Join Marco and Sean in their annual pre-RSAC conversation with Linda Gray Martin and Britta Glade. Discover what's new and exciting at RSAC 2025—expanded campuses, innovative programming, and compelling guest speakers like Magic Johnson and Ron Howard. Dive into special events, immersive experiences, and the launch of a vibrant community platform aimed at fostering continuous learning and connection among cybersecurity professionals. Get ready for another unforgettable year celebrating many voices within one united community.
Join Marco and Sean in their annual pre-RSAC conversation with Linda Gray Martin and Britta Glade. Discover what's new and exciting at RSAC 2025—expanded campuses, innovative programming, and compelling guest speakers like Magic Johnson and Ron Howard. Dive into special events, immersive experiences, and the launch of a vibrant community platform aimed at fostering continuous learning and connection among cybersecurity professionals. Get ready for another unforgettable year celebrating many voices within one united community.
Full Intro/Blog:
RSA Conference 2025 is here, and Marco and Sean continue their beloved tradition with a vibrant preview conversation featuring Linda Gray Martin, Chief of Staff and Senior Vice President at RSAC, and Britta Glade, Senior Vice President, Content & Communities. This year's conference theme, "Many Voices, One Community," highlights the collaborative and inclusive spirit driving the cybersecurity world forward.
In this engaging discussion, Marco and Sean explore the exciting expansions and innovations attendees can anticipate. RSAC is expanding its campus, taking over San Francisco's stunning Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, enhancing the attendee experience with a new keynote auditorium and the DARPA AI Cyber Challenge. The Sandbox area promises captivating interactive experiences, including a fictional town simulation designed to showcase AI's role in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
Keynotes remain a conference highlight, with influential voices like NBA legend Magic Johnson sharing insights on teamwork, and filmmaker Ron Howard discussing storytelling and human connections in a unique father-daughter interview format. Closing celebrations feature an exciting conversation with Jamie Foxx, alongside vibrant performances from DJ Irie and local sensation Jazz Mafia.
New educational tracks addressing essential topics such as Protecting Home and Family and Security Foundations ensure that content remains both relevant and accessible. The introduction of a new community membership platform is set to revolutionize ongoing engagement, offering secure messaging, tailored cybersecurity content, and collaborative opportunities long after the conference ends.
Embrace the spirit of innovation, unity, and continuous growth at RSAC 2025, where the cybersecurity community comes together to drive meaningful change.
Keywords:
RSAC 2025, RSA Conference, cybersecurity, community, innovation, Magic Johnson, Ron Howard, Jamie Foxx, DARPA AI Cyber Challenge, Sandbox, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, keynote speakers, networking, continuous learning, community membership platform, protecting home and family, security foundations, technology, inclusive community, immersive experience.
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Guest:
Linda Gray Martin | Chief of Staff, RSAC and Senior Vice President, RSA Conference
https://www.linkedin.com/in/linda-gray-martin-223708/
Britta Glade | Senior Vice President, Content & Communities, RSA Conference
https://www.linkedin.com/in/britta-glade-5251003/
Hosts:
Sean Martin, Co-Founder at ITSPmagazine [@ITSPmagazine] and Host of Redefining CyberSecurity Podcast [@RedefiningCyber] | On ITSPmagazine: https://www.itspmagazine.com/sean-martin
Marco Ciappelli, Co-Founder at ITSPmagazine [@ITSPmagazine] and Host of Redefining Society Podcast & Audio Signals Podcast | On ITSPmagazine: https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/marco-ciappelli
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Sean Martin: Marco,
Marco Ciappelli: Sean,
Sean Martin: this is the big room. Room.
Marco Ciappelli: you know, I re, I was thinking the first time we went up in San Francisco for RSA conference, did we go with a carriage and horses? Was that long ago?
Sean Martin: think it was. I think it was,
Marco Ciappelli: is been.
Linda Gray Martin: When was your first one? When was the first time you attended it?
Sean Martin: 11. 11 years ago.
Marco Ciappelli: No, Sean started actually much earlier than me. Um, I think I'm up to what, 11, 12, 13? I dunno. Something like that.
Sean Martin: Something like that.
Marco Ciappelli: I got the badge.
Linda Gray Martin: Love it.
Sean Martin: Yeah. The, the loyalty plus,
Marco Ciappelli: You won't, you don't believe me. There it is.
