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2026 Virginia Cybersecurity Education Conference

Warren Lucero

Virginia Tech

IT Manager/Program Director VT GenCyber

7:30am EDT

Registration Check-in & Breakfast First Floor Lobby

8:30am EDT

Day One Welcome Boeing Auditorium

9:00am EDT

Building Cyber Literacy Pipelines Engaging K–12 Schools Through Real-World Experiences Room 4100Kishanna Harley • Dr. Alisha Jordan

9:45am EDT

Cybersecurity Should Be Mandatory K–12. Virginia, Love You. Fix the Syllabus. Room 4110Romeo Gardner

10:30am EDT

Networking & Sponsor Break Boeing Auditorium

11:00am EDT

Building our Future by Looking to the Past: What Phone Phreaks, Hacker Zines, and the Legion of Doom Can Still Teach Us about Cybersecurity Room 4110Dr. Andrew Kulak

11:45am EDT

Lunch Learning Loft - First Floor

12:45pm EDT

Swipe Right for Threat Modeling: Cybersecurity as a Life Skill Room 4130Christopher Cruz • Regan McNulty

2:15pm EDT

Networking & Sponsor Break Boeing Auditorium

2:30pm EDT

Keynote: Hart Rossman, AWS Boeing AuditoriumHart Rossman

3:30pm EDT

Mobilizing Academia: The Department of War’s Blueprint for a Secure Tomorrow Boeing AuditoriumSeptember “Tembi” Secrist

4:15pm EDT

Conference Check-in & Day 2 preview Boeing Auditorium

5:00pm EDT

Networking Reception & Awards Recognition Tree House & Rooftop Terrace

7:30am EDT

Registration Check-in & Breakfast First Floor Lobby

8:30am EDT

Day Two Welcome Boeing AuditoriumStephanie Travis

9:15am EDT

Hacker Gangs or Defender’s Code? Shaping the Youth Cyber Journey Room 4100Jessica Gulick

9:45am EDT

Networking & Sponsor Break Boeing Auditorium

10:15am EDT

Build Your Own AI Cyber Home Lab Room 4100Tom Bendien • Daniel Mayer

11:00am EDT

Cyber Range Sidekick! Courseware and Virtual Machine Integration Room 4110Sabrina Williams • Rhiannon Kenny

11:45am EDT

Lunch Learning Loft - First Floor

12:45pm EDT

Skills-Based Hiring on the Digital Front Lines Boeing AuditoriumMatt Isnor

1:30pm EDT

Closing Remarks Boeing Auditorium