Monday, May 10, 2021 at 6:00:00 PM Online event

Register here for the Zoom link to kick off the meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrdOmgqT4rE9LOv-6yAWLFFZOGKqHgJf1Y

The Zoom link is the same week-to-week, but we ask you to register each week.

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IMPORTANT NOTE: We are taking a hiatus from our in-person Hack Nights as we deal with the implications of COVID-19. We encourage teams to continue project work and to meet virtually from 6:00-8:00pm on Mondays. Our ability to provide pizza and snacks will be compromised, however :).

Individual teams will have access to video breakouts via Zoom. You can use Slack for breakout rooms if you like.

We are also exploring possible projects we could take on to help address this public health emergency. Please email [email protected] if you have any questions or are interested in working on immediate public health-related projects.

Thanks,
Aaron, Paul, and the rest of the Core Team
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Interested in helping the Kansas City area? Great! Whether or not you know how to code, you can help by joining us to work on civic hacking to create a better Kansas City and surrounding cities. Bring projects, ideas, designs, laptops, data, and friends.

Meeting Format

6:00 - Kickoff and Introductions
6:15 - go into breakout rooms
8:00 - Wrap-up

"Pitch Nights," TBD when we have a slot for new project pitches during kickoff;

"Learn Nights," TBD where we have community speakers on civic tech topics from 6:30-7:30pm.

Please RSVP so that we know how many snacks & drinks to bring.

Civic Heroes of all types welcome! This event is for coders and non-coders alike -- as long as you're interested in making government more transparent and building interesting things for our city, you're more than welcome!

If you have something you'd like to work on or are excited about, please let us know via the meetup or at the hack night itself. We are growing our initiative and the energy comes from the community.

Code for KC is a program of KC Digital Drive, a local non-profit whose mission is to make Kansas City a digital leader by developing civic capacity to adapt to technology change. We are the local affiliate in Code for America's Brigade network.

Connect with Us:

• Join our Code for KC email list (http://eepurl.com/7gbQP).

• Follow us on Twitter @CodeforKC (http://twitter.com/codeforkc) and @KCDigitalDrive (http://twitter.com/kcdigitaldrive).

Got questions? Email our Brigade Captain, Paul Barham: [email protected] or [email protected].

Code for KC has a Code of Conduct! Please always be respectful and help us keep our events welcoming, positive, productive environments for everyone. Code For KC presenters and participants are held to this anti-harassment policy (http://codeforkc.org/hackkc-code-of-conduct).

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Monday, May 10, 2021 at 12:00:00 PM Online event

We will be meeting remotely this month, so make something delicious for lunch and participate from home! Networking will be from 11:30-12:00 and the session will start promptly at 12:00.

SharePoint is From Venus, Dynamics is From Mars: Better Document Management in Your Model-Driven Power Apps

When it comes to document management, Dynamics (or any model-driven Power App) and SharePoint offer a myriad of options … not all of them good. Even the built-in SharePoint to Dynamics integration can create more problems than it solves.

In this session, you'll learn what nobody tells you about SharePoint to Dynamics integration.

We will review the available options, from using the built-in Dynamics document management, to SharePoint, to Teams, to Power Automate to custom code. You'll learn the different solutions that work best in different scenarios and you'll walk away with a decision-making process for identifying the right integration approach(es) for your organization.

Presented by: Geoff Ables

Geoff Ables is a thought leader on customer experience and employee engagement, inspirational international speaker, entrepreneur and an author who helps businesses create contagiously engaged employees that transform the customer experience.

In 2003 he began evangelizing The LUCK Principle™ to help companies understand and apply the 4 timeless relationship principles (listen, understand, connect, know) to business projects such as CRM and intranets. His recent book, "The LUCK Principle: Business Results at the Intersection of People and Profit," contains insights and inspiration for creating a people-centric digital workplace.

