21st Annual Ohio Information Security Conference
March 13, 2024 
Sinclair Conference Center, Dayton
Presentation Proposal Submission Form 
Deadline: October 31, 2023
 
This event will be in-person

Theme: Own Your Cyber Offense in 2024
You know it isn’t a question of if a cyberattack will happen, it is when.
You are ready to defend your system, it's time to take it to the next level.
 
Share Your Insight and Expertise: We are calling all partners, members, and leaders to share your cybersecurity knowledge and experience through a dynamic and leading-edge presentation. This is an opportunity to share your knowledge with hundreds of cybersecurity professionals from all over the state.
 
Your presentations can range from introductory to advanced or from operational to strategic. For example:
  • Share preliminary results of on-going research
  • Sessions can be a formal presentation of a successful implementation, administrative solution, or technical solution.
  • Topic content must focus on information security and may range from introductory to advanced or from operational to strategic
  • Each program session will last 50 minutes, including 10 minutes for Q&A.
 
The audience will be managers responsible for security policy and administrative decisions and technicians responsible for security implementation and effectiveness. Attendees from all industries such as: healthcare, government, academia, manufacturing, finance, service industry, and so much more.
 
All proposals will be reviewed by the Security Conference Committee and proposal respondents will be notified of decisions on or after the end of November.
 
Speaker Expectations, Travel, and Lodging: Presenters are responsible for securing and paying for travel and lodging. Speakers are encouraged to attend the full conference. Registration fees are waived for speakers.
 
Topic Ideas:
  • Cyber Hygiene for 2024
  • Cyber Risk Quantification
  • Cybersecurity stress
  • Cyber Security Reporting to Executives including trends and forecasting.
  • Cyber insurance and alternative options
  • Phishing attacks
  • Open-Source Security Tools
  • How to Spot a Scam
  • DoD Compliance
  • Ransomware attacks: Threat detection, investigation, and response
  • Employees Taking Control: Cybersecurity Landscape
  • Building Resilience by Thinking Like a Hacker
  • A Walkthrough of a Ransomware Attack
  • Share new research in cybersecurity
  • Blockchain and Security
  • The State of Conventional Multi-factor Authentication
  • The State of Passkeys
  • Zero Trust
  • Strategies for tracking and compliance
  • How to be a Fearless Cybersecurity Leader
  • Economical Ways to Train Your People
  • Human-Centric Design
  • Legal Issues for CISOs
  • Generative AI / large language models - pros, cons, governance, security, privacy, ethics, existing applicable and emerging legislation 
  • How AI will Impact Cyber attacks
  • AI and Machine Learning
  • A Walkthrough of a Cloud Security Breach
  • Cloud Security 
  • Hardware and Software Vulnerabilities
  • Internet of Things (IoT)

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* 1. Presenter Information

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* 2. Additional Presenters (if applicable)

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* 3. How technical is your presentation?

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* 4. Does your presentation have a demonstration or a case study?

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* 5. Preferred Title for Presentation (Short, meaningful, and descriptive. Please remember the title is meant to pique interest)

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* 6. Years of experience in this topic

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* 7. Prior speaking experience (list event, video links, YouTube, etc. as applicable)

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* 8. What will attendee learn and why should they attend your session?

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* 9. Has the content been presented elsewhere?

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* 10. Presentation Abstract - Include an abstract of no more than 600 characters. If your proposal is accepted, this abstract will serve as marketing material and appear on the conference Web site and in the onsite program. Please be concise, accurate, and specific with your writing so you provide enough information to the selection committee.

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* 11. Presentation Outline - Please provide a basic, high level outline of your presentation. This will give the selection committee more information about your approach and presentation content.

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* 12. Speaker Biography - Include a biography of no more than 500 characters that explains the qualifications of the speaker to present on this subject. This bio will be used in marketing materials.

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* 13. Add additional Speaker Biography - Include a biography of no more than 500 characters that explains the qualifications of the speaker to present on this subject. This bio will be used in marketing materials.

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* 14. Add additional Speaker Biography - Include a biography of no more than 500 characters that explains the qualifications of the speaker to present on this subject. This bio will be used in marketing materials.

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* 15. Does your company provide technology services/solutions?

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* 16. If "Yes", would your company consider sponsoring the conference? 

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