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|Kayode Adesemowo
Information assurance consultant, chartered engineer and project manager
|Kayode Adesemowo, a consummate information assurance consultant, chartered engineer and project manager, consults on information assurance, strategy and project management.
With a background in electronics/electrical engineering, he plunged into ICT as an IT support technician, and has progressively taken on varying roles as systems engineer, solution developer, policy analyst, auditor and consultant.
He was a deputy director in the Western Cape Government, where he championed a number of ICT and e-government policy initiatives. He has since had a brief stint with two of the 'big 4' and global telcos in the UK. He is experienced in making representations on technology policy-related issues across the board. He was active in the National Open Source Policy (GITOC). He is conversant with and employs best practices and international standards: ISO 38500/27001/20000/31000/24762/22301, Cobit, ITVal, PAS77, ITIL, Prince2, and PMBOK among others.
Adesemowo obtained his MSc (Computer Science) from the University of the Western Cape, and holds number of certifications across ISACA, ISC2, Microsoft and Cisco.
When not consulting, he is active in audiovisual solutions, especially live visual projection.
|Phil Allen
Director, identity and access management, Dell EMEA
|Phil brings over fourteen years' experience in the Information Security space and has spent this time working in the field with global organisations enabling them to more rapidly realise the business value out of Identity Management and Access Governance programs and ensuring successful deployment of their strategies.
As the European leader of the Identity Management business in Quest Software, now a part of Dell, his primary goal is to work with strategic customers wishing to tackle their Access Governance challenges and help them to both deliver business value and decrease risk through the investments that they make.
| Mike Armistead
Vice president and general manager, Enterprise Security Products, Fortify, Hewlett-Packard
|Mike Armistead is the vice president and general manager of HP Enterprise Security Products, Fortify. In this role, he is responsible for driving the growth of Fortify's software security business and managing all operational functions for the group.
Armistead is an industry veteran with more than two decades of industry leadership experience in the software security, application development and Internet arenas. He co-founded Fortify Software in 2003 and was a driving force behind the company's product, go–to-market, and strategic alliance strategies.
Prior to joining HP, Armistead held executive and key product development positions at companies that include Pure Atria (IBM Rational) and Lycos. While vice president and general manager at Lycos, he led development and data center teams in the financial, directory and web-based email services.
Armistead holds bachelor of science and master of science degrees in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.
| Francisco Artés
Research director, NSS Labs
|Francisco Artes is a recognised information security executive who has helped form many of the best practices for securing intellectual property within the computer gaming, motion picture and television industries. Artes is also know for his work on cyber crime, hacking, and forensic security with various federal, state, and local government law enforcement agencies, such as the US Department of Homeland Security, FBI, Texas Rangers, and US Marshals.
Prior to his appointment as research director with NSS Labs, Artes served as VP, chief architect/content protection for Trace3, and as VP, Security Worldwide for Deluxe Entertainment Services Group. Artes has presented on six of the seven continents.
| Marinus van Aswegen
Security architect, Telic Consulting
|Marinus van Aswegen is a well-known security consultant, architect, trainer and speaker. In 2006, he founded Telic Consulting, based in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he currently focuses on delivering large enterprise projects in the financial services sector. He has more than a decade's worth of field experience and holds numerous certifications: CISSP, ISSMP, ISSAP & CSSLP. Previously, he consulted as a principal consultant with Deloitte, serving customers in Europe, Africa, Japan and Australia. Passionate about building security competency and solving real world security problems, he strives to deliver demonstrable, secure business systems.
| Richard Bejtlich
Chief security officer, MANDIANT
|Richard Bejtlich is chief security officer at Mandiant. He was previously director of Incident Response for General Electric, where he built and led the 40-member GE Computer Incident Response Team (GE-CIRT).
Prior to GE, he operated TaoSecurity as an independent consultant, protected national security interests for ManTech Corporation's Computer Forensics and Intrusion Analysis division, investigated intrusions as part of Foundstone's incident response team, and monitored client networks for Ball Corporation.
Bejtlich began his digital security career as a military intelligence officer in 1997 at the Air Force Computer Emergency Response Team (AFCERT), Air Force Information Warfare Centre (AFIWC), and Air Intelligence Agency (AIA). Bejtlich is a graduate of Harvard University and the United States Air Force Academy. He wrote The Tao of Network Security Monitoring and Extrusion Detection, and co-authored Real Digital Forensics. He also writes for his blog (taosecurity.blogspot.com) and Twitter (@taosecurity).
| Beza Belayneh
Chief executive officer and chief information security officer, South African Centre for Information Security
|Beza Belayneh is co-founder and chief security architect for the South African Centre for Information Security (SACfIS), where he leads regional cyber crime prevention initiatives.
In this position, he leads a team of experts to help clients in creation, promulgation, execution, and oversight of the information security programmes in Southern, Central and Eastern Africa.
His particular expertise extends to cyber warfare programmes, cloud security, Web application security, penetration testing/ethical hacking, policy development, and social engineering, and detecting and mitigating insider threats to information and systems security.
Before SACfIS, Belayneh worked for a regional consulting firm based in Botswana – IDM – for 10 years as a senior consultant, providing IT and security solutions. With 17 years of experience in IT and security space, Belayneh is a certified information security manager and holds a degree in information systems from Andrews University, Michigan, and post-graduate qualifications from Buckinghamshire Chilterns University, plus a string of IT and security certifications.
His experience in speaking engagements has taken him from Europe and the Middle East to Africa.
| Yolandé Byrd
Director, FACTS Consulting
|Yolandé Byrd has a Bachelor of Science degree with an accounting background, and is also certified by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) as a qualified Certified Fraud Examiner. She has over 17 years' experience in the data analysis and programming fields.
Byrd is considered to be one of the most innovative data analysts in her field. She has programmed and project managed numerous electronic data solutions for a variety of organisations (public and private sector) in a number of countries. She is able to improve, develop and customise electronic solutions within any context, whatever the scope. She has customised data solutions for reconcilements and recalculations, and provided data analysis and interrogation services on various forensic engagements.
