Cerulean Skies Winery

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NADOG Presents - "DevOps & Hops"

Guest Speaker - Craig Schippers, Trend Micro

Talk: "Manual Security is Dead: How to Build an Automated Security Fabric in the Cloud" (abstract below)

Agenda:

6:00PM-6:30PM - Arrivals, networking, drinks & food

6:30PM-7:00PM - Guest speaker

7:00PM-7:30PM - Q&A/Group discussion

7:30PM-8:00PM - Networking/socializing & more drinks and food

ABSTRACT:

Learn why manual security is dead and why the only effective security practice is an automated one.

• Build a strong foundation for workload security in the Cloud

• Create a real-time data flow for incident response and a parallel stream of evidence for follow-up analysis

• Evaluate and leverage 3rd party controls to ensure optimal workload productivity”

Mario Raia will be presenting his strategies around pricing new tech products keeping in mind that we're primarily focused on business to business SaaS applications. This should be a great presentation and discussion!

Paul Burkett will lead a discussion on Pre-Selling. Come learn how it can help your startup and be ready to discuss what you are working on. This is a great opportunity for startup entrepreneurs to learn how to pre-sell software solutions to your prospective clients even before you build your product!

2014 was a year of wearables, launches, failures, and experimentation. It was a classic technology revolution year. But new tech isn't about next year tech, it's about last year's tech perfected. Perfecting revolutions requires an act of evolution, and the next year or two will be rife with it.

Let's look at the revolution of new wearable successes of the previous year (quantitative self, smart watches) and wearables that require more evolution in the coming years (Google Glass, smart clothes) for mainstream success. What can we do to help evolve this space?

Since the coolest part about wearables is playing with new ones, let's have another show and tell! Glass will be present (of course), but so are some weirder ones. I'll be showing off Myo (armband), Mimo (smart onesie for babies), and Gear (smartwatch). I know some of us are avid wearable collectors, so bring them all! If you don't have any, come anyway and take a look at the future cyborg society.

Google Glass wasn't actually the first smart glasses / smart eyewear device, but Google certainly popularized the concept by focusing on consumer uses combined with a creative marketing campaign. At this month's Google Glass / Wearables meetup, we're going to look at Google's competitors. We'll have a presentation and discussion that covers the following: - What smart eyewear devices are available now? - What devices are coming later this year? - How do the features of these devices compare to Google Glass? - What are the price points? (Prices vary wildly!)

Smart watches are popping up everywhere. Apple, Samsung, LG, Motorola -- the list goes on. Manufacturers big and small are releasing a plethora of smart watches in the near future. This month's Google Glass / Wearables PDX meetup will focus on presentations and discussions around what we're finding out about these new devices. We're also going to have a short presentation on Android Wear.

We all seem to have our little niches in this group, so how about a show-and-tell? Bring in your wearable devices, be it Google Glass, Nike Fuelband, or a hearing aid. There are so many categories of wearable computers, it'd be useful to see them all. If you've written some software for these devices, show that off too. So much the better.

Join us even if you aren't wearing, it's a good time to play around.