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Episode #31: On today's show, I will be talking with futurists Cathy Hackl & John Buzzell, co-authors of the new book 'The Augmented Workforce,' which is one of the essential books to learn how Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, 5G networking, and other emerging technologies are changing business today and bringing about the next computing platform. This episode is packed with knowledge for everyone, regardless of your background with technology! About The Augmented Workforce: Led by globally recognized futurist Cathy Hackl and award-winning emerging tech leader John Buzzell, 'The Augmented Workforce' will arm you with frameworks and examples to tackle the rapid disruption happening in every industry. This book is for business leaders that want to learn more about 5G, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and other emerging tech. Along the way, you'll hear real-life examples from business leaders and industry experts in technology years in the making. By the end, you'll be seeing the world through AR glasses, AI applications, and at the speed of 5G. About Cathy & John: Cathy Hackl is a leading tech futurist and globally recognized business leader specializing in augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and spatial computing. She is one of LinkedIn's top technology voices and a champion for diversity. She is a sought-after keynote speaker and has spoken at CES, SXSW, Comic-Con, Adobe Summit, Harvard Business School. Facebook, Twitter, Aspen Institute, In-Q-Tel, US Navy, SDA Bocconi, IE, Singularity University, and many other places. John Buzzell is an award-winning technology leader with experience spanning major technology transitions: AR/VR, Video Games, Mobile Apps, Websites, and more. Currently, he's leading customers through the next technology transition and into the metaverse at Epic Games. John is a frequent speaker on AR/VR, real-time 3D animation, and the metaverse. Talks have included the Hollywood Professional Association, Augmented World Expo, VRDC, Reuters XR USA, and M.I.T. Buy your copy of The Augmented Workforce HERE. Want to support this podcast? Visit https://anchor.fm/coffeyandcode/support or leave a rate & review on Apple Podcasts. *Subscribe to Coffey & Code to be notified when new episodes go live!* Is there someone in the tech space who you would love to hear on the show? I'd love to hear from you. CLICK HERE to drop me a line, or send me a DM on Twitter @ashleycoffey_ or Instagram @ashleyrcoffey89. Thanks for listening to Coffey & Code! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coffeyandcode/support

Lisa Porter joined Jordan Schneider and I for a discussion about Science & Technology (S&T) in the national security arena. She is co-president of LOGIQ, a consulting company, and before that was deputy director of USD(R&E), founding director of IARPA, executive vice president of In-Q-Tel, and senior vice president of Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, among various other positions. We touch on: - How the error correction of free markets is absent in DoD - A round of overrated/underrated on critical S&T areas - The split of AT&L into USD(R&E) and USD(A&S) - How successful government organizations empower their staff - Why the US lost it's dominance in space launch During the episode, Porter discusses how many people in national security misunderstand the phrase "space as a warfighting domain." The popular imagination brings up ideas of spacecraft moving dynamically such as in Star War or Battlestar Galactica, but that ignores physical realities. It takes a lot of time and propellant for satellites to move from one orbit to another, or to avoid kinetic threats, as demanded by the Law of the Conservation of Energy. The near-term focus for warfighting in space is about smart investments in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), such as space situational awareness, missile tracking, resilient communications, and proliferation of spacecraft. Porter cites the Space Development Agency as one example where good headway is being made in these areas, particularly proliferation where they are trying to prove whether spacecraft production can be increased from once every few years to tens or ultimately hundreds per year. One major issue that Porter doesn't see enough emphasis from is continuous upgrading and replenishment of spacecraft. There is not yet enough cost-effective capacity to perform the task. While the commercial industry is investing heavily in launch, DoD has not yet provided a clear requirement or funding for the replenishment mission over the next five-to-ten years to signal its importance to industry. This podcast was produced by Eric Lofgren. You can follow us on Twitter @AcqTalk and find more information at AcquisitionTalk.com.

On this episode we discuss a prospect that has moved from fantasy to possible feasibility - the mining and extraction of resources from asteroids and the moon. Our producer (and space lawyer) Elsbeth Magilton co-hosts and welcomes Kristi Bradford from In-Q-Tel to learn about the economic and business development side of space resources.

"Digital Guardrails" Hosts: Darren Weeks, Vicky Davis Show website: https://governamerica.com Vicky's Websites: https://thetechnocratictyranny.com and http://channelingreality.com COMPLETE SHOW NOTES AND CREDITS AT: https://governamerica.com/radio/radio-archives/22422-govern-america-july-3-2021-digital-guardrails Listen LIVE every Saturday at 11AM Eastern / 10AM Central / 9AM Mountain / 8AM Pacific at http://live.governamerica.com Text GOVERN to 80123 to be notified of live broadcasts and special reports that occur outside of our regularly-scheduled Saturday broadcasts. These reports are moved when circumstances warrant. ON THIS SHOW: Digital drivers licenses system being developed that could morph into an all-encompassing identification system, complete with health information and COVID passports. Facebook is now warning its users it may have interacted with "extremist content" and that they need to rat on people. LifeLog, Facebook, Peter Thiel, Palantir, and the CIA's In-Q-Tel. Tucker Carlson is being spied on by the NSA. Robots at Amazon are now in charge of "human resources". Finding alternatives to supporting our own demise. The U.S. government seizes domains of Iranian news service Press TV, and others. The Noose of censorship tightens; everyone, regardless of persuasion, should be pushing back against it! Decolonization, the redefining of terms, and the war on western civilization. The U.S. Navy is now being forced to participate in demoralizing "social justice" activities. The socialist roots of the U.S.-funded National Endowment for Democracy. The World Economic Forum says "you will own nothing and be happy". The systems are being built to make this "circular economy" possible. Algorithmic boots stamping on your face, fiber optic cables wrapped around your neck, and your dystopian future. Happy 4th of July!

It's true -- back in 1999, the CIA founded its own venture capital investment firm. Unlike other, similar businesses, In-Q-Tel doesn't really need to make a profit, and their portfolio isn't particularly diverse. But they do invest, and if you can get their attention, you can get the budget of your dreams. So what exactly is this thing, and why does it have some people worried? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Dr. Yan Zheng, senior technical staff specializing in microelectronics at In-Q-Tel, discusses What it's like to invest in startups for the CIA and the rest of the US intelligence community What's broken in the early stage chip ecosystem and how to fix it Why the US government should consider expanding its direct investments in hard tech companies How the US needs to counterbalance CFIUS with carrots How anti-Asian violence has influenced the research community  Please consider supporting ChinaTalk! https://glow.fm/chinatalk/ Outtro music: ICE - 随便玩玩 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RIS09dQjSQ

In this episode, I speak with Gilman Louie, a venture capitalist. Gilman is the founder and former CEO of In-Q-Tel, a strategic venture fund created to help enhance national security by connecting the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. intelligence community with venture-backed entrepreneurial companies. [RECORDING DATE: February 2, 2021] If you find value in these conversations, please consider joining the THINK FOR YOURSELF community.  All supporters are invited to participate in live conversations and are given an opportunity to interact with my guests.  More information is available at www.patreon.com/mansharamani

Lisa J. Porter has successfully lead some of the world's largest and most critical technology efforts. Her career started with a focus on academic rigor in pursuit of some of the toughest degrees, a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from MIT and a PhD in Applied Physics from Stanford. She would later lecture at MIT and then became a researcher for DARPA related projects, eventually becoming a DARPA program manager. Dr. Porter would later lead NASA's Aeronautics Portfolio, would become the first Director of the Intelligence Community's IARPA, became President at Teledyne Scientific and an EVP at In-Q-Tel, and then was named to be the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, an office which is essentially the CTO for the entire Department of Defense. She now co-leads a consultancy she formed with Michael Griffin (LogiQ).  In this OODAcast we explore Lisa's approach to leadership in the technology domain. Some themes from the discussion: Her comments throughout point to an ability to focus and decide what she would pursue with a determination to accomplish her goals. For example, early on she had a determination to dig into topics associated with solutions around future energy needs and pursued her undergraduate in nuclear engineering. She later acted on a determination to support national security. Like many others she faced a changing moment when the attacks of 9/11 happened. We review how Tony Tether looked her in the eye and convinced her to make the right choice and knew it was time to change. Through her career she was continually placed in situations where she needed to adapt and overcome and in every case rose to the occasion. She recounted several situations in her early career where she learned from role models, including previous generations of great technology leaders like George Heilmeier (famous for Heilmeier's Rules, which are pasted below), and Tony Tether. We discussed how some technologists are fantastic individual contributors but are not so good at leadership, and learn lessons on how we can all get better in our individual leadership abilities. We saw example after example of ways leaders are able to seek out others to learn from including learning how to do things differently. Technology leaders Lisa looked up to frequently had to take courageous stances because they knew they needed to and this theme of courage is one that applies to leaders across multiple domains of course, but in this case we dive in to examples Heilmeier and others gave Lisa. How to push for quality and setting standards and being willing to understand that some people might not like what you are doing and may not like you at all. This means it is never going to be easy to take on the role of leader. Strategies for avoiding mediocrity and pursuing excellence through application of leadership principles. Lessons in creating new organizations in government and the knife fights that come with that (and need for courage, clarity and transparency and drive to bring new capabilities into existence). The virtuous role of In-Q-Tel and the phenomenal job being done by Chris Darby and his team ( There is a secret to success discussed here that will almost certainly apply to any other organization that wants to perform at this level). Advice for CEOs on how to bring capabilities to the attention of government. How can leaders of large organizations generate positive change (using the example of DoD's need to pursue new strategy and actions around 5G). The one true job of a leader. Her view on securing systems "I have never seen a secure system, nor have you or anyone else." She underscored how the approach now known as zero trust is one she strongly endorses because it flows from the approaches used by the savvy for years, including the approach of the intelligence community operators who had to learn to operate in domains of no trust (see, for example, the Moscow Rules of Cybersecurity). Her view, yes raise defenses, but know that trust is a vulnerability and employe the zero trust philosophy. What is she reading? Marcus Aurelius and his meditations, which she most strongly recommends for its context and its inspiration. And Sapiens by Harari.   Heilmeier's Rules: Lisa discussed the courage she saw in leaders like George Heilmeier, including the courage to stand up to large interests that will try to push there parochial interests through decision-makers, at times trying to do so by throwing their weight around or bully or seek to claim some ultimate wisdom. One of the way Heilmeier dealt with that was to force all who came to DARPA with a new idea or request to answer a set of very simple to understand questions which are still in use today. These simple questions, now called Heilmeier's catechism or Heilmeier's rules, were not always simple to answer, especially if an idea was not firmly rooted. They are: What are you trying to do? Articulate your objectives using absolutely no jargon. How is it done today, and what are the limits of current practice? What is new in your approach and why do you think it will be successful? Who cares? If you are successful, what difference will it make? What are the risks? How much will it cost? How long will it take? What are the mid-term and final “exams” to check for success?