Byrd is currently a director at FACTS Consulting, a company that specialises in forensic technology and data analytics. During 2008, Byrd was responsible for developing best practices for the forensic data analytics unit of a government statutory body. She was also responsible for designing and implementing various systems to cater for the specific needs of this government body. Byrd has extensive experience in government systems and performing data analytics in the public sector space.
| Jason Clark
Chief information security and strategy officer, Websense
|Jason Clark is chief information security officer for Websense. As a previous customer and early adopter of Websense products, Clark is responsible for leveraging his technical knowledge and deployment expertise to help CXO executives and advise them on how to best take advantage of the Websense TRITON architecture and unified content security solutions. Clark brings more than a decade of senior IT security leadership to Websense. He previously served as CISO at Emerson Electric, a global Fortune 100 company, where he significantly decreased risk by building the security program for its 140 000 employees across 1 500 locations. This was Emerson Electric's single largest IT security project ever conducted. Prior to Emerson Electric, Clark was the director of information security at The New York Times and senior manager of security and infrastructure architecture at EverBank. Clark also served as a senior network and security engineer for BB&T, and as a US Army security systems engineer.
| Doug DePeppe
JD, LL.M., Director, Cyber-Risk Solutions, The Soufan Group co-founder, Western Cyber Exchange
|Doug DePeppe, a former advisor to the White House 60-Day Cyberspace Policy Review, is an entrepreneur and cyber law attorney with a broad background in multiple cyber space verticals. He offers interdisciplinary consulting, legal services, training, and full-scope cyber security solutions. His core capability is in helping businesses design and implement commercially reasonable security practices to mitigate the growing liability exposure from cyber security threats. His expertise expands into government and industry information sharing frameworks, public-private partnerships, cyber-resilience community programmes and instrumentalities, cyber crime and public safety, legislation, international co-operation frameworks, privacy, breach coaching, and executive cyber risk management solutions. He leads his international cyber security work through The Soufan Group, an international security consultancy headquartered in New York City, with offices in Singapore, London, and Qatar.
Through his multidisciplinary practices and experience, DePeppe has a broad network of professional contacts, affiliations, resources, and expertise from the fields of law, cyber crime, cyber security, emergency management, international relations, intelligence, military, homeland security, and energy. DePeppe applies his cross-sector and multidisciplinary experience to advise in the commercial markets about cyber risk. Drawing from his inside knowledge of the cyber space adversary, and applying advanced skill in legal and risk management frameworks, DePeppe mentors executives and boards regarding due diligence and fiduciary responsibilities for corporate headquarters-level cyber risk management.
DePeppe offers services and solutions through his professional ventures and affiliations, which can be reviewed at www.cyberjurist.net. DePeppe's work as co-founder of the Western Cyber Exchange has been recognised as one of the leading cyber security initiatives in the United States.
DePeppe is a published author and blogger, international speaker, and a recognised cyber security leader. He is also adjunct faculty with the UMUC Cybersecurity Masters Program, and maintains affiliations with other universities.
| Vernon Fryer
Chief technology officer, Vodacom SA
|Vernon Fryer is the chief technology security officer at Vodacom, and manages Technology Security and Forensic Investigations. He has been involved in the IT industry since 1971, coming from an IBM background, where he worked as an operation specialist in the financial sector.
During his career in the South African Police Service, he served in the following roles: head of Information Security; head of Cyber Crime for Interpol Southern Africa; and the national head of the Computer Crime Unit. Fryer has also served on the International Computer Crime Work Group. As a member of this workgroup, he travelled extensively as a consultant, specifically in the USA, Europe, China, Africa and the Middle East.
He is the president of the International Information Systems Forensic Association, South African Charter. As a qualified IT forensic analyst, he has obtained various international certifications in information security and audit. Over the past 30 years, he has investigated computer-related fraud, assisted in tracking assets in various liquidations, and has testified in intellectual property disputes. In addition, Fryer is member of good standing and a contributor to the following bodies:
| Ben Gatti
Independent software hacker
|Benjamin Gatti was born to hippies in the late 60s, grew up in California and taught himself electronics and software, travelled the world in the 90s, married abroad, and settled in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he works as an independent software slacker. His hobbies include micro-controllers, music, sustainable energy and eco-villages, hacker-spaces, atheism, activism, cooking, and healing sick electronic appliances.
|Misha Glenny
Investigative journalist, author and broadcaster
|Misha Glenny is an investigative journalist, author and broadcaster. He is one of the world's leading experts on cyber crime and on global mafia networks. His most recent book, Dark Market, led to his recent TED Talk.
He has also written The Rebirth of History, The Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia and A History of the Balkans. His book, McMafia, was widely acclaimed for its dissection of criminal networks worldwide, and led to his 2009 TED Talk on the subject. He contributes regularly to the Guardian, Observer, The New York Times and New York Review of Books, as well as specialist journals and books dealing with south-eastern Europe.
A regular broadcaster on radio and television, he has most recently advised several southern European countries on policy-making and legislation (sponsored by the Greek government) and is informally consulted on a regular basis by the British Foreign Office, the US State Department and the British Army, as well as by US, European and south European think-tanks. He is also a regular keynote speaker at conferences on organised crime, globalisation, south-eastern Europe and US-Europe relations.
|Patrick Gray
Risky Business
|Patrick Gray is an Australian journalist best known as the host of the Risky Business security podcast. He's been reporting on IT security issues for nine years, with his articles appearing in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Wired News, ZDNet, CNet, SecurityFocus, and curiously, Australian Men's Style Magazine.
| Gary Hardy
Leader IT governance centre of excellence, risk advisory: Deloitte South Africa
|Gary Hardy has 30 years' experience in the IT industry and is recognised globally as a thought leader and expert in business and IT performance improvement. Hardy is a longstanding and past member of ISACA. He is one of the originators of the COBIT initiative in 1992, and a key member of ISACA's COBIT development team for the past 19 years. He is a lead developer of COBIT5 and advisor to ISACA, and author of many of the ISACA products. For the past 30 years, Hardy has helped many private and public sector enterprises around the world implement improved IT governance and business performance. Together, they champion IT governance nationally, along with a team of highly skilled IT governance professionals across SA.
