With over 50 speakers lined up, covering topics ranging from technical to not with some workshops thrown in, there's something for everyone.
The Diana Initiative
A conference for women in Information Security
A conference for Women in Information Security.
Featuring multiple speaker tracks, fully expanded villages and hands-on workshops, and a women-led Capture the Flag event.
This year, we are offering a special, limited RAWR ticket package. These RAWR tickets include admission to The Diana Initiative 2019 on August 9-10, 2019, a limited edition RAWR Challenge Coin, exclusive RAWR SAO (sh*tty add-on) and custom SAO holder, a copy of recently released book “Tribe of Hackers” by Marcus Carey & Jennifer Jin, and a bag including other special RAWR surprises. Be sure to select the “RAWR Participant” ticket when [purchasing on Eventbrite].
Lockpick Village
Our partners at Lockpick Extreme are once again hosting our Lockpick Village, as well as a Lock Re-pinning Workshop.
Capture the Flag event
New this year is an on-site Capture the Flag event with a range of challenges to engage players from beginners to experts. You’ll find a welcoming and supportive environment whether your goal is to score your first points or compete for the top spot.
Learn to Solder
Back by popular demand, you will want to check out our Learn to Solder workshop, in which you get to take home a custom Diana Initiative badge!
Career Village
From résumé and LinkedIn reviews, to practice interviews, to professional headshots, we're bringing out our best tools to help you enter the profession or advance your career.
Keira PatersonCo-Founder at eConvenor
Keira Paterson is a Django developer and co-founder of eConvenor.org and is passionate about diversity, equity, sustainability and empathy in technology.
Motivated by a desire to see automated tools improving the effectiveness of community organizers, Keira taught herself to code building eConvenor with her partner in 2012. In 2017 she made the jump into web development as a career, while continuing to develop and manage eConvenor.
Prior to development, Keira gained 10 years experience in people-focused work, as a trade union organizer, a political volunteer coordinator, staff manager and policy process manager. She now works in her spare time to bring these two worlds together - teaching people stuff to computer-people, and computer stuff to people-people in hopes of a more secure, equitable tech future.
Keira PatersonCo-Founder at eConvenor
Keira Paterson is a Django developer and co-founder of eConvenor.org and is passionate about diversity, equity, sustainability and empathy in technology.
Motivated by a desire to see automated tools improving the effectiveness of community organizers, Keira taught herself to code building eConvenor with her partner in 2012. In 2017 she made the jump into web development as a career, while continuing to develop and manage eConvenor.
Prior to development, Keira gained 10 years experience in people-focused work, as a trade union organizer, a political volunteer coordinator, staff manager and policy process manager. She now works in her spare time to bring these two worlds together - teaching people stuff to computer-people, and computer stuff to people-people in hopes of a more secure, equitable tech future.
Tanya JancaCloud Security Advocate at Microsoft
Tanya Janca is a senior cloud advocate for Microsoft, specializing in application and cloud security; evangelizing software security and advocating for developers and operations folks alike through public speaking, her open source project OWASP DevSlop, and various forms of teaching via workshops, blogs and community events. As an ethical hacker, OWASP Project and Chapter Leader, Women in Security and Technology (WIST) chapter leader, software developer and professional computer geek of 20+ years, she is a person who is truly fascinated by the ‘science’ of computer science.
Tanya JancaCloud Security Advocate at Microsoft
Tanya Janca is a senior cloud advocate for Microsoft, specializing in application and cloud security; evangelizing software security and advocating for developers and operations folks alike through public speaking, her open source project OWASP DevSlop, and various forms of teaching via workshops, blogs and community events. As an ethical hacker, OWASP Project and Chapter Leader, Women in Security and Technology (WIST) chapter leader, software developer and professional computer geek of 20+ years, she is a person who is truly fascinated by the ‘science’ of computer science.
Brianne HughesTechnical Editor at Bishop Fox
As a technical editor for Bishop Fox, Brianne Hughes works on client reports, internal resource development, and ongoing consultant training. She compiled the style guide available at cybersecuritystyleguide.com and hosted SpellCheck: The Hacker Spelling Bee at HOPE and DEF CON in Summer 2018. As a historical linguist, she enjoys finding new cutthroat compounds and using vulgar examples in her talks. She is Associate Executive Secretary for the DSNA, an Odd Salon Fellow, and she is on the board of directors at Wordnik.
Brianne HughesTechnical Editor at Bishop Fox
As a technical editor for Bishop Fox, Brianne Hughes works on client reports, internal resource development, and ongoing consultant training. She compiled the style guide available at cybersecuritystyleguide.com and hosted SpellCheck: The Hacker Spelling Bee at HOPE and DEF CON in Summer 2018. As a historical linguist, she enjoys finding new cutthroat compounds and using vulgar examples in her talks. She is Associate Executive Secretary for the DSNA, an Odd Salon Fellow, and she is on the board of directors at Wordnik.
There's sooo many more...
We are known for our quality and variety of speakers, carefully chosen each year. And thanks to our larger venue, we have room and time enough for nearly 60 different talks and workshops. Because of this, we are proud to feature a multitude of first-time event speakers, in a safe and supportive environment.
See who else will be joining us for 2019 >>