Geoff is the founder of C5 insight. Twice named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing businesses, C5 Insight is a consulting firm that helps companies plan and implement customer experience management and employee engagement projects and technologies. Experience and certifications include Dynamics 365, SharePoint, Salesforce.com, Power BI and Office 365.

His speaking experience ranges from keynotes to corporate training events to workshops for events such as EuroForum, Digital Summit, High Five, the Direct Marketing Association, CRMUG Summit, and LawTech. His thoughts on relationships in the digital age have been seen and heard in a number of venues including National Public Radio, USA Today, BusinessWeek and The New Zealand Direct Marketing Journal.

Those who know Geoff know his passion for the workplace, and for collaborating with clients on scaling timeless principles for good relationships to growing businesses.

Geoff is also an avid motorcycle and wine enthusiast and has appeared as a guest on TruTVs's, "The Impractical Jokers."

About KC M365 User Group:

This user group is designed for KC professionals who work with Microsoft 365 and SharePoint to network and learn from each other. Meetings are on the second Monday of each month over lunch. Join us for a free lunch and stick around to learn more about SharePoint and Microsoft 365!

Connect with Us!

Twitter: @kco365ug
LinkedIn Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12270044/
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://kco365.wordpress.com

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Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at 8:00:00 PM Online event

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We'll start by going over the differences between the two careers. Then, we'll walk you through how to get the skills to be successful in each, and discuss the different jobs that will be available to you once you've acquired those skills.

What you'll learn:

Why data skills are in such high demand
What data analysts and data scientists do every day
Which career could be a better fit for you
And so much more...

How to join us: Once you register with Eventbrite, you will receive an email with the links to the live webinar from BigMarker. If you do not receive your link, please email [email protected].

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Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at 7:00:00 PM Online event

Come learn some cool tips and tricks with our resident Illustrator guru, Anne Bracker.

Anne is a graphic designer with over 20 years of experience who loves all things Adobe. Her main strengths are typography and layout, and her design specialty is creating infographics. Anyone who has seen her great presentations to our group—or her Graphic Design How To YouTube channel—won't want to miss this meeting!

If there are any questions you have relating to Illustrator, or if you need anything specific demonstrated, please include that in the comments when you RSVP.

See you on May 4!

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Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at 6:30:00 PM Online event

• What we'll do
Discussions about intersectional feminism over various topics. Conversations about how to succeed in life, work and relationships while advocating for yourself and empowering the women around you.

• What to bring
An open mind and willingness to share your experience, ask questions and potentially be vulnerable. If you have additional topics you'd like to discuss, please don't hesitate to reach out or bring them up in the course of conversation.

• Important to know
These conversations aren't about subscribing to a certain set of answers, but instead they're about having honest, organic discussions that help us do and be better every day.

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Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at 11:00:00 AM Online event

Please register at the link below (Must be registered to attend): https://www.tibco.com/events/dr-spotfire-office-hours

Edward Tufte, John Tukey, Stephen Few, Ben Shneiderman. These are just a handful of data visualization leaders that offer ways to improve visual perception. In this session, we'll review some of their ideas for creating impactful visual analytics in TIBCO SpotfireⓇ software. We'll also discuss technical tips for creating better overall cohesion across your dashboards. Topics will include contextual communication, precision, detailed styling, and other tips.

What is Dr. Spotfire?

Dr. Spotfire is a program from TIBCO aimed at helping new and advanced users. The program is hosted by Spotfire Experts in Data Science and Customer Success. The program consists of two parts:

1. Feature Sessions: Monthly 30-minute live webinars to help users on extended topics, and unique analytics challenges.
2. Quick Tips: Weekly 5-10 minute YouTube videos to help users with day-to-day Spotfire skills

During the Feature Session webinars, attendees are invited to participate in a Live Q&A on the session's topic. For questions outside the Feature Session topic, users may ask directly in the TIBCO Community "Answers" section and tag with #DrSpotfire.

