Conference News: Venue changes; Speaking Developers’ Language; Coming up!
Avoid your Next Breach at the Beach: Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference provides a unique education experience that blends together the digital forensics and cybersecurity industries for collaboration between government and private sectors. For years they have hosted events across the country but just announced last week that they will be moving their flagship East Coast conference location from Myrtle Beach, SC to Wilmington, NC in 2023. The event will run from 5 – 8 June at the Wilmington Convention Center.
FCIF at BMCC: The 8th annual Fast Company Innovation Festival will challenge participants to embrace the future of creativity in their careers and their industries when it returns to NYC on 19 – 22 September. The 2022 theme will be “innovation unbound.” Sessions will “highlight the leaders, creators, inventors, founders, and artists who have turbocharged innovation in 2022” and “how innovation can help organizations conquer the complexities of the modern world.” This year, the mainstage sessions will be held at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center in lower Manhattan and all other sessions and workshops will be at Convene. The conference will also bring Fast Tracks back in 2022.
Speaking Opportunity: Dev Innovation Summit, the annual event built to discover and learn the newest developer technologies, returns online from 3 – 4 August. They are again expecting 3,000+ technical professionals across the globe. Tracks this year will cover developer tools, APIs, security, programming languages & frameworks, and cloud development technologies. If you have a topic idea that will showcase the latest advances & best practices in technologies & tools submit it via their online form by 8 July.
Lunchtime Learning: In 2021 The Atlantic’s marquee festival was all digital “featuring seven days of can’t-miss conversations and engaging experiences.” The Ideas Stage acts as the anchor of the Atlantic Festival convening “provocative thinkers, stirring community activists and pivotal political leaders” to consider the most consequential debates of our time. Watch the 2021 speakers here including the director of the CDC, Rochelle Walensky, United Airlines’ CEO, Scott Kirby, Dallas Mavericks CEO Cynthia “Cynt” Marshall and more.
Coming Up Next Week: RSA Conference gets underway 6 June in San Francisco, with a focus on bringing all cybersecurity professionals together and empowering the collective “we” in the cybersecurity industry. At The Economist Impact Sustainability Week – which runs 6-9 June – roughly 6,000 attendees online and 400 live in DC will explore the theme “How will the promise of a green future be kept?” through real-life case studies from leading chief sustainability officers. Emerging Technologies/EmTech Next (7-8 June; Cambridge) is MIT Technology Review’s annual event on the future of work and the modern workplace. Previously known as Sooner than You Think, Bloomberg’s Technology Summit runs on 8 June in San Francisco and online, examining digital trends like cryptocurrency, the Metaverse, supply chain management, and cybersecurity. Also on 8 June, the WSJ Women In the Workplace series will hold a short program on Sustainable Investing for virtual attendees seeking direction on ESG goals and investing in clean energy.