Cyber Training and Education Conference: Equipping Veterans and Teachers with needed Cyber Skills”

Cyber Training and Education Conference – Equipping Veterans and Teachers with needed Cyber Skills

Conference Agenda:

• Keynote on Cyber Workforce Needs and Strategies
• Overview of Cyber Career Opportunities
• Track 1: Preparing Veterans for Cyber Jobs
• Track 2: Preparing K-12 Population for Cyber Jobs
• Training, Education, and Certification Resources
• Finding, Recommendations, Next Steps

Conference Objectives:

• Understand types of career opportunities in the region
• Understand cyber workforce and curriculum standardization efforts underway
• Understand efforts underway in high school systems, colleges, and universities, and in veteran’s organizations to address cyber talent needs
• Determine resource needs to support teachers and transitioning veterans
• Present training pathways and programs for veterans/spouses to get qualified, and high school teachers to get trained
• Identify information link(s) to cyber jobs and training curriculum(s) for veterans/spouses and high school teachers
• Develop updated plan for enhancing training and education pathways for cyber jobs from inputs at the conference