The Summit, now in its 12th year, will feature Dr. Mark Taylor, an award-winning speaker recognized internationally as an educator, expert, and consultant on the forefront of transformations in educational practice and workplace management. As an authority on generational relations and the traits, developmental issues, and learning outcomes of today’s young people, he is dedicated to helping colleges, universities, and professional programs better understand and serve our students for learning, development, persistence, and successful integration into the “after college” world through keynotes, seminars, and workshops. He is founder and President of Taylor Programs.

The Summit is intended for energy/construction educators, industry, organized labor, and economic and workforce development representatives.

Working Connections IT Faculty Development Institute offers cutting-edge, cost-effect professional development opportunities to current high school and community college faculty that is often only available through expensive commercial training. Working Connections makes the newest technologies and industry trends available to attendees, as well as encourages the kind of networking and collaboration among educational and business leaders that can strengthen any IT educational program.

The GeoTech Center will once again be hosting the annual GeoEd Exploratoriums and Conference.  The Exploratoriums will be June 5th and 6th and will open shortly.  The conference will be June 7th.  To register for the conference go to the GeoTech Center main page http://geotechcenter.org  and click GeoEd’17.  If you are interested in presenting please send me an email.  Stipends will be available for Educators.  

Metadata: What is it and why is it important?

• What does it do for us?

• Are there metadata standards &€“ why or why not?

Querying: What is it and why is it an important skill?

• Examples of querying in ArcGIS

• How can we apply it?

Data Management - What is it and why is it important in geospatial technologies?

• File management basics

• Examples of why we need to manage data correctly

• Demo in ArcGIS

A Touch of Statistics & Why are stats important?

• What can we learn from statistics?

• What is the difference between statistics and analytics?

The National Cyber Summit is a preeminent event for cyber training, education, and workforce development aimed at protecting our nation’s infrastructure from the ever-evolving cyber threat. Held in Huntsville, Alabama, one of the nation’s largest technological hubs, the summit attracts commercial companies; the healthcare, automotive, and energy industries; academia; Department of Defense organizations; and civilian departments and agencies including DHS, NIST, U.S. Army, NASA, TVA, NSF, and DOE.

Presentations and workshops are organized into three tracks: "Management," "Technical," and "Workforce Development & Education." Highlights of the event include the NSA/DHS Reception honoring academic institutions that are being designated as National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAEs); a Cyber Job Fair; and the 2017 Cyber Cup Competition.

The Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE) supports cybersecurity educators, researchers, and practitioners in their efforts to improve curricula and foster discussion of current and emerging trends. At this three-day event in June, academic partners share innovative curriculum, courseware, and hands-on techniques that their colleagues can take back to their programs.

ICUAS'17 is a four-day event. June 13 will be a Workshop/Tutorial day, followed by a three-day technical Conference on June 14-16. Judging from the interest ICUAS has drawn over the past years and its growth, ICUAS'17 is again expected to continue on the same path and attract the highest number of participants from academia, industry, federal and state agencies, government, the private sector, users, practitioners and engineers who wish to be affiliated with and contribute technically to this highly demanding and rapidly evolving and expanding field.

The theme of ICUAS'17 will focus on the very challenging and timely topic of networked unmanned systems. National and international organizations, agencies, industry, military and civilian authorities are working towards defining roadmaps of UAS expectations, technical requirements and standards that are prerequisite to their full utilization, as well as legal, policy and ethical issues. The next generation of UAS is expected to be used for a wide spectrum of civilian and public domain applications. Challenges to be faced and overcome include, among others, see-and-avoid systems, robust and fault-tolerant flight control systems, payloads, communications, levels of autonomy, manned-unmanned swarms, network-controlled swarms, as well as challenges related to policies, procedures, regulations, safety, risk analysis assessment, airworthiness, certification issues, operational constraints, standardization and frequency management, all of paramount importance, which, coupled with 'smart', 'environmentally friendly' cutting edge technologies will pave the way towards full integration of UAS with manned aviation and into the respective national airspace.

ICUAS'17 aims at bringing together different groups of qualified military and civilian representatives worldwide, organization representatives, funding agencies, industry and academia, to discuss the current state of UAS advances, and the roadmap to their full utilization in civilian and public domains. Special emphasis will be given to current and future research opportunities, and to 'what comes next' in terms of the essential technologies that need to be utilized to advance further UAS.

A seminar combining port public relations and maritime economic development interests, with a focus on collaborations and strategies that can help ports gain favor with customers, community members, government officials and other important stakeholders.

Working Connections IT Faculty Development Institute offers cutting-edge, cost-effect professional development opportunities to current high school and community college faculty that is often only available through expensive commercial training. Working Connections makes the newest technologies and industry trends available to attendees, as well as encourages the kind of networking and collaboration among educational and business leaders that can strengthen any IT educational program.

Highline College in Des Moines, WA, will host the first International Collegiate Cyber Defense Invitational (ICCDI) June 20-22. The ICCDI will bring together approximately ten student cyber defense teams, along with at least two faculty members each, from nations around the world to participate in a cyber competition modeled after the U.S. National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC). Invitations have been extended to institutions in Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Highline College is a U.S. National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense –Two-Year (CAE2Y) that has successfully hosted the Pacific Rim Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (PRCCDC) for the past seven years. For the 2016 season, the Highline team designed, hosted, and operated the competition; thirteen colleges and universities from Washington, Oregon, and Idaho participated. Highline College is also a long-standing member of Community Colleges for International Development (CCID).

If you or your company are interested in sponsoring the event or providing volunteers, please contact Dr. Amelia Phillips at aphillips@highline.edu. 

The second annual California Cyber Innovation Challenge (CCIC), a statewide high school cybersecurity competition, will be held at the California Cyber Training Complex in San Luis Obispo. The challenge will allow high school – level cybersecurity competition teams to demonstrate their expertise, while encouraging the formation of new cybersecurity teams for future statewide challenges.
 
The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) and California Polytechnic University are leading this event on behalf of the CyberCalifornia coalition. CyberCalifornia is an ever-growing coalition of businesses, academic institutions, and state agencies, all of whom understand the need to proactively address the cybersecurity concerns and opportunities associated with next-generation technologies. 

The Community College Cyber Summit (3CS) is organized and produced by six Advanced Technological Education (ATE) centers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and involved in cybersecurity. 3CS is the only national academic conference that focuses exclusively on cybersecurity education at the community college level.  Faculty, administrators, and other stakeholders in community college cybersecurity education are invited and encouraged to attend.

In advance of the 2017 Community College Cyber Summit, a cybersecurity job fair will be held at Prince George's Community College, MD. Faculty are invited to email info@3CS.nationalcyberwatch.org if they would like to bring students to the job fair.