On January 14, 2021, the CNAS Technology and National Security Program hosted a virtual panel to discuss the challenges, findings. and recommendations of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission white paper, "Building a Trusted ICT Supply Chain." Speakers for this event included Congressman Mike Gallagher, Co-Chairman of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission; Dr. Sarah Sewall, Executive Vice President for Policy at In-Q-Tel; Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Associate Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin; and RADM Mark Montgomery, USN (Ret.), Executive Director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. Martijn Rasser, Senior Fellow at CNAS, moderated this event.

He is nationally recognized for resolving our clients’ most sensitive, critical, and confidential leadership and governance challenges. He advises publicly traded companies and private equity concerns, globally. Over the past three decades, he has advised on CEO successions and has led the recruitment of CEOs for a wide range of clients as well as recruiting several hundred new board of directors and senior executive leaders. He has led numerous “sensitive matter” Board of Director examinations, recommending improvement in their governance practices. Previously, he was a Senior Partner at Egon Zehnder, a leading global executive search and board of directors' consultancy. During his tenure, he served as the Managing Partner of its New York and Atlanta practices as well as led its Service Sector Practice Group for the Americas. Earlier, he held senior strategic management and financial positions at Cox Cable Communications (Atlanta) and Tiger International (Atlanta and Los Angeles) with previous experience in financial roles at Occidental Petroleum and as a senior consultant at EY. He has served as a board member and as Chairman of the Compensation Committee of Focus Brands, a leading restaurant group. Mr. Koblentz also served on the board of In Q Tel, the C.I.A.’s venture capital fund, as a board member for The National Association of Corporate Directors and as President of the Association of Corporate Growth in Atlanta. Currently, he is the Chair of Emory University’s Center for Ethics and on the Board of Directors of the Chick-fil-A Bowl Foundation. He has served on the boards of The Carter Center, Junior Achievement, Atlanta's High Museum, Central Atlanta Progress, The Latin American Association, and ZooAtlanta. He is a CPA and holds an MBA from the University of Southern California. Join Nour Group CEO, David Nour, and Joel Koblentz, founder and CEO of The Koblentz Group, on this episode of the Curve Benders Podcast. BTW, we turn the show notes from this podcast into a more in-depth article and link resources by or about our guest. Check them out in our new, private community, the Nour Forum. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/david-nour/message

Hour 1 * Guest: Larry Pratt – Discussion of All Things Liberty. * A False Flag at the Capitol – The Capitol break-in was a MAJOR Covert Op – A Staged Event – Intentional Chaos! * Pictures posted on Twitter appeared to show nooses made from ropes and other material during the riot on Capitol Hill. * Federal prosecutors backed off their suggestion that President Trump could be investigated for inciting the violence. * Dominion Voting Systems filed a nearly $1.3B defamation lawsuit against Powell, accusing her of orchestrating a “demonstrably false” conspiracy theory about the company’s role in the 2020 election. * Facebook announced they were banning all content that mentions the phrase “stop the steal. * The FBI released an internal bulletin, claiming armed protests are being planned in all 50 U.S. state capitols, including Washington DC. Hour 2 * Guest: Tim Starks – IT Security Consultant, Systems Troubleshooter. * Parler sues Amazon for antitrust violation, breach of contract and unlawful business interference. Asks federal judge to order Amazon to reinstate the platform. * Limbaugh: ‘Titans of tech’ are now running America – Says Congress sold out for ‘good search results’ and ‘campaign donations’ – Bob Unruh. * Laura Loomer, Larry Klayman Take Big Tech ‘Discrimination’ Case to Supreme Court – Bob Unruh WND.com. * Barack Obama insisted that without government spending, “Google, Facebook would not exist.” * Social Media Is a Tool of the CIA. Seriously! – CBS News. * Tools of the CIA – LewRockwell.com. * CIA publishes a helpful list of press releases on all the social media ventures it sponsors, via its technology investment arm In-Q-Tel. * Did The CIA banned Trump — Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon? * Willie Brown on Kamala Harris: ‘We dated,’ I ‘influenced – USAToday. * Now the World Health Organization Predicts a Far Worse Pandemic is Coming. * Dr Mike Ryan, Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme – states, “This pandemic has been very severe, has spread around the world extremely quickly, it has affected every corner of this planet. But this is not necessarily the big one.” * Mask mandates have always been about one thing – Government control! * Sure, politicians will virtue signal and wear masks when they’re on camera, but they rip them off as soon as the cameras are off. * It turns out there is absolutely no evidence that mask mandates worked to slow the spread at all. It’s just a scientific fact that viruses will do what viruses do regardless of state policies. It’s time for Americans to wake up, rip off those useless masks and say NO MORE! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/loving-liberty/support

* Guest: Tim Starks - IT Security Consultant, Systems Troubleshooter. * Parler sues Amazon for antitrust violation, breach of contract and unlawful business interference. Asks federal judge to order Amazon to reinstate the platform. * Limbaugh: 'Titans of tech' are now running America - Says Congress sold out for 'good search results' and 'campaign donations' - Bob Unruh. * Laura Loomer, Larry Klayman Take Big Tech 'Discrimination' Case to Supreme Court - Bob Unruh WND.com. * Barack Obama insisted that without government spending, "Google, Facebook would not exist." * Social Media Is a Tool of the CIA. Seriously! - CBS News. * Tools of the CIA - LewRockwell.com. * CIA publishes a helpful list of press releases on all the social media ventures it sponsors, via its technology investment arm In-Q-Tel. * Did The CIA banned Trump -- Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon? * Willie Brown on Kamala Harris: 'We dated,' I 'influenced - USAToday. * Now the World Health Organization Predicts a Far Worse Pandemic is Coming. * Dr Mike Ryan, Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme - states, “This pandemic has been very severe, has spread around the world extremely quickly, it has affected every corner of this planet. But this is not necessarily the big one.” * Mask mandates have always been about one thing - Government control! * Sure, politicians will virtue signal and wear masks when they’re on camera, but they rip them off as soon as the cameras are off. * It turns out there is absolutely no evidence that mask mandates worked to slow the spread at all. It’s just a scientific fact that viruses will do what viruses do regardless of state policies. It’s time for Americans to wake up, rip off those useless masks and say NO MORE!

In this episode of The Burn Bag Podcast, A'ndre and Ryan interview former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Sue Gordon, about her long and distinguished career in the CIA and as a leader in the Intelligence Community, and her perspectives on a range of issues. As PDDNI, Gordon was essentially the second-highest official leading the Intelligence Community, and she gives us her outlook on the IC's relationship with the President of the United States -- drawing directly from her own experiences in briefing five of our last six presidents. Gordon also discusses her views on innovation in the IC, detailing her role in the establishment of In-Q-Tel and the development of technology in the CIA. We also spoke to Sue about her departure from public service last year, whether she'd return to public service in the future, and her thoughts on diversity in the IC. Lastly, Gordon talks a bit about counterintelligence, and the threats posed in that realm by China and Russia, especially given recent circumstances.

Chris Darby, CEO of the CIA-backed tech investment company In-Q-Tel, talks about the commission's recommendation that AI for national security be extended to biotechnology, and that bio-data be considered an instrument of national power.  

Chris Darby, NSCAI commissioner and CEO of the U.S. Intelligence Community-backed tech investment company In-Q-Tel, talks about the commission's recommendation that AI for national security be extended to biotechnology and that bio-data be considered an instrument of national power.

