Mississippi Cybersecurity Faculty Retreat
Mississippi Cybersecurity Faculty Retreat
Share Solutions – Shape the Future
Join us as we build our community of cybersecurity faculty in higher ed, military, and workforce development across Mississippi on Feb 24 – 25, 2022 at our Gulf Park Campus, Hardy Hall.
Registration
Registration for the event is now closed. Please contact Dr.%20Sarah%20Lee if you have questions about attending.
Dress Code
Business casual
Featured Keynote Speakers
Meet the Speakers
Ruthe Farmer
Founder & CEO, Last Mile Education Fund
Farmer is a talent entrepreneur laser-focused on inclusion and leveraging existing infrastructure to scale change. She is the founder and CEO of the Last Mile Education Fund. She previously served as chief evangelist at CSforAll, was senior policy advisor for tech inclusion in the Obama White House, and chief strategy & growth officer at the National Center for Women & IT.
Her work has been integral to the design, launch and scaling of multiple national initiatives, including the NCWIT K-12 Alliance, Aspirations in Computing, TECHNOLOchicas, AspireIT, CSEdWeek, CS and Cyber for Girl Scouts, the CSforALL Summit, and JROTC-CS.
She served as 2012 Chair of CSEDWeek, was named a 2013 White House Champion of Change
for Technology Inclusion, received the 2014 Anita Borg Institute Award for Social
Impact, and the inaugural UK Alumni Award for Social Impact in 2015. She holds a BA
from Lewis & Clark College and an MBA from Oxford.
Rachel Wortman Morris PhD
Senior Business Program Manager - Worldwide Learning, Microsoft
Dr. Wortman Morris is the Future Skill Transformation Lead for Microsoft where she
directs the Microsoft Learn for Educators program and was the co-creator of Microsoft
AI Business School. In addition to her work at Microsoft, Dr. Wortman Morris is also
a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Washington School of Public Health.
She holds her Ph.D. in Comparative Studies from The Ohio State University as well
as degrees from Oberlin College and Middlebury College.
Curt Dennis
Senior Manager of Product Development, Secureworks
Dennis is a product manager based out of Raleigh, NC. His passion is helping companies
deliver outcomes that create client value. He does this by being a client advocate,
doing in-depth market evaluation, and looking at competing products to identify unique
ways to drive revenue while focusing on the most important thing...customer loyalty
and satisfaction.
Location
USM Gulf Park Campus, Hardy Hall
730 E Beach Blvd., Long Beach, MS 39560
Schedule
February 24, 5-7 p.m. | Hardy Hall, University Club
Networking Reception with hors d'oeuvre
February 25, 7:30 a.m., 2:00 p.m. | Hardy Hall, Ballroom
| 7:30 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. | Registration |
| 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Breakfast (Speaker: Ruthe Farmer, Last Mile Education Fund) |
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9:15 a.m. – 11 a.m. 9:10 a.m.-9:25 a.m. |
Mississippi Cyber Education Landscape Dr. George Trawick, Mississippi State University |
| 11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Speaker: Rachel Wortman Morris PhD, Microsoft |
| 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Lunch (Speaker: Curt Dennis, Secureworks) |
| 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Lt Col Jeremy Sparks, Capt Rudy Mills, TSgt Jason Marshall; USAF |
| 1:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. | LCDR Linda Magee, US Navy |
| 1:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. | Open Discussion |
| 2:30 p.m. | Wrap-up |
*Speakers are subject to change.
Host
This event is hosted by USM's School of Computing Sciences and Computer Engineering, in support of the Mississippi Cyber Initiative.
Where to Stay?
There are numerous hotels in the Mississippi Gulf Coast area, a few suggestions are
listed below. We encourage you to make your reservations early, since it will be Mardi
Gras season there will be plenty of activities happening on the Coast!
- White House Hotel, Biloxi (offering a discount to educators)
- Hampton Inn and Suites Gulfport I10
- Home2Suites Gulfport I10
- Marriott Courtyard Gulfport Beachfront, Gulfport
- SpringHill Suites Gulfport I10
Need Directions?
- Take Exit 31 at Canal Road.
- Travel south to 28th Street.
- Turn right and take a left at traffic light (Klondyke Road).
- Travel 1.4 miles south to the 3-way stop. Turn left onto Cleveland Avenue.
- Travel south on Cleveland until it intersects with Highway 90.
- Turn left onto Highway 90 and travel .5 mile. Make a left turn onto Beach Park Place to enter Gulf Park Campus.
- Keep going straight on Gulf Park Drive, you'll see Hardy Hall on your right on 102
Avenue of the Oaks.
- Turn right (heading west) onto Highway 90.
- Travel west for approximately 2.7 miles.
- Turn right onto Beach Park Place to enter Gulf Park Campus.
- Keep going straight on Gulf Park Drive, you'll see Hardy Hall on your right on 102 Avenue of the Oaks.