Celebrate The Holiday with Southern California’s Cybersecurity Communities 🍾

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Join us for an unforgettable evening of networking, learning, and celebration with the leading cybersecurity groups in Southern California. This special end-of-year event features an engaging keynote by renowned science fiction author, privacy advocate, and tech leader Cory Doctorow.

Keynote: Disenshittify or Die! How Hackers Can Seize the Means of Computation and Build a New, Good Internet

Cory will unpack the concept of “enshittification”—how the internet’s transformation was driven by power consolidation and lost opportunities for competition, regulation, and innovation. He’ll inspire us with a vision for reclaiming the digital world and building a fairer, freer, and more open internet.

Speaker Details: Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. His latest novels are THE BEZZLE and THE LOST CAUSE, a solarpunk science fiction novel of hope amidst the climate emergency. His most recent nonfiction book is THE INTERNET CON: HOW TO SEIZE THE MEANS OF COMPUTATION, a Big Tech disassembly manual. He is the author of the international young adult LITTLE BROTHER series. He is also the author of CHOKEPOINT CAPITALISM (with Rebecca Giblin), about creative labor markets and monopoly; HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, nonfiction about conspiracies and monopolies; and of RADICALIZED and WALKAWAY, science fiction for adults, a YA graphic novel called IN REAL LIFE; and other young adult novels like PIRATE CINEMA. His first picture book was POESY THE MONSTER SLAYER (Aug 2020).
He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, is a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University, a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group.
In 2020, Cory was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. In 2022, he earned the Sir Arthur Clarke Imagination in Service to Society Awardee for lifetime achievement. In 2024, the Media Ecology Association awarded him the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity. York University (Canada) made him an Honourary Doctor of Laws; and the Open University (UK) made him an Honourary Doctor of Computer Science.

There will be games, a buffet dinner and drinks for everyone. You don't want to miss this end-of-year celebration! We cannot wait to see you there!