| Adam Ely
Founder & chief operations officer, Bluebox
|Adam Ely is the founder and COO of Bluebox. Prior to this role, Ely was the CISO of the Heroku business unit at Salesforce, where he was responsible for application security, security operations, compliance, and external security relations. Prior to Salesforce, Ely led security and compliance at TiVo and held various security leadership roles within The Walt Disney Company, where he was responsible for security operations and application security of Walt Disney Web properties, including ABC.com, ESPN.com, and Disney.com.
| Frans Lategan
Security engineer, Amazon Web Services
|Dr Frans Lategan is a security engineer with Amazon Web Services, where he currently looks at most aspects relating to computer security, from privacy of information to Web application security and cryptography, specifically as it relates to security in the cloud.
Some of his previous IT Web Security Summit presentations covered hacking iOS applications, and ways to improve online banking security using Turing tests.
He has previously worked as a pen tester and security consultant for a large bank, and as a Java architect for a health insurer. Dr Lategan received his Master's degree in Mathematics and a Doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Johannesburg.
| Gordon Love
Regional director for Africa, Symantec
|Gordon Love is the Regional Director for Africa at Symantec, responsible for managing enterprise accounts across the region, including both large and small to medium enterprises within the public sector, and Symantec's various channel partners. He is also in charge of growing regional sales and nurturing and motivating sales executives internally.
Love has 19-years experience in various roles including sales, operations, business development, and corporate innovation within The Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Standard Bank, First National Bank, IBM and Faritec.
Before joining Symantec in mid-June 2009, Love worked with the company for five years through a channel partnership. Love had always been impressed with the Symantec brand and the performance-driven culture of the company.
Love has an MBA Degree (Cum Laude) from the University of Pretoria. He has also completed an Executive Development Programme focused on Strategies for Emerging Market Economies from the Gordon Institute of Business Science, which he completed with distinction. Love also completed a Management Advancement Programme at the University of Witwatersrand with distinction.
| Jeremy Maggs
Journalist, radio host and television presenter
Jeremy Maggs has been a journalist for over 20 years and has worked across all media platforms – newspapers, radio, television and magazines. He started his career as a cadet reporter at The Herald newspaper, in Port Elizabeth, and later moved to the Sunday Tribune, in Durban. He still writes an irreverent weekly column for The Herald called 'Daze of My Life'.
Maggs spent 10 years at Radio 702, eventually rising to head of News, and was instrumental in developing the Eyewitness News brand. He then ventured into television and was lead anchor on am-today on SABC2 – the respected morning news and current affairs programme. He hosted the hit quiz show, 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' for its four-season, 100 episode run on M-Net and SABC3. During the time he also joined SABC radio and started the long-running Sunday morning "Media @SAFM" programme, which focused on the advertising and communications industry. The programme ran for 10 years.
He also presented PM Live, and latterly, AM Live. He left the SABC in April 2008 to join the e-news channel, where he is now chief anchor and lead presenter of the flagship programme, News Night.
| Maeson Maherry
Solutions director, LAWtrust
Maeson Maherry is the solutions director of LAWtrust, a business that specialises in trust services such as advanced electronic signature solutions, positive identity and encryption in business systems. Maherry started as an electronic engineer in the field of telecommunications, but moved into the emerging field of Internet security in 1997, becoming a specialist in public key encryption and digital signatures. Maherry consulted in this field to all the major banks in South Africa, as well as in Germany and the Middle East, being involved in the design and implementation of number of trust centres and PKI projects. His interest and expertise in the field led him to co-author a book on e-commerce and e-commerce security, as well as numerous white papers and articles on the topic.
In 2007, he was a co-founder of the LAWtrust business, acting first as the business development director and then as the solutions director and CIO. He firmly believes in standards, legal principles and pragmatism in designing electronic signature solutions that change the way we do business for the better.
| Robert McArdle
Senior advanced threat researcher / manager: Forward Looking Threat Research Team, Trend Micro
Robert McArdle is currently working as the manager of Trend Micro's Advanced Threat Research team for EMEA, where he is involved in analysing the latest malware threats, specialising in researching the future threat landscape, criminal underground and co-ordinating investigations with international law enforcement. McArdle is a regular presenter for the press and at security conferences. He also lectures in Malware Analysis and Cybercrime Investigations on MSc modules at Cork IT and UCD in Ireland, and is a trainer for several SANS qualifications. He worries that his hobby and job are one and the same, and constantly wonders if 'normal' people have that problem. He enjoys long walks on the beach, puppies, and Guinness.
| Johann van der Merwe
Global head of information security, De Beers Group
|Johann van der Merwe is group head of Information Security for the De Beers Group of Companies. Van der Merwe leads the global information security team that focuses on protecting critical information and technology systems in high risk areas across the De Beers value chain. The information security team integrates into the group physical security team that safeguards approximately 40% of the global diamond production by value.
Van der Merwe's industry involvement includes leading South Africa at the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) meetings on information security management. Lately, he has been involved in major revisions of the two main information security standards, namely ISO 27001 and ISO 27002.
| Nils
Head: security research, MWR InfoSecurity
|Nils is heading the security research at MWR InfoSecurity. He likes to break and exploit stuff, which he demonstrated at pwn2own 2009 and 2010. He has spent most of 2010 and 2011 researching different mobile platforms and how to evade the exploitation mitigations techniques in place on these platforms. His current interest are embedded payment devices. Nils has previously presented at the ITWeb Summit on Android security.
| Tony Olivier
Managing director, Performanta Consulting & Mobile Security
|Tony Olivier, founder and host of the IT Security Pubcast, is one of South Africa's most respected information security practitioners. Olivier is a strategic thinker who has a fascination with people and how society works.
| Alexander Polyakov
Chief technology officer, ERPScan
|Alexander Polyakov is CTO at ERPScan. He is the father of ERPScan Security Scanner for SAP, and the organiser of ZeroNights deep-technical security conference. His expertise covers security of enterprise business-critical software like ERP, CRM, SRM, banking and processing software.