Charles Hudson is the Managing Partner at Precursor Ventures, a classic seed-stage investment firm based out of San Francisco, CA. Precursor seeks to invest in a company's first round of institutional investment and focuses on investments in B2B software applications, B2C software and services, and connected hardware. Prior to launching Precursor, Charles Hudson was a Partner with SoftTech VC, one of the most active seed-stage investors in Internet and mobile startups. He focused on identifying investment opportunities in mobile infrastructure, mobile applications, and marketplaces. He was also the Co-Founder and CEO of Bionic Panda Games, an Android-focused mobile games startup. Prior to joining SoftTech VC and co-founding Bionic Panda Games, Charles Hudson was the VP of Business Development for Serious Business until the company was acquired by Zynga in February 2010. Prior to Serious Business, he was the Sr. Director for Business Development at Gaia Interactive, an online hangout and virtual world for teens. Prior to Gaia, Charles worked in New Business Development at Google and focused on new partnership opportunities for early-stage products in the advertising, mobile, and e-commerce markets. Prior to joining Google, he was a Product Manager for IronPort Systems, a leading provider of anti-spam hardware appliances that was acquired by Cisco Systems for $830 million in 2007. Charles was also the founder of the Virtual Goods Summit and Social Gaming Summit, two of the leading conferences in the free-to-play games space. Charles spent several years working at In-Q-Tel, the strategic venture capital group for the Central Intelligence Agency. While at In-Q-Tel, he focused on identifying investment opportunities that could deliver significant value to the CIA and the commercial market in both the short and long term. He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in Economics and Spanish from Stanford University.  Some of the Topics Covered by Charles Hudson in this Episode The areas where Precursor Ventures is focused How Charles decided to focus on the very earliest stages of startup investing Charles experience raising his first fund as a single GP How Charles built the team at Precursor Ventures, brought on Sydney Thomas, and what it took for her to get promoted to Principal Charles views on the role of platform in venture capital How Charles organizes the insights from their portfolio companies The advice Charles has for founders around their pitch and the importance of storytelling What Charles looks for in companies he invests in How Charles looks at the brand for Precursor Ventures Why optimism is so important at the early stage of investing Why Charles wanted to be a venture capitalist How Charles invests in himself as an investor to improve at his job Charles' experience working with a coach on communication Getting honest feedback as an investor Sign up for The Weekly Grind, for actionable insights and stories from successful entrepreneurs delivered to your inbox once per week: https://www.justgogrind.com/newsletter/ Listen to all episodes of the Just Go Grind Podcast: https://www.justgogrind.com/podcast/ Follow Justin Gordon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/justingordon212 Follow Justin Gordon on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justingordon8/

Sam is a young technology enthusiast who’s found passion in cybersecurity at an early age. He was recruited to work for the Australian government while still in high school. He founded Kasada before turning 20 and has been able to raise USD 7 million at the end of 2019 with CIA backed In-Q-Tel as its […]

Episode #20 discussing how In-Q-Tel came into being and how it has evolved to be investing for strategic benefits on behalf of 8 U.S. intelligence agencies and how In-Q-Tel partnerships with startups can add enormous value and revenue opportunities to startups around the world in working with the U.S. government such as Palantir. Discussed other issues such as CIFIUS and FIRMMA. More information on that here: https://nvca.org/cfius-vc-3-takeaways-from-the-final-rules-and-what-investors-must-know/. George is an active board member of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Prior to joining In-Q-Tel 10 years ago, George was an executive at HP, Silicon Valley's original startup and a career venture capitalist, former manager at Blueprint Ventures, Redleaf Group and El Dorado Ventures. Full video of this episode at https://www.youtube.com/AndrewRomansVC.

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Dr Alexander Titus Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI). Ira Pastor comments: The Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI) is one of 14 institutes of the Manufacturing USA network, and is a member-driven, non-profit organization, whose mission is to make practical the large-scale manufacturing of engineered tissues and tissue-related technologies. BioFabUSA, created by ARMI, was established to lead the charge in large-scale manufacturing of engineered tissues and regenerative medicine research, turning foundational breakthroughs in the manufacture of engineered tissues and tissue-related technologies into life-changing possibilities for everyone. Dr. Alexander Titus is the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI) where he is part of the leadership team working to advance the U.S. regenerative manufacturing industry, as well as develop technologies for disaster preparedness. Dr. Titus’s career is focused on the intersection of technology and public benefit, with experience spanning the private and public sectors, as well as non-profits and academia. Prior to his role ARMI, Dr Titus was the inaugural Assistant Director for Biotechnology, within the Office of the CTO at the Department of Defense (DoD), where he was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense-level senior executive in charge of the DoD’s enterprise strategy for biotechnology, where he led the team developing the biotechnology modernization roadmap for the DoD. Dr. Titus joined the DoD from McKinsey & Company, where he was a management consultant and a member of the inaugural cohort of Defense & Security Specialists working with the national security community on high-priority issues related to organization effectiveness, leadership, and analytics. On the technical side, Dr Titus is a trained data scientist with an expertise at the intersection of AI and biology. Prior to consulting, Dr. Titus was a data scientist at the venture capital firm In-Q-Tel, as a member of their B.Next group, as well as a data scientist at Amazon on the Alexa AI team and at Dartmouth in the Geisel School of Medicine. Alexander holds a PhD in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences from the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies at Dartmouth, as well as a BS and BA in biochemistry and biology from the University of Puget Sound. On this ideaXme episode we will hear from Dr. Titus about - His background - how he developed an interest in science, biology, biochemistry, quantitiave biomedicine, and a bit of his journey through academia, the military, and the private sector - The background of the Manufacturing USA network - The background of the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI) and the BioFabUSA initiative - BioFabUSA's five thrust areas and support technologies related to (1) Cell Selection, Culture and Scale-up, (2) Biomaterial Selection and Scale-up; (3) Tissue Process Automation and Monitoring; (4) Tissue Maturing Technologies and (5) Tissue Preservation and Transport - Visions for the tissues / organs / limbs bio-factory of the future - His work in bio-security and bio-defense Credits: Ira Pastor, ideaXme ambassador interview. Visit ideaXme www.radioideaxme.com Follow ideaXme on Twitter:@ideaxm On Instagram:@ideaxme To discuss collaboration and/or partnerships please contact the founder of ideaXme: andrea@ideaxme.com Find ideaXme across the internet including on iTunes, SoundCloud,Radio Public,TuneIn Radio,I Heart Radio, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Podcasts and more. ideaXme is a global podcast, creator series and mentor programme. Our mission: Move the human story forward!™ ideaXme Ltd.

Alexander Titus is the Founder of Bioeconomy.XYZ and the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI), where his career focuses on the intersection of technology and public benefit, with experience spanning the private and public sectors, as well as non-profits and academia. In previous roles, Alexander was the inaugural Assistant Director (AD) for Biotechnology within the Office of the CTO at the Department of Defense (DoD). As the AD for Biotechnology, Alexander was the DASD-level senior executive in charge of the DoD’s enterprise strategy for biotechnology, where he led the team developing the biotechnology modernization roadmap for the DoD. Alexander joined the DoD from McKinsey & Company, where he was a management consultant and a member of the inaugural cohort of Defense & Security Specialists working with the national security community on high-priority issues related to organization effectiveness, leadership, and analytics. On the technical side, Alexander is a trained data scientist with an expertise at the intersection of AI and biology. Prior to consulting, Alexander was a data scientist at the venture capital firm In-Q-Tel, as a member of their B. Next group, as well as a data scientist at Amazon on the Alexa AI team and at Dartmouth in the Geisel School of Medicine. Alexander holds a PhD in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences from the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies at Dartmouth, as well as a BS and BA in biochemistry and biology (respectively) from the University of Puget Sound.

Guests:Arman Grigoryan is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at Lehigh University.Sarah Sewall is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center and Executive Vice President for Policy at In-Q-Tel. She previously served as the Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights from 2014 to 2017.International Security Article:This podcast is based on Arman Grigoryan, “Selective Wilsonianism: Material Interests and the West’s Support for Democracy,” International Security, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Spring 2020), pp. 150–200.Related Readings:Sabrina Tavernise, “Protesters and Police Clash as Armenia Unrest Grows,” New York Times, March 2, 2008.“How To Be Good Neighbours,” The Economist, March 1, 2014.John J. Mearsheimer, “Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault: The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin,” Foreign Affairs, September/October 2014. Aaron David Miller, “Values vs. Interests: How Should America Deal with Bad Guys?,” The National Interest, May 2, 2017.“Trump’s Strange Silence on Belarus,” Washington Post, August 21, 2020.

Heard of venture capital but don't really know what it is? Want to found a startup but don't know where to begin? In this episode we spoke with Morgan Mahlock, a senior associate at In-Q-Tel and Stanford graduate, about her perspectives on the world of investment and advice to company founders looking for funding. Through combining her product design and mechanical engineering background with her work at the non-profit strategic investor supporting the U.S. intelligence and national security community, she provided key insights about the murky yet desirable world of entrepreneurship that any aspiring technologist should hear.

Kevin Dewalt, founder of Prolego, shares AI project do's and don'ts from a consultant's perspective. Kevin previously served as Director of Strategic Alliances at In-Q-Tel, VC arm for the CIA and US intelligence community, now focuses on training, strategy, and implementation of AI applications for Fortune 500 companies. Are you working to catalyze AI for your organization or your clients? Enroll with Emerj Plus: emerj.com/p1

In this session, we dive into conversation with TerraGo's Scott Lee to discuss who TerraGo is, the products/services they provide, and how users can take advantage of them even at home with the software they prefer in their workflow. TerraGo is a private company based in Sterling, Virginia that develops location intelligence, geospatial collaboration, GIS applications, GPS data collection software. Founded in 2005, TerraGo is an In-Q-Tel portfolio company. Aside from being an In-Q-Tel portfolio company, TerraGo is notable in part for pioneering the patented technology, related standards, and best practices upon which GeoPDF and geospatial PDF are based. Find more interesting sessions and panels at GeospatialFrontier.com

