Olivia Liddell
Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Olivia Liddell is a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, where she specializes in AWS solutions for game development. Over the course of her career, Olivia has created innovative teaching and technical training solutions for learners from diverse backgrounds and skill levels. A Certified Ethical Hacker, Olivia frequently speaks on topics such as social engineering and security awareness. In her spare time, she enjoys distance running, studying linguistic anthropology, and developing web applications for Arabic language learners.
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Socially Engineering Your Pathway to a Better Team
In the context of information security, social engineering is a practice that can help hackers to acquire personal information, insights, and access. Social engineering techniques can also be used by hackers and non-hackers alike to become more skilled at observing the people around them and making informed decisions that are based on these observations.
In this session, you will learn how to take a social engineering approach towards improving your team dynamics, including:
- Strategies for assessing your team’s current strengths and areas of improvement.
- Recommendations for developing an action plan to initiate change.
- Strategies for using ongoing observation techniques to effectively manage change.
Best Practices for Inclusivity in Game Development
Recent studies have shown that while 45% of gamers are women, women comprise only 21% of main characters in games and 24% of the gaming industry workforce. The gaming industry is also seeing similar disparities in a lack of ethnic diversity that reflects the player base. Taking steps to improve inclusivity in game development can benefit gamers from underrepresented groups by helping them to feel that their voices are being heard, and that their identities are being reflected in the games that they play.
In this session, you will learn best practices for inclusivity in game development, including:
- Growing and retaining diverse development teams
- Incorporating diverse content into game designs
- Fostering diverse and tolerant gaming communities
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