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Theme: Bold Ideas

This event occurred on
November 21, 2020
College Park, Maryland
United States

Join us on Saturday, November 21st at 2pm EST for our virtual TEDxUMD conference: Bold Ideas! We have 3 amazing speakers lined up with an interactive Q&A portion with each. Save your spot by registering for the event today!

Online
https://umd.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYoceGgqDssG91c76Tue0piwcG0CcvD1fn6
College Park, Maryland, 20740
United States
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Speakers

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Ben Pappas

CEO and Founder of Ben Pappas Leadership and Life Coaching
Ben Pappas is the CEO and Founder of Ben Pappas Leadership and Life Coaching. He has over 25 years of leadership experience in some of the most demanding positions and environments on earth. Ben has led, mentored, and coached thousands of people from across the US and world. Ben’s leadership experience spans commanding precision raids in direct combat, promoting foreign relations in Europe and Asia, coaching people to achieve personal and business success, teaching graduate-level leadership courses, and even leadership on the football field. His expertise includes leading organizational change, and helping people make breakthroughs to achieve peak performance, intervention, negotiation, communication, change management, building teams, and improving decision-making skills. He is a former Marine special operations leader who can assess, develop, and create strategies to achieve individual, and organizational goals.

Jill Goldenziel

Associate Professor, Marine Corps University-Command and Staff College
Jill Goldenziel is a professor, public speaker, and consultant. She is Associate Professor at Marine Corps University-Command and Staff College and Affiliated Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Fox Leadership International Program and Partnership for Effective Public Administration and Leadership Ethics. She teaches International and Constitutional Law, the Law of War, and Security Studies to U.S. and international field-grade military officers. She has presented her award-winning scholarship at the United Nations and the Pentagon and her work is frequently featured in the press. She is currently writing a book on how politicization of refugee and migration crises harms national security. Professor Goldenziel holds a Ph.D. from Harvard, a J.D. from NYU Law, and an A.B. from Princeton.

Sarbari Gupta

CEO of Electrosoft
Dr. Sarbari Gupta has been active in the information security industry for over twenty-five years specializing in cybersecurity, digital identity and access management and cloud security. She holds PhD, MS and B.Tech degrees in Electrical Engineering and CISSP and CISA certifications. Dr. Gupta is a frequent speaker at industry conferences on cybersecurity topics and has authored over forty technical papers/presentations on leading edge topics and holds four patents in areas of cryptography. She has co-authored several NIST Special Publications in the areas of Electronic Authentication, Security Configuration Management, and Mobile Credentials. She has received many accolades, including Distinguished Alumnus Award from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur; FedHealthIT Women in Leadership Impact Award; U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce’s Stellar Award; Silver Stevie® Award for Female Executive of the Year and the Washington Business Journal Minority Business Leader Award.

Organizing team

Sarah
Feng

Organizer