Cybersecurity landscape, emerging threats and competing with the private sector for recruitment and retention of workforce talent. This discussion was part of the 14th annual billington cybersecurity summit in washington, d. C. Good morning. Thank you all for joining this session and thank you for having a discussion with us today. Is my pleasure. General nakasone, after he was here for the opening we had a meeting later that day and he was saying i got to open, it was so much fun and he was talking about the conversation he had and he said you are closing it and we will have its really exciting frankly conference for us because we focus so much on these issues and so its frankly an honor for me to be here. You really got the best of it from paul so its all downhill from there. Thank you. Lets jump into the topic of an workforce. We recognize the importance of a talented and Diverse Workforce and cybersecurity particularly given a lot of the challenges we face. Theres been some amazing
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Featuring 1291 speakers in 23 cities, seven states and six countries. But i am pleased to say as of today were really proud to announce this is our home, the National Center for the preservation of democracy. Trust me, were very happy about it. Of particular interest to me, our offices will be next door in the building that was constructed in 1924. Im told its haunted. Im a little freaked out by that. The other cool thing is my great grandfather was a bricklayer on this building in the middle of los angeles. So i own the place, by my logic. All of our events are followed by a reception to which everyone can grab either a glass of wine or water and continue the conversation with tonights featured guest and one another. Please give a warm welcome to ms. Goldie bloomenstick. Good evening, everybody. Thanks for joining us here tonight. I understand theyre going to be showing the bat signal tonight at 7 30 in l. A. We have a terrific panel here tonight. Im going to introduce the panel. We h
May have your attention please . Before i get started itll be most likely question answer at the end of the presentation. You can go to a microphone at anys side of the stage. I like to introduce eric who is a tv critic for npr. [applause] how are you doing . Thanks for joining us here. As we said my name is eric and im the tv critic so i should be talking to an author. Ive written a lot about race and media and i interviewed hansen. So we have little in common here. Our guest, the daughter of a nasa scientist an english professor. A virginia native you worked in Investment Banking . That was my first job. And also had a magazine and started working on Hidden Figures in 2010 and became a New York Times number one bestseller, spun the movie that was oscarnominated. So, i heard you gave an amazing speech last night, could you give us a taste of what you talked about and how it compares to what you talk about in the book . The thing we talked about but what i started out doing which is wo