Etay Maor
Boston College Adjunct Professor, Cyber Security Researcher, Keynote Speaker, RSA Conference Member Committee
Etay Maor is Chief Security Officer at IntSights.
As CSO, Etay leads the security advisory practice at IntSights where he works with CISOs and other senior cybersecurity executives to develop risk management-based cybersecurity programs.
Etay has extensive experience in cybersecurity having worked at IBM, Trusteer, and RSA. Etay holds a BA in Computer Science and a MA in Counter Terrorism and Cyber Terrorism and is currently a professor at Boston College.
Dr. Steven Mintz
Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Michelle D. Miller
Professor of Psychological Sciences and President’s Distinguished Teaching Fellow at Northern Arizona University
Dr. Michelle D. Miller serves as Professor of Psychological Sciences and President’s Distinguished Teaching Fellow at Northern Arizona University. Dr. Miller’s academic background is in cognitive psychology; her research interests include memory, attention, and student success in the early college career.
Dr. Miller co-created the First Year Learning Initiative at Northern Arizona University and is active in course redesign, serving as a Redesign Scholar for the National Center for Academic Transformation. She is the author of Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology (Harvard University Press, 2014), and has written about evidence-based pedagogy in scholarly as well as general-interest publications including College Teaching, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, and The Conversation.
Dr. Miller’s current work focuses on using psychological principles to help instructors create more effective and engaging learning experiences, and to help students become more effective learners.
Christina DelliSanti-Miller
Career Transition Coach
Christina DelliSanti-Miller is a career transition coach who helps women take their careers to the next level, enhance their overall trajectory and build careers they love by driving their own development.
She brings 20+ years of senior Human Resources experience in the Financial Services, Aerospace, and Transportation industries. She has coached executives, managers and employees at all levels.
As the founder of a non-profit dedicated to helping women thrive in STEM careers, she is clear about challenges faced by women navigating competitive workplaces and appreciates the opportunity to share transformative approaches that make the difference for her clients.
Christina holds a Master’s degree in Organization Psychology: Consultation and Change from Columbia University.
View her weekly YouTube career strategies @FullPotentialRealized.
Florence Hudson
Executive Director for the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub at Columbia University
Florence Hudson is Executive Director for the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub at Columbia University. She is also Founder & CEO of FDHint, LLC, a global advanced technology and diversity & inclusion consulting firm, and Special Advisor for the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence at Indiana University. She is a former IBM Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Internet2 Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, and aerospace engineer at Grumman and NASA. She Chairs the global IEEE/UL P2933 Working Group on Clinical IoT Data and Device Interoperability with TIPPSS – Trust, Identity, Privacy, Protection, Safety and Security, and has published books on TIPPSS. She serves on Boards at Princeton University, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Stony Brook University, Blockchain in Healthcare Today, and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. She is a founding member of the Program Committee for the NCI Computational Approaches for Cancer Workshop. She has a BSE in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University, and executive business education from Harvard Business School and Columbia University.
Martin Van Der Werf
Associate Director of Editorial and Postsecondary Policy, Georgetown University
Martin Van Der Werf has extensive experience researching and writing about higher education and the issues facing the industry. His work at the center is focused on such issues as diversity and access to higher education, the return on investment of a college degree, and the workplace value of college degrees.
Marty is a former reporter and editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education, where he was responsible for all coverage of the business and financial management of colleges and universities. He was the founding director of Chronicle Research Services, a new-business development arm of the Chronicle.
Before joining CEW in 2015, Marty worked for Huron Consulting Group, the largest consulting company in higher education. Previously, Marty was an award-winning reporter, columnist, and editor at two of the largest daily newspapers in the US—The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Arizona Republic, in Phoenix.
Marty holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from Boston University, and is currently a candidate for a Master’s degree in Higher Education Administration at Georgetown.