Britta Glade: That is, that is a valuable
Marco Ciappelli: Right.
Sean Martin: It is a value
Linda Gray Martin: Yep.
Britta Glade: And it's fun to watch. We have some attendees that wear their pins from prior years, and there's a few folks that it's, you know, the entire lanyard is covered. It's impressive and heavy.[00:01:00]
Marco Ciappelli: yep. I.
Sean Martin: Well, there, there are many years I didn't, I think I used multiple email addresses and I missed out on a number of them. But anyway, last year I got that all sorted. I think Ben, you helped. Uh, Ben. Ben, you helped. Who was behind the scenes helped, helped make that happen. We're not here to talk about pins though.
Well, they are fun and
Linda Gray Martin: It's it, it's part of the whole thing.
Marco Ciappelli: event.
Linda Gray Martin: Yeah.
Marco Ciappelli: exactly. Linda.
Sean Martin: is a really cool thing. I mean that there's a lot of, a lot of loyalty plus members, to your point, Brita, I, I see many, many people walking around with that, which,
Britta Glade: And that is the excitement of our SAC conference is all those people.
Linda Gray Martin: exactly.
Sean Martin: Exactly. So for people listening there, they hear voices. They don't know who they are. If you see, see us on screen, you have an idea, but, uh, this is our, our annual on location. Chats on the road to RSEC conference in San Francisco. Uh, Marco and I love this event and we enjoy [00:02:00] having this kickoff episode to kind of give an overview of what's going on, what's new, what's changed, uh, what can we expect, and I'm thrilled to have Linda Gray, Martin and Britta glad on with us again.
Good to see you both.
Britta Glade: You as well.
Linda Gray Martin: We love, we love this chat, so thank you for having us.
Sean Martin: It's great to have you. And, and your dog is there, or is that a cat? Is
Linda Gray Martin: So this is my cat, Winston
Sean Martin: all right? The cat's in the cat's in the frame, and the dog is
Linda Gray Martin: he, yeah, the dog will be wandering around, so, yeah. Apologies to everyone if there's a, a random bark or a meow in the background.
Marco Ciappelli: we love that. We love that.
Linda Gray Martin: It's feeding time and so everyone's a little bit fractious.
Britta Glade: Watch for those furry faces at RSAC conference, our pets are featured. When you look at the digital, the digital messaging and all, you will see many pets because we all love them. It's part of the culture.
Sean Martin: pets are part of our lives. That's absolutely, absolutely. For sure.
Marco Ciappelli: All right. So the [00:03:00] goal of this conversation, as you well know, because we have done it every year. Uh, most of the, most of the time we, we wanna know what, what's gonna happen, what is different from the year before, bigger, better, more exciting. And I don't know how you can pull that off, because I feel like every year is perfect.
And then you're like, nah, no, no. All done. We got more. So I wanna know what excites you and we wanna share that excitement with everybody that is either coming or. They're gonna follow our coverage and, and see what's going on without having the opportunity to be in San Francisco. So, um, Linda? Yeah. What are you excited about?
Linda Gray Martin: Oh, so I, I think I say this every year, but I truly mean it, that I, we get so excited in the run up to the conference because
You, you kind of know what's coming. We get there and you're part of this really vibrant community and everyone is genuinely so excited to see each [00:04:00] other. I love that you've, you do really run into. old friends and people are just so excited about it, so I love that. So, um, just you can feel within the virtual walls of RSA conference, because we all work remotely, or RSAC conference, sorry, that, um, the excitement is mounting. You can just feel it, you know, the, just the intensity and it's, it's coming and we just cannot wait to get there.
Um, we are working hard, as you said, to, um, create a great experience for all of our attendees. Um, and if you like, I can just run through a couple of new things that people can expect this year, if that's all right. So, um, you know, obviously content is refreshed each year. Tracks are new and different dependent on what's going on in the industry.
Brita will talk a little bit about that, but just operationally a couple of things. So first of all, we are expanding our campus this year and we are taking over the yba Buena Center for the Arts, which we are [00:05:00] actually really excited about. I'm not sure if you've been in there, but it is, it's a beautiful space.
Um, ex very excitingly. We have the auditorium. Which is, um, gonna be housing the former South Stage keynote program. So it's now been renamed the Yrb of Wana Center for the Arts Keynote Program or the YBCA Cape Keynotes, 'cause that's quite a mouthful. But if you are standing, looking at Moscone North, it's literally to the right.
