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BILL OTTMAN: HOW TO PURIFY THE INTERNET

(December 12, 2015)  – Bill Ottman, the CEO and co-founder of Minds.com delivered his speech on how to create pure Internet as a part of being a fellow of Michael Dukakis Leadership program in the Global Cybersecurity Day event which was held at Harvard Faculty Club on December 12.

A pure Internet, in the view of Ottman, means a “free and open source infrastructure”. Several terms and issues that contribute to the pure Internet are discussed, including free bandwidth, free software, free software, open source encryption, freedom of information, and clean energy sources.

Watch his presentation here:

CYBER THREAT INDEX – JEREMY SAMIDE

(December 12, 2015) – Jeremy Samide,  Lead Consultant to the StealthCare Labs, presented his Cyber Threat Index as a solution to tackle cyber crime in the Global Cybersecurity Day event which was held on December 12 at Harvard Faculty Club.  This is a part of his works as being a fellow of Michael Dukakis Leadership program at Boston Global Forum.

The Cyber Threat Index will help close the gap “between the technical reality of what is going on and how we can connect it with policymakers and legislators around the world to develop better policy”, Mr. Samide said. The Index will collect all cyber attacks around the globe, sample that with numbers of different sources, and then an index is put together in a scale of severity level to show how severity the attacks are, the global impact, the advocacy of them, and the vulnerability of those attacks as well. All these data are then provided to policymakers and legislators as an aid to  form the appropriate policy and legislation.

A cyber threat landscape with some statistics was provided too.

Watch his full presentation here:

A memorable week with Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellows in Boston

(Boston, September 21-23, 2016) – Four fellows of 2016 Michael Dukakis Leadership Program spent a memorable week in Boston and participated in various meetings and noteworthy activities.

Continuing its tradition, the 2016 Michael Dukakis Leadership Program started vibrant activities to enhance its fellows’ leadership competency and integrity. During the fourth week of September 2016, the MDL Fellows attended the Governor Michael Dukakis’s lecture in his house, as well as meeting and discussing with several high-profile professors/leaders of Boston Global Forum in a conference held at the Harvard University Faculty Club.

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Photo: Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellows attend Governor Michael Dukakis’s lecture on 09/21/2016.

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Photo: Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellows attend Governor Michael Dukakis’s lecture on 09/21/2016

In his prestigious lecture, Governor Michael Dukakis, chairman of Boston Global Forum, shared his view on various challenging problems that the world is facing, and encouraged the 2016 Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellows to think about and solve these problems. In addition, Governor related his experience and strategy in leading people to tackle multiple problems during his life as a well-known yet humble leader.

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Photo: Fellows of Michael Dukakis Leadership Program during the conference on 09/23/2016 at the Harvard University Faculty Club

Finally, during a conference organized by the Boston Global Forum on 09/23/2016, the Fellows of Michael Dukakis Leadership Program participated in many discussions with leading pocily makers and professors from Havard, MIT, Brown University, etc. This conference is about Global Citizenship Education in Cyber Civil Defense. Attending this conference is an invaluable experience for the fellows to understand important world problems, to engage in initiating solutions to these problems, and to develop their leadership skill.

DINESH BHARADIA

Dinesh Bharadia is a researcher at CSAIL, MIT. He studies networks and wireless communication. After obtaining his bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, he came to Stanford to pursue his MS and PhD. As a PhD at Stanford he commercialized his research at Kumu Networks, which allows radios to simultaneously transmit and receive signals at the same frequency channel. This problem had stumped scientists for almost 150 years. An analogy to this would be, allowing humans to shout at the top of their lungs while simultaneously listening to weak whispers. This technology makes it possible to double the efficiency of the current spectrum.

He has just been honoured with the 2016 Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar Award, for his outstanding contributions in radios network. Before that, he was named as one of 35 Innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review, joining the likes of Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and major leaders from Apple, PayPal and other tech companies.

RYAN MANESS

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Ryan C. Maness is a Visiting Fellow of security and resilience studies in the Department of Political Science at Northeastern University. Before that, he was Visiting Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at SUNY at Buffalo State College (2014-2015), Adjunct Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at University of Illinois at Chicago (2014), and Graduate Lecturer in International Relations in the Department of Political Science at University of Illinois at Chicago (2012-2013).

