has trained world-class teams ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies to leverage social media, and has spoken at industry-leading conferences including the Massachusetts Conference for Women, the Women In Technology International Summit, Microsoft Envision, Social Tools Summit, Watermark’s Lead On Conference for Women, and many more. Profiled by the Washington Post, interviewed by WBZ, lauded as “Social Genius” by the Boston Social Tools Summit, and named to BostonSpeak’s “24 Experts On How to Become a Great Public Speaker” list, Amanda is one to watch.

Join us at our next Career Conversations session. We'll discuss topics such as: what made them decide on IT or Cyber Security, what were some of their work/life challenges, and what skills and education do they see as essential to success?

Whether you are an experienced professional or just contemplating a future in Cyber Security, WSC's Career Conversations allows you to have a conversation with women making a difference. Join us and share in Career Conversations with successful women in cyber security!

Kristin Demoranville is a triple threat in STEM, she holds a BS in Environmental Management, has worked in Information Technology since dial up modems were a thing, and is currently focusing on Manufacturing Security & Global Policy at Sony.

Bruce Daisley is the VP of EMEA at Twitter and he also runs the "Eat Sleep Work Repeat" podcast which focuses on happiness and culture.

Join this webinar where Bruce will talk about how an understanding of psychology and neuroscience can help us make our work less stressful and more creative.

The road to a successful career or business can be incredibly tough. The rollercoaster of emotions, the constant need to push yourself out of your comfort zone and the inevitable challenges and disappointments can be difficult to cope with. To succeed, you're going to need to learn to bounce back quickly, deal with failure and handle the highs and lows.

To do this you need to build resilience.Rebecca Morley, business coach, mentor, and mum, will be taking you through some of the best techniques she uses with her clients to help them build this essential skill.

Rebecca knows how to create long term visions for growth and clear action plans to get there. As a supporter of small business, Rebecca is committed to supporting women in business and helping them to be the very best version of themselves to take on the challenges of growing a business.

We’re hearing a lot about gender right now – from HSBC’s reported 60% gender pay gap, to KPMG’s ‘creatively accounted for’ mere 23% pay gap.

But there’s more to diversity. In fact there are nine measures of diversity, from age to education, from ethnicity to religion, gender and more.

On this BrightTALK webinar, we’ll explore the diversity of diversity, and we’ll talk to those companies which see their diversity as a competitive strength, and those who believe that homogeneity works.

The road to success is often a bumpy one, whether you're an entrepreneur launching your own business, or a young professional looking to make yourself known within an organisation.

Join this second episode of our Next Generation Leaders series where panelists will share their stories of rejection and failure, reveal how they bounced back after bad situations, and will also provide tips that you can use if you find yourself in a similar situation.

What does the path to a successful career in technology look like?

Join us as we listen to Elizabeth Austin, Chief Information Officer at Curvature – a leading provider of third party maintenance services - share how she not only ascended to, and thrived in a male-dominated role, but also how technology was not her original goal. She’ll share some of the most important lessons learned in her career thus far, including:

·Traversing the path from high-volume manufacturing/distribution to data centers

·Tips on how to survive and thrive in a male-dominated work environment

·How to be an endless seeker of problem-solving and learning opportunities to fuel career growth

·Insights from the SMS-Curvature merger and the evolution of an integrated IT global leader

·The “two-way” value of being part of a bigger picture (e.g., Society of Information Management and STEM-related initiatives)

Please check out Elizabeth's bio on the Curvature website for more info about her background and expertise! https://goo.gl/M2JAH9

Join us at our next Career Conversations session. We'll discuss topics such as: what made them decide on IT or Cyber Security, what were some of their work/life challenges, and what skills and education do they see as essential to success?

Whether you are an experienced professional or just contemplating a future in Cyber Security, WSC's Career Conversations allows you to have a conversation with women making a difference. Join us and share in Career Conversations with successful women in cyber security!

Guests: Julia Hermann, Information Security Analyst at Giesecke & Devrient GmbH

Hosted by Elena Steinke, Board Member of the Women's Society of Cyberjutsu

About the Speaker:
Julia Hermann brings more than 15 years of experience in systems engineering, IT security and information security management. She started off her career at a large German Telco provider in the field of IT security consulting, developing and implementing security solutions for large international customers. Afterwards, she spent the longest time of her career at an agency of the European Union as Information Security and Risk Officer, establishing IT security from the moment of its foundation.

Currently, as Information Security Analyst within the corporate security department of an international company in Munich, her main tasks involve assessment of requirements and technical conception of security solutions as well as threat intelligence, security incident management and audits.

Being a certified CISSP and CISM, she contributed to the foundation of the (ISC)2 Chapter Germany. Previously as a member and since May 2017 as lead of the ISACA Germany Chapter working group on information security, she co-authored the Implementation Guideline ISO/IEC 27001:2013 and participated to the development of the 2-day certification course “Information Security Practitioner.”

Leadership is not about how many people report to us, but what kind of influence we have in the teams and communities we operate in.

Join Caitlin for a few career stories illustrating how we can step into leadership with confidence and clarity in a constantly shifting career landscape.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Founders Spotlight series. For episode 10 of this series, Ina Yulo interviews Felicia Meyerowitz Singh, Founder of Akoni Hub.

Felicia will discuss some of the key challenges she faced as an entrepreneur such as recruitment and getting new staff up to speed, fundraising, working with banks, and staying agile.

As a mother to a soon-to-be 5-year-old, Felicia will also talk about how she's managing childcare and work commitments and being a role model.

Ever since she was a kid, Ina Yulo's grandmother told her that she wasted the skills she had in math and science by going into the marketing and communication field. "You should've been a doctor," said her grandmother. To which she responded, "But I don't WANT to be one."

