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8:30am PDT

Sparking your security career: You can't get burned if you are the flame Stage 1Alyssa Miller Staff @ Axonius Expo Booth Expo Hall - Axonius Booth

9:00am PDT

Leviathan Security live chat Expo Hall - Leviathan Booth Live chat with the admissions staff at CMU Information Networking Institute Expo Hall - CMU Booth

9:45am PDT

Leviathan Security live chat Expo Hall - Leviathan Booth

10:00am PDT

Welcome to CTF Village Session - Capture the Flag Village Careers in Awareness, Training & Knowledge Management Session - Teen VillageDuane Dunston • Carlota Sage • Allen Baranov • Shawn Richardson CISO & Leader Panel Stage 1Tracy Z. Maleeff • Wendy Nather (wendy0) • Lena Smart • Rinki Sethi • Ann S. Johnson Supernatural six build Session - Maker Village (Soldering Village)@TechGirlMN "Trust me, I'm an insider" - Deep dive into Zero Trust Security Stage 3Sindhuja Rao Dissecting Go and Rust binaries Stage 2Simran Kathpalia • Namitha S Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Industry (CISA) Industrial Control Systems (ICS) CTF Session - Capture the Flag Village Secure Code Warrior CTF Session - Capture the Flag Village TDI Core CTF Session - Capture the Flag Village

10:30am PDT

TryHackMe platform walkthrough Session - Capture the Flag Village AMA with Alison @ Google Expo Booth Expo Hall - Google Booth

10:45am PDT

Blue Team Careers: SecOps & Incident Response Session - Teen VillageJasmine Henry • Shawn Richardson • Jackson Parsons • Jesse Spangenberger

11:00am PDT

Navigating the Imposter Syndrome Stage 3Charu Bansal CTF4Noobz Session - Capture the Flag VillageAhmed Ibrahim Capture The Flags @ MongoDB Booth Expo Hall - MongoDB boothVincent Zhen Live Chat with TryHackMe Content Engineers Expo Hall - TryHackMe Bobbing for Apples: Developing alerts for macOS Stage 2Megan Carney Building Security Champions Stage 1Tanya Janca

11:30am PDT

Spark a Journey: Inspiring Girls to Find Pathways to the Cybersecurity Pipeline Stage 3Rebecca Hoffart AMA with Kim @ Google Expo Booth Expo Hall - Google Booth Leviathan Security live chat Expo Hall - Leviathan Booth

12:00pm PDT

DJ Chillout Session - Capture the Flag Village Live Bridgecrew Demo and Q&A Expo Hall - Bridgecrew BoothAngela Gizzi MHH Intro Session - Mental Health Hacker Village Open Question Hour Session - Maker Village (Soldering Village)@TechGirlMN IT Security @ MongoDB Booth Expo Hall - MongoDB boothJen Holland Let's Crack Passwords Stage 3Marisa Midler • Destiney Plaza • Chesleah Kribs Making It Real: Turning an Attack Chain Into a CTF Stage 2Khoa Nguyen • Scott Riese Punk Compliance: DIY Security Audit Readiness for Everyone Stage 1Jasmine Henry

12:15pm PDT

The Realities of APTs Session - Teen VillageJason Azzarella

12:30pm PDT

Heading Ones Own Advice: Burning out when talking about burn out Session - Mental Health Hacker VillageDouglas Brush How to Start Your Web App Pentesting Journey Session - Capture the Flag VillageSunny Wear • D.Sc.

1:00pm PDT

Live from the Green Room - Intel interview with Alyssa Miller Expo Hall - Intel BoothAlyssa Miller We Used To Be Giants Session - Mental Health Hacker VillageDanny “rand0h” Akacki Cyberpuffs at 40+ - Navigating career changes at 40+ Stage 4 - Career Village TalksDiana Nores General Security @ MongoDB Booth Expo Hall - MongoDB boothMichael Hanchak Information Session with CMU Information Networking Institute Expo Hall - CMU Booth

1:30pm PDT

DJ Chillout Session - Capture the Flag Village Live from the Green Room - Intel interview with Suchi Pahi Expo Hall - Intel BoothSuchismita Pahi Cybersecurity Multi-Adventure Story Time Session - Teen VillageJohn Stoner

