BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:Data::ICal 0.24 BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION: 'Title: Building Partnerships\n When: Friday\, Aug 11\, 14 :30 - 15:20 PDT\n Where: Caesars Forum - Academy - 415-418 - Voting Vill age - [1]Map\n Speakers:Catherine Terranova\,Maia Mazurkiewicz\,Maria Bi que\,Sandra\n Khalil\n\n SpeakerBio:Catherine Terranova\n Catherine Terranova is the Vice President of Operations at the\n Election Integrit y Foundation\, the 501(c)(3) organization founded by\n world renown ethi cal hacker Harri Hursti. She co-organized the Voting\n Village at DEFCON 29\, DEFCON 30\, and DEFCON 31. She is a Columbia\n University alumna a nd researcher whose current focus is on cyber\n security and election in tegrity with an emphasis on data and voting\n rights.\n Twitter: [2]@c atlovesvoting\n\n SpeakerBio:Maia Mazurkiewicz\n Maia Mazurkiewicz is an expert on countering disinformation and\n behavioural changes. She ha s 15 years of experience in political\n management\, foreign affairs\, a nd communication in administration\,\n business and CSOs. She is a speak er\, trainer and moderator. She\n believes that we need to change the wa y we communicate\, to introduce\n more understanding in between humans. She is a Co-founder and Head of\n StratCom of Alliance4Europe where she deals with strategic\n communication\, to build more diverse internet. S he co-founded Future\n Forces Foundation that is working for more impact ful business. She is\n also Vice-President of the Free European Media As sociation. In 2017\n she co-created Keyboard Warriors in Poland\, commun ity that debunks\n disinformation. Maia is a barrister educated in Polan d and the United\n States. She is actively involved in supporting Ukrain ian refugees.\n Maia cooperated with number of foundations and NGOs wher e she worked\n on various projects concerning democratization and politi cal parties\n trainings in Eastern Europe. She advices clients on strate gy building\n and public affairs\, as well as trains on leadership\, pro ject\n management and campaign building.\n Twitter: [3]@MaiaMazurkiewi c\n\n SpeakerBio:Maria Bique\n Maria Bique is the CEO and one of the f ounders of CyberCoach\, a cyber\n awareness geek\, data privacy professi onal\, security culture expert and\n digital rights activist. She has cu ltured cells in a lab\, developed\n algorithms for analyzing brain activ ity and led security and tech\n teams at various companies including Nor dea and Futurice. Currently\n she’s lost in the startup world\, trying to finish a Ph.D. and fight\n for digital skills equality through Cyber Coach and the #cybercivicduty\n campaign. With CyberCoach\, Maria and th e rest of the team are aiming\n to build the most diverse and impactful cyber security company in the\n world. In her free time\, she’s an act ive football player\, assistant\n football coach and a mentor to aspirin g female cyber talent in the US\n and Europe.\n Twitter: [4]@MariaBiqu e\n\n SpeakerBio:Sandra Khalil\n Sandra Khalil manages strategic partn erships for All Tech is Human\, a\n global responsible technology nonpro fit organization based in New\n York. Before her time at All Tech Is Hum an\, she spent eight years\n working in federal\, municipal\, and think tank roles making\n people-to-people connections and amplifying globally underrepresented\n voices. Sandra holds a Master of Science in Global S ecurity\, Conflict\,\n and Cyber from New York University with a concent ration on cyber\n policy. Her interests are at the nexus of people\, tec hnology\, and\n democracy\, with the end user being the most critical st akeholder and\n driver of innovation for a safer\, equitable\, and inclu sive tech\n future.\n\n Description:\n Partnerships are critical for companies to integrate expertise into\n products\, policies\, and proce sses\, when supporting elections globally.\n Additionally partnerships a re an effective way for organizations to\n get the word out or share tar geted elections information. Explore the\n ways in which partnerships ca n be leveraged for greater transparency\n and collaboration during the e lectoral processes. It’s often much\n easier to get people to join com munities and much harder to keep them\n engaged and actively participati ng in community efforts. This Panel\n discusses how to build operational mechanisms to incentivize\n participation\, projects\, develop policies \, and drive initiatives\n within community members that can contribute to the broader electoral\n ecosystem and more broadly to civil society. We know the risks to\n elections\, now how do we create partnerships and build competencies to\n take on the implications?\n '\n\n 1. #Caesa rsAcademyBR\n 2. https://twitter.com/catlovesvoting\n 3. https://twitt er.com/MaiaMazurkiewic\n 4. https://twitter.com/MariaBique\n\n\n DTEND:20230811T222000Z DTSTART:20230811T213000Z LOCATION:VMV - Caesars Forum - Academy - 415-418 - Voting Village SUMMARY:Building Partnerships END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR