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Diversity and Inclusion Panel 2021
February 4, 2021 @ 2:45 pm - 5:00 pm EST
Free for ISACA GWDC Members, $60 other ISACA Members and Non-MembersAGENDA | TOPICS | PRESENTERS | ADDITIONAL DETAILS & CPE
ISACA GWDC is proud to host our Diversity and Inclusion in Technology 2021 panel on February 4th. Now Virtual! Attendees of ISACA GWDC's Diversity and Inclusion in Technology 2021 panel will understand how diversity and inclusion contributes to organization culture, effective IT governance and addressing operational risks surrounding IT organizations.
Who Should Attend
Attendees will hear stories from diverse leaders on how they achieved their successful careers and insights on how to foster a more diverse and inclusive workplace.
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TOPICS
Panel 1: How to Create an Inclusive and Supportive Environment
A vital catalyst for enhancing organizations is improving its diversity and inclusion efforts for underrepresented persons. It gives organizations greater perspective while remediating systemic challenges. Although the technology field is considered one of the leaders in aspiring for a more equitable society, challenges persists. This panel will discuss efforts and ideas to improve workplace diversity and inclusion, while sharing personally experiences of panelists.
Panel 2 Fireside chat with Pranav Desai - Compassionate Capitalism
We all must play our part to make the world an “ACCESSIBLE” and “INCLUSIVE” place where disabled people enjoy equality as human beings with opportunities to excel, contribute fully to society, and live with dignity and independence. Organizations need to work towards understanding the role that they play in enabling true diversity which includes disabled employees. Physical access to the workplace is regulated by the government but employers need to remember that providing opportunities to the jobs themselves can make good business sense by leveraging the skills and abilities of a largely untapped population. This panel will allow you to understand how by making simple changes, we can create a better world for everyone.
MEET THE PRESENTERS
Afolabi Ojumu
Partner, Kearney & Company
Fola Ojumu is a Partner at Kearney & Company and the current Director of Kearney’s Emerging Technology Practice. Founded in 1985, Kearney is the premier CPA firm focused exclusively on the Federal Government, providing services across the financial and risk management spectrum. Kearney has helped the Federal Government improve its financial operations’ overall effectiveness and efficiency; increase its level of accountability and compliance with laws, regulations, and guidance; and protect its funds from fraud, waste, and abuse. He has been employed with the firm for over 10 years and has served in its Civilian Audit and Consulting practices as well as the Defense Consulting practice. At Kearney, he supports clients focused on Internal Controls, Enterprise Risk Management, and Data Analytics. Fola is also a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) with experience in risk management, accounting, banking, consulting, and auditing. He has a Master’s Degrees in Accounting and Finance from the University of Texas McCombs School of Business.
Dr. Ana Valentín
Enterprise Service Program Manager, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Dr. Ana Valentín serves as the Enterprise Service Program Manager for the Office of Chief Information Officer under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In this capacity, Ana leads various technology projects critical to NOAA’s Mission. Ana co-founded the Latinos@NOAA Employees Resource Group (ERG) an organization that led various diversity and inclusive projects as a resource for the NOAA Civil Rights. The Latinos@NOAA ERG earned the 2018 NOAA’s Administrator Award for executing mentoring, coaching, and STEM educational opportunities to encouraging inclusiveness in the organization’s culture. Ana has degrees in math education, biostatistics, information security management, and program management, including a doctor of science in cybersecurity from Marymount University. Ana truly believes that Education is the key to success, so I would like to share a quote from Jaime Escalante (a Bolivian Math Teacher) who stated: “One of the greatest things in life is that no one has the authority to tell you what you want to be. You’re the one who will decide what you want to be.”
Dr. Michaela Amoo
Assistant Professor, Howard University
Professional Interests: Research in the area of hardware engineering, with emphasis on FPGA-based application-specific, floating-point hardware, RTL level design, Microcontroller, Microprocessor, and Micro architectures (μarch), Embedded control, and Systems on Chip (SoCs).
• Languages include: VHDL, Assembly(6800/8085/8086 and PIC), Fortran, Python,Matlab.