All Feature Session and Quick Tip videos are published to the TIBCO Spotfire YouTube Channel. Subscribe to it and stay updated with new content!

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Saturday, May 8, 2021 at 7:00:00 PM Online event

Signing up on Meetup alone does not secure your spot. YOU MUST sign up via Eventbrite to ensure your ticket! → https://www.eventbrite.com/e/angular-pt-3-fake-it-til-you-make-it-data-binding-dom-manipulation-tickets-142441423131?aff=meetup

We're really rounding the corner now! Coding & Cocktails continues its Angular series with a third session. We will be building a trivia app in Angular over four sessions:

• 03/13/2021: SPA Day (Intro to Single Page Applications)
• 04/10/2021: Playing with Blocks (Angular Components)
• 05/08/2021: Fake It 'Til You Make It (Data Binding & DOM Manipulation)
• 06/21/2021: Go Fetch (APIs)

In our third session, we will dive into data display and DOM manipulation -- the Angular way, through data binding and directives. This two hour online session will include a presentation and time to work through a worksheet with support from mentors.

The Coding & Cocktails Angular series assumes knowledge of the basics of web development. We recommend this course for those who have completed a bootcamp, completed self-study in web development concepts, or attended web development workshops (including previous C&C sessions on HTML, CSS, JavaScript Part 1 and 2, Git and Command Line). We also recommend attending each session in order.

In short:
• Required knowledge includes HTML, CSS, JS, Git, node, npm, using the CLI and an IDE.
• Recommended knowledge includes ES6 constructs (classes, interfaces) and API fundamentals.

Although this may not be the right session for absolute beginners, we are here to support our attendees both in session and throughout the month on Slack. Feel free to reach out for help brushing up or good resources to review.

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Saturday, May 8, 2021 at 1:00:00 PM Online event

Jin Yao will talk about Text Analysis. Sweta Sinha will talk on "ModelOps - Operationalise Data Science Models."

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Saturday, May 8, 2021 at 10:00:00 AM Online event

RSVPs open 10 days before the date of the event.

Come work on Python projects, get programming help, help others, and meet interesting people. We'll begin with brief introductions and an opportunity to talk about what we're each working on. We'll have members available to help beginning Python programmers with language basics and getting Python and related tools installed on their computers. We'll have plenty of time for more advanced topics, too.

Audience: Everyone! We'll have something for all Python experience levels.

What to bring: A laptop with WiFi and power cord.

NOTE: Due to COVID restrictions, this meetup will be held online using zoom. The link is visible to those who RSVP.

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Saturday, May 8, 2021 at 9:00:00 AM Brew Haha Coffeehouse

Most of us are vaccinated. Lets meet! We'll also set up a call for rest of us on Slack.

Join Operation Code to get access to Slack:
https://operationcode.org/join

#KansasCity on Slack
https://operation-code.slack.com/archives/CE60W3YPJ

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Monday, May 3, 2021 at 7:00:00 PM Online event

*** Please RSVP on Eventbrite to receive an email with your customized webinar link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thinkful-webinar-uxui-design-creating-a-design-system-tickets-149794189453?aff=Meetup ***

Design isn't just an afterthought in tech circles anymore, it truly helps drive the direction of the product or service. But how does a design team help guide the rest of the company in the right direction? By incorporating a design system. A design system is a master collection of the key standardized documentation every company needs to define the overall design of the product.

Incorporating a design system in your company brings lots of tangible value: faster to market times, improved UX and customer satisfaction, better internal communication, and consistency across all products. Join us in this webinar as we continue to discuss why having a design system is so important and gain hands-on experience in creating your own.

What you will learn:

What is a Design System?
Notable Real-World Design Systems
Figma Tips and Best Practices
Creating Our Own System

How to join us: Once you register with Eventbrite, you will receive an email with the links to the live webinar from BigMarker. If you do not receive your link, please email [email protected].