Welcome to The Truthzilla Podcast, Episode 004 "Good Covid Fearing Americans". In this episode, we get into some uncommon threads related to the current situation involving Kovid-1984. We discuss how the US Intelligence Agencies are throwing everything they have into research and development through their venture capital firm In-Q-Tel and uncover some scary nuggets. We're talking privacy intrusions and their campaign to promote "information hygiene" through censorship. We also unpack some things that we don't want to list overtly right here, just jump on the Truth Train and get down with the Truthzilla Mind Militia.Neil Ferguson https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-13299666https://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/frederick-forsyth/1270245/coronavirus-neil-ferguson-sars-bird-flu-deathshttps://www.spectator.co.uk/article/six-questions-that-neil-ferguson-should-be-asked00:34:00World Health Organization: Asymptomatic people are not contagious.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQTBlbx1Xjs&feature=youtu.be33:30 James Corbett's EPIC Bill Gates Documentaryhttps://www.corbettreport.com/who-is-bill-gates-full-documentary-2020/00:40:00Fauci Interviewhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbYPx1rAiFM43:00French Studyhttps://www.dailywire.com/news/french-peer-reviewed-study-our-treatment-cured-100-of-coronavirus-patients?itm_source=parsely-api45:10NIH HCQ Studyhttps://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-begins-clinical-trial-hydroxychloroquine-azithromycin-treat-covid-1949:38Ventilator Wh!stlebloWr:(To access this site, replace the "[[dot]]" with a "." The website's url is literally "banned" and the ".video" part is the domain, instead of ".com")https://banned[[dot]]video/watch?id=5ee13c3cc7a607002f0c818757:0080 Times Greater Than We Originally Thought! Oh no!!!!https://www.ibtimes.com/coronavirus-us-update-initial-covid-19-rates-found-be-80-times-greater-originally-29988501:00:00Event 201https://youtu.be/YFSdC8JNJQ01:03:45All Roads Lead To Dark Winter by Whitney Webbhttps://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/top-news/all-roads-lead-dark-winter/In-Q-Tel - https://iqt.org/B.Next - https://www.bnext.org/01:06:00 Project Domino: https://github.com/TheDataRideAlongs/ProjectDominoOutlier: https://outlier.ai/why-outlier-now/Orbital Insighthttps://orbitalinsight.com/use-cases/pattern-of-life-analysishttps://orbitalinsight.com/blog/geospatial-data-show-americans-are-getting-quarantine-fatigueSome of Tara O'Toole's bullshit:https://www.cfr.org/conference-calls/covid-19-epidemic-and-pandemic-preparedness-united-states

"The nature of information security and the future of humanity are tied together." In episode 06, Dan Geer, security and risk management expert and current CISO at In-Q-Tel, joins us to talk about his path in information security, the state of privacy and security in today's landscape, and where potential new security businesses should focus their energy.

On this episode: Apple and Google team up, AWS Fargate has a new release, Github gives stuff away, Coder gets funding and Matt offers his advice to college students. Plus, the definitive iPhone SE review. The Rundown Contact Tracing Apple, Google Will Require Case Verification for Coronavirus Contact Tracing Tech (https://gizmodo.com/apple-google-will-require-case-verification-for-corona-1842859127) How Google Plans to Push Its Coronavirus Tracing Feature to Android Phones (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dygbmj/how-google-coronavirus-contact-tracing-feature-update) Apple and Google launch a joint contact-tracing system for iOS and Android (https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/10/21216484/google-apple-coronavirus-contract-tracing-bluetooth-location-tracking-data-app) Answering the 12 biggest questions about Apple and Google’s new coronavirus tracking project (https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/11/21216803/apple-google-coronavirus-tracking-app-covid-bluetooth-secure) Fargate AWS revamps Fargate serverless containers, but wait – where's Docker Engine? Ah, 'deemed unnecessary' (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/09/aws_revamps_fargate_serverless_containers/) Under the hood: AWS Fargate data plane (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/under-the-hood-fargate-data-plane/) Coding Austin Startup Coder Gets $30M from GGV Capital and In-Q-Tel (https://www.americaninno.com/austin/funding/a-growth-story-austins-coder-raises-30m-and-plans-to-double-team/?mc_cid=480cd4555e&mc_eid=825c180d0b) GitHub is now free for teams (https://github.blog/2020-04-14-github-is-now-free-for-teams/) Pentagon Watchdog Clears Microsoft’s Cloud Win Over Amazon (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-15/pentagon-watchdog-clears-microsoft-s-10-billion-cloud-contract) Relevant to your interests Google is rebranding Hangouts Chat as just Google Chat (https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/9/21215588/google-chat-hangouts-meet-g-suite-name-change-rebranding) Zoom is now 'the Facebook of video apps' (https://www.engadget.com/zoom-is-now-the-facebook-of-video-apps-190024369.html) The Thing With Zoom (https://findthethread.postach.io/post/the-thing-with-zoom) A perfect alternative to Zoom doesn't exist (https://qz.com/1836278/zoom-alternatives-have-their-own-video-conferencing-drawbacks/) IBM scrambles to find or train more COBOL programmers to help states (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/ibm-scrambles-to-find-or-train-more-cobol-programmers-to-help-states/) 7 cobol examples with explanations. 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Soyboi of the Deep (@halfasstroknot) joins me to talk about In-Q-Tel, the CIA's investment arm, the Predator drone's origins in trying to crush the Sandinistas, and one way to avoid their all-seeing eye. Don't forget about our Five Star Stories livestream, 29 February at 7PM EST! Show Notes Donate to the Signal Foundation

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador interviews Dr. Tara O’Toole, Executive Vice President and Senior Fellow at In-Q-Tel. Ira Pastor Comments: We have a fascinating show today focused on a very timely topic. On a few past episodes we’ve explored the topic of viruses from different angles – from the somewhat benign ,where we discussed the "good" human virome and Hepatitis G co-infection, to the less benign (where we discussed chronic herpes simplex II infection and potential links to neuro-degeneration), to the downright nasty (where we have spoken about the Ebola virus). But we have not yet talked about the emergent (i.e. Coronavirus), unknown viruses, or for that matter the "intentionally malevolent." Dr. Tara O'Toole Dr Tara O'Toole is Executive Vice President and Senior Fellow at In-Q-Tel which is a private, non-profit strategic investment firm that links the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other components of the US Intelligence Community with venture-backed start-up firms on the leading edge of technological innovation. Dr. O’Toole is leading a strategic In-Q-Tel initiative called B.Next to explore opportunities and risks likely to arise in the next decade as a result of advances in the biological sciences and biotechnologies, with a particular focus on detection of, and defense, against biological attacks. Prior to joining In-Q-Tel, Dr. O’Toole served as Under Secretary for the Science and Technology Directorate at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), where she was responsible for scientific and technological research designed to provide new security and resilience innovations. Prior to her work at the DHS, she was the CEO and Director of the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), an independent organisation dedicated to improving the country’s resilience to major biological threats. A Career in Biosecurity and Biodefense Dr. O’Toole is internationally known for her work on biosecurity as well as on health and safety issues related to the US nuclear weapons complex, as well as her disaster response exercises, where she was a principal author and producer of Dark Winter and Atlantic Storm both of which simulated a covert outbreak of smallpox in the United States. She has many publications in the biodefense field on topics including contagious disease epidemics, biodefense research and development strategies, and hospital preparedness, including the book Bioterrorism: Guidelines for Medical and Public Health Management. Dr. O’Toole has a bachelor’s degree from Vassar College, an MD from George Washington University, and a master’s of public health degree from Johns Hopkins University. She completed internal medicine residency training at Yale University and a fellowship in occupational and environmental medicine at Johns Hopkins University. On this episode we will hear from Dr. O'Toole: How she developed an interest in medicine, public health, and in the topics of biodefense and biosecurity. About DHS and the CIA's role in the management of epidemics, outbreaks, and biological weapons' defense. The B.Next Initiative and the Biodefense Technology Architecture at In-Q-Tel. Her views on topics including: drug repurposing, bio-hacking / "do-it-yourself" biology, the approval of new drugs when human efficacy studies are not ethical or feasible (to reduce or prevent the toxicity of chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear substances). About post-Cold War biodefense concerns. Credits: Ira Pastor interview video, text, and audio. Follow Ira Pastor on Twitter:@IraSamuelPastor If you liked this interview, be sure to check out our interview with Dr Kortepeter, former Lead in Infection Prevention and Control against Ebola virus at the World Health Organisation.  Follow ideaXme on Twitter:@ideaxm On Instagram: @ideaxm Find ideaXme across the internet including on iTunes, Soundcloud, RadioPublic, YouTube, Google Podcasts, Spotify, www.radioideaxme.com and more. ideaXme is a global podcast, creator series and mentor programme. Our mission: Move the human story forward!™ ideaXme Ltd.  

The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence just had a large press event at the unveiling of draft of their upcoming report. This is one of the first public political events marking a major shift in the American establishment and geopolitics as they are effected by technology.  topics include: NSCAI, US government, military, MIC, Silicon Valley, SRI, Carnegie Mellon, In-Q-Tel, Alphabet, Google, Amazon, Eric Schmidt, Henry Kissinger, machine learning, deep learning, defense, China, Russia, war, propaganda 

Liberty RoundTable Radio Show Hour 2 – 9/24/2019 * Guest: Jim Clymer - The Party of "Integrity, Liberty, & Prosperity!" - ConstitutionParty.com. * Facebook Admits it is a Publisher, not a Free-Speech Platform. That’s Important Because Publishers are not Protected from Lawsuits. * Facebook:suspended tens of thousands of apps for improperly sucking up users' personal information and other transgressions, a tacit admission that the scale of its data privacy issues was far larger than it had previously acknowledged. * FBI Reached Deep for Data, and in Secret. * The Secrets of Silicon Valley: What Big Tech Doesn't Want You to Know - James Corbett - CorbettReport.com. * Bridging technology, venture, and intelligence - In-Q-Tel! * The latest madness on California campuses. * The Hartford Public Library in Connecticut will host two Drag Queen Story Hour events Saturday as part of the library’s celebration of its LGBTQ “Big Read” campaign. * Ocasio-Cortez still hasn't paid her delinquent taxes! * Franklin Graham Tells Trump Haters to ‘Give It a Rest’. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/loving-liberty/support

A fascinating feature for you courtesy of Tony Askew, co-founder and partner of REV Venture Partners, who spoke with Global Corporate Venturing about how the media industry has evolved since the corporate venturing unit was launched in 2000. Insights provided by Askew included how its co-investments with In-Q-Tel have helped the unit, while he also explained the … Continue reading "17 June 2019 – GE Ventures to Sell its Portfolio"

In Episode 45 Tommy addresses deplatforming. In 2016 the Intercept reported that In-Q-Tel had funneled money to social media companies in exchange for access to user data for the purpose of spying on average people. Is this proof that social media companies are nothing but extensions of the intelligence agencies? 

