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Events
Hacking 4 Humanity 2025 (Virtual, Jan 24 - Feb 7, 2025) Online hate is on the rise, leading to real-world devastating effects on individuals and communities around the world. Join Carnegie Mellon, Duquesne, Pitt, and other undergrad and grad students from Pittsburgh at a multidisciplinary hackathon to develop new tech and policy solutions that mitigate online hate and create safer communities.
Hacking4Humanity is a tech and policy hackathon for undergraduate and graduate students, which offers students a new way to engage with real-world social problems that can be improved with novel technical and policy solutions.
State of the Net Conference (Washington and Virtual, DC, USA, Feb 11, 2025) Annually attracting over 600 attendees, the State of the Net Conference provides unparalleled opportunities to network and engage on key policy issues. It is also the only Internet policy conference with over 50 percent of Congressional staff and government policymakers in attendance, making it the perfect setting to explore important, emerging trends.
The State of the Net Conference Series is hosted by the Internet Education Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public and policymakers about the potential of a decentralized global Internet to promote communications, commerce and democracy. IEF works closely with leaders on Capitol Hill and in the private sector to host the most important debates in Internet policy. IEF’s board of directors is comprised by public interest groups, corporations, and associations representative of the diversity of the Internet community.
27th Annual Commercial Space Conference - Launching Tomorrow: Government and Industry Taking Space to New Heights (Washington, DC, USA, Feb 12, 2025) For more than a decade, the Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have partnered to host the Commercial Space Transportation Conference. CSF and FAA-AST have decided to change the name of the event to the Commercial Space Conference (CSC) to be more inclusive and recognize the broader sectors of the commercial space industry. We are proud to include speakers from the many agencies the commercial space industry interfaces with daily, including the FAA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Commerce, The White House, Congress, the State Department, the National Space Council, and the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community.
During this intensive one-day event, hundreds will gather to discuss the most pressing commercial space policy issues facing the industry and to hear insights from prominent U.S. government and industry leaders. Topics for discussion will include the policy and regulatory framework for launch and re-entry operations, commercial Earth observation activities, space situational awareness and space traffic coordination, orbital debris mitigation and space sustainability, and in-space servicing, assembly and manufacturing or ISAM.
FutureCon Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Feb 13, 2025) Hear from our esteemed speakers while gaining up to 10 CPE credits. Immerse yourself in the latest cybersecurity developments to gain valuable insights in today’s dynamic threat landscape. Learn how to effectively manage risk, demo the newest technologies from an array of different sponsors, and network with your local community.
Zero Trust World 2025 (Orlando, Florida, USA, Feb 19 - 21, 2025) Whether you’re Zero Trust curious, actively adopting, or simply want to harden your cybersecurity, Zero Trust World provides education and training to support IT professionals. Through thought leadership and hands-on hacking labs, you’ll explore the threat landscape and what’s possible by changing your defense strategy to default-deny.