He is the manager of OWASP-EAS (OWASP subproject), a well-known security expert of enterprise applications of such vendors as SAP and Oracle, which published a significant number of the vulnerabilities found in the applications of these vendors with acknowledgements from SAP.
He is the writer of multiple white papers and surveys devoted to information security research in SAP. Polyakov was invited to speak and train at international conferences such as BlackHat, RSA, HITB and 30 others around the globe, as well as in internal workshops for SAP and fortune 500 companies.
| Craig Rosewarne
Managing director, Wolfpack and founder and chairman, ISG
|Craig Rosewarne is the MD of Wolfpack – a local company specialising in information risk and cyber threat management. Wolfpack helps companies manage complex information risk threats through research, mentoring, training and awareness solutions.
Rosewarne is also the founder and chairman of the Information Security Group of Africa, a section 21 company established in 2005 with over 4 100 subscribers.
Rosewarne was previously an associate director of Deloitte's Risk Advisory division. He ran the Deloitte School of Risk Management and was responsible on a national level for learning and innovation for a team of over 430 professionals.
Rosewarne has many years of management experience in the fields of IT and information security. He is often invited to speak or chair information security, risk, crime and counter-terrorism events, as well as provide opinion pieces via TV, radio and print/online media. He is proudly South African and an even prouder husband and father to three healthy "cubs".
| Runa Sandvik
Developer, security researcher, and translation coordinator, The Tor Project
|Runa A Sandvik is a security researcher and developer for the Tor Project. She has worked for the Tor Project since 2009, after successfully completing a project during Google Summer of Code.
She describes herself as a future hacker who is interested in all things security, cryptography, and online anonymity. Her work for the Tor Project includes analysing Internet censorship events and testing new releases of Tor, as well as project management, user support, and training.
Sandvik has given Tor talks to a number of different audiences, including activists, law enforcement, and university students. This includes EuroPython 2012, 44Con 2012, and EINS Summer School at the Oxford Internet Institute.
| Adam Schoeman
Information security officer, First National Bank Private Clients
|Adam Schoeman has been involved in information security for more than seven years, the last four of which have been as a security consultant. Prior to that, Schoeman was an investment banker and musician.
He is currently the information security officer for FNB Private Clients and holds both CISSP-ISSAP and CISA certification. He is an avid researcher, and is part of the Security and Networks Research Group (SNRG) within the department of Computer Science at Rhodes University, where he is working toward his Masters Degree.
He has published papers in the field of social engineering, and is an active researcher in both technical and theoretical subjects spanning low-interaction detection systems and core information security concepts.
| Prof Basie von Solms
Research professor, Centre for Cyber Security: University of Johannesburg
|Prof SH (Basie) von Solms is a research professor in the Academy for Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Johannesburg, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
He is also the director of the newly established Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security, jointly created by the UN's International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the University of Johannesburg. Von Solms specialises in research and consultancy in the area of information and cyber security, critical information infrastructure protection, cyber crime and other related cyber aspects. He has written more than 100 papers regarding this field – most of which have been published internationally. In addition, he has supervised more than 100 post-graduate students in the ICT field. In 2009, his book, Information Security Governance, co-authored with his brother, Prof Rossouw von Solms, was published by Springer International.
Von Solms is the immediate past president of IFIP, the International Federation for Information Processing (www.ifip.org).
He is a fellow of the Computer Society of South Africa, and a fellow of the British Computer Society, and a Chartered Information Technology Professional.
| Jon Tullet
Senior editor: news analysis, ITWeb
|Jon Tullett has been in the IT media for almost two decades, covering South Africa, the UK and the Middle East. He is currently ITWeb's senior editor: news analysis.
Tullett's career in the IT press started in 1994 at ComputerWeek, where his roles included networking editor and features editor. He moved to ComputingSA as features editor, then emigrated to Dubai to edit CommsMEA and Network Middle East. A move to the UK followed, with five years working with the security specialist SC Magazine as UK editor, then global technology editor. Tullett helped launch the US brand TechTarget in South Africa in 2008.
| Vinod Vasudevan
Chief operations officer, Paladion
|Vinod Vasudevan is a co-founder and COO of Paladion. He has 17 years of experience in the technology and information risk management domain. As the COO at Paladion, Vasudevan has serviced large enterprise organisations across the globe, setting up integrated risk management systems and streamlining systems-based operations. He drives the service, technology strategy and roadmap at Paladion.
He regularly presents in leading forums and conferences. He sits on the expert panel of industry consortiums. He is the lead author of the book: Application Security in the ISO 27001 Environment from IT Governance, UK.
Vasudevan is the co-author of: Enhancing Computer Security with Smart Technology, published by Auerbach. He has also authored several white papers. He is a CISSP and he has held key positions with global firms, including Microsoft.
| Charl van der Walt
Co-founder and managing director, SensePost
|Charl van der Walt is a founder member of SensePost. He studied computer science at Unisa, mathematics at the University of Heidelberg, in Germany, and has a diploma in information security from the Rand Afrikaans University. He is an accredited BS7799 lead auditor with the British Institute of Standards in London. Van der Walt has a number of years' experience in information security and has been involved in a number of prestigious security projects in Africa, Asia and Europe. He is a regular speaker at seminars and conferences nationwide, and is regularly published on internationally recognised forums like ITWeb's IT Security Summit.
| Duncan Waugh
Managing director, Trash Trackers
|During his civil and military police career, Duncan Waugh was extremely fortunate to learn from many different experts in the field of forensic medicine and intelligence gathering. The former included Questioned Document Examination; the latter included how to locate damaging evidence in the most unobtrusive way. Waugh found the two disciplines complemented each other where no laws were broken and the rights of accused persons were not infringed upon.