This week, we welcome Ferruh Mavituna, CEO and Founder at our sponsor Netsparker, to talk about centralization of web application security in large enterprises! In the Enterprise News, Atos launches a new unified cloud identity and access management solution, ExtraHop announces new panorama partner program, SysDig and In-Q-Tel partnership to provide U.S. government agencies with the SysDig Cloud Native VSP, and LogRhythm releases a Cloud Based NextGen SIEM platform! In our final segment, we talk about Enterprise Open-Source Firewalls!   To learn more about Netsparker, visit: https://netsparker.com/securityweekly Full Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/ES_Episode137 Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes!   Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly

This week, we welcome Ferruh Mavituna, CEO and Founder at our sponsor Netsparker, to talk about centralization of web application security in large enterprises! In the Enterprise News, Atos launches a new unified cloud identity and access management solution, ExtraHop announces new panorama partner program, SysDig and In-Q-Tel partnership to provide U.S. government agencies with the SysDig Cloud Native VSP, and LogRhythm releases a Cloud Based NextGen SIEM platform! In our final segment, we talk about Enterprise Open-Source Firewalls!   To learn more about Netsparker, visit: https://netsparker.com/securityweekly Full Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/ES_Episode137 Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes!   Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly

In the news, Atos launches a new unified cloud identity and access management solution, ExtraHop announces new panorama partner program, SysDig and In-Q-Tel partnership to provide U.S. government agencies with the SysDig Cloud Native VSP, and LogRhythm releases a Cloud Based NextGen SIEM platform! Full Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/ES_Episode137 Visit https://securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes!

In the news, Atos launches a new unified cloud identity and access management solution, ExtraHop announces new panorama partner program, SysDig and In-Q-Tel partnership to provide U.S. government agencies with the SysDig Cloud Native VSP, and LogRhythm releases a Cloud Based NextGen SIEM platform! Full Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/ES_Episode137 Visit https://securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes!

If you enjoy listening to my podcast, please take a minute to leave a review here! As many of you know, I like to choose podcast topics that are at the forefront in the minds of my audience. I also like to interview leaders who inspire me. When I was looking for a new podcast guest for my show, I asked my CTO at RedZone, James Crifasi, if there was someone he knew in security that he really respected – that stood out for him as a leader in the industry. James recommended Dmitriy Ayrapetov, Executive Director of Product Management at SonicWall. Since RedZone has been a SonicWall partner for many years, I knew Dmitriy, and I knew that he represented most of the network security products that we work with. Luckily, he agreed to come on the show. My conversation with Dmitriy ranges from philosophical to tactical and technical especially with his positions on Machine Learning and AI with security. We discuss a variety of topics including, who are his mentors and what does a product manager do at a high-profile security company like SonicWall? One interesting discussion centered around the thought that, “Humans will always make mistakes – human mistakes are one of the main issues with security. Knowing that we will never fix 100% of the problems of security today, and that we have a massive likelihood of a security breach happening,” – I asked Dmitriy “How can you approach this problem?” Key Points of Interest in This Episode: How Dmitriy researches and keeps on the pulse of security How his mind works when he is thinking of how his customers will be impacted by security Who are his mentors? What would he focus on if he was a startup founder? How would I want to react if I was a customer? Are your security vendors as concerned about business continuity as you are? I think you will really appreciate Dmitriy’s philosophy for CIOs and CISOs – in particular, his thoughts on human mistakes. He believes that since human mistakes can’t be prevented, that you must realize the need for continuity of the business and be prepared for them. With this, I want to welcome you to my interview with Dmitriy Ayrapetov. Major Take-Aways From This Episode: In this podcast we discuss cutting edge strategies with security: sandboxing, block until verdict, remediation and roll back. What does a product manager do at a high-profile security company like SonicWall? o Find people’s problems and bring these engineered solutions to market Evolution of Security – Block first, then ask questions later. Staying current with security is imperative with a current approach centered on business continuation. New ways of thinking – Prevention vs. Continuity, continuous operations like auto-rollback functions. Supply Chain Attacks – Next Gen behavior analytics which led us into an industry education on old fashioned heuristics vs. machine learning and AI. Read Full Transcript Here About Dmitriy Ayrapetov: Dmitriy Ayrapetov has been with SonicWall for over 13 years. He is currently the Executive Director of Product Management at SonicWall, in charge of product security. Prior to this position, Dmitriy held product management and engineering roles at SonicWall and at enKoo Inc., an SSL VPN startup acquired by SonicWall in 2005. As a cybersecurity expert, he speaks at industry conferences including, RSA, Gartner Security Summit, Dell World and is a regular presence at SonicWall’s annual partner conference Peak Performance. Dmitriy holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley and a BA in Cognitive Science at UC Berkeley. You can see all the SonicWall products Dmitriy has had his hand on since the beginning. • Network Security • Firewalls • FTDMI – Automation and Security • SonicWall ips Series • Client Capture – rollback • Email Security How to get in touch with Dmitriy Ayrapetov LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Key Resources + Links Link to Dmitriy’s SonicWall blog page:  https://blog.sonicwall.com/authors/dmitriy-ayrapetov/ • Blog, pub. 9/12/2018: Botnets Targeting Obsolete Software • Blog, pub. 2/13/2017: Practical Defense for Cyber Attacks + Lessons from 2017 SonicWall Annual Threat Report Other SonicWall blog pages that cover suggested topics of discussion listed above: • Sonic Wall Threat Intelligence blog page: https://blog.sonicwall.com/categories/threat-intelligence/ • Annual and mid-year cyber threat reports: https://brandfolder.com/s/pix4u8-fllsa0-f5587c Other presentations and videos by Dmitriy Ayrapetov: SonicWall Roadmap and Industry Trends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0vAqko1E2s, pub. July 13, 2018 2018 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report – Webcast: https://www.sonicwallsales.com/Video.aspx?code=KJSCK7 RSA Presentation 2017: The Strategic Advantage of Adaptive Multi-Engine Advanced Threat Protection (this is a pdf file of the slide presentation) Learn How to Detect and Prevent Malicious Files with SonicWall Capture ATP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55tw20crqhk, pub. Sept 1, 2017. Also, published as a webinar through BrightTALK, Sept 19, 2017 How SonicWall SuperMassive Next-Gen Firewall Series ensures that every byte of every packet coming into and going out of your network is inspected while maintaining high-performance and low latency: https://www.facebook.com/SonicWall/videos/10155323557848859/, pub. Aug 17, 2017 Other resources mentioned in the Podcast, provided by Dmitriy Ayrapetov: There are two people that Dmitriy mentioned as thought leaders in the field: one of them is well known, Bruce Schneier, an internationally renowned security technologist; while the other is less known, Dan Geer, CISO at In-Q-Tel. Bruce provides a lot of industry as well as practical advice on his website: https://www.schneier.com/. Dan’s keynote at Black Hat 2014 was, in my opinion, direction setting. It was one of the highest signal to noise ratio keynotes that I’ve ever heard and I still come back to it from time to time. It’s very dense, and is based on an essay that he authored. Black Hat Keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT-TGvYOBpI Essay: http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt Dan has many other essays/keynotes and your listeners can find them on his website: http://geer.tinho.net/pubs The book that Dmitriy mentioned early in the podcast is Hacking Exposed –they’re on the 7th edition now. I’m not “recommending” the book, I just referenced it as something that piqued my curiosity in security early on. This episode is sponsored by the CIO Scoreboard, a powerful tool that helps you communicate the status of your IT Security program visually in just a few minutes. Credits: * Outro music provided by Ben’s Sound Other Ways To Listen to the Podcast iTunes | Libsyn | Soundcloud | RSS | LinkedIn Leave a Review If you enjoyed this episode, then please consider leaving an iTunes review here. Click here for instructions on how to leave an iTunes review if you’re doing this for the first time. About Bill Murphy Bill Murphy is a world renowned IT Security Expert dedicated to your success as an IT business leader. Follow Bill on LinkedIn and Twitter.

In this week's episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Glenn Gaffney, current Executive Vice President of strategic intelligence investor In-Q-Tel and former head of the CIA's Science and Technology Directorate. Morell and Gaffney discuss space as an area of strategic, scientific, intelligence and military competition with Russia and China, and assess the United States' current positioning. They also review existing and future cyber threats to the U.S., which Gaffney explains are expanding and evolving with alarming rapidity.

Google's contract with the Pentagon for Project Maven — a controversial drone imaging program that uses artificial intelligence — prompted over 4,000 Google employees to sign a petition opposing the project, and about a dozen workers resigned in protest. In response, Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene announced that the contract will not be extended, and that “there will be no follow-on to Maven.” Yasha Levine has covered Silicon Valley for years, and his new book Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet (PublicAffairs, February 6, 2018) details Google's fifteen-year history of selling search, mapping, and satellite imagery services to the Defense Department and a number of intelligence agencies. Levine notes that the complete name of Maven is “Algorithmic Warfare Cross-functional Team: Project Maven” and its purpose is to improve object identification for use in drone warfare. He also wonders how so many Google employees could have been unaware of their company's deep involvement in military contracting through a subsidiary called Google Federal. He explains that Google Federal, based near the CIA in Reston, VA, originated in 2004 with Google's acquisition of a startup called Keyhole. Keyhole was midwifed by the CIA's venture capital operation, In-Q-Tel. Keyhole's CEO, Rob Painter, had deep connections to military and intelligence agencies, as well as to the vendors that compete for intel contracts worth an estimated $42 billion annually; Painter now runs Google Federal. While Levine allows that some Google employees might be unaware of the military and intel work of the company, it's widely known in Silicon Valley that most tech giants are deeply involved in these kinds of government contracts.

