Your Data, Your Rules - An Evening with Gus Hunt, former CTO of the CIA

"Your Data, Your Rules: Regaining control of your digital information" An Evening with Gus Hunt

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In the last year it has become increasingly clear to businesses, consumers and governments that the related problems of digital privacy and cyber theft must be solved. Join us for an evening presentation by Ira (Gus) Hunt, former Chief Technology Officer of the Central Intelligence Agency, on why traditional cybersecurity approaches fall short and which emerging technologies can enable businesses and individuals to regain control of their digital information. The presentation will be followed by a question and answer session.

Heavy appetizers and soft drinks will be provided. Cash bar on site.
$12 TiE Rockies members // $20 General Admission

This is a ticketed event, online registration is required for entry.

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Ira (Gus) Hunt

Ira (Gus) Hunt is the Chief Architect at Bridgewater Associates, one of the largest hedge fund managers in the world. Throughout its 39-year history, Bridgewater has been recognized as a top-performing manager and an industry innovator, with technology central to its mission.

Prior to joining Bridgewater, Gus served as Chief Technology Officer of the CIA. As CTO, he set the information technology strategic direction and future technology investment plan for the agency. Gus was the motivating force behind the CIA’s decision to acquire a copy of both the Amazon cloud and IBM’s Watson. He developed and implemented the CIA’s process for expanding technology discovery and accelerating the adoption of new IT capabilities that has enabled the agency to keep pace with technological change in the commercial sector.

Before becoming CTO, Gus served as the Director of Applications Services for the CIA. In this role, he was charged with building the information technology capabilities that enable the agency’s operational and analytic missions. He set the vision and direction for application development by shifting to Agile Development techniques, implementing a service-oriented architecture, building core and common services to include security as a service and the enterprise data layer, and implementing earned value‐management and total‐cost‐of‐ownership business processes to dramatically improve management decision effectiveness.

Gus joined the CIA in 1985 as an analyst and subsequently served in varied analytic, operational, and technical leadership roles to include: Director of Architecture and Systems Engineering (ASE), Chair of the CIA Architecture Review Board, Chief of Research and Development for the Crime and Narcotics Center, and Deputy Chief of the Operations Support Group in the Non‐Proliferation Center.

Earlier in his career, Gus spent seven years in the private sector as an Aerospace Engineer designing advanced manned space flight systems and satellite orbital transfer vehicles. He holds a ME in Civil/Structural Engineering from Vanderbilt University.