Agenda
This agenda is being progressively updated as more details are finalized, and will be finalized by July 8th.
| Business Security Leadership | ||
| Time | Item | Details |
| 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM | Breakfast Welcome Introduction |
Breakfast Service: Superb Catering Welcome: Event Organizer Pamela Peak Introduction: Ray Bernard and Steve Lasky |
| 8:45 AM – 9:30 AM | The Secret to Security Leadership | Session Leader: Ray Bernard |
| 9:15 AM – 10:15 AM | Business Security Leadership | Session Leader: Derrick Wright, Senior Director – EHS & Security, Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Returning GSO Session Leader |
| 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM | Morning Break (Refreshment and Snacks) | Service: Superb Catering |
| 10:30 AM – 11:15 AM | Security Management in a Large and Evolving Global Corp. | Session Leader: Venue Security Leader |
| 11:15 AM – 12:00 PM | Value Based Risk Management | Session Leader: Grace Crickette, Vice Chancellor for Administrative Affairs, Chief Business and Ethics Officer at UW-Whitewater |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Lunch, Discussions and Networking | Service: Superb Catering |
| 1:00 PM – 1:45 PM | Cybersecurity Leading Practices and Approaches | Session Leader: To Be Announced |
| 1:45 PM – 2:30 PM | Assessing, Measuring and Rating Risks and Security Programs | Session Leader: Kevin Whaley, Corporate Security Manager at CrossFirst Bank |
| 2:30 PM – 3:15 PM | Operational Excellence: The Key Ingredient to Sustainable Organizational Resilience | Session Leader: To Be Announced |
| 3:15 PM – 4:00 PM | Afternoon Break (Refreshments and Snacks) | Service: Superb Catering |
| 4:00 PM – 4:45 PM | AI and Exponential Technology Advancement – Impacts, Strategies and ROI | Session Leader: Ray Bernard |
| 4:45 PM – 5:00 PM | Hands-On Tech Lab Orientation and BYOD Preparation | Session Leaders: Ray Bernard and the Convergint Technologies Tech Lab Leader |
| 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Open Q&A | All Attendees and Session Leaders |
| Technology Command | ||
| Time | Item | Details |
| 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM | Breakfast Welcome |
Breakfast Service: Superb Catering Welcome: Pamela Peak |
| 8:45 AM – 9:15 AM | Overview of Hands-On Tech Lab | Session Leaders: Ray Bernard and Convergint Technologies Tech Lab Leader |
| 9:15 AM – 11:00 AM | Hostage Barricade Response Exercise (Active Shooter) Using Virtual SOC Capabilities | Exercise Leader: Mary Massey, Vice President Emergency Management, California Hospital Association, Hospital Emergency Preparedness Program |
| 9:15 AM – 11:45 AM | Refreshments and Snacks Available Until Lunch | Service: Superb Catering |
| 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM | Teams Compete Technology Exercise: Find the Thief Contest | Exercise Leaders: Convergint Technologies Tech Lab Leader with technology sponsors |
| 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM | Lunch, Discussions and Networking Distribution of GSO 2025 USB Reference Stick |
Service: Superb Catering |
| 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM | Contests: Cybersecurity Hygeine for Physical Security Systems and IoT | Exercise Leaders: Convergint Technologies Tech Lab Leader and Viakoo infrastructure assurance specialists |
| 2:30 PM – Departure | Refreshments and Snacks Available Until Departure | Service: Superb Catering |
| 2:30 PM – 5:00 PM | Technology Hands-On Time, Individual Vendor Discussions, and Attendee Networking | Self-Guided: All Attendees |
| 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM | Wrap-Up and Departure | Out-Brief: Ray Bernard |