Bio-Cybersecurity Student Challenge Orientation
Speakers
Nina Alli, executive director, Biohacking Village. Nina has worked in New York City hospital and outpatient settings managing the complexities of modernizing legacy systems within the healthcare industry, beginning when electronic medical records, their associated IoT devices, and connectivity of Applications were conceptually new and laws were being adapted to meet new technologies. From this idea, Nina has taken the lessons and experiences to grow Biohacking Village over seven years from nine talks to five laboratories designed to engage and educate people on aspects that impact care practices to focus on biotechnology, citizen science and cybersecurity of the healthcare industry and the biomedical ecosystem. Nina has also worked on a microfluidic device to reduce the time for lab results to thirty minutes
Jasmine Jackson, Biohacking Village. Jasmine shares her passion with Information Security with presenting and teaching workshops with over ten years of Information Security experience. She is currently the jeopardy style Capture the Flag (CTF) coach for the inaugural US Cyber Games competing in the International Cyber Security Challenge (ICC) in Greece. She is also a contributing author, “97 Things Every Information Security Professional Should Know” O’Reilly Media and an Adjunct Professor at Drexel University teaching Mobile Security and City University of Seattle with additional courses with Cybrary and Infosec Institute in Vagrant and Intro to Linux. Finally, Jasmine has certifications in Secure Programming, Web Application Pentesting, and Cloud Security. Jasmine has a master’s degree in Computer Science and a Graduate Certificate in Information Security and Privacy from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Currently, she works for a Fortune 500 company as a Senior Application Security Engineer. She has presented her work domestically and internationally for such conferences – The Diana Initiative, Bugcrowd, Blacks in Cybersecurity, and NotPinkCon in topics of Mobile Security, and Web Application Security.
Whitney Zatzkin, CEO, Rare Dots, Inc. Whitney Bowman-Zatzkin, MPA, MSR, is a passionate community architect obsessed with connecting the dots to provoke change for the greater good. She is the CEO of Rare Dots, Inc. through which she dedicates energy to the Biohacking Village and founding of BIO-ISAC, as well as data privacy, genetic testing, maternal health, and aerospace clients. Whitney started in healthcare 20 years ago as the manager of a clinical practice, launching its EHR, redesigning the patient record, and engaging in advocacy efforts around maternal-infant health and malpractice reform. Moving to DC, she collaborated with policy leaders on research and policy changes around health professions education and workforce design. In the past, she has served as the Managing Director of Flip the Clinic, a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Co-PI for Scouting Health, an investigative horizon-hunting effort with Westat. She also led the Great Challenges at TEDMED, producing 50+ broadcasts on the toughest conversations in health care.
Sarka Pekarova, Biohacking Village. Sarka has 10 years of experience in information security; working in various roles from defensive to her current role on offensive side of the cyber security spectrum. She specializes in healthcare/medical cyber security, industrial control systems, social engineering & physical security through research and education.
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