• Tools include: Matlab,ModelSim, Xilinx FPGA parts, ISE Design Suite and Vivado, Synplify,Dime-C,MPLab, Latex, Visio, MS Office, Unix, Sun Solaris, Dos, all Windows OS, Raspberry Pi, Analogue Discovery
Current Research:
• FPGA-based SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) for autonomous platforms.
• FPGA-based non von-Neumann architectures for HPC applications to increase computational power, facilitate massively parallel implementations, and reduce power consumption.
• Maintaining accuracy of floating-point hardware throughout multiple levels of calculations, and as data approaches denormalized values, whilst maintaining speed/throughput and constraining area/power consumption.
• Programming/implementing complex massively parallel architectures.
• Development of libraries of parameterizable, pipelined, floating-point, real and complex, vendor-agnostic, primitives (i.e. adder, subtractor, divider, square-root, multiplier ...), optimized for precision and throughput.
Pranav Desai, Disability Rights Advocate
Vice President, NTT DATA
Pranav Desai is Vice President with NTT DATA Services. He is a Polio survivor and believes that if opportunities are provided, Persons with Disabilities (PwD) can also contribute to the economy and live life with dignity. In 2015, Pranav received appointment as Honorary Adviser to Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Govt of India. He founded a non-profit Voice of SAP (www.voiceofsap.org), which has been granted a “Special Consultative Status with UN ECOSOC”, one of only ~60 NGOs globally, working in disability. Voice of SAP has launched world’s 1st virtual art gallery on disability with 250 artwork to promote Inclusion, awareness about disability. VOSAP mobile app has empowered 8,700+ registered “changemakers” in creating crowdsourced demand for accessible places.
Pranav took initiative to promote inclusion of PwD in NTT DATA and started ACCESS ERG in late 2019. He has received several awards including 2 awards from our parent company NTT Corporation (in Feb 2019) as well from NTT DATA, Japan (in May 2018) for his social contribution.
Jermaine Stanley, Moderator
ISACA Greater Washington DC Chapter - Vice President
Jermaine Stanley is a Cybersecurity, IT Risk Advisory leader with more than 25 years of experience working with Financial Services, Technology, Insurance, Non-Profit, and Government organizations. A strong leader who is passionate about mentoring, has a reputation for building teams, and attracting top IT Risk Advisory and Cybersecurity talent. Currently, Jermaine serves as a Security & Compliance SME for Proofpoint. Mr. Stanley is the Vice President of ISACA Greater Washington (GWDC) DC Chapter, one of the oldest chapters and is currently ISACA’s largest chapter. He also is a Board member of One in Tech, an ISACA Foundation; whose mission is, "To create a healthy digital world that is safe, secure, and accessible for all, through building understanding, growing and diversifying the workforce, and increasing access and affordability of resources to professionals and organizations.” In previous roles, Jermaine has published white papers, participated in and moderated panel discussions on Cybersecurity and Cloud computing. Mr. Stanley holds a Master’s in Software Engineering, a BS in Electrical Engineering, and the CISA certification.
Sushila Nair, Moderator
ISACA Greater Washington DC - Director
Sushila has worked as a Chief Information Security Officer for ten years and has twenty years' experience in computing infrastructure, business and security. Sushila manages the global security offers within the chief digital office at NTT DATA Services and is on the board of directors at ISACA Greater Washington, D.C.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
Special Instructions
- Group Live (Due to COVID-19, this training will be delivered via Zoom). Zoom link delivered with registration.
- Prior to the event, participants must install the Zoom app in their respective devices. Participants using the web-based Zoom or calling via the phone may not be entitled to CPE credits.
- Participants must respond to all the poll questions via the Zoom polling feature or chat log in order to receive NASBA CPE credits.
- ISACA Greater Washington DC will not be responsible for the participant’s inability to respond to the polls.
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CPE
Earn up to 2 Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits in the area of Specialized Knowledge. The ISACA® NCAC is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: http://www.learningmarket.org.
CPE Distribution and Evaluation Survey
CPE's will be distributed via e-mail along with the event evaluation survey after the completion of the event. Attendees must be present the full day to receive full CPE credit.
CPE-Related Details
- Prerequisites and Advance Preparation: N/A
- Program Knowledge Level: Beginner to Intermediate
- Delivery Method: Virtual