Techstars Startup Week Tampa Bay 2018

How is Tampa Bay adressing the tech talent gap in Tampa Bay and the need for this workforce? Hear from founders about why this type of disruptive educational model works and the need for these workforce initiative programs in our ecosystem. What's in it for your community and why have these founders chosen specific cities to launch this education?

This session is meant to provide entrepreneurs with a introduction to what Cybersecurity is, what every entrepreneur should know minimally, and how to protect yourself. The first step is to explain what risk is – and what the management of risk entails. Next, we explain what a digital asset is, and why it is the basis of Cybersecurity and Risk Management. We understand how modern Startups work, that spending money on Cybersecurity is not a priority, cost is a factor. So – how can you protect yourself just by changing your habits.

Startups have a completely different set of requirements than the Corporate juggernauts they aspire to become.  Speed to market, no up-front capital investment and pay-for-use are things you’re already aware of as you’ve seen the AWS videos.  But what’s missing from that sentence?  Cost, Security and Effectiveness.  These will be driven by the choices YOU make in deployment. 
AWS requires a different thinking in the way we attack the problem.  Properly designed an implemented, the loss of a service, service or region should be greeted with a “So what?”  So, leave your pets behind and lets take an open look how you can leverage AWS  
By the end of this session, you will have an awareness of how to effectively approach an AWS Cloud engagement.  Oh, and you’ll sleep better! 

This session links current cybersecurity trends and exploits with today’s social media climate and the role that people rather technology play. Attendees will learn methods used by hackers, their motives, how to detect them, and countermeasures.

The objective of this panel is to bring together cyber security experts from Private, Public, and Defense sectors to discuss the challenges facing the Cyber Security space. In order to inform startup entrepreneurs about the real problems that their products and services should focus on solving. The moderator will lead these experts through a tour of the challenges in their sector and the market at large, and the potential solutions to these challenges for their industry sector and possibly other sectors as well.