In May 1985, Waugh founded the loss adjusting firm MacDonald-Waugh, in Johannesburg, specialising in the investigation and adjustment of complex insurance claims involving fire, fraud and liability matters. MacDonald-Waugh is still active.
In 2007, Waugh was approached by one of the IT chiefs employed by one of the South African banks with regards to testing the integrity of hard copy information. A controlled exercise followed, which clearly demonstrated that hard drive security is not the only area of concern when it comes to the protection of personal information, as well as other sensitive information. A raid on the dustbins of one of the bank's leading branches in Sandton, Johannesburg, harvested enough information to cause havoc if the information fell into the wrong hands.
As a result, Waugh has monitored and researched the Protection of Personal Information Act from its embryo status to present, and seeing the need to provide an exceptionally unique and necessary service to government, commerce and industry alike, he founded and established Trash Trackers, a specialist company in the identification and integrity testing of document security relating to personal information and data, in line with the Protection of Personal Information Act.
| Robert Weiss
Founder, Password Crackers
|Bob Weiss is the founder of Password Crackers (pwcrack.com) and a Defcon Goon. Weiss spent his early career doing political and marketing work, and lives with his family in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
| Dominic White
Chief technology officer, SensePost
|Dominic White is SensePost's Chief Technology Officer, and previously ran their consulting team. Before that he was a manager in the Deloitte Security & Privacy group in South Africa. Dominic graduated from Rhodes University with a Masters degree in Computer Science, specialising in information security.
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At Guelph Arts Council, we are so excited to be opening a new chapter by relocating to 10C Shared Space at 42 Carden in the former Acker building. Find us there on August 1!
In the meantime, we are downsizing!
After 30+ years at this office in the old Wellington Hotel building, we have accumulated a unique array of furnishings, most of which will not fit in our new - and much smaller - office space. This presents a great opportunity to take home a piece of Guelph Arts Council history! We have filing cabinets, desks, chairs, and shelves available for sale, along with some computers and appliances. A list of the furniture and equipment available is posted here. Please check back in as we will be updating the list with some more items.
We are planning a garage sale on Saturday, July 8th here at the GAC Office on 147 Wyndham St N, Suite 404. You can come into our office and peruse the items we have for sale while enjoying some complimentary snacks and lemonade. The garage sale will run from 8am to 12pm. We can accept cash, cheque, and credit card payments. Visitors will also receive some fun old GAC trinkets we have come across in our packing. All funds raised through sales will go towards our move-related expenses and to support our ongoing GAC programs.
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Our new home will be an accessible, street level, art-filled space that shines a spotlight on Guelph's creative community. The people of Guelph have a well-deserved reputation for taking care of each other and innovating together. Nowhere is this more evident than in the evolution of 10C Shared Space. While the plans have developed, Guelph Arts Council and 10 Carden have collaborated to ensure that the centre is also a place for the arts, with fully accessible exhibition, workshop, and event spaces.


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Explaining Machine Learning to someone who is not in IT could be hard. How does it work? What kind of Machine Learning type is possible?
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Small Talk 2 in German
Start with this LINK in German and scroll down to the video first:
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Listen to this a few times and come back to this website.
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This is my second Link for today: A very good website with a lot of information about Small Talk in German to start with. Afterwards I would like you to bookmark this site and come back according to needs. You will find infos about Rhetorik, Persoenlichkeit and more to check out like Body Language and more ...
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Ahavas Yisrael is the secret of the final redemption.
Ahavas Yisrael is really when your soul has a redemption – when you leave yourself!!
In other words, there is a kind of personal redemption in which you leave your inner imprisonment, and then there is another kind of redemption – when you leave your "I". This is when you leave your ego for the sake of integrating with the rest of the Jewish people.
Thus, the beginning of redemption is to redeem our feelings. We need to first leave the materialism – the "bricks and mortar" – and enter the world of spirituality.
The second part of our redemption, which is the purpose, is to reach our masculine kind of daas – the revelation of unity on the world; in other words, to nullify your "I." (Bilvavi)
Zohar: Matzoh is the food of healing - it's vitamins that fill us with emunah. Matzoh has the power to erase any doubts(Rav Aharon Weinberg, nesivos;pesach)-
It is a night of above nature nissim. We are above malachim on this night! It is the Rosh Hashana for emunah! Avnei Nezer says that if a person has the teshuka (desire) to change on this night, Hashem makes it happen. (Rav Aharon weinberg)
Sfat Emet says in the name of Maharal "anyone who acts k'ilu- as though- on this night will have his/her 'as though' become their reality" (Rabbanit Yemima Mizrachi)
----have a clear idea of what your 'as though' looks like =something that you want to be redeemed from...so that you can feel and sense Hashem with deep emunah.
Our greatest feelings of pleasure come from this sensation of emunah coursing through our souls and body, unifying the two to serve Hashem and thereby, express our love back to Him, as a refelction of His love for us.
Chag Kasher Vesameach
Love, aviva rus
(I don't know where all the information below is taken from- some is from Rabbanit Mizrachi and Orit Ritter)While preparing the seder plate talk to Hashem and pray to Him:
– Marror: Hashem may it be Your will that we will be surrounded by sweetness
– Egg: may it be Your will that we will have wonderful simchas to celebrate
– Zaroa: save me with Your kind hand from harm
– Charoset: sweeten the sorrows and sadness
• While preparing the table, ask for parnassa.
• There is a segula to say the special tefillah of Rebbi Shimshon M'Astropoli ztk'l on erev Pesach which is found in the Pesach siddur. Those that say this special prayer will be saved from 10 harsh decrees this year, r"l.
• During Kiddush at the seder the Chofetz Chaim zt'l brings down that all of your deceased relatives come to hear Kiddush with you. Feel their closeness and presence. This is a special time to ask for your soulmate.
• First cup of wine represents Sarah Imeinu, second cup represents Rivkah, third cup represents Rachel Imeinu ask for parnassa and fourth cup represents Leah.
