all right hello defcon 29
welcome to the virtual ics village my
name is bryson fort
i am the co-founder along with tom van
norman uh
so sad that we can't be in person again
this year look forward to
a future where we can all do it safely
together
in the meantime we have put together a
wonderful group of activities for all of
you to
hack and learn in industrial control
systems if you've never
touched an industrial control system
don't worry we got you we got a lot of
101 stuff
um today we have several tabletop
exercises that require registration so
um give us the feedback on those we um
this is our first time doing those
and we're looking forward to um seeing
how they go and offering those more in
the future thank you to grim and insane
forensics for doing that
uh we also have uh workshops um so thank
you to
um side body works and intelligence for
the workshops
and of course a lot of speakers
first up is our keynote p.w singer if
you haven't heard of him he is a
strategist at new america
a professor of practice at arizona state
university
and principal at useful fiction llc
a new york times best-selling author
described in the wall street journal as
the premier futurist in the national
security environment
he has been named by the smithsonian as
one of the nation's 100 leading
innovators
by defense news as one of the 100 most
influential people in defense issues
by foreign policy to their top 100
global thinkers list
and is an official mad scientist for the
u.s army's training and doctrine command
no author living or dead has more books
on the professional u.s military reading
list
the reason that we chose him to keynote
though is that
he has done a lot of work with that
useful fiction the storytelling to
educate and bring awareness around
critical infrastructure
issues which is what we're going to be
talking about in
the keynote i want to thank all of our
sponsors for helping make this happen
all of the volunteers who are helping to
do this join us on discord
where uh you can ask questions of
different speakers and interact with all
the
uh staff and volunteers um and of course
the final piece which is where do we
get the details so go to icsvillage.com
and under events there is a def con
section
uh so that's where our schedule is uh
follow uh and subscribe to us here on
youtube we'll be continuing to push out
more talks throughout the year because
we do lots of different events
besides defcon although i guess this is
our our world series
and uh thank you so much for your
support
it is the community that helps make all
of this happen