Category Archives: leadership

Final Wrap Up – Top Three Take Aways

I’m actually posting this from home.  I was too tired to finish this in SF.  Overall, I was very happy with the conference and the information it provided.  It is hard to identify my top three takeaways for this conference … Continue reading

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Help Wanted: Security Heroes and Heroines Only Need Apply, Malcolm Harkins

Key Takeaway: Leadership is helping the business adopt consistent secure practices rather than responding to each incident. *** Business risk security is understanding risk, and doing everything you can do to prevent the risk, or correct it later. The perfect storm of … Continue reading

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Keynote – Gartner 2015 opening

Opening keynote – Paul DeBeasi By 2020 there will be 25 billion sensors. In the next two years digital data will double every year. Three million mobile apps in google and Apple stores. Mobile app development will exceed the demand … Continue reading

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Innovators – Aneesh Chopra

Wow, they had a lot of energy.  This was an interesting session.  I liked the content, but man I did not enjoy the delivery.  The main speaker reminded me of a used car salesman.  painful to sit through.  I sat … Continue reading

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The Road Ahead – Thornton May

I was a little disappointed in this session.  The guy spent the first 15 minutes talking about what he does as a futurist.  Then he gave us three definitions of “future”.  Then he had us break into groups to answer … Continue reading

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Invisible or Remarkable – Seth Godin

Very interesting speaker.  His primary theme was that we need to embrace the fact that the world has fundamentally changed and that we are in the midst of a revolution.  That we need to adapt our institutions and more importantly … Continue reading

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