• While eating the celery think about the hatred that still lies within our own nation. Sinas chinam (baseless hatred) was the main cause that lead our nation into slavery, because of Yoseph's brothers' hatred and jealousy.
• מה נשתנה:
during this time ask Hashem for something that has gone unanswered in the past. Beseech Hashem's blessing in a way of a story not a request, "Hashem why is this night different from other nights?? I thought that this night I would have be married, I would have….. I sway from place to place and nothing has changed."
• יחץ:
ask Hashem to complete that which is missing in your life
Say the hagaddah out loud and each word; this repairs the lashon hara that we've spoken.
• רחצה:
we ask Hashem that we and our daughters should serve Him with purity and keep all of the laws of purity/ taharat hamishpacha.
• Matzah:
it is the bread of refuah. We ask Hashem to heal us mentally and physically. "Hashem please remove any sickness within me."
• מרור כורך:
we ask Hashem to surround our bitterness with sweetness. Even though we feel bitterness through trials and tribulations, "Hashem allow me to feel your everlasting kindness and good."
• צפון: we ask, "Hashem please grant me presents that I never imagined I will ever receive…" Specify.
• ברך: "May it be Your will Hashem that I should always have the zechut to thank you and recognize all of the good that you do for me. Just as I request from you parnassa, may I merit to thank you in the same way that I ask you to give me."
• חצות הלילה, chatzot halayla, usually around 12:41 am on the evening of the seder and also on the last evening of Pesach.
These are very special times, where the gates of heaven are open and many bad decrees can be annulled and prayers can be answered more readily.
Try to sing שיר השירים at this time it is a time of great love and connection to Hashem. On the last day of Pesach, at this time pray for shidduchim, parnassa, and health from sickness. They are likened to kriat yam suf (the opening of the Sea of Reeds) this is the exact time when Hashem split the sea.
Beautiful shiur I just listened to-
Beautiful shiur I just listened to-
Rabbanit Amit Yaghoubi called Pesach: Crying Waters - What to Think About When Eating Matzah


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The ultra-consistent Abolitionist enjoyed his day in the sun with victory in the Leinster National at Naas.
Having enjoyed a winter break, the 12/1 shot benefited from a fine ride by leading conditional Rachael Blackmore.
Always travelling well in the middle of the pack, the son of Flemensfirth was steadily eased towards the front end and cruised to the front rounding the home turn.
Folsom Blue emerged as a threat but, with the rail to help, Abolitionist found plenty.
Bleu Berry got up in the shadow of the post to land the Irish Racing Writers Kingsfurze Novice Hurdle at Naas.
Willie Mullins swiftly completed a double as Townshend comfortably justified prohibitive odds of 1/5 in the John Kelly Beginners Chase.
Ball D'Arc came out on top under Bryan Cooper as four Gigginstown House Stud-owned horses battled it out for the Naas Directors Plate Novice Chase, while 20/1 shot Bluegrass Princess caused an upset by securing an 11-length success in the concluding Tipper Road Mares Flat Race.
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By Katy Hershberger
Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and faculty, we are able to provide interviews with each of the NBCC Awards Finalists for the publishing year 2017.
Katy Hershberger, on behalf of Creative Writing at The New School and the NBCC, interviewed Carina Chocano about her book You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages (Mariner), which is among the final five selections in the category of Criticism for the 2017 NBCC Awards.
While reading stories like Sleeping Beauty and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to her young daughter, pop culture critic Carina Chocano noticed—not for the first time—the cognitive dissonance between media representations of women and the reality of women's lives. Her book You Play The Girl combines feminist texts, news stories, criticism, philosophy, and her personal experience to examine The Bachelor and Amy Schumer and highlight issues such as the economics of marriage, the problem with thinking of parenting as a job, and the idea that women's experiences are niche while men's are universal. The book is richly layered, insightful, and often darkly funny as Chocano shifts deftly between discussions of Playboy Bunnies and Judith Butler, Mad Men and Virginia Woolf, Sandra Bullock and Slavoj Žižek.
Recently Chocano talked about the rare portrayal of women as monstrous geniuses, how pop culture can define you, and the common fallacy that sexism is over.
Katy Hershberger: I want to ask about the genesis of these essays. Were they topics you'd already been thinking about, or had you been watching and consuming media that then brought about these ideas?
Carina Chocano: It's hard to say. I know that I had always thought about these things and always questioned the place of women in society across classes and races and socioeconomic status. When I started working as a critic and I started being assigned the stories that were considered more aimed at women, or even when I wasn't, the female characters that I saw were always so dissonant. They always felt like these fictions that I was meant to identify with. I felt like there were very few authentic female voices in mass media and very few accurate representations. Criticism became a way to talk back.
After I'd been at the LA Times for five years and I was laid off, my daughter was four months old, and I'd spent the last year there getting increasingly depressed at the images I was seeing on the screen. Being pregnant and feeling like "Wow, this is the prospect? I might as well go smoke a pack of cigarettes." I'd been thinking about the book but then I came across an interview where Isla Fisher was home in Australia. This was a few years after she'd done Wedding Crashers. It was a breakout part for her and she stole the show, she was really funny. She was asked by the interviewer, "You must be getting all kinds of offers." And she said, "No I'm not. At first I thought there was something wrong with me, and then I realized that in Hollywood all the parts are written for men and you play the girl."
That sentence really clicked with me. This was early days of online harassment and she was immediately trolled by media outlets who picked up that line and ran it under headlines like "Borat Babe Plans Sex Revolution" and everyone made fun of her. I remember two things: one was that I felt like, I'm not the only person who feels this way; and second is that it's dangerous to speak out against this.
KH: As a critic, or even just as a viewer, are you able to separate art from artist? I feel like that's getting harder in this post-Weinstein, post-MeToo moment.
