Agenda
June 12, 2023
Hilton Nashville Downtown Mezzanine Level (near Boone/Crocket)
Meet in the hotel lobby at Hilton Nashville Downtown between 1:30-1:45 p.m.
Meet in the hotel lobby at Hilton Nashville Downtown between 1:30-1:45 p.m.
Location: Ryman 2 Mezzanine Level
Location: Ryman 2 Mezzanine Level
121 3rd Ave S. Nashville, TN 37201 (2nd floor)
June 13, 2023
Meet in hotel lobby to walk or run over the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge (est. 25-minute walk across and back; longer routes available)
Hilton Nashville Downtown Mezzanine Level (near Volunteer Ballroom)
Hilton Nashville Downtown Main Level at Marketstreet
In this motivational keynote, Eliza VanCort shares her personal story: from kidnappings to a near-fatal head injury to becoming a No. 1 bestselling author. This captivating presentation addresses some of today’s most important women’s leadership issues and offers participants concrete skills to achieve their goals professionally and in every aspect of their lives. In this session, VanCort takes a deep dive into communication and presentation skills that can help women in security gain confidence, claim their space and overcome challenges. Attendees won’t just leave inspired – they’ll also leave with actionable tools and strategies to achieve success, develop inner strength and empower others along the way.
Speaker:
- Eliza VanCort
Author | A Woman's Guide to Claiming Space
Location: Boone/Crocket
Women especially resist saying no and setting appropriate work boundaries. This is impacted by centuries of socialization encouraging selflessness and acquiescence. Saying no in the workplace is particularly daunting, with the thought that declining any task could impact our roles and hinder our potential for advancement. But the setting of appropriate boundaries is a crucial component of all healthy relationships. Boundaries are what ensure each party has a “self.” It is easy to forget that “No” in and of itself is a boundary and no further explanation is necessary. The ability to analyze one’s workload and set realistic boundaries not only promotes efficiency, effectiveness and quality control but also enhances mental health and engagement in the workplace. How can we as women learn to assert ourselves and prioritize our own work, needs and well-being while maintaining a harmonious workplace and collaborative work culture? How can women also prioritize setting boundaries and taking care of their own emotional needs? These are just a few of the questions we will answer in this session. Won’t you join us and learn to love saying no?
At the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Comfortably start saying no when the opportunity presents itself and do so without guilt
- Understand the reason why women have an especially difficult time saying no and apply that to their own situations
- Identify and set goals around boundaries that lend themselves to personal and professional growth
Speaker:
- Connie Moorhead
CEO | The CMOOR Group
Location: Boone/Crocket
Identifying perpetrators, assessing which threats are likely to manifest in physical acts and determining when organizations have a responsibility to respond. While all people can be impacted from this threat vector, women and girls, in particular, are being targeted at an alarming rate. Various socioeconomic dynamics – politically charged environment, the involuntary celibate movement, insufficient mental health treatment access and the omnipresence of social media – are driving these trends. Mental health challenges can affect the actions of those targeted and those engaging in harassing conduct. Organizations often have to consult with experts, including digital forensic analysts, law enforcement, violence risk assessors and social media monitoring analysts. Even with support, taking action against perpetrators can be extremely precarious while obtaining legal remedies can be incredibly illusive. Perpetrators are using imposter profiles, rented email and phone accounts, burner devices and other means to mask their identities. This presentation will explore the psychology of virtual threat actors, introduce the concept of violence risk assessment, present safeguard options, discuss real-life case studies and outline a plan of action for organizations or individuals who receive threats or harassment.
At the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Develop a framework to leverage to address virtual harassment, train staff on prevention and reporting measures and investigate virtual harassment allegations..
- Learn how to leverage outside expertise, such as law enforcement liaisons, forensic experts, psychiatric analysts, social media monitors and internal teams, in a cost-effective, efficient manner.
- Train employees to recognize virtual harassment, protect online employee content, collect evidence useful for forensic and threat analysis and report virtual harassment.
Speaker(s):
- Angela Osborne, CPP, PCI, PSP
Associate Vice President, Risk & Emergency Management Solutions | Guidepost Solutions - Connie Brandon, CPP
Senior Consultant | Guidepost Solutions - Kathleen Puckett, Ph.D.
CEO | TK Associates - Emily Keram, M.D.
Consultant and Forensic Psychiatrist
Location: Armstrong 1&2
For years, women in the security industry have been speaking about increasing the gender equality. But studies have shown that unconscious bias against women persist even in female-dominated workplaces. This raises the question of whether increasing the number of females in the security industry will automatically lead to better work experiences for women in the industry. This presentation will explores the ways in which unconscious bias against women persists in female-dominated workplaces and how women in the security industry can fight against it.
The presentation will also showcase various strategies that women in the security industry can use to overcome these biases, such as building strong networks, seeking out mentors and taking charge of their career development. Additionally, the presentation will highlight the importance of creating a more inclusive workplace culture, one that acknowledges and actively addresses unconscious bias against women.
At the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Create awareness about unconscious bias, including how delegates can recognize any unconscious bias they may have against women in the security industry
- Question delegates’ assumptions and encourage them to see things from a different perspective
- Provide strategies for how to recognize and eliminate unconscious bias in the workplace
Speaker(s):
- Barbara Okumu
HR and Administration Manager | Lady Askari - Belinda Othieno, CPA-K
Finance Manager | Lady Askari
Location: Boone/Crocket
All companies, agencies and individuals use the internet for research and open-source investigations when preparing for executive protection details, conducting risk/threat assessments, due diligence and auditing your business or employees. The highest priorities are to secure your identity, maintain privacy, keep your system safe and protect your information. Prior to maneuvering in and out of websites and databases, be sure you're not giving up details about you and your business by providing vulnerabilities that could compromise your information. This session will offer resources, tools and downloads to help secure your digital footprint. In addition, this course will teach you how to maneuver covertly and stay anonymous. Attendees are encouraged to bring their laptops for a hands-on experience.