In today’s episode we hear from three women working in cybersecurity intelligence. We’ll learn about their sometimes indirect journeys toward tech, challenges they faced along the way, and we’ll get their advice for navigating what is still a male-dominated field. Emily Wilson is director of analysis at Terbium Labs, where she leads a team focused on exploring and analyzing data from the dark web. Lauren Zabierek is a senior analyst with Recorded Future, providing threat intelligence for its customers. Teresa Shea is currently an executive vice president at In-Q-Tel. Prior to that she spent 35 years at the NSA, rising to the role of director of signals intelligence before retiring from the agency in 2015.

On March 11, 2005, President George W. Bush announced his intention to nominate Griffin to serve as the 11th Administrator of NASA. He was confirmed by the Senate on April 13, 2005 and served until January 20, 2009. Griffin knew NASA well. He had been NASA’s associate administrator for exploration in the early 1990s, as well as its chief engineer. Griffin holds seven academic degrees—a BA in physics from Johns Hopkins University, a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland, and a handful of Master’s degrees. He previously served as deputy for technology at the strategic defense initiative organization (SDIO) in the Pentagon.  Griffin’s career has also included academic and corporate positions. He was an eminent scholar and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Alabama-Huntsville and space department head at the Applied Physics Laboratory at John Hopkins. Griffin was also president and chief operating officer at In-Q-Tel, a private, nonprofit enterprise funded by the Central Intelligence Agency to identify and invest in companies developing cutting-edge technologies that serve national security interests. Griffin held leadership positions in as well as the Orbital Sciences Corp and technical positions at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and at Computer Sciences Corporation. Time magazine named Griffin one of its 100 most influential people in 2008. In his spare time, Griffin enjoys flying and is a certified flight instructor. He’s also a voracious reader and an avid golfer. On August 14, 2012, the Schafer Corporation announced that Griffin would assume the role of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at the company. Griffin has also been a guest lecturer at IHMC in Pensacola, where in 2009, he delivered a lecture entitled “What the Hubble Space Telescope Teaches Us About Ourselves:” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvMdORG8OyU. In this episode, STEM-Talk host Dawn Kernagis monitors an interview conducted by co-hosts Ken Ford and Tom Jones, both of whom have a long-standing professional relationship with Griffin. 1:09: Ford calls Mike Griffin “a remarkable fellow.” Griffin’s work has spanned academia, government and industry. He holds six graduate degrees and was working on his seventh when President George W. Bush selected him to serve as the eleventh NASA administrator. 2:35: Dawn reads a five-star iTunes review from “Meatballs Mom” entitled “Thumbs up.” “I downloaded this in order to feel intellectually superior to my peers. It’s totally working.” 3:00: Dawn describes Griffin’s career and educational accomplishments. 5:13: Dawn introduces Mike Griffin, along with hosts Ford and Jones. 6:03: Griffin’ interest in science was sparked by the first book, called “A Child’s Book of Stars,” that his mother gave him for Christmas in 1954, when he was five years old. 7:50: “I was already fully committed to a career in math and science and space long before I got to high school,” Griffin recalls, also noting an influential physics teacher in high school who encouraged him on that path. 8:25: “My career has gone back and forth between and among DOD space, civil space, robotic scientific space craft and missions and human space flight.” 8:50: Griffin notes that one of the highlights of his career was being chief engineer for the first space intercept mission accomplished against a booster in powered flight as part of early missile defense program under President Ronald Reagan. 12:08: “Possibly the coolest job that I’ve ever had,” Griffin says, was as President of In-Q-Tel, which he loosely categorizes as the CIA’s venture capital company. “The CIA didn’t have access to the hi-tech of Silicon Valley, so the non-profit was chartered by Congress to allow that access. It was an extraordinarily eye-opening and exciting adventure,” he says, adding that they helped create Google Earth. 14:22: Griffin had an early hunch that he would w...

This time On the Road at the 2016 ABA Annual Meeting, host Joe Patrice speaks with Alsop Louie Partners “partner” Gilman Louie, Electronic Privacy Information Center President and Executive Director Marc Rotenberg, and Advisory Committee for the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security Chair Harvey Rishikof about emergent technology’s effect on law enforcement and national security. Mark shares that listening to the FBI director talk about the problems he’s encountering with encryption and how these issues make it more difficult for law enforcement agencies to gain access to evidence was a very interesting portion of the “Emerging Issues in Law Enforcement and National Security” panel. He states that It’s better to have stronger encryption because we’re no longer simply talking about privacy and surveillance, but rather the internet of things and you want that to be secure because it's a matter of public safety. Gilman emphasizes that law enforcement agencies have many more tools today than they did 10 or 15 years ago simply because of digital exhaust and that, despite challenges to reading encrypted messages, it’s very hard to operate without leaving a digital footprint. Harvey explains that cyber threats fall into four categories: criminals, “hacktavists”, espionage, and war, and that delineating those statutory regimes is incredibly complicated. The group discusses why tracking, attributing, and classifying cyber attacks requires such caution, and they close the interview with an analysis of machine learning and online algorithmic transparency. Gilman Louie is a partner at Alsop Louie Partners and the founder and former CEO of In-Q-Tel, a strategic venture fund created to help enhance national security by connecting the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. intelligence community with venture-backed entrepreneurial companies. He completed the Advanced Management Program/International Seniors Management Program at Harvard Business School and received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from San Francisco State University. Marc Rotenberg is president and executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC. He teaches information privacy and open government at Georgetown Law and frequently testifies before Congress on emerging privacy and civil liberties issues. He testified before the 9-11 Commission on "Security and Liberty: Protecting Privacy, Preventing Terrorism." He has served on several national and international advisory panels, and currently serves on expert panels for the National Academies of Science and the OECD. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Law School, and received an LLM in International and Comparative Law. Harvey Rishikof is currently chair of the Advisory Committee for the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security and serves on the Board of Visitors for the National Intelligence University (NIU). He was a Professor of Law and National Security Studies at the National War College (NWC) in Washington, DC. and is the former chair of the Department of National Security Strategy at the NWC. He specializes in the areas of national security, civil and military courts, terrorism, international law, civil liberties, and the U.S. Constitution.

David Roberts is regarded as one of the world’s top experts on disruptive innovation and exponentially advancing technology. His passion is to help transform the lives of a billion suffering people in the world through disruptive innovation. David served as Vice President of Singularity University and two-time Director (and alum) of the Global Solutions Program. He is an award winning CEO and serial entrepreneur, and has started ventures backed with over $100 million of investment from Kleiner Perkins, Vinod Khosla, Cisco, Oracle, Accenture, In-Q-Tel, and others. He is the recipient of numerous awards and medals and has led the development of some of the most complex, state-of-the art systems ever built, to include satellites, drones, and fusion centers. He also worked as an Investment Banker in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Goldman Sachs Headquarters. He received his B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering from M.I.T. was a Distinguished Graduate, and majored in Artificial Intelligence and Bio-Computer Engineering. He holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. David is Chairman at HaloDrop, a revolutionary global drone services company, Chairman at 1QBit the world’s first software company for quantum computers, and is a formal adviser to Made-In-Space, responsible for manufacturing the first object in Space with a 3D printer on the Space Station. Harvard, Stanford, and Berkeley’s Business schools have all written and taught case studies on David’s leadership, management, and decision making. He has been featured on the cover of the Wall Street Journal, and in USA Today, Fortune Magazine, The New York Times, Business Week, CNN, and dozens of others. His startups have received many awards to include Internet World’s Net Rising Stars, Red Herring’s Catch, top 50 Private Companies in the World, Red Herring Top 100 Private Companies in the World, USA Today’s Tech Reviews Best Picks, Internet Outlook’s Investors Choice Award, Enterprise Outlook... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Charles Hudson is the Managing Partner with Precursor Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on first check investments in strong teams developing innovative hardware and software products and services. Prior to founding Precursor, Charles was a Partner with SoftTech VC, one of the most active seed stage investors in Internet and mobile startups. Prior to SoftTech, Hudson spent time at Google,  IronPort Systems, and In-Q-Tel.   In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How did Charles made his way into VC from working with the CIA? What were Charles biggest takeaways from his operational experience? 2.) Why have we seen the rise of the solo GP fund? What tools and services can be used by solo GPs to make their lives easier? 3.) Chris Sacca said, 'you have to be a moron to launch a solo VC fund'. What does Charles think about this and what was it about Precursor that made him want to leave SoftTech? 4.) How does Charles' market requirements change now as a pre seed investor, a 100m exit is excellent. Do you you still need unicorns? 5.) How does Charles look to differentiate with Precursor in the sea of emerging VC funds? What is the most important thing for him about pr-seed investing? 6.) What is Charles' vision for Precursor? What would success look like for him? Items Mentioned In Today’s Episode:  Charles' Fave Book: Alec Ross: Industries of The Future Charles' Fave Blog: The Information   As always you can follow The Twenty Minute VC, Harry and Charles on Twitter here! If you would like to see a more colourful side to Harry with many a mojito session, you can follow him on Instagram here!   The Twenty Minute VC is brought to you by Leesa, the Warby Parker or TOMS shoes of the mattress industry. Lees have done away with the terrible mattress showroom buying experience by creating a luxury premium foam mattress that is order completely online and ships for free to your doorstep. The 10 inch mattress comes in all sizes and is engineered with 3 unique foam layers for a universal, adaptive feel, including 2 inches of memory foam and 2 inches of a really cool latex foam called Avena, design to keep you cool. All Leesa mattresses are 100% US or UK made and for every 10 mattresses they sell, they donate one to a shelter. Go to Leesa.com/VC and enter the promo code VC75 to get $75 off!

