Conference Submissions for the Faint of Heart

Presented at Diana Initiative 2020 Virtual, Aug. 21, 2020, 2:30 p.m. (30 minutes)

Submitting a talk to a conference is quite overwhelming, even for seasoned speakers and presenters. The CFP process, while often documented, still results in submissions that may make a good idea tough to evaluate by the review team, and eventually they may be rejected. How could a first time submitter to a seasoned pro go about ensuring they share their ideas to the right audience and past muster with the review committee. In this talk we plan to present a general primer on how to make the submission the best it can be, reduce your stress, and ensure that you will have the tools required to confidently present your ideas to the target audience.


Presenters:

  • Amélie Koran - Sr. Tehcnology Advocate   as Amelie Koran
    Amélie is a Senior Technology Advocate at Splunk, focused on helping organizations transform, grow and secure themselves in the ever evolving world of technologies and their accompanying challenges. She arrives at Splunk after nearly 25 years as a technologist, from systems administration and engineering to executive technology leadership in various industries, academia, NGOs, and the government. In the last decade, she’s supported various Federal agencies, leading various projects and initiatives, including modernization activities, cybersecurity policy, and security architecture and operations. Often seen “soapboxing” about technology workforce development, training and recruiting policies, practices and techniques, she’s mostly observed providing measured guidance to InfoSec Twitter at @webjedi and her executive take on DevSecOps at AllTheOps.org.
  • Nicole Schwartz - Speaker
    Nicole Schwartz (@CircuitSwan) is a Product Manager for the GitLab Secure team. In her career, she has been in Product, System Administration, and Agile coaching. Before her career ever started she was a Hacker. When she isn’t working, she volunteers at and attends conventions (you may have known her as @AmazonV) such as the Diana Initiative and groups like HackerSwan, HackerFoodies and HackeerConTicketExchange.

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