S4x26 Women In ICS Security (WICSS) Programs
Wednesday WICSS Dinner
The past four years Maggie Morganti, Emma Stewart and some other WICSS leaders who regularly attend S4 have hosted a dinner on Wednesday night. It began as a long table in a restaurant, grew to taking over an entire restaurant, and last year had an overflowing event of well over 100 women.
The tradition will continue at S4x26 with dinner at the beautiful indoor/outdoor Loews Preston’s Market. It’s even bigger in size, and we hope it reaches the capacity of 205. Imagine that, a gathering of 205 women in the ICS security field. There is no signup required at this time. Details will be sent to all women ticket holders closer to the event. Right now all you need to do is keep Wednesday night at S4 open.
S4 Events is a lead sponsor in this dinner and will be helping with logistics. Is your company interested in supporting this worthy event? Sponsorships are available for $2,500, and this will add your logo to this site and signage at the event. Most importantly it will help with this worthy effort to grow the OT security community. If you are interested in sponsoring the WICSS dinner email us at info@s4xevents.com.
S4x26 WICSS Scholarship Program
Women represent 51% of the population, and 60% of those attending college today. And yet only ~12% of the ICS security community are women (16.5% of S4x25 attendees were women. It’s often difficult for women to enter and thrive in the male dominated and often intentionally and unintentionally discriminatory ICS security field. At S4 we want to help try to change this for reasons of basic fairness, for the sake of our daughters, sisters and female friends, and for the very pragmatic reason that women, by sheer numbers, represent the best chance to deal with the shortage of ICS security professionals needed to create and secure the future.
S4 has had a Women In ICS Security (WICSS) program since S4x22. This year the program will focus on giving massive career assistance to 10 WICSS scholarship winners. The scholarship includes:
- A free ticket for S4x26
- A free room at one of the S4 hotels for up to 4 nights
- Your own dedicated S4 Ambassador to help you find your way around S4x26 and introduce you to the people that will help your career
We have set the bar high for this scholarship. We want each of the 10 scholarship winners to be able to look back at their time at S4x26 as one of the most important events in their career.
Scholarship applications will be accepted from October 1st to October 31st. Winners will be announced on November 7th, over three months prior to S4x26 to ease your planning.
Key Dates
Applications Accepted: October 1 – October 31
Scholarship Winners Notified: November 7
Initial Online Meeting with WICSS Ambassador: December
Arrive at S4x26: February 23 (afternoon)
Application Process
Applications will be available on October 1st.
The application requests basic information and then you will be asked to complete the following three questions. Since these answers are likely to be paragraphs, we recommend you answer the questions in a document and then copy and paste them into the form. If this is too difficult or not working for you, you can email your information and answers to info@s4xevents.com.
Profile Information
- Name
- Telephone
- Company
- LinkedIn Profile Link
- Highest Education Level
Application Questions
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