Past CAIC Events

The Silicon Valley Center for Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity (CAIC) has played a pivotal role in hosting and supporting a diverse array of past events and activities focused on enhancing education and research in critical fields. By collaborating with Silicon Valley companies, the CAIC has fostered a strong network of expertise, driving innovation and leadership in big data, cybersecurity and beyond.

NICE Conference 

The NICE Conference is an annual convening of community members and thought leaders from education, government, industry and nonprofits to explore ways of developing a skilled cybersecurity workforce ready to meet the challenges of the future. The event provides an opportunity to signal NICE strategic directions and priorities, and a forum to showcase best practices. This event is supported by the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE), a program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the U.S. Department of Commerce, under a Cooperative Agreement (Award# 70NANB18H025).

• 2021 NICE K-12 Conference

  • December 2021 

    Presentation: “See Yourself in a Cybersecurity Journey”

• 2020 NICE Conference 

  • November 2020 

    Presentation: Cybersecurity Community Service Learning: A train-the-trainer approach

    Presenters: Alan Wong and Lynida Chang (SJSU) and Michael Chang (Trend Micro)

    SJSU and TrendMicro, in partnership with San José Public Library, jointly launched a training class "Learn Cybersecurity with Minecraft" targeting 3rd-5th graders. The class exposes elementary school students to cybersecurity concepts with high school and college students as teachers. In addition to developing a deeper appreciation of cybersecurity concepts through a train-the-trainer exercise, these teacher-learners grow the knowledge of the field by being trained by practitioners from TrendMicro. Young talents, from non-traditional underrepresented backgrounds, connect well with this service-learning arrangement, that serves their own local communities. The presenters highlighted this partnership among academic, government and industry entities.

• 2019 NICE Conference 

  • November 2019 

    Presentation: “Promoting Cybersecurity via Local and International Partnerships”

    The 10th Annual NICE Conference was held on November 18-22 in Phoenix, AZ. SVCGS, in partnership with Silicon Valley Big Data & Cybersecurity Center, highlighted the partnership effort in promoting cybersecurity here and beyond. One of our partners, Hong Kong Electronics and Technologies Association co-presented at the conference session the Innovate For Future STEM competition. The talk included SJSU's partnership with industry (IBM, Trend Micro, Optortun, Splunk, Lockheed Martin etc.), school districts (through CyberSpartans), California higher education through CyberAware Day (UC Merced/Ohlone College), municipalities through non profit (Adaptable Security) and other global partners.

CyberAware Day

CyberAware Day is a unique event hosted in partnership between UC Merced and San José State University to raise awareness around the cyber security sector and related opportunities for students of all backgrounds. Students had opportunities to interact directly with like-minded companies who know the value of diversity.

• CyberAware Day 2024

  • October 2024 

    The event kicked off with a welcome from Mayor Matt and City Manager Jennifer Maguire, and feature distinguished subject matter experts and City leaders, including FBI agent Elvis Chan, U.S Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) advisor Scott Alford, San José Chief Information Officer Khaled Tawfik, and San José Digital Privacy Officer Albert Gehami, and more to discuss the following topics: Protecting our City Together: Cybersecurity Strategy and Collaboration; Inclusivity in Cybersecurity: Education and Keeping your Businesses and Home Safe; and Recent Breaches in USA and Artificial Intelligence (AI). 

    CAIC Co-Director Tonia San Nicolas-Rocca moderated a session titled Protecting our City Together: Cybersecurity Strategy & Collaboration. 

• CyberAware Day 2023 

  • Speaker: Jon Clay, VP at Trend Micro

    Jon is a cyber security expert with 27+ years of experience in the industry across a range of areas including sales engineering, training, product marketing, PR/Media, evangelist, public speaker, and management. His speeches cover a wide range of topics including cyber security, threat landscape, and big data/advanced detection analytics.

• Cyber Aware Day 2022 

  • The Silicon Valley Big Data and Cyber Security Center 

    The speaker touched on generative AI which is a hot topic. ChatGPT gave generative AI or LLM a lot of buzz.

• CyberAware Day 2021

  • November 2021 

    Panel discussion featuring Michael Chang, Dr. David Schuster, Dr. Tonia San Nicolas-Rocca, and Gonzala Garcia-Belenguar

• CyberAware Day 2020

  • November 2020 

    Panel discussion with Michael Chang, Barbara Kay, and M.K. Palmore 

• 2019 CyberAware Day

  • November 2019 

    Panel discussion with Darren Alleyne, Felix Sterling, Sumin Lee, Kevin Haynes and Yue Cathy Chang

Secure Your Digital Future Series

A series of lectures featuring speakers from Palo Alto Network, Trend Micro, Cisco and others.

• Secure Your Digital Future October 2020

  • Workshop series for Comm*UniverCity during the 10th College Week presented by Santa Clara County of Education and Silicon Valley Education Foundation.

• Secure Your Digital Future - July 2020

  • Over 900 students registered for the cybersecurity series. Many students from our global partners, originally planned to visit SJSU during the summer, enjoyed the opportunity to learn from Silicon Valley experts, safely from their homes during the pandemic. 400+ from Asia attended the first session by Joel Ebrahimi of Palo Alto Network. His lecture title was 'The Future Of Cyber Security Through Automation.'

