CFD Main Track

7:30 am - 8:00 am Sponsor/Partner Set Up

8:00 am - 8:30 am Registration Opens & Coffee Served

8:30am - 8:45 am "Call to Order, iHub welcome, Opening Announcements, & Opening Keynote Introduction

 - Deborah Parsram, President, ISSA Colorado Springs 

 - Samantha Louque, iHub Lead Marketing and Outreach Project Coordinator"

8:45 am - 9:30 am Opening Keynote Address - Speaker: Joseph Cheung, CISSP - Principle Architect, Arclight6 Consulting. Presentation: AI and the Future of War

9:30 am - 10:00 am Break - Visit Exhibits - Continental Breakfast Served in Exhibit Room 

10:00 am - 10:45 am Speaker - Speaker: Jared Lobato, Network Intrusion Forensic Analyst, United States Secret Service. MS. Presentation: Adversarial AI Use

10:45 am - 11:15 am Speaker - Speaker Terry Bradley, CISSP, CEH. President and co-founder of Mile High Cyber. Presentation: Practical AI for Offensive Security: Scaling Real-World Risk Testing with Humans in the Loop

11:15 am - 12:15 pm Break - Lunch on Your Own - Visit Exhibits

12:15 pm - 12:45 pm Speaker - Kinzy Pearson - American Systems, Junior Systems Engineer (part-time). Undergraduate student, Aerospace Engineering, University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS). Presentation: The Intelligent Space Domain: Cyber Risks in the Age of AI

12:45 pm - 1:30 pm Speaker - Dr. James R. Van Scotter II - Associate Professor of Strategy and Space Cyber Enterprise Management at UCCS College of Business. Presentation: Cyber Leadership Development: Trends and Workforce Skills Gaps in the Business of Cyber

1:30 pm - 1:45 pm Break - Visit Exhibits

1:45 pm - 2:30 pm Speaker: Gary Whitsett, Associate Certified Chief Information Security Officer, Founder & CEO | Fractional Virtual Chief AI Officer (vCAIO) at Bees Computing. Presentation: Compliant AND Vulnerable: Why Your Human Firewall Has a Firmware Problem

2:30 pm - 2:45 pm Visit Exhibits

2:45 pm - 3:30 pm - Speaker: Dr. Sandeep Suntwal, Assistant Professor, UCCS, Researcher: AI/Cybersecurity. Presentation: When AI Systems Lie

3:30 pm - 3:45 pm Visit Exhibits / Raffle (Murray Security Services)

3:45 pm - 4:30 pm - Speaker: Dr. Shawn Murray - President and CAO at Murray Security Services. C|CISO, CISSP and CRISC. Applied Doctorate in Computer Science with a concentration in Enterprise Information Systems. Presentation: Keynote: Modern Day Skynet: How Real is the AI Threat to Humanity?

4:30 pm - 4:45 pm - Speaker: Deborah Parsram. Closing remarks 

5:15 pm - 7:30 pm - Happy Hour at 105 West Brewing (1466 Garden of the Gods Rd. Ste 178 Colorado Springs)

Security Training Track

10:00 am - 11:00 am - Speaker: Dr. Frank Gearhart, CISSP- ISSAP, PhD., Computer Science. Space Cybersecurity Architect, General Atomics, Topic: CISSP Domain 5: Identity and Access Management (IAM) Review

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm - Speaker: Dr. Tomas Pena, D.Sc, Cybersecurity. Founder and President, Parallax Cyber LLC, Topic: Security+ Domain 1 General Principles

1:15 pm - 2:15 pm - Speaker: Brandon Lightle, CISSP. Delivery Architect - Cisco Customer Experience DOD Team Topic: Network Security and Zero Trust with CISCO.

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm - Speaker : Srikant Mantravadi, Topic: Comp TIA – AI Certification: Domain 1