I had a chance last month to host a panel discussion with the leaders of Womens Society of Cyberjutsu (WSC). For those of you who don’t know about WSC, it’s a nonprofit focused on empowering women to succeed in the cybersecurity industry. I first met the Founder Lisa Jiggetts in…
Category: STEM

AITP Golf Tournament + Tech Tuesday on KUSI
Jared Sanderson and myself on KUSI to talk about AITP’s 2nd Annual Charity Golf Tournament where all proceeds to go Computers to San Diego Kids. + Got the chance to give the #TechTuesdayTip

Coding != Only (Computer Geeks)
When I say “Python” which of the following comes to your mind? On March 4th, 2017 Girls Inc. of San Diego County (GISDC) partnered with Qfinity to host over 20 high school aged girls at Qualcomm’s Thinkabit Lab for a Coding Party. Essentially, a two hour event aimed to inspire…

#LoveSTEMSD or is it SD Loves STEM?
The Biocom Institute Festival of Science and Engineering started this past Saturday with an Expo Day! 100+ tents and booths were set up. These vendors ranged from universities such as UCSD, to enterprises such as Microsoft, to media outlets such as KGTV ABC 10 to professional organizations such as ACS. Essentially,…

Nonexistent sector w/nonexistent members show up…
Recently, InfraGard had its first Education sector meeting. Department of Homeland Security does not recognize Education as its own sector. San Diego along with few other chapters are trying to change that. So for an non-existent sector, 100+ representatives from both higher education & K-12 came for the first “non-meeting” at…

Besides or #BSidesSD
It’s 7:30am on a Friday morning, what are you doing? Well about a handful of us were at National University setting up for January 13th & 14th marked the first annual #BSidesSD. As a complete newcomer to “BSides” in general, I thought someone meant to type “Besides…” and made a typo…