From Command Line to Center Stage: Hack Your Way to Confident Speaking

Does the thought of public speaking make you sweat more than a server room in July? You’re not alone! Whether you're a first-time speaker or looking to level up your confidence, this hands-on workshop will help you ditch the nerves and own the stage. Led by a seasoned speaker with 400+ presentations under their belt and training from world-class Toastmasters, this session is your chance to turn stage fright into stage might. And yes—everyone will speak! Get ready to build confidence, engage your audience, and deliver a three-minute talk like a pro. Are you in?"

Public speaking is a skill that can elevate your career, expand your influence, and help you deliver impactful messages with clarity and confidence. Whether you're stepping onto the stage for the first time or looking to refine your delivery, this interactive workshop will equip you with the tools to present with poise and purpose.

Led by a seasoned speaker with 20 years of experience, over 400 presentations delivered in the past five years, and training from world-class Toastmasters, this session is designed to help you conquer stage fright, structure your thoughts effectively, and engage your audience with confidence. Drawing from a deep background in cybersecurity and professional speaking, this hands-on experience will push you out of your comfort zone—in the best way possible.

By the end of the session, everyone will take the stage, delivering a short three-minute presentation while receiving constructive feedback in a supportive environment. You’ll walk away with practical techniques to control nerves, project authority, and own the room. If you’re ready to amplify your voice and master the art of public speaking, this workshop is for you!

AI: The Double-Edged Sword of Cybersecurity and Social Engineering

Artificial intelligence (AI) revolutionizes multiple industries, providing unprecedented automation, analytics, and decision-making capabilities. However, the rapid advancements in AI technology have also led to the emergence of sophisticated social engineering attacks, posing significant challenges to individuals, businesses, and governments.

Explore the impact of AI on social engineering, highlighting the potential benefits, dangers, and strategies for defending against these new-age threats.

Ransomware, Ransom-war and Ran-some-where

We've all heard about ransomware and its impact on organizations as they suffer an attack almost every two seconds. How can one of these cybercriminal organizations operate, what are their business models, and what is the level of experience needed to work for them? Last year, the Conti ransomware group was a victim of their own style of operations when their playbook, chat sessions, and other critical information ended up on the dark web.

Come and learn about the tactics, techniques, and procedures used by various cybercriminal groups, including one that provides a ransomware service. Understand their modus operandi and learn from them how to defend against their styles of attacks.

Learning Objectives:
Understand the operations of cybercriminal groups
See how their attacks can be used to help you defend your organization
Learn from their mistakes to ensure your organization can effectively defend against a ransomware attack

How Hackers Hack and Why They Do It

Cybercriminals use a wide range of tools, techniques and technology to attack organizations to gain access. Everything from social engineering, to attacking internet facing endpoints, their main goal is to access the organization and steal the data. If they can sell off the information or even better, encrypt the victims data and extort them for large amounts of money. It's important we understand how they do it, why they do it and what can be done to reduce the risk or opportunity for them to be successful. With the recent Conti data leak and from other cybercriminal groups, we can learn to understand and know our enemy to help us protect and defend our organizations and reduce the risk of an attack.

Learning Objectives:
- Understand the various technological methods cybercriminals use to attack organizations
- Learn the ways we can help protect ourselves and the organization
-See how cybercriminals use social engineering to get users to open the front door for them

Cybersecurity & You

If you discovered a rash of home burglaries in your neighborhood, you'd find out how they're getting in, what is being stolen, and work to secure your home. In cybersecurity, criminals are always trying to steal your personal information, passwords, and money.
Phishing and social engineering attacks cost organizations billions of dollars each year, and the attacks are getting worse. As these attacks intensify and become more refined, technology struggles to keep up, and users will continue to fall prey. To effectively defend against this, you have to understand how the attacks work, including the psychological triggers and tricks the attackers are using. This session will explore the different techniques that social engineers and scam artists use to make users more likely to do their bidding by clicking links and opening attachments.

Learning Objectives:
- Understand the continuous emerging threats threatening organizations
- Learn why people fall victim to the social engineering attacks like phishing
- Recognize and understand security culture as the next evolution to security awareness

The focus audience are non-technical people. It can be geared for technically minded as a refresher, but the purpose is to educate and bring additional awareness to users learning more about cybersecurity.

Weathering the Storm: AI Threats and How to Fortify Your Organization

Let's be honest, AI has become the cybersecurity industry's favorite buzzword. Agentic AI. Deepfakes. Synthetic media. Generative attacks. But what matters most is that most organizations aren't worried about the buzzwords and flashy stuff. They're worried about whether their users will fall for a deepfaked executive voice asking for a wire transfer. Whether their systems can detect synthetic emails that sound like a trusted vendor. Whether their defenses can keep pace with attacks that learn and adapt in real time.
This isn't a talk about the future of AI in cybersecurity. It's about what's happening right now and what you actually need to do about it.
We'll move past the hype and into the practical reality. You'll see real examples of how attackers are using AI and synthetic media today, understand exactly where your organization is vulnerable, and leave with a gameplan to integrate AI into your defense strategy while keeping your users, your actual front line of defense aware, protected and secured at the center.
The question isn't whether AI will change cybersecurity. It's whether you'll lead that change or play catch-up.

Learning Objectives:
- What AI threats are actually hitting organizations today
- Where your teams are most vulnerable to deepfakes and synthetic media attacks
- How to build a defense strategy that puts human judgment first, with AI amplifying your capabilities
- Practical first steps your organization can take immediately, regardless of size or budget

Call to Action:
Don't wait for a breach to start preparing. Walk away from this session with a clear action plan for your organization, one that's grounded in reality, not hype.