Despite taking a while for her to really feel comfortable and proud about her chosen path, she now has a thriving career running content strategy and communities for the FinTech industry, where she has grown a community of over 300,000 global members.

Join this session where you will learn:

-How to intelligently turn your interests into an income-earning profession
-The importance of putting time aside for learning
-Finding your niche, your tribe, and yourself
-The importance of speaking opportunities and throwing yourself out there
-Branching out -- How not to be a one-trick pony

Join us at our next Career Conversations session. We'll discuss topics such as: what made them decide on IT or Cyber Security, what were some of their work/life challenges, and what skills and education do they see as essential to success?

Whether you are an experienced professional or just contemplating a future in Cyber Security, WSC's Career Conversations allows you to have a conversation with women making a difference. Join us and share in Career Conversations with successful women in cyber security!

Guest: Debra J Farber, CISSP-ISSMP, CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPT, CIPM, FIP | Executive Consultant & U.S. Chief Privacy Office, CRANIUM

Hosted by: Jessica Gulick, WSC Vice President, CEO of Katzcy Consulting

About the Speaker:
Debra J. Farber (@privacyguru) is a data privacy and information security executive and entrepreneur with 13+ years of data strategy, operations, public policy, training, product, and compliance experience across industries and frameworks. She's Executive Consultant & U.S. Chief Privacy Officer, at CRANIUM, an EU-based privacy and security consulting firm with offices in Brussels, Utrecht, Budapest, NYC, & San Francisco. She also serves as an Executive Consultant and External DPO for CRANIUM's many clients.

Based in San Francisco, Debra serves on several industry working groups and startup advisory boards. She is a member of the IEEE Data Privacy Process Standards Working Group, IAPP CIPT Exam Development Advisory Board, and privacy tech vendor BigID's Advisory Board. In addition, Debra serves as Editorial Board Member for Cyber Security: A Peer-Reviewed Journal. She also co-founded the SF-based non-profit project, Women in Security and Privacy (WISP).

Transparency, trust, and two-way communication. We are no longer in the age of top-down management and we would rather pull than push. The world of work is changing all around us, how can we keep up?

Authenticity and core purpose are the cornerstones of customer and employee engagement. How close are you and your leadership team to your frontline employees and the customers you are all here to serve?

You too can you kickstart a leadership revolution - empowering your people to be more open, helping everyone to take on more responsibility, and working together to make your company grow.

Sharing stories of success and practical tips to overcome internal challenge, Samantha will lead you through why, how, and the enormous potential of getting everyone to lead your business better.

An organization's vision and purpose is communicated from the top down. CEOs, Executive Directors and Leadership Teams are charged with motivating varying audiences to their goal or cause, e.g. invest, volunteer, give, attend, work with us. What's essential in effectively communicating a vision and purpose that includes both the logical--the head, and the emotional--the heart?

Bio:
Olivia Christian’s early professional career was dedicated to working with and on behalf of elected representatives that were committed to improving the lives of individuals and families living in the San Francisco Bay Area’s most vulnerable communities.

In 2005 Olivia left city hall and began working as a brand development consultant. Her clients have included organizations providing access to life advancing services to the underserved and female entrepreneurs developing resources and opportunities that support the professional and personal growth of other women. Through her workshop, OWN YOUR Story, Olivia coaches individuals and teams who want to effectively convey the why, how and what of their personal brand story for any given audience.

A successful and effective leader is like an athlete- they must continuously train to stay ahead in an ever-changing business climate. Many leaders come with “built-in” skills and behaviors that give them an advantage, while others may need to learn new behaviors just to stay in the race.

In this session, we’ll discuss what it takes to be a great leader – from a high degree of self-awareness to a stomach for ambiguity, to be an effective communicator, and of course, maintain a positive attitude. These are just a few of the behaviors we’ll uncover that are needed for both the aspiring and current leader to catch and maintain a leadership stride. We’ll also highlight real-life examples of current executives and leaders, and share some key tips to evaluate what’s working and what’s not.

In this interactive session, you will learn:
•What it takes to have a leadership mindset.
•Identifying behaviors that we need to "unpack" or need to evolve.
•Understand core attributes great leaders must have when they are leading a team, running a company or communicating.

Presenters:
Leslie A. Rubin, CEO, Image Matterz Consulting, Author, and Co-Founder of Executive Greatness Institute
Kendra Dahlstrom, CEO, Aspire to Be International, Author & Coach

2017 was a historic year for women and feminists around the world. With the #metoo and #knowno campaigns, gender gaps and disparities were brought to light in ways they hadn't been before.

Now it's a new year and with it comes new challenges for women in hi-tech careers: whether it be navigating your career through these times, finding or becoming a mentor, building your personal and professional brand as a leader, dealing with office politics or maintaining work-life balance, the challenges and opportunities for women in the workplace are endless.

Join this expert panel with moderator Jeanne Morain and panelists Emerald de Leeuw, Executive Director, EuroComply Data Protection Technology, Jill Donahue, Sr. Director of Marketing, PC Connection, and Andrea Short, Director, Supplier Marketing at Tech Data.

They will share personal stories and experiences, tips and best practices, problems and solutions around these and other topics for women in tech leadership.

Closing the FinTech gender gap remains a priority for Innovate Finance. We want to ensure female leaders play a vital role in creating better financial services for our communities. Although we have a lot of work to do to support more female FinTech founders and CEOs we should not overlook the contributions that women already play in our ecosystem. Many institutions that support FinTech companies – including regulators, professional services groups, government organisations and marketing specialists– are headed up by women. Together they are driving FinTech forward and helping to create one of world’s most successful business sectors.

Join us as we speak to some of these women on International Women's Day 2018.