It’s been a busy winter. I spoke at SecureWorld Seattle on “The Two Faces of AI,” and chaired a panel at the same conference on the future of women in cybersecurity. In January, I was asked to repeat that AI presentation at the University of Washington for International Privacy Day. In early April, my colleague Miranda Belarde-Lewis and I will speak at a Humanities Washington panel on privacy at Town Hall. And later in April, I’ll offer the keynote address at the King County Region 6 Critical Infrastructure Working Group Cybersecurity Workshop, sponsored by the PNWER Center for Regional Disaster Resilience.

I had planned to travel to a Washington D.C. conference in April and to New York University (NYU) in June for an annual think tank session. But the Boeing 737Max grounding and the COVID-19 infection are factors where travel to conferences on the East Coast or abroad is concerned. I’m mapping the year on a shorter set of commitments until we know more about the resolution of either of these issues by the end of spring.