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Monday, May 3, 2021 at 6:00:00 PM Online event

Register here for the Zoom link to kick off the meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrdOmgqT4rE9LOv-6yAWLFFZOGKqHgJf1Y

The Zoom link is the same week-to-week, but we ask you to register each week.

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IMPORTANT NOTE: We are taking a hiatus from our in-person Hack Nights as we deal with the implications of COVID-19. We encourage teams to continue project work and to meet virtually from 6:00-8:00pm on Mondays. Our ability to provide pizza and snacks will be compromised, however :).

Individual teams will have access to video breakouts via Zoom. You can use Slack for breakout rooms if you like.

We are also exploring possible projects we could take on to help address this public health emergency. Please email [email protected] if you have any questions or are interested in working on immediate public health-related projects.

Thanks,
Aaron, Paul, and the rest of the Core Team
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Interested in helping the Kansas City area? Great! Whether or not you know how to code, you can help by joining us to work on civic hacking to create a better Kansas City and surrounding cities. Bring projects, ideas, designs, laptops, data, and friends.

Meeting Format

6:00 - Kickoff and Introductions
6:15 - go into breakout rooms
8:00 - Wrap-up

"Pitch Nights," TBD when we have a slot for new project pitches during kickoff;

"Learn Nights," TBD where we have community speakers on civic tech topics from 6:30-7:30pm.

Please RSVP so that we know how many snacks & drinks to bring.

Civic Heroes of all types welcome! This event is for coders and non-coders alike -- as long as you're interested in making government more transparent and building interesting things for our city, you're more than welcome!

If you have something you'd like to work on or are excited about, please let us know via the meetup or at the hack night itself. We are growing our initiative and the energy comes from the community.

Code for KC is a program of KC Digital Drive, a local non-profit whose mission is to make Kansas City a digital leader by developing civic capacity to adapt to technology change. We are the local affiliate in Code for America's Brigade network.

Connect with Us:

• Join our Code for KC email list (http://eepurl.com/7gbQP).

• Follow us on Twitter @CodeforKC (http://twitter.com/codeforkc) and @KCDigitalDrive (http://twitter.com/kcdigitaldrive).

Got questions? Email our Brigade Captain, Paul Barham: [email protected] or [email protected].

Code for KC has a Code of Conduct! Please always be respectful and help us keep our events welcoming, positive, productive environments for everyone. Code For KC presenters and participants are held to this anti-harassment policy (http://codeforkc.org/hackkc-code-of-conduct).

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Sunday, May 2, 2021 at 1:00:00 PM The NEW HammerSpace Community Workshop

Join us for and open-ended Sunday of building fun and interesting DIY Electronics Kits.

We have scoured the dark corners of the internet to bring you this selection of kits curated for makes of all ages and skill levels!

Are you a Beginner who is excited to learn the basics? We've got a basic kits that are easy to build and a blast to use! Do you know what your doing but are eager for practice? Come build one of our larger multi-part kits! Are you a soldering god who's looking for a challenge?! Then try your hand at building one of our Surface Mount Soldering Kits!

We meet in the Hammerspace Classroom starting at 1:00pm. You pick the kit you'd like to build from our selection, and our instructors will provide all the instruction, guidance, and assembly hints you need!

---Bring food and drink if you'd like, or even order takeout while you build.---

Young assistants are welcomed and encouraged!

No RSVP is required for MEMBERS of Hammerspace. $5 RSVP for non members, Kit prices vary from $15 to $45 depending on complexity. Cash and Cards accepted during the class.

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Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 7:00:00 PM Online event

*** Please RSVP on Eventbrite to receive an email with your customized webinar link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thinkful-webinar-free-crash-course-javascript-fundamentals-tickets-144691649619?aff=Meetup ***

Come learn how to make a functioning website using the most popular programming language, JavaScript.