CC: It's such a complex question and it's really hard to make blanket statements about it. I don't find myself breaking with artists that I love because of certain things I find out about them. But I do feel that as I get older or as I encounter more things, I find artists who have problematic attitudes and that permeates their work. So it's not that I feel like, "Woody Allen did this and so I reject him," it's that Woody Allen's work says these things that don't speak to me anymore, and that I recoil from. It's not even a critical reaction, it's a visceral, emotional response.
When I watch the movies and I see his attitudes reflected in the way he understands and portrays the world, I'm like, "Ew." I find it unrealistic, and nothing about it feels true. And that's my main thing. I think when something doesn't feel true, if it doesn't reflect a reality that I recognize as human or emotionally true, then I have no interest in it.
KH: It's really interesting to think about Flashdance and how Alex is this monstrous genius, moody and difficult but it's accepted because she's talented, since women so rarely are allowed to be that way. Can you think of other women in pop culture who get to be the monstrous genius?
CC: In Desperately Seeking Susan, Madonna is sort of this way. She doesn't make anything, but I think she lives that life in a way that's idealized, and certainly idealized by the other character. But it's not common because men haven't traditionally portrayed women that way. Even when they recognize that the woman is talented, it's always turned into some tragic burden that she has to bear.
KH: The closest I could think of was Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada, but even that doesn't seem exactly right.
CC: She's portrayed as a tragic figure too. Her children don't love her. I was thinking more of things like My Brilliant Career by Gillian Armstrong. But it's hard to think of them. A recent example, it's not quite this, but Lady Bird acknowledges female artistic ambition and legitimizes it and paints it as a beautiful coming-into-oneself instead of a tragedy.
KH: I related to what you wrote about the books and movies that you loved as a kid defining you. I think that's really true, that as much as our family and friends, the things that we're consuming as kids contribute to our personalities. I'm curious if you're seeing that in your daughter too, whether or not they're things that you're bringing to her.
CC: Definitely. I try to have some influence over what she watches, but I don't always watch her like a hawk. And you can't. She spends time at friends' houses. It's harder to do that, and I don't know that it's something that I necessarily want to be doing all the time.
The most amazing thing for me is I've noticed her cadence change if she's watching a lot of Disney Channel shows, which is the one thing I'm always turning off, but she finds a way. She loves these shows and they're about these extremely stylized, above-it-all, sophisticated teenagers who always have blowouts and perfect makeup, and they speak in this certain way. And it's written by 40-year-old men. It's really creepy. There's a kind of cadence, a kind of rhythm, a kind of delivery, and when I hear it I'm like, "Ah! You sound like the TV!" I think that we need to pay more attention to it, because these things really seep in.
It's like the Sorkin-izing of tween media, that there's a certain cadence to the way everyone is talking. It is just like that. Exactly.
KH: What do you want to introduce her to in the future, pop-culture wise?
CC: There's a way in which I wish we could move away from this much media consumption. I did introduce her to a lot of things that she likes, but now I think maybe she should just be outside more. But I also think that we've had really great stuff come out, that I realize now I didn't have as a child, and it's really cool to see. We went to see Ghostbusters with one of my daughter's best friends, and they were so inspired by it. They came out of the theatre playing Ghostbuster. She dressed up as a Ghostbuster for Halloween. I remember that I would go to movies and come out and play the characters too, and we'd all play the male characters because the female characters were so passive. So the fact that she's been able to do this with Wonder Woman and The Last Jedi and Ghostbusters is a real shift.
We went to see Hidden Figures because all the girls were talking about it in the third grade. It surprised me that all these third graders who were really into Star Wars and superhero things would be interested in this period drama. We went to see it and she absolutely loved it and came out saying she wanted to be an engineer when she grew up. So I think you really have to take seriously that these things do influence how we think of ourselves. To see those women in these heroic roles—but they're ordinary women, not in costume—really inspired her.
KH: I was so interested in what you wrote about your daughter learning about sexism, but that in the book she was reading it was framed as all in the past. And you had to explain, "No, this is still a thing."
CC: This is what inspired me to write the book. I was a little kid in the '70s and the children's media was really overtly feminist because there were commissions and there were studies and there were all these men behind it making very ungendered kids programming. That's what I was watching in early childhood and it was very progressive. It changed, but by then my sense of gender equality had already been formed. So there was a constant dissonance that never went away because I was very solid on the idea that I could do anything, that we were equal.
I didn't encounter anything overt in my life or in school that made me think, "girls have to do this or that." There were definitely still hints. But the backlashes [against feminism] weren't acknowledged, really. Then it happened again in my twenties. There was a feminist moment that again was beaten back. And this was the third round and I was like, "Why does society insist on telling us there is no problem when there's obviously a problem?" It makes it very difficult to tackle the problem, because you have to name it and acknowledge it in order to tackle it. I started to think about how harmful that is because it's gaslighting.
I felt the same way. You grow up thinking you can do anything and, until your twenties, maybe you can. Then the playing field shifts.
Yeah, it really shifts and then it's put on you and you're told that you're crazy or it's your problem or you weren't good enough. And that even, say, having children is entirely a woman's issue, which is insane. It hasn't really been talked about in a mainstream way probably since the '70s. I didn't experience that [time period] as an adult, so I can only access that through reading, but I do remember a vague feeling in the air. I think that ever since then though, throughout my life, the feeling was more like, "Those women were kind of crazy and over-the-top and it's not like that, and we're post-feminist now." That was most of my growing up.
Carina Chocano is a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine. Her work has appeared in New York Magazine, Elle, Vogue, Rolling Stone, Wired, The California Sunday Magazine, Bust, The Washington Post, Vulture, The Cut, GOOD magazine, Texas Monthly, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and many others. She has been a film and TV critic at The Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, and Salon.com. Her book You Play the Girl is out now from Mariner Books. She lives in Los Angeles.
Katy Hershberger is a writer and book publishing professional in New York. She is an MFA candidate in Nonfiction at The New School and her work has appeared on TinHouse.com, Bustle, The Rumpus, the LA Review of Books, and elsewhere.


