BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:Data::ICal 0.24 BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION: 'Title: If Existing Cyber Vulnerabilities Magically Disappea red\n Overnight\, What Would Be Next?\n When: Friday\, Aug 9\, 13:00 - 13:45 PDT\n Where: LVCC West/Floor 1/Hall 1/Track 1 - [1]Map\n\n Desc ription:\n\n The DEF CON community challenges the status quo\, bringing a diversity\n of perspectives and ideas to identify hidden problems and solutions.\n While DARPA lays claim to the origin of the ARPANET/interne t\, vast\n communities of people with different interests created its no vel\n components. The DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge helped launch the fiel d of\n vulnerability detection and remediation and numerous DARPA Cyber Fast\n Track program performers continue to contribute to DEF CON.\n\n What if current vulnerabilities all magically disappeared overnight\n a nd critical infrastructure were “safe and secure” for the time\n bei ng. What would come next?\n\n In this talk\, Dr. Stefanie Tompkins will discuss the value of the\n hacker community and many of the contribution s that have come from it\,\n as well as the growth and synergy of the tw o communities. She’ll\n also explore the question of what comes next.\ n\n For a deeper dive into the real-world impacts of DARPA cyber\n tec hnologies\, Dr. Renee Wegrzyn\, the inaugural director of the\n Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)\, will join\n Stefanie and a moderator. They will discuss efforts that impact DEF\n CON areas of i nterest and inform ARPA-H work\, from Cyber Fast Track to\n current work focused on securing and defending hospitals and the\n health tech ecosy stem from cyberattacks.\n\n Speakers:Dr. Stefanie Tompkins\,Dr. Renee We grzyn\,Peiter “Mudge”\n Zatko\n\n SpeakerBio: Dr. Stefanie Tompki ns\, Director at Defense Advanced\n Research Projects Agency (DARPA)\n\n Dr. Stefanie Tompkins is the director of the Defense Advanced Research\ n Projects Agency (DARPA). Prior to this assignment\, she was the vice\n president for research and technology transfer at Colorado School of\n Mines.\n\n Tompkins has spent much of her professional life leading sc ientists\n and engineers in developing new technology capabilities. She began her\n industry career as a senior scientist and later assistant\n vice-president and line manager at Science Applications International\n Corporation\, where she spent 10 years conducting and managing research\ n projects in planetary mapping\, geology\, and imaging spectroscopy. As a\n program manager in DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office\, she crea ted\n and managed programs in ubiquitous GPS-free navigation as well as in\n optical component manufacturing. Tompkins has also served as the\n deputy director of DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office\, director of\n DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office – the agency’s most exploratory\n office in identifying and accelerating breakthrough technologies for\n national security – as well as the acting DARPA deputy director.\n\n Tompkins received a Bachelor of Arts degree in geology and geophysics\n from Princeton University and Master of Science and Doctor of\n Philoso phy degrees in geology from Brown University. She has also\n served as a military intelligence officer in the U.S. Army.\n\n SpeakerBio: Dr. Re nee Wegrzyn\, First Director at Advanced Research\n Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)\n\n Dr. Renee Wegrzyn is the first director of the Advan ced Research\n Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). Bringing a wealth of experience\n from both the private sector and groundbreaking institutio ns like\n DARPA and IARPA\, her leadership and vision continue to push t he\n boundaries of health research and development. Dr. Wegrzyn's\n il lustrious career has earned her numerous accolades\, including the\n pre stigious Superior Public Service Medal for her contributions at\n DARPA. She holds a Ph.D. and a bachelor's degree in applied biology\n from the Georgia Institute of Technology\, and she further honed her\n expertise as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Heidelberg\, Germany.\n\n Speake rBio: Peiter “Mudge” Zatko\, Chief Information Officer at\n DARPA\n \n Peiter “Mudge” Zatko is a distinguished scientist and\n cyberse curity expert with a career spanning significant roles in both\n public and private sectors. He returned to DARPA as the agency’s\n chief info rmation officer in 2024. He previously was a program manager\n in both t he Strategic Technology Office (STO) and Information\n Innovation Office (I2O). During his tenure in STO\, Mudge was pivotal\n in developing DAR PA’s Cyber Analytic Framework\, which set a new\n standard in cybersec urity strategy. He later transitioned to I2O\,\n where he continued to s hape DARPA’s cyber initiatives.\n\n Following his impactful career at DARPA\, Mudge held key positions in\n industry\, notably serving as corp orate vice president of R&D at\n Motorola Mobility\, deputy director at Google’s Advanced Technology\n and Projects division\, and head of sec urity and IT at fintech leader\n Stripe. Later\, Mudge joined the execut ive team at Twitter\, where he\n oversaw IT\, infosec\, global platform moderation and services\, and\n corporate security/physical infrastructu re.\n\n Most recently\, Mudge returned to the public sector as a Senior\ n Government Executive and Senior Executive Service member\, reporting t o\n Director Jen Easterly at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Securi ty\n Agency under the Department of Homeland Security.\n\n Mudge holds a distinguished record of leadership and innovation in\n cybersecurity and technology\, contributing significantly to both\n national security and private sector advancements.\n\n '\n\n 1. #LVCCW_Level1_Hall1\n\n\ n DTEND:20240809T204500Z DTSTART:20240809T200000Z LOCATION:DC - LVCC West/Floor 1/Hall 1/Track 1 SUMMARY:If Existing Cyber Vulnerabilities Magically Disappeared Overnight\, What Would Be Next? END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR