District 2 Commissioner Doug Underhill will be among the Pensacola-area government, business and academic leaders participating in a Cybersecurity Roundtable hosted by the Department of Homeland Security Wednesday, Oct. 25 at 9 a.m. at the University of West Florida Conference Center.
Jeanette Manfra, Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications at the Department of Homeland Security, will give opening remarks.
A group of Pensacola-area government, business and academia leaders will then join Manfra in a roundtable discussion about the challenges to building a bigger cyber workforce to meet the growing threats to the nation’s information systems. Panel members include Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward; Doug Underhill, Chairman, Escambia County Board of County Commissioners; Dr. Eman El-Sheikh, Director, Center for Cybersecurity, University of West Florida; Rita M. Lay, Gulf Power Company; Paul Lashmet, Commanding Officer of Navy Information Operations Command, Pensacola, and Ray Murphy, Chief Information Officer, Navy Federal Credit Union.
A Cyber Career Information Expo, featuring information about career and educational opportunities in this fast-growing sector, follows the roundtable, from noon to 3 p.m. Both events are open to the public.
The University of West Florida Conference Center’s address is 11000 University Parkway, on the University of West Florida Campus.
For more information, please contact DHS at
[email protected].