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At one end of the pitch stood an isolated figure, a diminutive man but a giant in the world of football, surrounded by inferiority and mediocrity as his Argentinean colleagues seemingly gave up on him and their country.
He looked cut adrift from reality as he witnessed what was perhaps his last chance at international glory slip away from his clutches, and with that, the chance to be painted with the same brush of which the great Pele and Diego Maradona are so often artistically stroked with.
But it was not all down to the lack of cohesion within the Argentina camp. At the opposite end of where the desperate figure of Lionel Messi stood, a player who was just eight years of age when Messi set El Clásico alight with a hattrick at 19-years-old was running amok: Kylian Mbappe.
Mbappe, coincidentally 19-years-old himself, took just 11 minutes to make his first significance indent in the round of 16 tie between France and Argentina. Having picked up a loose ball in his own third of the pitch, Paris Saint-Germain's boy wonder ate up all of 77 yards, breezing past what seemed like the entirety of La Albiceleste's team.
Mbappe hit speeds of 38km/h at the heights of his electric run to win Les Bleus' penalty for their opening goal, allegedly beating the average speed of Usain Bolt in an 100m race. Stylistically, Mbappe appears to be what one would assume to be born if Thierry Henry and Ronaldo were somehow biologically able to reproduce, but that is unfair; Kylian Mbappe will make his name, and perhaps make it better than the aforementioned. R9? CR7? It may be time to move over.
The run in question alone would've been enough to get this post-pubescent French prodigy's name on the lips of the world, so if I were to say that it was arguably the lesser of his involvements, would you believe me?
Albeit after a rare quiet spell in the match, Mbappe rose again when his country really needed him. Where the 27-year-old Antoine Griezmann and the 31-year-old Olivier Giroud were also spearheading the French attack, it was the teenager who bagged a decisive double with the scores at two apiece.
The first of his brace showed a reading of the game that should have defied his years, but came to the surprise of absolutely no one. Four white and blue shirts surrounded him as a rebound fell to him on the penalty spot, where he would get just one or two touches before being swarmed. They would have to be perfect, precise and seamless, or he would be dispossessed.
In a flash one touch to his right moved the Argentine wall with ease, before a left footed strike found the back of the net. This was a strikingly notable incident of a bright player foreseeing a seemingly unfathomable situation, and executing the actions to put him into it.
His second was emphatic, almost as if he could do it in his sleep. A well built team move saw Mbappe one on one with Franco Armani, and all he needed was a touch. One clean strike gave France a two goal cushion over their opponents, and all but put them into the quarter finals.
There were just three minutes between each of the teenager's goals; he had shown a killer instinct, almost as if, for the period between his 11th minute run and his 64th minute strike, he had merely been taking pity on Argentina before deciding enough was enough.
All of this took place with a five-time Ballon d'Or winner merely watching on. France's progression at the expense of Argentina felt like it held more significance than a mere process of one team knocking out the other. It appeared to be the metaphorical passing of the torch from Messi to Mbappe.
Just a few miles from where this supposed power shift took place inside the Kazan Arena, Cristiano Ronaldo was also sent packing at the hands of Uruguay in Sochi. Symbolically, as the two modern greats of the game packed their suitcases and returned home, Mbappe stood aloft, victorious.
If success doesn't greet him in Russia on July 15th this time round, Mbappe will be 23 in Qatar in 2022. He will be better than his already humongous ability suggests, and he will get another chance. And another. And another.
In stark contrast, Messi will be 35 when Qatar host the World Cup in four years time. Ronaldo will be 37. You get the sense that their time is coming to a close, but in Mbappe's case, he is only just getting started in the purest sense of the phrase.


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The ideal partner for Capricorn is somebody who can respect their ability for hard work, their focus on their own aspirations and their own sense of viability. If it comes to love, Capricorns are happy to take connections to a greater degree when devoted and are faithful and loyal partners. But, they're also frequently closed-off, silent and greedy. Capricorns best mates need to be in a position to compliment and balance their side with their occasionally untrusting negative attributes.
The ideal partner for Capricorn is either one of these signs - Taurus, Virgo and Pisces.
Virgo is a fantastic game for Capricorn because both of these could accomplish anything they put their minds to. They respect one another and have great pride in pleasing each other. They fit each individual's intellectual amounts and need respect and acceptance and every intuitively provides the other precisely that. Virgo and Capricorns take great pride in appearance and environment. They're definitely a fantastic match.
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Non-invasive Brain Stimulation Helps Curb Impulsivity
Neuroimage study demonstrates significant improvement in patients' inhibitory control
Neuroimage study demonstrates significant improvement in patients' inhibitory control
London, 15 June 2011 - Inhibitory control can be boosted with a mild form of brain stimulation, according to a study published in the June 2011 issue of Neuroimage, Elsevier's Journal of Brain Function. The study's findings indicate that non-invasive intervention can greatly improve patients' inhibitory control. Conducted by aresearch team led by Dr Chi-Hung Juan of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University in Taiwan, the research was sponsored by the National Science Council in Taiwan, the UK Medical Research Council, the Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award, and a Fulbright Award.
The study demonstrates that when a weak electrical current is applied over the front of participants' scalps for ten minutes, it greatly improved their ability to process responses – effectively jumpstarting the brain's ability to control impulsivity. The treatment has the potential to serve as a non invasive treatment for patients with conditions such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Tourette's syndrome, drug addictions, or violent impulsivity.
Professor Chi-Hung Juan who led the research team noted, "The findings that electrical stimulation to the brain can improve control of their behavioral urges not only provide further understanding of the neural basis of inhibitory control but also suggest a possible therapeutic intervention method for clinical populations, such as those with drug additions or ADHD, in the future".
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Modulating inhibitory control with direct current stimulation of the superior medial frontal cortex. NeuroImage(2011). Tzu-Yu Hsu, Lin-Yuan Tseng, Jia-Xin Yu, Wen-Jui Kuo, Daisy L... Hung, Ovid J.L. Tzeng, Vincent Walsh, Neil G. Muggleton and Chi-Hung Juan.
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