BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aa226be300e5e7f3d74b8c6a0bc4c24c378 CATEGORIES:Events SUMMARY:Virtual | Career Pathways: AI, Technology & Cybersecurity DESCRIPTION:
Join us on April 18th at 3:30 pm to learn more about careers in AI, technology, and cybersecurity. This Career Pathways session will feature a panel discussion of experienced professionals in various roles within this field who will share advice and tips about how they got to be where they a re today!
Are you struggling to set yourself apart from other applica nts, unable to move up in your department, or don’t know how to begin your career? Join WFPG for our Career Pathways! These member-exclusive monthly o nline events feature women leaders in a variety of international affairs fi elds to help answer your questions. Each month, WFPG will feature a new gro up of speakers to talk about their chosen career paths, how they got there, and any advice they have for someone interested in the industry. Whether y ou are a student with a heavy workload, a young professional navigating you r new life, or an experienced employee who wants to revamp their resume, Ca reer Pathways is the resource for you. Potential Career Pathway topics incl ude foreign service, human rights, international development, climate, publ ic health, and more! Please join us on each third Tuesday of the month at 3 :30 PM to meet these impressive mentors and transform your career.
Wi th a network of over 21,000 individuals, the WFPG has unparalleled connecti ons in all foreign affairs fields. Whether you aim to work with non-profit organizations, the public sector, or private companies, there will be a Car eer Pathway that fits your goals. As women, it is essential to have others who uplift you in these fields, and WFPG’s Career Pathways are the beginnin g of finding the right mentor for you. Our mentors strive to help the next generation of women leaders succeed. Career Pathways are open to all WFPG m embers and we encourage our Student and Young Professionals Members to join .
Interested in attending Career Pathways, but not a member? No probl em! We have a variety of different membership levels to fit your needs. As a WFPG member, not only are you invited to attend Career Pathways, but you also receive complimentary admission to all other in-person and virtual pro fessional development and mentoring programs, such as our Mentor Minutes. A dditionally, you will gain access to exclusive member experiences and oppor tunities.
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Laur en Bedula joined Beacon Global Strategies in 2015. She is a Managing Direct or and leads the firm’s National Security Technology Practice, focused on a dvising disruptive technology companies on partnerships with the national s ecurity community. Ms. Bedula is Co-Host of the Business Executives for Nat ional Security (BENS) podcast “Building the Base”, focused on the evolving defense industrial base. Ms. Bedula currently serves on the Board of Direct ors of BENS and and on the Executive Board of the Silicon Valley Defense Gr oup. She is a Senior Fellow at the National Security Institute at George Ma son University’s Antonin Scalia Law School and serves on the Board of Direc tors of the Women’s Foreign Policy Group. Ms. Bedula also serves on the Sti mson Cener’s Alfred Lee Loomis Innovation Council. Prior to joining Beacon, Ms. Bedula served as the Director for Policy, Emerging Threats at BENS. Ms . Bedula oversaw the domestic security and counter threat finance portfolio s, working closely with federal, state and local law enforcement, the Depar tment of Defense, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and Department of Homeland Security. Previously, Ms. Bedula worked as a researc h analyst for a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. She also previously worked as a Research Associate for the Nationa l Council on Crime and Delinquency. Ms. Bedula previously served on the Boa rd of Directors for the Young Professionals in Foreign Policy and as a Fell ow at George Washington University’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security . Ms. Bedula graduated from the American University, with a double major in Public Communication and Interdisciplinary Studies C.L.E.G.: Communication s, Legal Institutions, Economics, and Government.
< span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 14px; line-height: 2.0 ;">Ayan Islam serves as the Director of Cyber Workforce at the Office of Na tional Cyber Director (ONCD) and supports the development of the upcoming N ational Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy. Previously, she was the Ass ociate Policy Director for R Street’s Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats te am, where she supported the oversight and development of the Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats program, and provided subject matter expertise in publ ic policy strategy development and implementation. Prior to R Street, she w as the Critical Infrastructure Portfolio Lead at the Cybersecurity and Infr astructure Security Agency (CISA), and also served as the CISA COVID Task F orce Tier 0 Project Lead, Operation Warp Speed Liaison, and Cybersecurity S trategist for the Aviation Cyber Initiative (ACI) during her tenure.
Kathryn Neal is the Director of International Policy for Microsoft within the U.S. government affairs team, where she wo rks to deepen the company’s engagement on international policy priorities w ith the Administration, Executive Branch agencies, and NGOs. She leads the company’s engagement with the State Department and USAID, and coordinates M icrosoft engagement in U.S.-led multilateral and bilateral summits. Prior t o this role, she built and led Microsoft’s University Relations team, helpe d form a Cities engagement team, and was the company’s Policy Planning Dire ctor. Before joining Microsoft, she worked as the Director of International Policy for Boeing Commercial, as an investment analyst in Bangkok, as a co nsultant to the Asian Development Bank in Vietnam, helped start the Europea n-American Business Council, and taught international economics at several graduate schools. Kathryn is a graduate of Vanderbilt and Johns Hopkins SAI S and her doctorate in International Political Economy from the London Scho ol of Economics focused on the role of companies in building international economic norms.
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