In our sixty-seventh episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker, Alan Cohn, Michael Vatis, and Jason Weinstein are joined by Dan Geer, Chief Information Security Officer at In-Q-Tel. They discuss: this week in NSA: what’s on top this week for the 215 metadata program; border laptop searches; an FTC FOIA case; hacking airplanes in flight; FBI’s Stingray guidance; and the first anniversary of the “Right to be Forgotten.” In our second half we have an interview with Dan Geer, a legendary computer security commentator and current CISO for In-Q-Tel. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of the firm.

In this episode Who is Dan Geer (just in case you live in a cave and don't know) Dan's definition of security - "The absence of unmitigatable surprise" What exactly is the pinnacle goal of security engineering? Responsibility, liability and when software fails as a result of security issues In a liability lawsuit - "What did you know, when did you know it?" The fraction of the population who could sign an "informed consent" is falling - so now what? Why ICANN is actually making all of this so much worse What do we do about "abandoned software"? Fixing security bugs in software is a tricky business...good, bad, worse Are things getting better [in security]? Dan talks about a "diversity re-compiler" and how we can make the exploit writer's job harder (from Jason White) -What "low hanging fruit" issues are we simply not addressing properly right now? (from Jason White) If the Internet were being built from scratch today, what would you keep and throw away? Guest Dan Geer - Dan Geer is a computer security analyst and risk management specialist. He is recognized for raising awareness of critical computer and network security issues before the risks were widely understood, and for ground-breaking work on the economics of security.Geer is currently the chief information security officer for In-Q-Tel, a not-for-profit venture capital firm that invests in technology to support the Central Intelligence Agency.In 2003, Geer's 24-page report entitled "CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly" was released by the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA). The paper argued that Microsoft's dominance of desktop computer operating systems is a threat to national security. Geer was fired (from consultancy @Stake) the day the report was made public. Geer has cited subsequent changes in the Vista operating system (notably a location-randomization feature) as evidence that Microsoft "accepted the paper." --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Geer

This episode was released on January 25th, 2013:In December 2012 the FBI confirmed what longtime activists knew, that the corporate state and the intelligence community are in bed together.  Now it is time to take a look at who is doing the domestic spying on not just OWS , but activists and citizens all over this country.  An article over at Defense News and a video report from This Week in Defense News reveal that the CIA has its own venture capital firm (In-Q-Tel) to get in with social media companies and Twitter sells a product call "the full Twitter firehose" to the intelligence community and to private multinational companies.  What does the CIA, FBI, NSA, DIA, OICI, I&A, INR, INSCOM, Boeing, Northrop Grummand, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin do with all this information? [Click to Listen]

In December 2012 the FBI confirmed what longtime activists knew, that the corporate state and the intelligence community are in bed together.  Now it is time to take a look at who is doing the domestic spying on not just OWS , but activists and citizens all over this country.  An article over at Defense News and a video report from This Week in Defense News reveal that the CIA has its own venture capital firm (In-Q-Tel) to get in with social media companies and Twitter sells a product call "the full Twitter firehose" to the intelligence community and to private multinational companies.  What does the CIA, FBI, NSA, DIA, OICI, I&A, INR, INSCOM, Boeing, Northrop Grummand, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin do with all this information? [Click to Listen]

mit Yoran Amit Yoran led the management buyout of NetWitness from ManTech in 2006 and serves as the Chairman and CEO. Prior to NetWitness, he was appointed as Director of the National Cyber Security Division of Homeland Security, and as CEO and advisor to In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA. Formerly Mr Yoran served as the Vice President of Worldwide Managed Security Services at the Symantec Corporation. Mr. Yoran was the co-founder of Riptech, a market leading IT security company, and served as its CEO until the company was acquired by Symantec in 2002. He served as an officer in the United States Air Force in the Department of Defense's Computer Emergency Response Team. www.netwitness.com Kevin Nixon Kevin Nixon has over 25 years experience in MIS design and development, Information Security, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery and US and European Regulatory Compliance. He joined Datacastle in January 2008 as the Director of Security Business Strategy & Product Marketing. Kevin was responsible for public policy review and compliance analysis. He educates corporate management and staff on pending and existing technology legislation relevant to client employees, customers, partners, and vendors. In his role, Kevin has testified before the Republican High Tech Task Force, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee & the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and several infrastructure security boards and committees including: * Disaster Recovery Workgroup for the Office of Homeland Security (under Richard Clarke, Special Advisor to the President for Cyberspace Security and Chairman of the Critical Infrastructure Protection Board) * Executive Board of the Internet Security Alliance (ISA) * Chairman of the Best Practices Information Security Management Committee, ISA * Executive Board Member of the Accredited Standards Committee, X9, Inc., the only industry-wide forum that brings together bankers, securities professionals, manufacturers, regulators, associations, consultants, and others in the financial services arena to address technical problems, find the best solutions, and codify them as nationally accepted standards. * US TC68-SC2 & US TC68-SC6 Delegation Member to the International Standards Organization (ISO) on Financial Data Protection, Privacy and Security Standards * Consultant to the Federal Trade Commission on the roll out of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACTA) on web security best practices for the AnnualCreditReport.com website * Appeared as Cyber-terrorism Expert on CNBC?s Squawk Box with Mark Haines Kevin served as Director of Information Systems Security & Business Continuity at Alliance Data Systems and as the Banking Security Officer of World Financial Network National Bank. Kevin has held positions for oversight of all regulatory compliance, data security, and data privacy issues as well as; compliance with FFIEC Banking Regulations and directed the OCC & SAS 70 Audits for the corporation. From 1984 until 1997, Kevin worked for AMR AA/SABRE where he held various management positions of increasing responsibility. In 1995, Kevin managed the SABRE division's implementation and compliance to all European Union & European Commission regulations for Computerized Reservation Systems, which also included external audit management, and all SABRE contract management. Kevin is known for building strategic alliances, converting complicated regulatory and compliance language and translating it into common sense, easy to understand solutions. Kevin is a Master Security Architect (MSA); a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP); a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and attended the SMU Cox School of Business. Contact Information: Kevin M. Nixon, MSA, CISSP, CISM Mobile (214) 649-6305 E-mail: Kevin.Nixon@datacastlecorp.com Company Webpage: http://www.datacastlecorp.com Media Relations Contact: media@datacastlecorp

"Interpreted, dynamically-typed, and object-oriented languages like Ruby and Python are very good for many programming task in my opinion. Such languages have many benefits from rapid, easy development to increased security against memory allocation and manipulation related vulnerabilities. However, choice of programming language alone does not guarantee the resulting software written in the language will be free of security vulnerabilities, which is an obvious point, but the sources of the potential vulnerabilities may not be obvious at all. Ruby is an elegant and powerful language that supports concepts like reflection and meta-programming. As more developers use the powerful features, more layers of the language implementation get exposed. In the presentation, I will review several vulnerabilities found in Ruby and its standard libraries, some publicly disclosed and others reported privately to the core Ruby developers. The focus of the vulnerability review is to highlight the different levels of the language implementation that need to be audited to identify vulnerabilities for a given application based on the complexity of the language features used. Though Ruby is the example language used in the presentation, the concepts extend to most interpreted languages commonly used today. Dominique Brezinski, resident technologist at Black Hat, has spent the last few years thinking about and implementing advanced intrusion detection and response at the operating system level. His background in security spans the last decade and includes extensive experience in protocol and software vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, software research and development, and operations/incident response in large-scale computing environments. Dominique's former employers include Amazon.com, Decru, In-Q-Tel, Secure Computing Corporation, Internet Security Systems, CyberSafe, and Microsoft."

Gilman Louie, President and Chief Executive Officer, In-Q-Tel The challenge of creating an innovative, new business model aimed at enhancing national security convinced Gilman Louie to join In-Q-Tel as its first president and chief executive officer. In this role, Gilman has focused on refining and evolving In-Q-Tel's innovative model, identifying and exploring exciting new developments in technology, and, perhaps most importantly, recruiting and developing a leading team of technologists, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and strategic visionaries that share a passion for In-Q-Tel's mission.

Gilman Louie, President and Chief Executive Officer, In-Q-Tel The challenge of creating an innovative, new business model aimed at enhancing national security convinced Gilman Louie to join In-Q-Tel as its first president and chief executive officer. In this role, Gilman has focused on refining and evolving In-Q-Tel's innovative model, identifying and exploring exciting new developments in technology, and, perhaps most importantly, recruiting and developing a leading team of technologists, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and strategic visionaries that share a passion for In-Q-Tel's mission.