JavaScript is the language of the browser, most websites you've ever visited were built with JavaScript. In this interactive workshop, we'll cover everything you need to know to begin your JavaScript journey, including different data types, variables, and functions.

What you will learn:

Different Data Types, like strings, integers, and boolean
Basic JavaScript Function Structures
How to create if/else functions and use parameters
And so much more.

How to join us: Once you register with Eventbrite, you will receive an email with the links to the live webinar from BigMarker. If you do not receive your link, please email [email protected].

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Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 6:00:00 PM The NEW HammerSpace Community Workshop

Every Thursday, the members of Hammerspace gather to socialize, network, and meet new members of the space. We welcome the community at large to come down during this time to explore the workshop, check out all of the tools, fabrication equipment and work space made available to HammerSpace members, and ask questions of our community of Hammerspace users.

There is plenty of off-street parking, a kids playroom available for tiny makers, and the evening is always the origin point of new and amazing creative ideas.

Tours are led every 30 minutes for those curious about the tools and capabilities of the facility and staff. This is a free event, open to the public.

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Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 12:00:00 PM Online event

*** Register for free here: https://generalassemb.ly/education/navigate-your-career-with-purpose-7d85a407-46e2-4c2f-9499-6bb67f2adc3e/philadelphia/187615?utm_source=philly-tech-sistas&utm_medium=affiliate-ntf-local&utm_campaign=2021-q2-philadelphia-navigate-your-career&utm_content=workshop ***

About This Workshop
Job. Career. Calling. Rarely do all three of these things line up. We often blame our circumstances for the decisions we make and roles we accept, but at what point will we stop to consider what will make us happy?

In this workshop, we will delve into ways to identify what motivates us and how we can bring those things into our daily lives in a more significant way.

This is perfect for anyone who is tired of the grind and looking to enrich their life with purpose and passion.

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Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 6:30:00 PM Online event

5 forces, 5 trends, 5 skills in geospatial technology – what they are, why they matter, how you can engage with them.

Joseph Kerski is a geographer with a focus on the use of Geographic Information Systems in education. Joseph Kerski was the President of the National Council for Geographic Education in 2011. He is the author of the recent book Interpreting Our World and is the co-author of the book The Essentials of the Environment

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Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 6:00:00 PM The NEW HammerSpace Community Workshop

Every Thursday, the members of Hammerspace gather to socialize, network, and meet new members of the space. We welcome the community at large to come down during this time to explore the workshop, check out all of the tools, fabrication equipment and work space made available to HammerSpace members, and ask questions of our community of Hammerspace users.

There is plenty of off-street parking, a kids playroom available for tiny makers, and the evening is always the origin point of new and amazing creative ideas.

Tours are led every 30 minutes for those curious about the tools and capabilities of the facility and staff. This is a free event, open to the public.

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Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 6:00:00 PM Online event

Hello fellow testers and aspiring QA Engineers!

Inviting you to join our panel discussion on How to Start a Career in QA and Opportunities for Growth.
This topic has been suggested multiple times for our meetup discussion and now we are compiling a great lineup of panelists to provide you with the breadth of experiences in getting started in QA and what opportunities for growth are there for your career advancement in today's world.

The panelists will be announced a week before the event and the link to the online event will be also shared then.

Mark your calendars and please share with whoever you believe might find it useful!
Looking forward to seeing you all soon!

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Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 12:00:00 PM Online event

Must be registered at the below link to attend the webinar:
https://www.tibco.com/events/tibco-labs-quarterly-webinar-3

A picture is worth more than a thousand words. Computer vision (CV) is accelerating adoption of analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) at the edge for a wide range of use cases in many industries. Innovating with CV to create new and better ways to interact with customers is quickly becoming a differentiator.

Want to learn how to improve your edge strategy with computer vision and analytics at the edge?

Join Miguel Torres, principal architect, and Jesús Centeno, head product evangelist, to learn how to incorporate CV capabilities into your edge applications with Project AIR technology from TIBCO LABS.

