Bahamas Agile & Project Management Community (BAPMC)

# BAPMC August Monthly Meetup

Join the Bahamas Agile & Project Management Community (BAPMC) for our August Monthly Meetup as we welcome Aaleyah S. Evans, Cybersecurity Professional, for an engaging and timely presentation titled:

### “Digital Transformation Meets Cybersecurity: Why Security Can’t Be an Afterthought”

📅 Date: Thursday, August 27, 2026
🕕 Time: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST
🎙 Host: Andrea Pratt-Smith, PMP – BAPMC Founder
🎓 Professional Development: Earn 1 PDU / 1 SEU
🎟️ Cost: Free to Attend | Registration Required

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### 🔐 Innovation Without Security Creates Risk

Digital transformation is changing how organizations operate, serve customers, manage information, and deliver value. But as organizations adopt new technologies and accelerate innovation, they can also introduce new vulnerabilities and cybersecurity risks.
Security cannot be something considered only after a system has been designed, a technology implemented, or a project delivered.
In this session, Aaleyah Evans will explore the important relationship between digital transformation, cybersecurity, and project delivery and why security should be considered throughout the project lifecycle rather than treated as an afterthought.
Participants will gain practical insight into how organizations can pursue innovation while proactively managing cybersecurity risk and strengthening organizational resilience.

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### 📌 About the Session

Digital initiatives often introduce new technologies, platforms, integrations, data flows, and ways of working. Each advancement can create opportunities for innovation—but it can also expand an organization's exposure to cyber threats.
This session will help project professionals better understand where cybersecurity intersects with the work they already do.
Aaleyah will explore how cybersecurity considerations can be incorporated earlier into project planning and decision-making, helping teams identify potential risks before they become costly problems.
Participants will examine:

• How digital transformation can introduce or increase cybersecurity risk
• Why security considerations should begin early in the project lifecycle
• How project decisions can influence an organization's cybersecurity exposure
• The importance of collaboration between project teams, cybersecurity professionals, technology teams, and business stakeholders
• How integrating security into digital initiatives can support both innovation and organizational resilience

Cybersecurity isn't only an IT concern. As organizations become increasingly digital, understanding cybersecurity risk is becoming an important part of responsible project and business leadership.

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### 🎯 What You’ll Learn

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
• Explain the relationship between digital transformation and cybersecurity risk
• Recognize why cybersecurity should be integrated throughout the project lifecycle
• Identify common points where digital initiatives may introduce cybersecurity vulnerabilities
• Describe how early consideration of security can reduce project and organizational risk
• Recognize the role project professionals can play in facilitating conversations about cybersecurity risk
• Understand how cross-functional collaboration can help organizations innovate securely while strengthening resilience

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### 🚀 Join Us

This session is ideal for project managers, agile practitioners, technology professionals, business leaders, team leads, and anyone involved in digital transformation initiatives.
You don't need to be a cybersecurity expert to benefit from this conversation.
If you are involved in delivering change, implementing technology, managing projects, or helping organizations transform, cybersecurity is increasingly part of the conversation.
Join us as we explore how organizations can continue to innovate without leaving security behind.

Innovate boldly. Transform responsibly. Build security in from the start.