2007 held numerous watershed events for the security industry. Innovation is needed and the money is there. Come to this session and meet the VCs actively investing in security, web, and mobile applications. Learn how VCs see the future, what they are looking for, and how best to utilize them to further your innovations. This session will conclude with a announcement about the Black Hat/DEFCON Open, a business plan competition focused on innovations in security; winners will be announced at Black Hat 2008 and DEFCON 16. Brad Stone, New York Times technology correspondent Brad Stone joined the New York Times in December 2006. He covers Internet trends from the newspapers San Francisco bureau. In addition to writing for the paper, he contributes to the Times technology blog, Bits. >From 1998 to November 2006, Stone served as the Silicon Valley Correspondent for Newsweek magazine, writing for the technology and business sections of the magazine and authoring a regular column, Plain Text, on our evolving digital lifestyles. He joined the Newsweek writing staff in 1996 as a general assignment reporter and covered a wide range of subjects. He wrote about Mark McGwire's home run chase during the summer of 1998, the jury deliberations in the Timothy McVeigh trial, and profiled authors such as Kurt Vonnegut. He is also a frequent contributor to Wired magazine, and has written for publications such as More magazine and the Sunday Telegraph in London. Brad graduated from Columbia University in 1993 and is originally from Cleveland, Ohio. Patrick Chung, Partner, NEA Patrick joined NEA as an Associate in 2004 and became Partner in 2007. Patrick focuses on venture growth equity, consumer, Internet, and mobile investments. He is a director of Loopt and Realtime Worlds, and is actively involved with 23andMe, Xoom and the firm's venture growth activities. Prior to joining NEA, Patrick helped to grow ZEFER, an Internet services firm (acquired by NEC) to more than $100 million in annual revenues and more than 700 people across six global offices. The company attracted over $100 million in venture capital financing. Prior to ZEFER, Patrick was with McKinsey & Company, where he specialized in hardware, software, and services companies. Patrick received a joint JD-MBA degree from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, where he was the only candidate in his year to earn honors at both. He also served as an Editor of the Harvard Law Review. Patrick was one of only nine Canadian citizens to be elected a Commonwealth Scholar to study at Oxford University, where he earned a Master of Science degree and won both class prizes for Best Dissertation and Best Overall Performance. Patrick earned his A.B. degree at Harvard University in Environmental Science. He is a member of the New York and Massachusettsbars. Maria Cirino, Co-Founder and Managing Director, .406 Ventures Maria is co-founder and managing director of .406 Ventures, a new VC firm focused on early stage investments in security, IT, and services. She serves as an active investor, director and/or chairman in one public company and four venture-backed companies including Verecode and Bit9. Maria brings 21 years of entrepreneurial, operating and senior management experience in venture-backed technology companies. Most recently, she served as an SVP of Verisign following its 2005 $142 million acquisition of Guardenta Sequoia, Charles River Ventures and NEA-backed IT security company that she co-founded and led as CEO and Chairman. In this role, Maria received several industry honors and awards, including "Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2003." Prior to Guardent, Maria was Senior Vice President responsible for sales and marketing at i-Cube, an IT services company, which was acquired in 1999 by Razorfish for $1.8 billion. Prior to Razorfish, she was responsible for North American sales at Shiva, the category creating network infrastructure company from 1993 to 1997. Mark McGovern, Tech Lead, In-Q-Tel Mark McGovern leads the communications and infrastructure practice for In-Q-Tel, the strategic investment firm that supports the U.S. Intelligence Community. He has extensive experience developing, securing and deploying data systems. Prior to joining In-Q-Tel, Mr. McGovern was Director of Technology for Cigital Inc. He led Cigital's software security group and supported a Fortune 100 clientele that included Microsoft, MasterCard International, CitiBank, Symantec, CheckFree, the UK National Lottery and the Federal Reserve Banks of Richmond, New York and Boston. Earlier in his career, Mr. McGovern worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. Mr. McGovern holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an M.S. in Systems Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Dov Yoran is a Partner at Security Growth Partners (SGP). Prior to joining SGP, Mr. Yoran was Vice President for Strategic Alliances at Solutionary, Inc. a leading Managed Security Services Provider. He was responsible for all partnerships, global channel revenue and marketing efforts. Previously, at Symantec Corporation, Mr. Yoran managed the Services Partner Program, having global responsibility for creating, launching and managing the partner re-seller program. This program generated over 50% of Symantec Services revenue, with a partner base expanding across six continents. Mr. Yoran came to Symantec as part of the Riptech, Inc. acquisition, in a $145 Million transaction that ranked in the top 2% of all technology mergers in 2002. Riptech was the leading managed security services firm that monitored and protected its client base on a 24x7 basis. At Riptech, he spearheaded the channel strategy, marketing and sales operations, growing the reseller program to over 50% of the company's revenue. Prior to that, Mr. Yoran has worked in several technology start-ups as well as Accenture (formerly Anderson Consulting) where he focused on technolog and strategy engagements in the Financial Services Industry. Mr. Yoran has also written and lectured on several Information Security topics. He holds a Masters of Science in Engineering Management and System Engineering with a concentration in Information Security Management from the George Washington University and is a cum laude Bachelor of Science in Chemistry graduate from Tufts University.

2007 held numerous watershed events for the security industry. Innovation is needed and the money is there. Come to this session and meet the VCs actively investing in security, web, and mobile applications. Learn how VCs see the future, what they are looking for, and how best to utilize them to further your innovations. This session will conclude with a announcement about the Black Hat/DEFCON Open, a business plan competition focused on innovations in security; winners will be announced at Black Hat 2008 and DEFCON 16. Brad Stone, New York Times technology correspondent Brad Stone joined the New York Times in December 2006. He covers Internet trends from the newspapers San Francisco bureau. In addition to writing for the paper, he contributes to the Times technology blog, Bits. >From 1998 to November 2006, Stone served as the Silicon Valley Correspondent for Newsweek magazine, writing for the technology and business sections of the magazine and authoring a regular column, Plain Text, on our evolving digital lifestyles. He joined the Newsweek writing staff in 1996 as a general assignment reporter and covered a wide range of subjects. He wrote about Mark McGwire's home run chase during the summer of 1998, the jury deliberations in the Timothy McVeigh trial, and profiled authors such as Kurt Vonnegut. He is also a frequent contributor to Wired magazine, and has written for publications such as More magazine and the Sunday Telegraph in London. Brad graduated from Columbia University in 1993 and is originally from Cleveland, Ohio. Patrick Chung, Partner, NEA Patrick joined NEA as an Associate in 2004 and became Partner in 2007. Patrick focuses on venture growth equity, consumer, Internet, and mobile investments. He is a director of Loopt and Realtime Worlds, and is actively involved with 23andMe, Xoom and the firm's venture growth activities. Prior to joining NEA, Patrick helped to grow ZEFER, an Internet services firm (acquired by NEC) to more than $100 million in annual revenues and more than 700 people across six global offices. The company attracted over $100 million in venture capital financing. Prior to ZEFER, Patrick was with McKinsey & Company, where he specialized in hardware, software, and services companies. Patrick received a joint JD-MBA degree from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, where he was the only candidate in his year to earn honors at both. He also served as an Editor of the Harvard Law Review. Patrick was one of only nine Canadian citizens to be elected a Commonwealth Scholar to study at Oxford University, where he earned a Master of Science degree and won both class prizes for Best Dissertation and Best Overall Performance. Patrick earned his A.B. degree at Harvard University in Environmental Science. He is a member of the New York and Massachusettsbars. Maria Cirino, Co-Founder and Managing Director, .406 Ventures Maria is co-founder and managing director of .406 Ventures, a new VC firm focused on early stage investments in security, IT, and services. She serves as an active investor, director and/or chairman in one public company and four venture-backed companies including Verecode and Bit9. Maria brings 21 years of entrepreneurial, operating and senior management experience in venture-backed technology companies. Most recently, she served as an SVP of Verisign following its 2005 $142 million acquisition of Guardenta Sequoia, Charles River Ventures and NEA-backed IT security company that she co-founded and led as CEO and Chairman. In this role, Maria received several industry honors and awards, including "Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2003." Prior to Guardent, Maria was Senior Vice President responsible for sales and marketing at i-Cube, an IT services company, which was acquired in 1999 by Razorfish for $1.8 billion. Prior to Razorfish, she was responsible for North American sales at Shiva, the category creating network infrastructure company from 1993 to 1997. Mark McGovern, Tech Lead, In-Q-Tel Mark McGovern leads the communications and infrastructure practice for In-Q-Tel, the strategic investment firm that supports the U.S. Intelligence Community. He has extensive experience developing, securing and deploying data systems. Prior to joining In-Q-Tel, Mr. McGovern was Director of Technology for Cigital Inc. He led Cigital's software security group and supported a Fortune 100 clientele that included Microsoft, MasterCard International, CitiBank, Symantec, CheckFree, the UK National Lottery and the Federal Reserve Banks of Richmond, New York and Boston. Earlier in his career, Mr. McGovern worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. Mr. McGovern holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an M.S. in Systems Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Dov Yoran is a Partner at Security Growth Partners (SGP). Prior to joining SGP, Mr. Yoran was Vice President for Strategic Alliances at Solutionary, Inc. a leading Managed Security Services Provider. He was responsible for all partnerships, global channel revenue and marketing efforts. Previously, at Symantec Corporation, Mr. Yoran managed the Services Partner Program, having global responsibility for creating, launching and managing the partner re-seller program. This program generated over 50% of Symantec Services revenue, with a partner base expanding across six continents. Mr. Yoran came to Symantec as part of the Riptech, Inc. acquisition, in a $145 Million transaction that ranked in the top 2% of all technology mergers in 2002. Riptech was the leading managed security services firm that monitored and protected its client base on a 24x7 basis. At Riptech, he spearheaded the channel strategy, marketing and sales operations, growing the reseller program to over 50% of the company's revenue. Prior to that, Mr. Yoran has worked in several technology start-ups as well as Accenture (formerly Anderson Consulting) where he focused on technolog and strategy engagements in the Financial Services Industry. Mr. Yoran has also written and lectured on several Information Security topics. He holds a Masters of Science in Engineering Management and System Engineering with a concentration in Information Security Management from the George Washington University and is a cum laude Bachelor of Science in Chemistry graduate from Tufts University.