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Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 6:00:00 PM Online event

A sister Meetup group in Austin, TX is holding this event; in order to do our part to help "flatten the curve" of the spread of COVID-19, this will be an online event that will be held in the Central Daylight Time Zone. We thought it might be of interest to our membership (you are welcome to sign up for it here).

(original Title and Meetup page:)
Exploring Data and Creating Interactive Dashboards in the Cloud
https://www.meetup.com/futureofdata-austin/events/277025681/

Date/Time
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
6:00 PM

In this meetup, we're going to once again put ourselves in the shoes of an electric car manufacturer that is deploying a recently developed electric motor out into their new cars. We're going to show how to explore some data that has been previously collected through various different sources and stored into Apache Hive within a data warehouse, with the goal of tracking down a specific set of potentially defective parts. We'll then take the results of this data exploration and create an interactive dashboard that presents our results in a visually appealing way using a BI tool that's integrated right into the same data warehouse.

Come join us to see how we've linked all these concepts together and hopefully inspire similar solutions of your own!

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Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 4:00:00 PM Online event

Join us for Design Sprint KC's second meetup! We'll hear two case studies and discuss the topic that everyone seems to be talking about: hybrid workshops.

• How do they work?
• What's the opportunity?
• What can go wrong?
• Is it the future of business?

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Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 12:00:00 PM Online event

Speaker: Yair Segal is the founder and CTO of Peach Software, an independent I.T. consulting firm with years of experience delivering custom mobile applications for a variety of clients.

Mobile applications require cloud services for actions that can't be done directly on the device, such as offline data synchronization, storage, or data sharing across multiple users. One option is to design, configure, manage these services yourself but the easier, faster, and more scalable solution is to leverage Amazon's collection of services for mobile applications.

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(ISC)2 Kansas City Chapter

HOW VULNERABILITIES ARE FOUND, BOUGHT, AND SOLD

Don't miss our next meeting on the Zero Day Initiative. Whether you are protecting your organization from vulnerabilities or interested in getting paid to find vulnerabilities, we will explore how the ZDI program can benefit you. Find out how independent security researchers participate in the ZDI program and how this initiative competes with bug brokers and nation states. Hear how someone made $600,000 and won a Tesla Model 3 in the April 2021 Pwn2Own contest sponsored by ZDI. Join us virtually at 5:30 pm on Wednesday, May 5, 2021 5:30 - Welcome/Chapter Announcements 5:45 - Presentation/Open Discussion 6:30 - Wrap Up 6:45 - Meeting Closeout REGISTER CISSP Study Group - Contact [email protected] Thanks to our Sponsor Welcome Brian Gorenc Brian Gorenc is the Sr. Director of Vulnerability Research with Trend Micro. In this role, Brian leads the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) program, which represents the world’s largest vendor-agnostic bug bounty program. His focus includes analyzing and performing root-cause analysis on hundreds of zero-day vulnerabilities submitted by ZDI researchers from around the world. The ZDI works to expose and remediate weaknesses in the world’s most popular software. Brian is also responsible for organizing and adjudicating the ever-popular Pwn2Own hacking competitions. Welcome Dustin Childs Dustin Childs is a part of Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) and handles communications for the group. In this role, Dustin creates, implements, and oversees communications programs, both internal and external, that promote the work of ZDI and its researchers. Dustin is also responsible for providing insight into the threat landscape and competitive intelligence to the research team. ‌

Eric Walters, President ‌ About (ISC)² Kansas City Chapter (ISC)² is an international nonprofit membership association focused on inspiring a safe and secure cyber world. Best known for the acclaimed Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP®) certification, (ISC)² offers a portfolio of credentials that are part of a holistic, pragmatic approach to security. Its membership, more than 150,000 strong, is made up of certified cyber, information, software and infrastructure security professionals who are making a difference and helping to advance the industry.

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