TMIE Virtual Cybersecurity Summit

• 2021 TMIE Virtual Cybersecurity Summit

  • October 2021 

    SJSU professors (Drs. Tonia San Nicolas-Rocca and Anthony Chow, iSchool and Dr. Evan Palmer, Psychology) were featured at Trend Micro's 2021 Cybersecurity Summit, covering topics including cyber threats and career opportunities.

• 2020 TMIE Cybersecurity Summit

  • November 2020

    SJSU professors were featured at Trend Micro's 2020 Cybersecurity Summit, covering topics including cybersecurity community outreach projects, cyber threats modeling and simulation, understanding the IoT threat landscape and how to break into a career in cybersecurity.

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Other CAIC Events

• Cyber Awareness Month: SJSU FBI Presentation

  • SJSU FBI Presentation 

    The SJSU Cyber Intelligence and Security Club hosted a cybersecurity presentation, featuring two members from the FBI San Francisco Field Office! The event topics included: information about the FBI, job opportunities and recruitment.

• Cyber Security Trend 2023-24 and Generative AI

  • Cyber Security Trend 2023-24 and Generative AI

    Speaker: Jon Clay, Vice President, Trend Micro

    Generative AI applications such as ChatGPT drove a new wave of applications. Webinar focused on understanding how generative AI and the latest Cybersecurity intertwine.

• 2019 Southeast Cybersecurity Forum

  • The forum featured several workshops, networking and collaboration meetings.

• Governance, Risk Management, & Compliance Workshop

  • The workshop presented a series of 12 exercises focused on cybersecurity Governance, Risk Management, & Compliance (GRC)

• DEF CON 27

  • DEF CON is one of the oldest continuously running hacker conventions around, and also one of the largest.

• Knowledge Unit (KU) Mapping / Program Criteria Workshop

  • The workshop covered how to map courses to the CAE knowledge units (KUs) in the Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education.

• NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Webinar: Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS)

  • OAC-CI Technical Talks Series
    May 2019 

    Presented by Marla Meehl, head of the Network Engineering and Telecommunications Section in the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO, and Wendy Huntoon, president and CEO of KINBER, the Keystone Initiative for Network Based Education and Research, and co-PI of the WINS project.

• RETR3AT 2019

  • On October 4, 2019, Montreat College's Center for Cybersecurity Education and Leadership hosted RETR3AT.

• Wicked6 Cyber Games

  • On August 8, 2019, six elite collegiate cyber teams went head-to-head in the thrilling environment of a Las Vegas esports arena.

CAIC also participated in the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE), the KU Mapping Workshop for Re-designating schools and KU Reviewer Training and ZHAW Data Science and Beyond.

Notable CAIC Activities

• Department of Homeland Security - Cyber Student Volunteer Initiative

  • The Cyber Student Volunteer Initiative (CSVI) was designed to give students an opportunity to work alongside cyber leaders with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). CSVI offers summer opportunities to current undergraduate and graduate students. The nationwide program provided students the chance to gain invaluable hands-on cyber experience through challenging work projects, real-life scenarios and mentoring from DHS cybersecurity professionals. This initiative provided a way for the Department to expand the pipeline of future cyber talent which is needed to execute the unique cybersecurity missions at DHS Component. Interns had the opportunity to apply concepts, protocols and tools acquired through coursework in the real world by working side by side with experts in cybersecurity. Student assignments focused on mission areas such as identification and analysis of malicious code, forensics analysis, incident handling, intrusion detection and prevention, and software assurance.

• Grant Proposal to the Department of Homeland Security

  • On August 22, 2016, the Center submitted a $1.9 million grant proposal to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The proposal was titled A Multidisciplinary Graduate Degree Training Program in Cybersecurity.

• Information Security Student Club

  • In 2013, SJSU established an Information Security student club. Club members participate in planning and executing the events/programs. They are also active in the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC), Uber CPTC Penetration Testing Competition and other enrichment activities.

• Professor David C. Anastasiu Receives Best Research Paper Award at DSAA 2016

  • Dr. David C. Anastasiu, Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering Department, received the Best Research Paper Award and Next Generation Data Scientist Award (NGDS) at IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA) held on October 17-19, 2016. The NGDS award is given to full-time research students and early-career researchers who conduct foundational research and innovative applied work in data science and advanced analytics.

• Symposium on Curriculum Development in Security and Information Assurance

  • The workshop on Curriculum Development in Security and Information Assurance (CDSIA) was held at San José State University in April 2014. The workshop attracted faculty members from over 40 universities nationwide and was co-sponsored by industry and the TRUST organization.

• US Cyber Challenge CyberQuests Preparatory Day Camps

  • San José State University hosted the 2014 US Cyber Challenge CyberQuests Preparatory Day Camps. Results from online CyberQuest competitions were used to select candidates for admittance into the prestigious US Cyber Challenge Western Regional Cyber Security Camp to be held at SJSU in August 2014.

• Women's Institute in Summer Enrichment

  • SJSU hosted Women's Institute in Summer Enrichment (WISE) 2013. WISE was a one-week residential summer program at NSF STC TRUST's SJSU campus that brought together graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and professors from all disciplines that were interested in Ubiquitous Secure Technology and the social, political and economical ramifications that are associated with this technology. Thought leaders from academia, industry and government come to WISE to teach power courses in several disciplines, including computer science, engineering, economics, law and public policy. The one-week program allowed participants to explore opportunities for career development and to network with their peers.