Diana Initiative Inc
Supporting women and diversity in security technologies
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
We envision a future of diverse gender parity represented at all levels in the information security industry and community.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
TDI2023
To offer a conference committed to helping all those underrepresented in Information Security
Monday August 7, 2023 In-Person at The Westin Las Vegas Hotel & Spa
Where we work
Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
To elevate, inspire, and support women and diversity of all races, cultures, and backgrounds through every stage of their information security career with education, collaboration, and resources offered online and at inclusive and welcoming conferences.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
The Plan of Activities is to offer information and cyber security conferences which promote women and gender diversity, featuring a wide variety of high quality information and cybersecurity content, networking and career advancement opportunities, as well as ongoing online mentoring support. The annual events will be a two-day conferences including general sessions, keynotes, workshops, and roundtable discussions.
In detail :
Provides ongoing mentorship to women and related gender minorities in the cyber security field.
Offer cybersecurity events which showcases:
-Diverse speakers to educate on a range of topics related to information security and gender.
-Training and workshops to learn and share on a wide variety of cybersecurity and gender topics.
Career villages
-Soldering and maker village to teach attendees how to solder circuit boards.
-CTF, Challenges and Puzzles Village to train attendees on penetration testing.
Support for new members of the community where we pair new speakers with experienced mentors to help them develop valuable skills.
The plan is to market the annual Diana Initiative event primarily via the Diana Initiative web site and social media including Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, and by word of mouth. The marketing strategy will be to provide a web site and create news messages linking to our web site on social media as well as emails to our past attendees and donors.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Corporate Sponsorship
Individual Donations
Staff and volunteers involvement
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
The Diana Initiative offered cybersecurity educational conferences for women and their allies opened. to all interested participants. The conferences offered a wide variety of information and cybersecurity content, as well as networking and career advancement opportunities. The Diana Initiative events not only offered diverse, high-quality content, but also support new members of the community through speaking tracks where new speakers were paired with experienced mentors to help them develop valuable skills.
For our next conference we estimate over 400 attendees per session and an approximate attendee count of over 1000 during the conference event. While our website will contain the most up to date information, highlights of this year’s conference include :
-Two large speaker tracks able to accommodate 250 attendees per session/tracks
-A workshop track
-Engaging events and challenges
-Lock picking village
-Career village
-Badge soldering and maker village
CTF village
-Online and on site mentoring
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Diana Initiative Inc
Board of directorsas of 06/07/2023
Nicole Schwartz
Virginie Robbins
Cheryl Biswas
Carlota Sage
Rin Oliver
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? No -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? No -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? No -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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