So it already feels like it's part of the campus. So, um, it's like a great location and it's a, a beautiful theater. Um, the San Francisco Valley has been inhabiting it for a while, so it's, it's really, um, it's like a performance, a performance auditorium and stage. So it's gonna be fantastic. So a couple of other things that we're housing in there, um, the Sandbox program is gonna be moving there, which is where we have HandsOn experiences ranging from kind of capture the flags.
To an escape room, but very excitingly this year we are [00:06:00] partnering with darpa, who we're bringing their AI cyber challenge to RSA conference. And, um, they run this at DEFCON two. Um, so we're excited to have 'em join us, but basically you go on an immersive journey. To a fictional town called Northbridge, and it's really designed to showcase the importance of AI driven cybersecurity and how it's protecting our critical infrastructure.
They even have a little train that you can go on.
Britta Glade: A big
Linda Gray Martin: simulates a train ride to take you into Northbridge and I, I think people are gonna be really blown away by it. It's super exciting. We are really thrilled by this. I think it's gonna bring something very new and different for our attendees. Um, so that is a big change in a big program ad this year.
One other thing I wanted to point out is that it is the 20th anniversary of Innovation Sandbox, and I know you're speaking to Cecilia next week, so I'm not gonna steal any of her thunder. Um, but that. Is a huge [00:07:00] milestone for us, A huge milestone for that. This program, um, we have an expanded space for the program in Moscone South, which is part of the reason we have taken on YBCA and made some of these kind of like space changes.
Um, more to come on that from Cecilia. Next year and then next year, sorry, next week. And then also early stage expo. Um, it's another kind of, part of our innovation programming has an expanded footprint, which is great. You know, there's a definite need there. So, um, it's an exciting space for people. I know people love going, going into it and seeing what some of the kind of new up and coming in companies and products in the space are.
So yeah, those are just some highlights of new stuff.
Sean Martin: I love it Are the, uh, the winners of the sandbox. Gonna ride the carousel,
Britta Glade: That would
Linda Gray Martin: You know, I don't think that's part of the program, but I like it.
Sean Martin: the round, round robin there. I love it.
Britta Glade: Tune in in 2026 when.
Linda Gray Martin: [00:08:00] Yeah.
Sean Martin: Floating some new ideas here.
Linda Gray Martin: Love it. Yeah.
Sean Martin: All right. So lot, lot of expansion, which is really fun. Uh, extra steps coming. We, we get to walk around more
Linda Gray Martin: Yeah, for.
Sean Martin: extra steps. And I think one of the things Marco and I were noticing. I don't know if it was an optical illusion or, or, or what, um, you, you kind of put the myth to bed, but it seemed like there's a lot more content, a lot.
A lot more speakers. Um, I don't know. There's, there's been announcements about keynotes that that list seems long already as well. Um, and not just long, but really cool people. So I know who can share a bit about the programming, obviously the, how that comes together this year. What are some of the highlights and,
Linda Gray Martin: Yeah, well we can both share a bit. So like, this is where Brita and I are, um, a good, a good double act. [00:09:00] So, I mean, I can talk a little bit about the West stage. 'cause as you know, we've got two stages. So we, we have the west stage, um, where we predominantly have our sponsor keynotes, we have panels, we have guest speakers.
Um, and then the yba Buena Center for the Arts, keynotes, YBCA keynote program, um, is mainly where we hear from some of the leading industry experts. And Brita will be a perfect person to give you an overview on that. Um, but as you say, we put out our keynote press release this morning with a long, long list of some of the.
Amazing people that we've got. I'm just gonna highlight a couple of the guest speakers for you because, um, people always enjoy them and, you know, they may not be cyber related, um, but they bring a different perspective than these speakers make you think about something, um, something different, and hopefully have a positive influence, um, on your experience.
So. First up, we have two time NBA Hall of Famer entrepreneur and Philanthropist Magic Johnson. So we are super [00:10:00] excited about him. He is meant to be an incredible speaker and I think he's gonna bring such an energy, um, to Wednesday. He's doing the Wednesday morning keynote, so I'm going a little bit out of order.
Um, secondly, and who, somebody on the Tuesday actually Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ron Howard. Um, again, someone we're so excited about, 'cause he's just a phenomenal director, but he's a phenomenal storyteller. And Britta, I know you've done a lot of research on, on Ron, and I think it'd be great for you to share some of the, the thoughts that you had.
