Blue Team Con 2025 Partners
Black Girls Hack
Black Girls Hack provides training, community, and needs-based services to help educate, empower, and prepare our members for careers in technology and cybersecurity. Since 2019, we have served as a community-based not for profit organization that helps bridge the gap between what is taught in schools and what is required for industry employment. We partner with leading-edge solutions and training providers to help career changers and the industry outliers find a home within cybersecurity. Our organization represents the industry as we desire it to be while being inclusive and reflective of our community. Our vision is a diverse and inclusive cyber industry where Black women are represented in technical, leadership, and executive roles.
Docent Institute
Docent Institute (Docent) is a 501(c)(3) registered charitable non-profit educational institution based in Iowa. Its mission is “Cybersecurity and STEM education, inclusion, and outreach for the benefit of society.”
Docent organizes cybersecurity/STEM camps for K-12 students, cybersecurity career days for high school students and competitions for college students. Docent hosts the premier Midwest annual cybersecurity conference, CornCon, held in the fall in Davenport, IA. Docent provides college scholarships, mentoring, apprenticeships/internships, career services and performs other public outreach related to cybersecurity education and career development, advancing technology, and the ethical use of technology. Docent also works with IEEE to develop industry standards around the ethical application of technology. Current projects include developing a process for evaluating the trustworthiness of news sources, and a standard on the ethical use of AI.
Sober in Cyber
The goal of Sober in Cyber is to grow a community of sober people within the cybersecurity industry who can share resources, network together, and find “sober buddies” at infosec conferences. We started by launching a Discord community in May 2023 (sober folks in cyber: join the server here). We’re also in the development stage of launching a podcast that will highlight the multitude of personalities and pathways within the Sober in Cyber community.
WiCyS – Women in Cybersecurity
Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) is a non-profit and membership-based organization dedicated to the recruitment, retention and advancement of women in the cybersecurity field. The organization is working to improve diversity and pipeline in the cybersecurity workforce, and it does so through numerous initiatives, together with Strategic Partners and an army of energetic volunteers.
WiCyS helps build a strong cybersecurity workforce with gender equality by facilitating recruitment, retention and advancement for women in the field. WiCyS offers mentoring, training programs, scholarships, virtual and in-person conferences, leadership series, career fairs, webinars, and more to women at all stages of their cybersecurity career journey!
Visit their booth at Blue Team Con to learn more.
