Presented at
The Eleventh HOPE (2016),
July 23, 2016, 10 a.m.
(60 minutes)
The backbone of a modern society is clean, available water. Without clean water, production plants falter due to corrosion, lack of cooling capability, or unsteady supply. However, in many if not most parts of the world, water safety is a challenge. This presentation gives an introduction to some of these challenges, trying to ensure clean, available water and the consequences of unfiltered, dirty water. The focus is on what you can do to help solve this challenge. You, the technologist, the hacker, the lockpicker, the everyday person, can help devise better systems to solve some of these challenges. Geeks Without Bounds works around the world setting up solution-oriented hackathons that put participants in the driver's seat working together on technology issues to make the world a better place.
Presenters:
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Lisha Sterling
Lisha Sterling is the executive director at Geeks Without Bounds, a nonprofit organization that supports open-source humanitarian projects through hackathons and an accelerator program. She is listed in the P2P Foundation's list of "100 Women Co-Creating the Peer-To-Peer Society". She has been a software developer for over 20 years. She brings that experience together with her formal education in Latin American studies and early work experience in international aid and refugee support to help engineers and those who work in crisis response build common languages for working on a wide range of challenges.
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Chris Kubecka
Chris Kubecka , owner of HypaSec, currently advises several governments on their critical infrastructure with a focus on water, oil and gas, and nuclear industries. She is the former group leader of Aramco Overseas in The Netherlands and led their security operations center. She holds degrees in aeronautical engineering, computer science, and information technology. Chris holds an alphabet soup of certifications. Her hobbies include research of smartphone/Android OS exploitation, cyber warfare, process and automated control systems, DNS and IPv6 protocols, cryptography, SIEM's/correlation engines, and cyber-intelligence. Chris has over 20 years of extensive experience in the field of information security. Her career has spanned from the U.S. Air Force, Space Command, and the private and public sector.
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