But you know, some of the films he's directed are incredible and I think will really resonate with our audience.
Britta Glade: And the diversity of films that he's done. Right. And we've all seen him grow up. He was Opie, he was, um, Richie Cunningham, he's now this director behind. He's, he's kind of been everything. And you look at, and I don't, I don't want to take away from the stories I [00:11:00] know he is going to tell on stage, so we won't, we won't.
We won't give you too much of it, but, you know, think about some of his films. Solo A Beautiful Mind. Um, I know everyone has something that comes to mind and as beautifully he'll be interviewed by his daughter, who is a very successful actress, director, producer by her own right. But, you know, how special is this to have her in conversation with her father, pulling some of those different stories out.
So I'm, I'm very much looking forward to that
Marco Ciappelli: It's really cool. And I, I love you mention ri uh, Richie Cunningham. 'cause for me, he's, I was a big Happy Days
Linda Gray Martin: Same.
Marco Ciappelli: was a kid. So for me, he's always gonna be that, like, I, I look at him now in the picture. I'm like, God, it's Rick Cunningham.
Linda Gray Martin: Yeah, but this, it's exactly the same for me, Marco, especially not growing up in the States. Growing up in the UK happy days was like one of my first introductions to U US culture.
Marco Ciappelli: yeah, the [00:12:00] fifties, you know, the, the rock and roll and
Linda Gray Martin: loved it. I loved it.
Marco Ciappelli: Very
Linda Gray Martin: uh,
Sean Martin: Everything, uh, globally in that sense.
Marco Ciappelli: Yeah.
Britta Glade: He really does.
Marco Ciappelli: Yeah. Yeah. And definitely the fact, the fact is there with the, with this daughter, that's gonna be really, really, really cool.
Linda Gray Martin: Really
Britta Glade: Very
Marco Ciappelli: nice choice
Linda Gray Martin: Yeah. And then, and then just a shout out for our closing celebration. We went in a slightly different direction this year and something we are super excited about. Um, and Jamie Fox is gonna be in conversation with Hugh Thompson. He's kind of like the, the main event. We've got some fantastic performances as well and artists taking part.
So, um, DJ Irie. Um, who is a DJ out of Miami and who actually I believe is a friend of Jamie Fox. Um, he's gonna be getting all going and then we are actually showcasing some local San Francisco talent with a group called Jazz Mafia who are kind of like a funk soul, uh, a bit of everything, um, kind of [00:13:00] collective of incredibly talented musicians.
So they're gonna be playing a part in that as well. So, something different this year, something we're super excited about, but still. A closing celebration. I think it's important we all just take a breath and enjoy something a bit special at the end of a, a long, hectic week.
Marco Ciappelli: Yeah. And, and you know what? The next person's gonna tell me, oh, you go a cybersecurity conference. That must be really boring. I'm gonna be like, you know what, here it is, and I'm gonna show, you know, I mean, you, that, that's like pure entertainment right there.
Linda Gray Martin: It is, but we're also thoughtful about these guest speakers. It's not just kind of random celebrities for the sake of it. Everybody has an interesting story to tell, um, that, you know, we hope people take to their hearts and you know, and Jamie Fox himself has had some personal stuff that he's been going through with his, um, the stroke he had a couple of years ago and his, his kind of fight back to good health.
So. Um, yeah, we are really looking for, he's a, he seems [00:14:00] like a fantastic character and we are really looking forward to having
Sean Martin: I know, I know. You're very thoughtful about it. And these, while they all are celebrities, which. Have their own power to get people to pause and, and actually engage for a moment. I know you're very thoughtful about the story. They're gonna tell, the connection that we'll have with the audience. It may not be, may not be tools and threat intelligence driven conversation, but they are stories that touch us and, and get us to think differently.
How we do our jobs, how we connect with each other, how we bring together a community to do what's important.
Britta Glade: Yeah, which is something I've always appreciated with your program, with how you've approached things in the human part of things, the human element, and we've got lots of the technology and the threats and the, you know, how do you configure your network, et cetera, et cetera. But when we look at our.
Surveys, when we look at the sessions people attend, when we look [00:15:00] at the call for speaker, um, submissions that come in. The human bond, the human peace, the human challenge is something that will always be there. And, and the speakers that Linda just overviewed, you know, you've got Magic Johnson, where you know, his, his famous element is the art of the assist, and that's what he'll be leaning into in the presentation.
