Keynote Speakers
Dr. Albert K. Karnig, President
California State University, San Bernardino
Dr. Albert Karnig has served as president of California State University, San Bernardino since 1997, and is only the third president in the history of the university. President Karnig, who published two books, more than 60 refereed articles and numerous monographs as a public affairs and political science professor, previously served as provost at the University of Wyoming and associate vice president for academic affairs at Arizona State University. He also directed ASU's School of Public Affairs, which was ranked among the nation's 10 leading public policy and administration programs.
President Karnig's academic work includes grants from national and state agencies; and consulting with the Brookings Institution, the U.S. Department of Labor, International City Managers' Association, and other organizations.
Kenneth C. Green, Ph.D., Founding Director
The Campus Computing Project
KENNETH C. GREEN is the founding director of The Campus Computing Project, <http://campuscomputing.net> the largest continuing study of the role of computing, eLearning, and information technology in American higher education. Green also directs the Managing Online Education <http://www.campuscomputing.net/2010-managing-online-education> survey (co-sponsored by WCET), and serves as the senior research consultant to Inside Higher Ed’s <http://insidehighered.com/news/survey> surveys of senior campus officials.
An invited speaker at some two dozen academic conferences and professional meetings each year, Green is the author/co author or editor of a dozen books and published research reports and more than 100 articles and commentaries that have appeared in academic journals and professional publications. He is often quoted on higher education and information technology issues in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Education, and other print and broadcast media. His Digital Tweed blog <http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/digital_tweed> is published by INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION <http://www.insidehighered.com/>.
In October 2002, Green received the first EDUCAUSE Award for Leadership in Public Policy and Practice. The award cites his work in creating The Campus Computing Project and recognizes his "prominence in the arena of national and international technology agendas, and the linking of higher education to those agendas." A graduate of New College (FL), Green completed his Ph.D. in higher education and public policy at UCLA.
Additional information about Kenneth and his research can be found at: http://www.campuscomputing.net/page/kenneth-c-green-director
Keynote Address: “The 4th Decade of the IT Revolution”
We have now officially entered the fourth decade of the "IT revolution in higher education" that began with the slow migration of IBM-PCs and Macintosh computers onto campus in the mid-1980s. Although the technologies have changed and improved dramatically over time, the issues that consume the time and attention of today’s faculty, IT leaders, and senior campus administrators seems strikingly familiar. Drawing on data from The Campus Computing Project and other sources, Green's CISOA presentation will address the great aspirations for IT in teaching, learning, and campus operations that pose continuing challenges for the higher education community.
Stan Stahl, Ph.D.
President, Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)
Los Angeles Chapter
Stan has been President of ISSA-LA since 2006. In addition to serving as Chapter President, Stan is the President of Citadel Information Group which he co-founded in 2002 with his business partner, Kimberly Pease. Citadel provides information security management services to business, government and the not-for-profit community. An information security pioneer, Stan has secured teleconferencing at the White House, databases inside Cheyenne Mountain and the communications network controlling our nuclear weapons arsenal. In addition to his work in the information security field, Stan has been a management consultant and was COO of an online learning company. A frequent speaker and writer on securely managing critical information assets, Stan earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan.
Keynote Address: "It Takes the Village to Secure the Village"
The information security world has changed. In the old days, information security was something big companies paid attention to and they did so by maintaining a staff of information security professionals. Smaller companies could often safely fly under the radar.
The old days are gone. All of our businesses, not-for-profits, schools, and government agencies are under attack from cybercriminals, social miscreants and nation states: Playstation, RSA, the US Senate, Lockheed, the International Olympic Committee, organized crime, Anonymous, Lulzsec, advanced persistent threats, mobile device (in)security, securing the cloud, botnets, spear-phishing. The list goes on.
As the face of cybercrime has changed, so must the response by the information security community. Information security professionals must add new management and leadership skills to their repertoire. IT professionals must become increasingly capable of integrating effective information security solutions into the networks they build and maintain for their organizations. We must all gain expertise in controlling a new generation of advanced threats and attacks. Our entire community has to confront Einstein's famous dictum: Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.
