S4 Women In ICS Security Program

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 or signup and pay at this link.

S4x26 WICSS Scholarship Program

Here are your 10 WICSS scholarship winners who will be attending S4x26, Feb 24 – 26 in Miami South Beach.

We are selecting an Ambassador for each scholarship winner, and we will be putting up short bios of the winners in December.

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.