Who among us. As, um, well as humans, but also as cybersecurity professionals. Do you not have that need to work with someone and assistance as setting someone up, being the playmaker and looking, you know, looking at the overall view of things, storytelling, which Linda touched on with Ron Howard. You know, we've talked, how do you talk to the board?
How do you talk to the other business units? How do you talk to others? So all of us. Need to craft language, we need to tell a story. Um, and then, you know, Jamie Fox was some of the things that he's had to overcome. So there's, there are, there's a direct lean into [00:16:00] the challenges we see across our industry.
Hopefully it's gonna be entertaining. Hopefully you're gonna remember all of it because of the fact that it's going to be presented in a different way. But it's part of the experience we try to create at RSAC conference to make that long-term impact on the industry.
Marco Ciappelli: I love you. Touch on the, on the human element. I think we, we talk a little bit about that every year when we have this, because it went from, again, being very technical to actually featuring few years ago actually the human element was the, the core of yeah, the theme of the conference and. And I think since then it's always been around the community.
So about innovation, getting together and, and be, you know, be, be, be a, a tight community. Because I think what you said about Magic Johnson, we, we all need each other. You can just be in a silence and, and do your thing. So talking about community, any, anything, like, I know there are a lot of things that are probably gonna repeat from the year before on [00:17:00] how they.
The, the people can get together on the floor. Um, anything Brita about, about that that you wanna highlight?
Britta Glade: I would love to highlight and I appreciate your setup there because everything at RSAC conference is of by for the community. We lean in very deeply to how do we better serve the um. The experts, the people who are part of this ecosystem. Um, so, you know, peeling it all back. When we look at setting up the content for conference, um, you know, again, we have that call for speakers process.
We have over 150 different experts who are part of our program committee. We are leaning into what is the community asking us that they want to see. A couple of new things that came up through that analysis this year. We usually have, we have our idea of where we're going to have sessions, and then we have where they actually land after we go through the submission process.
So some new things, Marco, that came out of that, [00:18:00] that are directed at serving the community in a different way. We have a track called Protecting Home and Family. This year, which at first one can say, huh, this is a professional event. Don't the professionals already know this? And you know what, no. The professionals could also, um, get some, it's, it's the shoemaker's children.
Right? Um, you know, what, what are some, what's some good advice for all of us to be implementing? On our own home front or setting us up to have that conversation over the back fence with a neighbor with, I'd really like some advice on X, Y, Z. I'm really excited about that track. Um, and I think our attendees are too, based on the reserve receipt numbers that I've been reviewing right before this call, um, it will resonate.
We're also bringing back our security foundations track, which again is like, huh. Isn't this an event that is created for people with quite a bit of experience in the industry? And the answer is, we serve people at all stages of their career, [00:19:00] but we also find that many of those people who are even, you know, very experienced in industry.
There's topics that are new to them. There's topics they wanna refresher on. There's topics they want to take. A fabulous session created by this expert that's been reviewed multiple rounds by this program committee, and they want to give that to their teams back in the office to review, to learn from.
So a lot of thought goes into the sessions, um, that come, that come to be. So those are, those are some of the new things from a content standpoint. Linda, do you wanna. Speak to maybe some of the other additional things happening, um, across campus.
Linda Gray Martin: Yeah, I think I touched on a lot of the new stuff earlier. Um. Yeah. Oh, can you,
Britta Glade: raised hand. Raised hand, yes.
Sean Martin: no one. One of the things, and it, it's, I always find this bringing. Uh, not many, but [00:20:00] certain groups of people together, communities together, the seminars in the summits. I'm a huge fan of the, the CSA Summit Cloud Security Alliance. Um, I know there's a Farris Summit. I'm a huge fan of Oasp. I know they have their AI security summit.
Is there anything you want to touch on from the summits? 'cause it seems like there are more seminars and summits too. I
Britta Glade: I love you bringing that up. Again, we serve the whole community and we have these great association partners who bring some of them. It's a half day of content, some it's a couple hours of content. You touched on some really, really great ones, and that's under their purview. They line up those speakers, they line up the content, and then we scatter it across the week at RSA conference.
