TechTalks & Beer

Rashid Niamat

Hi Everyone,

Our second event will be hosted @Xebia. We will be having 1-2 tech talks and plenty of food and drinks! If you are interested in giving a talk please send me a message with your topic idea.

Hope everyone has a happy holiday season. See you in the New Year!

Sarah

Thank you for everyone who responded to do a talk. This group is great! We have 2 responses. The first I have listed here. Will add the 2nd when I have the abstract. Both talks will be about 20 mins in length with time for questions!

Talk One:

Name speaker: Dan Pitman

Function: Senior Solution Architect

Subject: Threat landscape. Dan will focus on Cloud security, modern threat detection and exposure management

Dan's career spans several disciplines including Development, Operations and Architecture.

Dan Pitman has been with Alert Logic since Oct 2015, his relationship began as a customer and implementer of Alert Logic solutions long before that, he is able to bring a unique customer perspective to Alert Logic’s vendor point of view.

Dan has managed teams of engineers in infrastructure, software and operations for several years, before joining Alert Logic designing and managing the programme to migrate large multi-brand web platforms from hybrid to pure cloud on AWS.

More information https://uk.linkedin.com/in/danpitman

Talk Two:

Name speaker: Rashid Niamat

Function: Owner Market Research/PR

Subject: Both as journalist and "interrogator" what I see as awareness and security mistakes with start-ups / start-up programmes

Owner of NiamatMediaGroup. Private and public sector consultancy for B2C and B2B internet related issues. Focus on business development, privacy and security issues. Chief editor of ISP Today, the leading Dutch website for the hosting and datacenter industry. Infosec and EU blogger.