Robert Rodriguez and General Hayden
The following information is from: http://www.security-innovation.org/showcase.htm and some additional information from Robert Rodriguez of SINET:
The SINET showcase will be held October 26 and 27 at the National Press Club Washington DC.
The mission of SINET is to improve collaboration between public and private sectors to defeat cyber threats and increase awareness of innovative early stage and emerging growth Cybersecurity companies.
The SINET Showcase takes public-private sector collaboration to a new level, as we look to identify the ‘best in class’ cyber security technologies, and match them with the most pressing needs of the Federal civilian, defense, and intelligence agencies and the commercial sector. This is the ideal opportunity for emerging companies with cyber products of the highest merit to be evaluated, seen, and noticed by an audience of representatives from private industry, Federal Government, system integration, research, and the venture capital communities.
Don’t Miss the Opportunity to Participate: Use this unique opportunity to share your expertise by participating in top-level discussions on how we overcome the vulnerabilities plaguing our infrastructure and protect our country’s vital assets. The goal of SINET is to facilitate collaboration between the public and private sectors and your contributions are invaluable to this process. Join your colleagues in strengthening this critical collaborative effort to ensure we stay focused on accelerating innovation in security technology.
The SINET Showcase includes exciting occasions for learning and contributing:
- Demonstrations of innovative technologies that offer potential solutions to cybersecurity challenges
- Panel discussions on pressing national security issues
- Series of workshops targeting challenges facing early stage and emerging growth companies
- Thought leaders from across major industries, government, academia and the world of financing
About the Presenting Companies: Early stage, emerging companies (preferably less than $10 mil in revenues), have applied and gone through a two-stage evaluation and selection process overseen by a technical vetting committee. Twenty of the most promising solution providers will be chosen to present their technologies on stage at the National Press Club in Washington DC. Selectees may be potentially included in government and industry pilot programs, which can pave the way to accreditation, acquisition, and deployment. Other Showcase benefits include advance presentation coaching, prep workshop, and opportunities to demo their products and network with attendees.
About the SINET Showcase: The SINET Showcase is hosted by The Security Innovation Network™ (SINET), which advances innovation by bringing together Federal government agencies, cyber entrepreneurs, VCs, researchers to defeat global security threats. The Showcase is the essence of the public-private collaboration, matching the most critical cyber needs of the Federal Government’s and commercial industry with high-potential IT security technology companies.
SINET bridges the public and private sectors with a collaborative model that builds relationships between innovation centers across the U.S. in Silicon Valley Boston, Illinois, Austin, Seattle, Salt Lake City, New York, Maryland and Virginia, with the defense, industrial, intelligence and homeland security base in the Washington, DC community.
Participating in this event will result in an exposure to emerging technologies with great promise in the cybersecurity world. It will also expose you to some of the nation’s true movers in the cyber world.
The following Venture Capitalists and thought leaders on innovation and entrepreneurship will also be presenting:
- Robert Ackerman; Founder and Managing Director, Allegis Capital
- Alberto Yepez, Managing Director, Trident Capital
- Asheem Chandna, Partner, Greylock Partners
- George Hoyem, Partner, In-Q-Tel
- Dean DeBiase, Founder and Chairman, Reboot Partners
- Curt Carlson, CEO, SRI International
- Vivek Wadwha, Visiting Scholar UC Berkeley, Director of Research, Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization, Duke University
- Robert C. Wolcott, Co-founder & Executive Director, Kellogg Innovation Network, Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
The SINET Showcase Steering Committee:
- John Grimes, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks, Department of Defense (DoD) and Chief Information Officer (Honorary Co – Chairman)
- Richard Schaeffer, Former Information Assurance Director, National Security Agency
- Clark Ervin, Director, Homeland Security Program, The Aspen Institute
- Robert Lentz, Former DoD Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Information Assurance, President, Cyber Security Strategies
- Dr. Doug Maughan, Program Manager, DHS Science & Technology
- Nadia Short, Vice President of Strategy & Business Development, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems
- Mark Connelly, CISO, ITT
- Riley Repko, HQE, USAF, Senior Advisor, Cyber Operations & Transformation, DCS/Operations, Plans & Requirements
- Marcus Sachs, Executive Director, National Security and Cyber Policy, Office of Federal Government Relations, Verizon
- Jerry Archer, CISO, Sallie Mae
- Dean DeBiase, Chairman, Reboot Partners
- Jim Longley, Executive Director, Advanced Technical Intelligence Association
- Zach Tudor, Program Manager, SRI International
- Art Chantkar, President, Potomac Forum
- Dr. Rob Valli, CEO, Investors Without Borders
- Barry Bomzer, Deputy Director Programs, Security Innovation Network
- Robert Rodriguez, Chairman, Security Innovation Network
The SINET Showcase Technical Vetting Committee:
- Bob Flores, CEO, Applicology Incorporated, Former CTO, CIA
- Roger London, Chairman, American Security Challenge
- Dr. Paul Barford, Professor, CS Department, University of Wisconsin
- Steve Elefant, CIO, Heartland Payment Systems
- Dr. John Mitchell, Professor, CS Department, Stanford University
- Chris Perry, Senior Technical Director for Cyber Security, Information Assurance and Information Operations, CACI Technologies
- Dr. Lewis Shepherd, Director, Microsoft Institute Advanced Technologies in Government
- Bob Gourley, Founder and CTO, Crucial Point, Former CTO, DIA
- Bill Newhouse, NIST Information Technology Lab
- Dr. Bill Sanders, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, University of Illinois Urbana – Champaign
- Matthew Howard, General Partner, Norwest Venture Partners
- Dr. Hank Orejuela, Chief Executive Officer, Space & Defense Systems Inc.
- John Muir, Deputy Director Research, Security Innovation Network
- Bob Ackerman, Managing Director & Founder, Allegis Capital
- Gilman Louie, General Partner, Alsop Louie
- Dave Bryan, President, US Falcon
- Kenneth Rogers, Director, Enterprise Architecture & Planning, U.S. Department of State
- Kevin Bingham, DoD CND Architect, OSD-NII
- Chris Shipley, Co-Founder and Chairman, Guidewire
- Nick Shevelyov, CSO, Silicon Valley Bank
- Mihir Jobalia, Managing Director, Morgan Keegan Technology Investment Banking, Revolution Partners
To find more ways to engage and support visit: http://www.security-innovation.org/showcase.htm