So it's a great way to enhance. What you can take away, what you can attend. Um, and so we've got, you know, we've got a big event, we've got small events, we've got micro events, all these things that happen. And that's something we work really hard on [00:21:00] as a planning team is how can we serve the whole, but also serve the one, um, with what we're putting together.
You know, additional to that and something that's near and dear to me, um, Sean and Marco is we also have a lot of, um. Closed door communities. And what's a closed door community? You ask? Um, you know, fortune 1000 CISOs, this'll be year 22 for that group with our ESAF program. Very important conversations that they can have knowing they're in a, you know, trusted Chatham House rule community.
We have a similar program for aspiring CISOs called CSO Bootcamp, cyber Leaders Forum for Small and Mid-Size CISOs, um, EFG for the Fraud Leaders of Organizations, ICSF. For the top government officials. We have 45 countries represented this year. You can imagine the very important conversations that go on amongst those small groups.
So we convene that at conference. We convene the [00:22:00] seminars and such that you suggested. We've got the public track sessions. There's a lot of different things going on to try to meet all the different needs.
Linda Gray Martin: Yeah. And then, and of course there's a lot of social events as well, and that's a big part of it because I think, you know, connecting with your peers in a social setting is, is almost as important, just as important as the kind of formal content. So one, one reception that we've run for a couple of years now on the Sunday, so kind of to kickstart the week, is to bring.
People who have never been to the conference before. So people we call our affectionately call our first timers with some of our loyalty plus attendees. So people who have been coming for years and years. 'cause I think there's some real goodness in bringing these two audiences together. Uh, you know, just people can network with each other and, and pick up tips.
You know, we try and give our tips for, um, you know, how to have a successful conference. We run a webcast, a webcast in advance, um, for people who have never been before. [00:23:00] I mean, and for other people too. But I think there's nothing that can be getting together in person. Um, and breaking a bri of bread together and making new friends.
I.
Marco Ciappelli: Absolutely. I wanna give you also the opportunity, 'cause we were updating our section of the website with all our coverage where this actually is going to be, as well as other conversation. And we, we had an announcement a couple of days ago about the new, uh, community membership platform that you just launched as RSA conference.
So. I would love to hear a little bit about that. Who's gonna get on that one?
Linda Gray Martin: Yeah. Bri, do you want to do it? Do you want me to go or do you wanna do our usual tag
Marco Ciappelli: yeah, do the thing. You're really good at that. So
Linda Gray Martin: Yeah, so we are really excited, um, to announce this and, you know, for the past 18 months, the company has been growing. And we've been working away on this. So we did announce this week the [00:24:00] launch of our membership platform, um, which includes capabilities that will basically allow cyber and technology professionals to continuously learn and communicate and collaborate.
Um, it really is. Um, a community platform. So community, as you've mentioned, Brita is at the heart of everything we do. Um, so it will be providing access to exclusive content. Uh, we have a dedicated cybersecurity ai co-pilot that sounds very fancy. Uh, we have secure messaging and connections, which I think is gonna be.
Invaluable. Um, and there's an opportunity to discuss trending and pressing topics in groups so we can, you almost have like little birds of a feather sessions within the membership platform. And of course staying up to date on everything that is going on in the industry as well. So these are all kind of features and functionality that are part of the app.
Britta Glade: Yeah.
Linda Gray Martin: if there's anything you wanna add to that. Britta.
Britta Glade: Well, what I, what I love about it again, is we've all talked about, you know, you're [00:25:00] crossing a street, you run into, Hey, I remember you from last year, or you sit next to someone, you engage in an interesting conversation. This gives you a way to have a persistent way. To continue to engage, stay in touch with that person.
Um, if you hop on the platform right now, and I would highly recommend everyone out there right now, anyone can get into the preview trial. Play around with the features that Linda was talking about. You know, play, hop in some of the groups, ask a question, look at the answers that are coming back in. Jump over to the library.
You can take the presentations that, again, have been delivered, developed by these experts. And then, you know. Gone through by the program committee members to provide some feedback. You can generate mind maps out of that. You can generate slides out of that. You can generate summaries. So as we've spent this 18 months talking to the industry, what do you need?
How do we help you supercharge your time? How do we help you better engage across your groups? These are the [00:26:00] feature sets that bubbled up. It's a, you know, it's a first release product. We look forward to iterating, iterating, iterating, continuing to make it better and better for the community. So play around with it.
