Girl, woman, dear lady - are you looking for your career path? Are you thinking about cybersecurity, but you have concerns whether it is the right direction for you? Don't know how to start? We will help you! We invite you to a free two-day workshop entitled "Is cybersecurity the right career path today?", where we will try to show you step by step how your future career in cybersecurity can be shaped.
Excellent speakers who have been involved in security for years will share what their daily work involves. Check out the workshop agenda. Meet our speakers and sign up today, because the number of places is limited. These are elite workshops for an elite group of 20 participants, who will be honored with a certificate of completion at the end. The free two-day workshops are organized by the Try IT Foundation in cooperation with the Faculty of Computer Science at AGH and in cooperation with SoftFlow, a company that specializes in building modern Data Center solutions: from networks, through server infrastructure, security, to monitoring and automation of processes in organizations.
Who is the cybersecurity workshop for?
If you are a woman up to 35 years old, have completed your studies or are currently studying and are interested in IT topics, especially cybersecurity - this workshop is for you. Participation in the project does not require any technical expertise. We only require basic computer and network skills.
What is the purpose of the workshops?
We have designed the workshops to introduce you step by step to the topic of cybersecurity and help you decide whether this career path is for you. During the two-day workshops, we will present women "safeguards" who work in large corporations and handle security incidents on a daily basis, guarding the continuity of the organization's operations. We will present a career path design plan and tell you what is currently hot in cybersecurity. Inspiring lectures with women who have achieved success in the IT industry are just part of the workshops.
There will also be classes led by security engineers from SoftFlow and lecturers from the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, and the workshops will be attended by cybersecurity specialists who will share their practice and experience. Meetings and conversations with women who have achieved great success in the field of IT will prove to you how important and necessary it is to actively engage women in the development of new technologies, and will also be an opportunity to discover your potential in the area of building self-confidence in this area and plan your future career path. The workshops will also allow you to establish numerous industry contacts.
Workshop organization and schedule
Participation in the workshops is free of charge: participants will be provided with participation in the classes with coffee breaks and lunches, as well as accommodation in double rooms with breakfast at the ****NYX hotel.
Each participant from outside Warsaw is required to provide transport to the place where the workshops will be held
Workshop date: April 20-21, 2024
Workshop location: Varso Place building, Design room (level 1), ul. Chmielna 73, 00-801 Warsaw
Accommodation: Hotel NYX - adjacent to the Varso Place building, ul. Chmielna 71, 00-801 Warsaw
Workshop agenda:
April 20 (Saturday)
11:00 – 11:30 welcome coffee and presentation of the program
11:30 – 13:00 how to design a career path after completing technical studies, or why is it worth choosing cybersecurity? Namely: data on attacks, what are companies struggling with, is there a shortage of people dealing with security. What skills are required, what are the earnings of people in the industry?
Host: Agnieszka Wielądek - Community Manager Cyber Women Community and CSO Council. Passionate about new technologies and people working in the cybersecurity industry.
Alina Zając - Solution Manager IT security Manager / CERT Head PL
13:00 – 13:10 coffee break
13:10 – 14:30 Cybersecurity Facts and Myths: The Role of Women and Diverse Professional Specializations
Host: Aleksandra Rybak - Cybersecurity Leader at State Street | Information Security Officer | Vice President | CISSP
14:30 – 15:30 lunch
15:30 – 16:30 technical session: what's happening on the cybersecurity market? How not to get left behind:
will the NIS2 directive open eyes to cybersecurity problems for a wider group of companies in Poland?
Case Study for an enterprise. How to create complete cybersecurity systems?
On specific examples
Individual components of security systems in the operation of an enterprise.
Zero Trust – trust must be earned. Fashion or future norm?
Security for the cloud or cloud for security? On the mutual interpenetration of these two inseparable technologies.
At the end, a question and answer session with prizes (kahoot!)
Hosts: SoftFlow engineers
16:30 – 17:00 questions for the hosts Q&A
April 21 (Sunday)
9:30 – 10:00 coffee and presentation of the program of the day
10:00 – 11:00 – A journey through the world of Cisco: from network beginnings to cybersecurity and the principle of "No Trust" - Check it out!
Host – Aleksandra Sosnowska, Networking Experience Specialist at Cisco
11:00 – 11:10 – coffee break
11:10 – 12:00 – (ISC)^2 CISSP, CCNA, NGFW and many other acronyms - or how in the world of Cyber cat walked on the keyboard. We will introduce concepts that will make it easier for you to enter this world.
Host – Eng. Aleksandra Radziszewska, Faculty of Computer Science at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow
12:00 – 13:30 – Women on the labor market - what limits us and what is the opposite?
Host: Urszula Krawczyk – President of the Effective Women Academy Foundation and Editor-in-Chief of the “Czerwona Szpilka” Magazine
13:30 – 14:30 – lunch
14:30 – 15:00 – distribution of certificates and end of the meeting, group photos
During the workshops, you will gain knowledge from women who have achieved success in the cybersecurity industry. It is not every day that you can meet and talk to them.
- You will expand your skills in the field of security, which are worth discovering and using,
- You will discover the possibilities offered by cybersecurity in the modern world and see how many areas can still be developed.
- Perhaps you will discover your new passion during the workshops!
- We will build your self-confidence and the belief that girls are doing great working in the technology industry.