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Events Worth Remembering
Security Never Sleeps - RSA Conference 2012
CSO Pain Points Revealed at RSA 2012
Join us on Thursday, March 1, 2012 for a panel discussion and Q & A session with leading industry security and risk executives.
- - Learn best industry practices.
- - Discover what keeps the C-Suite up at night.
- - Network with other security technology leaders.
- - Learn about the Cyber Security School Challenge
When: March 1, 2012
Time: Noon - 2:00 PM
Where: Restaurant LuLu 816 Folsom Street San Francisco, CA
Cost: $50 including admission, networking, and lunch
What: Attendees at RSA's premier industry networking event will examine industry trends and pain points from top CSOs as their customers begin to formulate their security strategy for 2012.
R.S.V.P. by Friday, February 17th online.
For more information call 925-271-8230. Space is limited.
Proceeds from admissions will be donated to Cyber Security School Challenger a collaborative outreach program founded by the Executive Women's Forum to help educate youth on the topics of online security, privacy and safety.
Moderated By:
Chenxi Wang, Vice-President, Forrester Research
Panelists Include:
Justin Somaini, CSO, Yahoo!
Dennis Brixius, CSO, McGraw-Hill
Lisa Hodkinson, CSO, Nationwide
MODERATOR BIOGRAPHY
Chenxi Wang
Vice President, Forrester Research
Chenxi Wang, Ph. D. is the Vice President at Forrester Research. She previously served as an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University and the chief scientist for KSR, a risk management service provider startup in the Silicon Valley.
PANELIST BIOGRAPHIES
Justin Somaini
Chief Information Security Officer, Yahoo!
Justin Somaini is the Chief Information Security Officer at Yahoo! He has previously served at Symantec, VeriSign, Charles Schwab, Inc., and PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLC.
John Johnson, Ph.D., CISSP
Global Security Program Manager, John Deere
Dr. Johnson manages technical security programs across more than 130 John Deere business units in 160 countries worldwide. John has been responsible for architecting solutions that have been critical to maintaining global network security at John Deere. John has been with John Deere since 1999, prior to that he was network and security manager for the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. John is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and serves on various industry boards and advisory councils. John develops and teaches information security courses for several universities.
Lisa Hodkinson
Vice President of Information Risk Management, Nationwide
Lisa Hodkinson is Vice President of Information Risk Management at Nationwide, an organization ranked 108 on the Fortune 500. One of the largest insurance and financial services organizations in the U.S., Nationwide is the sixth largest property and casualty insurer with over 16 million policies in force, and is the number one provider of defined contribution plans.
Lisa joined Nationwide as a programmer and has held many technical and information technology (IT) leadership positions throughout Nationwide’s insurance and financial services businesses.
Her current responsibilities include enterprise leadership and strategic planning for the development, implementation and execution of Nationwide’s information risk management program. This program includes policy, procedures and technologies for Security, Continuity Management, Compliance and Cyber Investigation/Forensics capabilities. Lisa is the primary IT liaison to Enterprise Risk Management, Office of Compliance and Internal Audit. Lisa leads the Information Risk Management Governance Leadership Team and is a member of the enterprise Operational Risk Committee.
In her previous role, Lisa led Nationwide Financial’s Application Services Center and Development Competency Center where she managed a portfolio of applications spanning Internet, IVR, contact center, financial management and data warehouse. She developed and matured the application development competency. Lisa also launched and led the Nationwide Financial program management office.
Lisa earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Business Administration from The Ohio State University and an MBA in Finance from the University of Dayton. Lisa is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma (business honorary society).
Lisa is leading the Cyber-Security School Challenge, sponsored by the Executive Women’s Forum, where Security professionals from Nationwide visit schools and community programs to educate children of all ages on how to stay safe on-line, prevent cyber-bullying, etc. Lisa is a past board member of the Capital Area Humane Society, served as a Big Sister with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio, served as an advisor to the Delaware Area Career Center technology program, led the 2005 United Way Campaign for Nationwide Financial and served as an Operation Feed Captain for Nationwide Insurance. Lisa currently serves on the St. Stevan church board and is President of the women’s fellowship. Lisa enjoys breeding, owning and racing standardbred horses as her hobby.
Chenxi Wang, Ph. D. is the Vice President at Forrester Research. She previously served as an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University and the chief scientist for KSR, a risk management service provider startup in the Silicon Valley.
Trainer Communications Media SharkTank 2011
Do You Have What It Takes To Make Headlines?
A First-of-its-Kind Platform for Top Technology Firms to Give Their Best Media Pitch to a Panel of Judges at an Invitation-Only Charity Event to Support San Francisco Baykeeper.
Follow the conversation on Twitter at #TCSharkTank.
