Questions tagged [conferences]
A conference is an official networking event where attendees meet to gain and share knowledge about a particular area or topic and those vendors who attend, educate the attendees on the goods and services .they offer in that field.
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How appropriate are technical hands on exercises (e.g: CTF) when looking to hire application security engineers at industry conferences?
I am a manager within the cybersecurity division at the company where I work. Our team is responsible for internal penetration testing and the application security strategy of deployed in-house ...
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I've been invited to a free 2-day conference. What's the catch?
I've been approached cold by email (sent to my work address) to attend a conference organised by a company called IDC. I have had no interactions with them before.
They are proposing to feed and house ...
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Ethics of keeping a gift card you won at a raffle at a conference your company sent you to?
My company sent me to a conference, recently, and in the conference there was a raffle and I won a $200 Visa prepaid credit card which I, in turn, used to buy groceries and other things for myself.
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Invited to give talk, but want to refuse
I'm currently WFH and I feel a bit embarrassed about how tentative I have been about returning to normal life (which is largely due to my elderly father and girlfriend, whom I both live with, being ...
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How can I leave a research Job before my patent and papers are published?
I have been working for a company for 2 years and 2 months part-time during my master's (my thesis was related to the company) and 6 months full-time after graduation. A total of 3 years and 8 months.
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Would it be appropriate to ask non direct reporting colleagues to attend specific sessions at industry conference?
Next week, I , my team members, and several others in our company's cybersecurity organization will be attending a major virtual security conference from ISC 2 sponsor.
I looked over the conference ...
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Going to a conference with a manager who has a history of skipping out on talks
A few years ago I did a developer conference with some coworkers, my manager included, and my manager and a senior developer decided not to attend any of the talks and just goof off instead. I, ...
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What should be my reaction to my supervisors' small child showing up during a video conference?
When I have video conference with my supervisors during pandemic, it happens often that her/his child would e.g. barge into the room or he/she appear in the video with his/her child in his/her arm. He/...
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Is it reasonable for my employer to make me use unpaid time off to drive back after a work conference?
I was at a work conference last week that was supposed to go M-F. It ended a day early and I drove home Friday during the day instead of Saturday. When I got back in the office today, my manager told ...
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How to applaud in a teleconference?
Suppose a work culture/environment where, in an in-person meeting, if a presenter does a good job, other attendees express appreciation with applause/clapping.
Suppose now that the same meeting ...
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Refusing to go on a company-paid event
I’ve been with this company for almost two years now, and every now and then, they send all of their devs on an event of their choosing, with all expenses (except food related) paid by them. They have ...
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Improve conference/meeting scribing skills
How do I improve my scribing skills at conferences or meetings?
I can copy down every word but that makes up a document that is tedious to read by executives.
I've seen examples and those scribers ...
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Last-minute canceled work-trip means I'll lose thousands of dollars on planned vacation
My company was supposed to be doing a conference next week in NYC. Over the past few months, I had been given multiple assurances that the conference would take place. I bought my own plane ticket and ...
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Structure for client visit
we have a very important client visiting our office. One key aspect of this visit is the client’s desire to interact with our staff at all levels, ask questions, understand what they are working on ...
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Hiring at industry events in cybersecurity
On the information security team at my company where I currently work, we have several critical / urgent roles we are looking to fill, amongst including a senior security architect, several senior ...
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