Join us at our November meeting when LA Chapter President, Stan Stahl, describes the current state of information systems security and ISSA-LA's innovative education-based strategy to provide the leadership our communities needs to "secure the village."
Entertainment
Don Friesen
Stand-Up Comedian
Fresh, frenetic, and self-deprecating to a fault, Don Friesen’s comedy is outrageously physical yet thoroughly relatable. Don’s willingness to admit his flaws and exploit them for maximum comedic potential has a way of not only entertaining, but at the same time tapping into the humanity in all of us. It’s a uniquely fun, clever, and clean act with an incredibly broad appeal—an act that has earned him rave reviews and die-hard fans throughout the country.
Growing up in Fresno, CA, Don was a bright and somewhat hyperkinetic baseball fan who idolized Willie Mays and dreamed of someday playing centerfield for the San Francisco Giants. Unfortunately, being a late bloomer who couldn’t hit a curve ball, Don’s dream died an early and relatively unceremonious death at the Bullard High School tryout camp.
Fortunately, he also idolized Bill Cosby. As a child, Don would check out Cosby’s albums from the library, memorize the routines, and wear them out on whoever he could get to listen (mostly his kid sister.) Later, in his teens, he would do the same with Steve Martin albums, eventually moving on to Woody Allen, Robert Klein, and Monty Python.
But despite his lifelong passion for comedy, Don was a shy kid from Fresno who never considered that this was something he could do for a living. After high school (and a few stints in junior college) Friesen went directly into the work force, trying his hand at everything from construction worker, security guard, waiter, bartender, cab driver, car salesman, water salesman, Rainbow Vacuum salesman, and commercial real estate agent, just to name a few. Eventually he regretted skipping college and decided to go back, earning his business degree at USC. It was there that his career took an unexpected turn… As a senior with some electives to burn, Don took an improv class and discovered that, along with his passion for comedy, he also had quite a knack for it. He loved it so much that he started a campus improv troupe called Commedus Interruptus, and his fledgling comedy career was off and running.
After graduation, Don began doing stand-up at open mikes in Los Angeles. Around this time, he met his wife Jill, and in less than a year they were married. After a couple of years of cutting his teeth at open mikes, Don realized that the best way to continue growing as a comic was to go on the road, so in January of 1995, he loaded up his Chevy Nova and began tirelessly touring America. Friesen’s first year on the road, he logged over 50,000 miles on his car, and slept in it countless times, but it definitely turned out to be worth it, as he discovered that the combination of non-stop writing and non-stop performing were quickly enabling him to find his comic voice.
Since then Don’s career has soared. He quickly became a national headliner, and in 1999, he won the prestigious San Francisco International Comedy Competition, the same competition that helped launch the careers of Robin Williams, Dana Carvey, Ellen DeGeneres, and Sinbad. He returned to San Francisco in 2005 to win the competition again, becoming the only comedian in the 30-year history of the San Francisco International Comedy Competition to win it twice.
Other career highlights include getting such a great response on his first network TV appearance—the Martin Short Show--that they actually held the audience over and had him perform a second set, opening for the Counting Crows and Goo Goo Dolls for crowds of 8,000 and 10,000, playing the Pacific Amphitheatre with Bill Engvall and Craig Shoemaker, and taping his concert DVD “Inexplicable” in front of a sold-out crowd at the Crest Theater in Sacramento. He has also recently taped Live at Gotham” in New York and performed at the “Just For Laughs” Festival in Montreal and TBS’ “The Comedy Festival” in Las Vegas. He can be heard regularly on the KLOS 5:00 Funnies and XM Sirius satellite radio.
Friesen currently lives in S. Pasadena, CA, literally 20 minutes from Hollywood, but maintains a very normal home life, spending as much time as he can with his wife and kids. And despite not yet having that big Hollywood “break” to point to, Don’s career continues to thrive, keeping him in constant demand in comedy clubs, theaters, Las Vegas, cruise ships, and corporate events. Thousands of fans come to see him again and again (and drag their friends along with them,) because they know that he is always writing new material, and has an incredibly fresh, energetic show that will have them crying every single time.