2:00pm PDT

Seismic shift from Executive Assistant to Security Specialist Stage 4 - Career Village TalksDawn Charles • Lena Smart What They Don't Teach You in School: 5 Things We Wish We Knew Before Starting Our Careers in Cybersecurity Stage 2Bailey Bercik • Maggie Marxen An Introduction to CTFs. Why You Should Hone Your Capture The Flag Skills! Session - Capture the Flag VillageJohn Kuria Supernatural six build Session - Maker Village (Soldering Village)@TechGirlMN Leveraging Application Design and Coding Patterns to Remove Risk @ MongoDB Booth Expo Hall - MongoDB booth Live Chat with TryHackMe Content Engineers Expo Hall - TryHackMe Honey, I'm Home! (Customizing honeypots for fun and !profit) Stage 1Kat Fitzgerald I Knew You Were Trouble - A Lesson in Hypothesis and Threat Hunting. Stage 3Kirstie Failey

2:30pm PDT

Shifting to Purple: A high-level overview on Purple Teaming Stage 2Harpreet Mangat

3:00pm PDT

Stored electrons and the supernatural six Session - Maker Village (Soldering Village)@TechGirlMN Actually Autistic Session - Mental Health Hacker Village Mentoring and Training Experts: A cognitive science approach Stage 3Duane Dunston Intro to Windows Forensics Session - Teen VillageJacquelyn Blanchard DJ Chillout Session - Capture the Flag Village Security Awareness @ MongoDB Booth Expo Hall - MongoDB boothAmy Berman Burnout: Destabilizing Retention Goals and Threatening Organizational Security Stage 1Chloé Messdaghi OPSEC & OSINT to HACK your JOB HUNT Stage 2Rachel Harpley Live Chat @ No Starch press Foundation Expo Hall - No Starch Press Foundation Booth

3:30pm PDT

Talk 3 Session - Mental Health Hacker Village Leviathan Security live chat Expo Hall - Leviathan Booth The System Call Is Coming from Inside the House: Appsec Horror Stories Stage 3Breanne Boland

3:45pm PDT

OSINT - Unintentionally Insightful Session - Teen VillageTim Johnston

4:00pm PDT

Demystifying/Destigmatizing Counseling Session - Mental Health Hacker VillageCatherine Ullman Tropical Spy: Tricks and tales of a Brazilian social engineer Session - Capture the Flag VillageMarina Ciavatta How to Spark Your Journey into Cybersecurity as a Software Engineer. Stage 3Aditi Chaudhry • Madelyn Torres Security Dilemma: When Migrating to Cloud Stage 1Archana Puri You Don't Have to Be Crazy to Work Here: An honest talk about mental health Stage 2Douglas Brush

5:00pm PDT

Talk 5 Session - Mental Health Hacker Village DJ Chillout Session - Capture the Flag Village Leaders Lower the Ladder Stage 1Suchismita Pahi

7:30am PDT

Social Hour Networking Area

8:30am PDT

DJ Chillout Session - Capture the Flag Village You Are the Prize: How to Hire the Right Boss & Employer for a More Fulfilling Career Stage 1Stephanie

9:00am PDT

Live chat with the admissions staff at CMU Information Networking Institute Expo Hall - CMU Booth

9:30am PDT

Information Session with CMU Information Networking Institute Expo Hall - CMU Booth

10:00am PDT

Day Two Welcome for CTF Village - Breaking into OT/ICS Session - Capture the Flag VillageABU SAFIAN BLAY Startup Life: Being a Woman in a Man's World Session - Teen VillageAnne Nielsen • Julia Zolotarev • Valerie Zargarpur • Jennie Duong SN6 code review Session - Maker Village (Soldering Village)@TechGirlMN Open session with TryHackMe Expo Hall - TryHackMe Security Awareness @ MongoDB Booth Expo Hall - MongoDB boothAmy Berman Understanding and Attacking Delegations in Active Directory Stage 2Venkatraman Kumar What Machine Learning Can and Can't Do for Security Stage 3Wendy Edwards Work SMTer Not Harder - Concolic Execution for CTF Stage 1Christina Johns Kubernetes Primer with OWASP DevSlop Session - Capture the Flag VillageNicole Becher • Nancy Gariché

10:30am PDT

AMA with Alison @ Google Expo Booth Expo Hall - Google Booth Tunes Session - Capture the Flag Village

11:00am PDT

Why non-technicals matter Stage 4 - Career Village TalksVidya Murthy TURNING BAD JOB ADS INTO OPPORTUNITIES! Stage 1Kirsten Sireci Renner General Security @ MongoDB Booth Expo Hall - MongoDB boothMichael Hanchak Eww You are Leaking: A Formal Introduction to Information Leakage Stage 2Mireya Jurado If we do not have it we should build it Stage 3Veronica Schmitt

