**This Week!**
Thursday 1/6 & Friday 1/7
**8:30 - 3:15pm**

**The WASTC hosted Winter ICT Educators’ Conference is returning for year #7!**

Register Here

**Overview**

**Cost:** $50 per Attendee
**Includes:** Presentations, Chat Room Discussions, Raffles & On-Demand Access will be available until 5 pm on January 14th, 2022!
**Have Questions?** Contact karen.stanton@wastc.org

**Conference Theme**

**Daytona**
Student to Professional [Workforce Development]
**Grand Prix, Monaco**
Cutting Edge [Emerging Technology]
**Le Mans, France**
Best Practices [In Teaching ICT]

**Conference CTF Competition**

So what is a CTF? CTF (Capture The Flag) is an information security competition that will challenge you to solve a variety of tasks ranging from a simple scavenger hunt of CTF fundamentals to getting your feet wet with Network Analysis, Reverse Engineering, Digital Forensics, and Cryptography. Learn about Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and how these free tools are used. The competition goal is called the flag. You need to try and capture it. There will be prizes!

**Share the News!**

There are a number of opportunities for attendees to connect and interact together during the event. Please share this flyer with your ICT peers and colleagues!
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OUR KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Olivia "Libby" Duane Adams

Olivia is the chief advocacy officer (CAO) and co-founder of Alteryx,and one of only a handful of female founders to take a technology company public, along with her founding counterparts, Dean Stoecker and Ned Harding.

+ "What’s Happening Today with McLaren Racing, and What This Means for Your Students"

Every business is experiencing a tsunami of new and diverse data. They are actively seeking knowledge workers who understand the value of data to generate keen insights for making informed business decisions. Data literacy and analytics are now required at all education levels, in every field of study. Because we know these capabilities are no longer reserved for back-office data science jobs in tech, finance, and accounting departments. Now they are needed across every job role, line of business, and industry. Come see the latest metrics around the global job demand and skills gap. Discover how McLaren is partnering with Alteryx for its business analytics, and how the Alteryx SparkED no-cost education program delivers knowledge and skills your students can leverage for career success in any field around the world.

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Libby’s vision and leadership in the creation of the world’s leading data science and analytics community is a key factor in the company’s 24-year success.

James Stanger

Dr. James Stanger is CompTIA’s Chief Technology Evangelist, and a recognized authority in security, Information Technology and open source.

+ "Fast-tracking workforce transformation: Perspectives and “mythconceptions” about creating trusted IT workers"

Whither today’s IT workforce? As technology races forward more quickly than anyone ever thought possible, it’s vital for us to re-think a few of our perceptions. There is nothing more transformative to an organization than high-quality IT education. So, let’s take a look at our useful perceptions and, also, our “mythconceptions” that are deeply engrained, and un-challenged. Some of these stand in the way of creating trusted, fully-functional IT workers. As organizations become even more tech-focused and tech-enabled, they need to rapidly determine if they can place confidence in a worker. Let’s take a closer look at the myriad elements – what I call the “IT worker trust calculus.”- that that need to align before an IT student finds that killer job and meets industry demand.

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He consults regularly with many organizations and the UK Office for Nuclear Regulation. He is chair of the C3, which coordinates efforts between ISC2, SANS GIAC, ISACA, CompTIA, the IACC, CertNexus, and divisions of the United States Federal Government.

Wendy Pfeiffer

As the CIO of Nutanix, Wendy's focus on enterprise adoption of modern technologies fuels the company's global mission.

+ "Our Robot Overlords and the Future of Tech"

AI reflects the people who build it, as much as we might want to believe in its neutrality. Hiring diverse backgrounds, disciplines, genders, races, ages and cultures into the teams designing and engineering these experiences is critical. Without inclusivity in AI, we risk constructing machine intelligence that mirrors a narrow and privileged vision of society, with its old, familiar biases and stereotypes.

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Wendy also serves on the boards of Qualys (NASDAQ: QLYS), SADA Systems and the American Gaming Association (AGA). A consumer tech enthusiast, Wendy has led technology and operational functions for Robert Half, GoPro, Yahoo! and Cisco.

Pierre Laurent

The co-creator of the award-winning documentary film, “#KidsOnTech,”, with Paul Zehrer, Pierre has an extensive background in technology and in education.

+ "#KidsOnTech - What do our students really need to learn and grow?"

It is undeniable that technology has had a profound, mostly positive effect on our society, increasing our productivity, forever changing how we work and understand the world. In education, achievement has plateaued, while investment in technology skyrocketed and yet, an OECD study revealed a country’s success in education is not measured by how much it invests in technology. Are we using technology well in education and at home? Against a media backlash of alleged screen addiction and screen time control, and a mental health crisis of unknown origin, looming large over higher education, parents and educators ask: "What is it that our students really need, to learn, grow and succeed in tomorrow digital word?"

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A Silicon Valley business executive, Pierre’s work and expertise spans business, computer science and AI, working with both large and small High-Tech companies. As Board President at the Waldorf School of the Peninsula, Pierre has been widely quoted in the international press on the impact of technology on education and children.