Women Leaders in Cybersecurity
The premier event series bringing together leading women in cybersecurity to address some of the most pressing issues in the field today.
Upcoming Event
Regs, Risk & Opportunity
New Cyber Rules; AI’s Impact; Evolving Your Career
Friday, January 26, 2024
Upcoming Event
Regs, Risk & Opportunity
New Cyber Rules; AI’s Impact; Evolving Your Career
Friday, January 26, 2024
NYU School of Law, Greenberg Lounge
9:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. (breakfast and registration at 9:00 a.m.)
Women Leaders in Cybersecurity presents our January 26, 2024 program, Regs Risk & Opportunity: New Cyber Rules, AI’s Impact, Evolving Your Career. Returning to in-person programming, more than a dozen leaders, including government officials, corporate board members, industry VPs, law firm partners, and professors will share insight on the new cyber rules from the SEC and NYDFS; AI’s impact on business and law; and important perspectives for evolving your career, whether to gain a board seat, advance in your firm or company, or enter a new field at any stage of your career…and finding happiness and purpose along the way.
This event is free and open to ALL.
Friday
January 26,
2024
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NYU School of Law, Greenberg Lounge
9:30 A.M. – 3:00 P.M.
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This event has been approved for 3.5 New York State CLE credits in the Cybersecurity category. The credit is both transitional and non-transitional; it is appropriate for both experienced and newly admitted attorneys.
Panel 1: 1.5 cybersecurity credits
Panel 2: 1.5 cybersecurity credits
Fireside Chat: .5 cybersecurity credits
Panel 3: CLE request pending
Speakers
Panel 1 | 9:30 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.
Cyber Regulations: the New SEC and NYDFS Rules
Panelist
Melissa Hathaway
President
Hathaway Global Strategies LLC
Former cybersecurity advisor to two U.S. presidents; former corporate board member
Panelist
Harriet Pearson
Executive Deputy Superintendent, Cybersecurity Division Head
New York Department of Financial Services
Panelist
Alicia Lowery Rosenbaum
VP, Associate General Counsel, Cybersecurity Technology and Trust
Salesforce
Panelist
Carolyn Welshhans
Associate Director, Division of Enforcement
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Moderator
Jennifer Archie
Partner
Latham & Watkins, LLP
Fireside Chat | 11:05 a.m. – 11:35 a.m.
Featured Speaker
Linnie Haynesworth
Board Director
ADP, Inc., Micron Technology, Inc., Truist Financial Corp., Eastman Chemical Co.
Federal Advisory Appointee
DoD Defense Business Board
Moderator
Judith H. Germano
Distinguished Fellow
NYU Center for Cybersecurity
Adjunct Professor of Law
NYU School of Law
Founder and Lead Counsel
GermanoLaw LLC
Board Director
Dime Community Bancshares, Inc.
Program Chair
Women Leaders in Cybersecurity
Panel 2 | 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
AI’s Impact: Opportunity and Risk
Panelist
Jennifer Kady
Vice President, Security Sales, Americas General Manager
IBM
Panelist
Maneesha Mithal
Partner, Privacy & Cybersecurity
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Panelist
JoAnn Stonier
Fellow of Data & AI
Mastercard
Panelist
Lucy Vasserman
Head of Engineering and Product
Jigsaw / Google
Moderator
Micaela McMurrough
Partner
Covington & Burling, LLP
Panel 3 | 1:30 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.
Evolving Your Career: Building Your Personal Brand
Panelist
Linda Lautenberg
Co-Founder
EvolveMe
Panelist
Kavitha Mariappan
Executive Vice President, Customer Experience & Transformation
Zscaler
Panelist
Andrea Markstrom
CIO
Schulte Roth & Zabel
Founder
iWill
Panelist
Harriet Pearson
Executive Deputy Superintendent, Cybersecurity Division Head
New York Department of Financial Services
Panelist
Alicia Lowery Rosenbaum
VP, Associate General Counsel, Cybersecurity Technology and Trust
Salesforce
Moderator
Kathryn Lancioni
Professor
Rutgers University
Founder
Presenting Perfection
Speakers at Women Leaders in Cybersecurity are influential experts from across tech, law, academia, and business.
Register to join our next interdisciplinary dialogue on critical issues in cybersecurity and data privacy, and hear from women who are shaping the field.
Shamla Naidoo, Global Managing Partner, IBM Security, former Global CISO, IBM, with Judith Germano, Conference Chair, WLC 2017
Sylvia Acevedo, CEO, Girl Scouts;
Women Cybersecurity Leader Annual Award recipient, WLC 2018
Renee Forney, Senior Director of Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure Security, Microsoft, former Deputy CIO for Cybersecurity, U.S. Department of Energy, WLC 2016
Joyce Brocaglia, Founder, Executive Women’s Forum on Information Security, Risk Management and Privacy (EWF), WLC 2016; Women Cybersecurity Leader Annual Award recipient, WLC 2019