We'll be having a group that corresponds to the bulk of the sessions that will be out there during, you know, the week of conference. So you're sitting in there, you have a question, the speakers are gonna go back. There'll be some conversations that will continue beyond the event and help all of us to do our jobs better.
Linda Gray Martin: Yeah, and I think a, again, it's just worth here just highlighting what the mission is of the conference, because all of this plays into it, whether it is RSAC conference, whether you're part of the membership, whether you're part of all of it. Our mission really, it's bold, but it's to unite and empower the world's cybersecurity community in order to create a safer, so a safer society.
And we are hoping that all of this will contribute to that. That's our goal.
Sean Martin: And you're doing that this year with [00:27:00] many voices. One community.
Linda Gray Martin: Yeah, exactly. The theme of the conference. Yeah.
Sean Martin: uh, Linda Britt, it's fantastic. Uh, catching up with you. I'm sure we could, we could talk forever. I, is there anything else we didn't touch on before we go wrap?
Linda Gray Martin: You know, I think we covered it all.
Britta Glade: We covered it all and there will be more things that happen between now. And when conference happens, it's all exciting. Um, lots of things moving as we try to work to serve the community the best we
Linda Gray Martin: Yeah,
Sean Martin: I'm, I'm excited to have chat.
Marco Ciappelli: amazing job. Yeah. Oh yeah. Well, there there'll be more conversation.
Linda Gray Martin: catching up with you
Marco Ciappelli: Yeah.
Britta Glade: always, always.
Marco Ciappelli: And uh, you
Sean Martin: bring the, the cow, uh, interview
Britta Glade: I was wondering when the cow, the cow tipping was gonna come up. And, and if you have a picture of, you know, your pet cow or your pet horse,
Sean Martin: We, we might, uh, we might capture, I don't
Marco Ciappelli: the, this is, this is actually something this year, uh, the [00:28:00] past years we've been flying, um, or not there. 'cause you know, we're coming from different places or I was going to Europe after that. Well, this year we're driving so everybody should pay attention because something crazy may happen on the road.
Uh, it's not gonna be.
Sean Martin: get punched drunk.
Marco Ciappelli: Uh, we're, we're really, really, really excited to be there. Uh, it's a very special moment for the community. And, uh, and, and you said it beautifully with both of you, that you can tell the excitement from your voice and the way you announce new thing and Yeah. It's, it's, uh, unite, innovate, shine, one for all, all for one by the
Linda Gray Martin: Yeah, it really feels like that. It really feels like that.
Sean Martin: Yeah.
Marco Ciappelli: cool. Sean, when is that?
Sean Martin: When is it?
Marco Ciappelli: April 28th,
Sean Martin: It's the 20 through May 1st. There we
Marco Ciappelli: Moscone Center
Linda Gray Martin: weeks on Monday. Three weeks
Marco Ciappelli: around it, not just the [00:29:00] Moscone, everything around
Britta Glade: The whole city, man.
Marco Ciappelli: old city next, next year on The
Sean Martin: getting close to, uh, closing the streets off. I think that's, I feel that coming next,
Marco Ciappelli: Yeah, that'll be the next one. Street party.
Sean Martin: we'll
Marco Ciappelli: All right, well
Sean Martin: Well, Marco, now will the.
Britta Glade: right.
Marco Ciappelli: gonna be tough in San Francisco, but
Sean Martin: I
Marco Ciappelli: everybody stay tuned. A lot of, um, pre-event, uh, conversations. We're gonna bring it to you. Everything is gonna go on that page. Sean, uh, what is itsp magazine? Dot coms slash RSA conference. RSAC? Yeah. Okay.
Linda Gray Martin: RSAC.
Marco Ciappelli: And, uh, that's it.
Sean Martin: URL for all our coverage. I appreciate you both, um, for joining us today and also for all that you do, all that you have done for many, many years now. Um, continuing to grow and learn and, and listen to the community and bring us all together. So I want thank you for that and, [00:30:00] and including us to be part of it as well. So.
Britta Glade: a pleasure.
Linda Gray Martin: Absolutely.
Sean Martin: And thanks everybody for listening and watching. We appreciate you as well. Uh, we do this for you and, uh, hopefully we get a chance to see you in San Francisco. Uh, hugs, uh, hugs all the way around for everybody. Thank you.
Britta Glade: See you.
Linda Gray Martin: Bye bye.