At the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Secure your online identity, systems and activity prior to searching the internet
- Protect your digital footprint
- Anonymize your online activity to allow for a safe environment for you and your company when utilizing the internet
- Secure the privacy of your websites and social media tol assist in minimizing the digital footprint
Speaker:
- Sandra Stibbards
Owner, President & Licensed Private Investigator | Camelot Investigations
Location: Armstrong 1&2
For years, women in the security industry have been speaking about increasing the gender equality. But studies have shown that there’s a 13-letter word that is silently sabotaging millions of careers around the world. And it’s something that has gone unnoticed and largely not talked about for decades, yet it could very well be the single biggest reason why so many highly qualified women aren’t advancing in their corporate roles. Do you know what this culprit is?
It’s perfectionism.
Nearly a third of all high achievers admit to being perfectionists. In careers, this can inevitably lead to burnout, overwhelm and stress. The expectations people place on themselves to be perfect in all they do can create a sense of paralysis that prevents them from trying new things or being as productive as they need and want to be. This presentation will teach participants how to address the root cause of their perfectionism so they can identify and transform it to be more successful, fulfilled and aligned inside and outside the office.
At the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Outline the traits of perfectionists and how they impact their life and career advancement
- Assess their perfectionism levels
- Apply a framework to address perfectionism and reduce its impact
Speaker:
- Patricia Arboleda
CEO & Founder, Executive and Leadership Coach | Arboleda Coaching
Location: Boone/Crocket
As the IC, DOD and federal agencies migrate enterprise communications, major applications, collaboration and operations to commercial cloud, this is changing the information security and cybersecurity landscape. In support of key federal initiatives like zero trust, digital and software modernization and DevSecOps, the speed and increase of new applications and services delivered in agile and extensible cloud hosted environments forces information security and cybersecurity professionals to transform and modernize approaches to key processes and approach to activities such as implementation, monitoring and authorization of applications and services in the cloud. This includes a paradigm shift paradigm from network to data-centric defense. Another dynamic transformation involves the expansion of workforce skills to support the protection and defense of data in the cloud, from the cloud. Our reliance on commercial cloud service providers to manage, control and operate the systems within their environments is new territory. Traditional cyberspace protection and defense, basic commercial cloud concepts and new major initiatives within the federal community will be discussed to form the foundation of information, concepts and approaches underway and planned to support this transformation. Attendees will learn new approaches to the risk management framework in support of the integration of development, delivery and security to support rapid and agile delivery of software to support increasingly complex and advanced mission and warfighting operations. This will include embracing new tools that have the potential to accelerate automation and ease the burden of static documentation through ChatGPT, crowdsourcing code and other innovative streamliners.
At the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Gain insights and knowledge of new key initiatives such as zero trust, cloud, digital and software modernization and defensive cyberspace operations
- Gain an understanding of key commercial cloud concepts through the eyes of a cyber defender
- Gain thought-provoking awareness of skills and challenges required to protect data in the cloud
Speaker:
- Robby Ann Carter
CEO | SASSI
Location: Armstrong 1&2
More often than we may realize, we strive to influence the thoughts and actions of those around us – in our relationships, communities and careers. To achieve desired outcomes in the workplace, we frequently need to persuade people outside of our immediate teams. This presents a common challenge: how do we most effectively influence and motivate people over whom we have little to no authority?
At the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Explore the unique dynamics and challenges of leading without authority
- Identify common mistakes and pitfalls to avoid
- Establish best practices to maximize your impact and ignite action
Speaker:
- Nikki Nemarich
CEO |Head of Americas Marketing | Axis Communications
Location: Boone/Crocket
This is a presentation is geared to offer and educate the audience on the basics of biological, psychological and neurological differences in the sexes and how that impacts security-related thought and creativity processes to illicit a more in-depth understanding of the importance of women in security. Greater participation from women is a necessity for the industry’s higher level of success provided to our end users. We must continue to transform the notion that women are needed in all security avenues (including, but not limited to, assessments, planning, operations and execution) from a superficial acceptance to a genuine pursuit of inclusion and sought-after insight. This shift in perspective must begin at a foundational level based in sound logic, education and reason for the next level of innovative solutions to have fertile ground to flourish. While women currently have a presence in the long-term male-dominated security industry, we still have some myths to debunk and biases to overcome. Education is where productive dialogue begins to further the evolution of women in this highly dynamic field.
At the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Identify and articulate some basic biological and psychological differences between the sexes and how that pertains to safety, security and emergency management for end users
- Understand and identify concepts of how coed integration in security teams provides for a more comprehensive solution set to be delivered
- Articulate why gender biases in the security industry are based in misinformation and inhibit a more diverse and cohesive solution process
Speaker:
- Stephanie Prentice
Safety, Security and Emergency Management Consultant | Complete Threat Preparedness
Location: Armstrong 1&2
Explore the meaning of “owning your legacy through your work” through an immersive spoken word performance and keynote. As most women who are navigating their professional careers in male dominated industries, we often inherently find ourselves as the “first” of many things. The first woman of color to become CEO of a company. The first woman under 30 to land a senior level c-suite position within an organization. The first woman to go to college in their family. We are constantly trailblazers in our own rights. So, what now? How are we working for the now while also building pathways for those future women leaders who trail behind us? What will be YOUR legacy in YOUR work?
Speaker:
- Charity Blackwell
DEI Practitioner, Spoken Word Artist, Emcee and Poetry Specialist
Location: Boone/Crocket