Register by November 10, 2011 - Space is limited
When: November 17, 2011
Time: 5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Where: Hotel Vitale, 8 Mission Street, San Francisco - Google Maps
CEOs of technology companies will have the chance to privately pitch their company's story to a panel of top-tier TV and business press media in an intimate venue. The media will then rate each three-minute pitch and provide immediate feedback in a private room, giving executives a unique opportunity to receive candid feedback.
SharkTank participants will enjoy hors d'oeuvres and cocktails in a reception with their peers as the pitches proceed. Once the pitch process is complete, the journalists will join the participants in the reception area providing an opportunity to further establish relationships and position themselves for future coverage.
Proceeds from the SharkTank will be donated to the San Francisco BayKeeper charity.
Please note, this is an exclusive offer to invited guests only. Register by November 10th as space is limited.
Also, Trainer Communications is calling all startups! We invite you to participate in the SharkTank LaunchPad giving emerging enterprises the opportunity to refine their core message in front of influential business and broadcast press. Submit your 140 character twitter pitch @trainercomms by 5:00 PM 11/14 to be considered eligible.
A winning startup will receive complementary admission to the SharkTank and will be notified at 12:00 PM PT 11/15.
Panelists Include:
- Diane Dwyer, NBC
- Kym McNicholas, Forbes
- Nicole Solis, GigaOm
- Peter Delevett, San Jose Mercury News
- Richard Hart, ABC
- Wade Roush, Xconomy
PANELIST BIOGRAPHIES
Diane Dwyer
Anchor, NBC Bay Area News
Twitter: @dianedwyernbc
Bay Area native Diane Dwyer is the weekend anchor and reporter for NBC11 News. Diane brings 20 years of Bay Area reporting experience to KNTV. She also is currently teaching at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley (her alma mater). Diane covered Barack Obama's historic Presidential Inauguration from Washington, D.C. She traveled to Torino, Italy to cover the Olympic Games and also traveled to Beijing in June of 2007 to report extensively on that city's preparations for the 2008 Summer Games. Diane has won several awards including: Emmy, Associated Press, New York Film Festival and Bay Area Society of Professional Journalist awards.
Kym McNicholas
Anchor/Reporter, Forbes
Twitter: @kymbee
Kym McNicholas has been a broadcast journalist for the last fourteen years. Currently, she is an anchor and reporter for Forbes and has been for the past four years. She covers technology, but enjoys exploring the lives of executives of technology companies as well. Because of this, McNicholas has created a niche in business reporting that is unique. She features the latest gadgets and Internet applications in her stories. McNicholas also discusses important trends with Silicon Valley executives, highlighting the most significant moves throughout the tech industry.
Nicole Solis
Managing Editor, GigaOm
Twitter: @nsolis
The former managing editor of BNET, Nicole helped navigate the business site through its relaunch, expand to two international editions, add more than 20 blogs to its network and increase monthly uniques to 13 million. As part of the editorial team that launched travel magazine Afar, Nicole architected the social media strategy and helped design the psychographic matching system behind the social network, Afar Connect. Solis is a versatile editor who specializes in generating compelling story ideas for print and online, editing and writing service-oriented and narrative content, developing effective ways to present information, problem-solving editorial challenges, coaching writers to deliver thorough reporting and precise writing, and organizing complex projects.
Peter Delevett
Reporter, San Jose Mercury News
Twitter: @pdelevett
Peter Delevett is a journalist at the San Jose Mercury News. His "Wiretap" column delves into Silicon Valley startups and has long been required reading for hundreds of thousands around the world. His travel pieces have won prizes from the North American Travel Journalists’ Association, the Solas Awards competition and the Society of Professional Journalists. He has also led the Merc's government and politics team, from writing the popular "Internal Affairs" column to editing award-winning coverage of California's budget meltdown. Delevett has frequently been featured on radio and television, and his work has appeared at WorldHum.com and in the Honolulu Advertiser, the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the Miami Herald, among many others. He currently pens a travel column for Alister & Paine magazine.
Richard Hart
Reporter, ABC
Richard Hart is the only person to win both an Emmy award for comedy and a DuPont-Columbia Journalism Award for investigative reporting. He holds a degree in physics and is on NASA's official list to become the first American journalist to report from space. Hart created “The Next Step”, the highest rated science and technology show in prime time during its five years on the Discovery Channel. Today, Richard Hart reports on emerging technologies for television stations, such as ABC7 in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is seen Wednesday and Sunday evenings.
Wade Roush
Chief Correspondent, Xconomy
Twitter: @wroush
Wade Roush is Chief Correspondent for Xconomy and Editor of Xconomy San Francisco. He is a veteran science and technology writer whose recent work has focused on startups and innovation, consumer Internet technology, social computing, geocomputing, virtual worlds, and the visual Web. Roush graduated Magna cum Laude in the history of science from Harvard College in 1989 and earned a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT in 1994. His work has appeared in Science, Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Technology and Culture, Alaska Airlines Magazine, World Business, and he has been a guest of CNN, CNBC, NECN, WGBH and NPR.
