Welcome to PGTG’s October Meet Up! 

We will be welcoming speakers Darren Ditto (Topic: Exploring a Volunteer Incentive System Leveraging Blockchain Technologies) and Dave Kubert (Topic:The Role of DNS in IT) for our meetup this month. The goal for our meetup is for collaboration in the Information Technology field.

Registration for the event can be found here.

Date: October 15, 2019
Time: 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Location: UNBC Bentley Centre

AGENDA

5:30 – Networking – Drink/Food available

5:45 – Introduction and Announcements of other local Technology events

6:00 – Speaker 1 – Darren Ditto – Exploring a Volunteer Incentive System Leveraging Blockchain Technologies 

6:30 – Speaker 2 – Dave Kubert – The Role of DNS in IT Security 

7:00 – Break out sessions and local discussion – Selection of Topics for next event

7:30 – Summary – Next Meeting, Adjourn and if you wish to hang around and network some more – go for it!

DETAILS

Topic 1: Exploring a Volunteer Incentive System Leveraging Blockchain Technologies

Decentralized Tokenized Governance and Decentralized Semi-Anonymous Reputation.

Speaker: Darren Ditto, IT Manager Clinical Systems – Northern Health

Slides: Here

Topic 2: The role of DNS in IT Security

This is a moderately technical talk about how UNBC has begun to implement DNS logging and then correlating those logs with threat data feeds in order to find computers on the network that exhibit evidence of having been compromised or users who have been clicking on phishing links, based on their DNS lookups.

Speaker: Dave Kubert, IT Security Officer, University of Northern BC