Obtaining his PhD degree in Political Science from University of Illinois at Chicago, Dr. Maness has published peer-reviewed articles in Journal of Peace Research, Armed Forces and Society, and Journal of Slavic Military Studies, as well as in Foreign Affairs. He has recently completed two books, Cyber War versus Cyber Realities: Cyber Conflict in the International System (Oxford University Press, 2015) and Russia’s Coercive Diplomacy: Cyber, Energy and Maritime Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). His main focus is the continuation of an empirical cyber incident and dispute dataset and Russian energy policies in post-Soviet space. His new book project uses content analysis to study the concept of state coercion in cyberspace.

SENY KAMARA

Seny Kamara is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. From 2008 to 2016, he was a researcher at Microsoft Research (Redmond Lab). He studied computer science at Purdue and then John Hopkins University, earning first a Bachelor of Science, then a Master of Science in Engineering, and then a Doctorate of Philosophy.

His work focuses on designing and analyzing cryptographic algorithms, protocols and systems; often motivated by privacy issues in cloud computing, surveillance and databases. He maintains interests in various aspects of theory and systems, including applied and theoretical cryptography, data structures and algorithms, cloud computing, databases, economics, technology policy and networking. He served as Program (co-)Chair for ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop (CCSW ’12) and Workshop on Surveillance and Technology (SAT ’15). He has been recognized as a future world leader in encrypted search.

MARIO MACILAU

Mário Macilau (1984, Mozambique) was born in Maputo where he currently lives and works. In newly independent Mozambique, during the most critical phase of the civil war, his family struggled with financial difficulties and moved from the province of Inhambane to Maputo capital in search of a better life. At the age of ten, he began to work in a small market frequented by the middle / upper class and helping to carry the groceries and washing cars at the park in an effort to support his family.

Macilau started his journey as photographer in 2003 and went professional when he traded his mother’s cell phone for his first camera in 2007, he specializes in long term projects that focus on living and environmental conditions over the time that affects the social isolated groups.  His work has been recognized with awards and featured regularly in numerous solo and group exhibitions both in his home country and abroad including: The Pan African group exhibition during the Biennale of African Photography in Bamako, Mali 2011, VI Chobi Mela Photo Festival in Dhaka, Bangladesh 2011, Photo Spring in Beijing, China 2011, Lagos Photo in Lagos, Nigeria, 2011, BESphoto at CCB – Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon, Portugal 2011 and Pinacoteca de Estado de São Paulo in Brazil, the KLM in  Kuala Lumpur,  Malasya ,  2012, The Johannesburg Art Fair 2013, Les Recontres Picha in Lubumbashi, RD Congo, 2013, The Biennale Arts Actuels in Saint Dinis, Reunion Island 2013, The African Art Auction in London, England,  2013  and among others. He has also completed a number of artistic residencies.

He was named one of Foreign Policy’s 100 Global Thinkers of 2015 for his standout contributions in using photography as his language to educate and inform for positive changes and influences.

JEREMY A. SAMIDE

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Jeremy Samide is an industry-recognized cyber security expert with over 15 years of leading-edge private sector, government security consulting and research and development work. He is now the Lead Consultant to Stealthcare Labs, and fellow of Michael Dukakis Leadership Program at Boston Global Forum

Jeremy advises an international client base on solutions from full service managed cyber security services to research and development on intelligent predictive analysis technology in recognizing cyber threats before they occur. Jeremy has expertise in the analytical, technical, advisory and tactical level on next generation security threats.

Mr. Samide has advised many startups and was the CEO of E-merging Technologies Group, Inc., a professional services firm specializing in security, technical, cyber, intelligence, and policy support for the US Government, allied foreign governments, private sector markets and the UHNWF. Under Samide’s leadership, Inc. Magazine ranked E-merging Technologies Group in the top 20% of the fastest growing privately held small businesses in the United States for five years in a row (2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, and 2008).  Mr. Samide was also credited with putting ETG on the distinguished Washington list; Washington Technology Fast 50. This honor showcases the 50 fastest growing small businesses in the government market.

Mr. Samide most recently, in conjunction with Federal law enforcement has consulted to both large and small businesses on the cyber security risks associated with organizations conducting business within the People’s Republic of China.

Mr. Samide is a sought after cyber security expert speaker globally with recent talks in Rome, Hamburg, Madrid, London, Lausanne, Toronto and Dallas.

Mr. Samide was also nominated as a Finalist in Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year.  The Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year is the world’s most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs.  Recognized globally, the award honors the most outstanding entrepreneur who inspire others with their vision, leadership and achievement.