11:30am PDT

On the Hunt for the Unknown Unknowns Stage 1Addy Moran Career Quest (Exploring Opportunies in DFIR & Cybersecurity) Session - Teen VillageDaryl Pfeif • Cassy Soden • Anastasiia Balkhan • Michelle DeVore AMA with Kim @ Google Expo Booth Expo Hall - Google Booth Leviathan Security live chat Expo Hall - Leviathan Booth

12:00pm PDT

Recorded Mindfulness Session Session - Mental Health Hacker Village Surface mount demo Session - Maker Village (Soldering Village) Breaking into AppSec/Product Security @ MongoDB Booth Expo Hall - MongoDB boothMichael Hanchak Consilience + Culture: The Connectivity Between Cyber Defense & DEI Stage 1Munish Walther-Puri Do Your Developers Write SUPER Secure Code? Stage 2Mary Waddick Let's Simplify NIST 800-53: Turning Everyone's Favorite Publication into Digestible Bits and Bytes Stage 3Terra Cooke

1:00pm PDT

Making the Mountain: Creating Vulnerable Virtual Machines HopinJon Peters Live from the Green Room - Intel interview with Stephanie Expo Hall - Intel BoothStephanie Manifesting and Mastering the art of Executive Presence Stage 4 - Career Village TalksBishakha Jain

1:30pm PDT

Optimism wins, every time Session - Mental Health Hacker Village Live from the Green Room - Intel interview with Rin Oliver Expo Hall - Intel BoothKiran Oliver Cyber Sleuth Science Lab Digital Forensics Workshop - "Uncovering Hidden Data" Session - Teen VillageDaryl Pfeif • Cassy Soden • Anastasiia Balkhan • Michelle DeVore

2:00pm PDT

Soft Skills in a Hard World: Why Your Innate Strengths Should Be a Competitive Advantage Stage 4 - Career Village TalksMegan Daudelin SN6 code review Session - Maker Village (Soldering Village)@TechGirlMN A N00bHacker's Guide to the Infosec Galaxy Stage 2Julie Carres Beyond the Office: WFH and the long-tail of Zero Trust Stage 3Connie Lin • Antara Sargam Just a Small Town Girl, Livin' in a Lonely World: Using OSINT Tools to Find Yourself Stage 1Meghan Jacquot Reverse Engineering for Capture the Flag Session - Capture the Flag VillageChristina Johns • Christine Fossaceca • Sarah K

2:30pm PDT

Neurodiversity as an Asset: The Upside to Thinking Just a Bit Differently Session - Mental Health Hacker VillageChad Calease

3:00pm PDT

Beyond Burnout: Hacking Your Way to a Healthier Work-Life Balance Stage 1Lili Siri Spira • Rachael Cornejo Careers in CI/CD, AppSec & DevOps Session - Teen VillageBreanne Boland • Jasmine Henry • Shawn Richardson • Ken Nichols Building Your Personal Brand in Information Security Stage 2Aarti Gadhia Section 230: The Law That Everyone Loves to Hate, And What It Means To You Stage 3Cathy Gellis

3:30pm PDT

Leviathan Security live chat Expo Hall - Leviathan Booth Vulnerabilities from Venus, Management from Mars: How to Navigate the Unknown Stage 1Cassandra Brunetto When Family Is Not Your Family - Blood vs. Community Session - Mental Health Hacker Village

3:45pm PDT

Turning Your Teenage Passions into a Cyber Security Career Session - Teen VillageRyan Chapman

4:00pm PDT

Bridgecrew Raffle Expo Hall - Bridgecrew BoothAngela Gizzi PrOTecting the Source of Our Spark Stage 2Megan DeWitt Reimagining Cybersecurity Careers Stage 1John Stoner See TI - Behind the Curtains for Cyber Threat Intelligence Careers Stage 3Grace Chi

4:30pm PDT

CTFs close, winners announced Session - Capture the Flag Village

5:00pm PDT

Tunes Session - Capture the Flag Village Rising from the Ashes Stage 1Kiran Oliver Leveraging Application Design and Coding Patterns to Remove Risk @ MongoDB Booth Expo Hall - MongoDB boothMichael Hanchak

6:00pm PDT

Social Hour Networking Area