Cebrowski Institute hosts a wide array of events and visitors from outside of the NPS community who share their knowledge cross-campus with NPS leadership, faculty and students.

Academic Year 2013 Institute Hosted and Supported Brown Bags, Events and Visitors

• "Free and Open Source vs. Commercial Off the Shelf vs. Government Off the Shelf" Bob Palmer, Senior Director, Solution Marketing, SAP National Security Services (SAP NS2) (video)
  
  
• "Security and Network Operations" Matthew Myrick, Senior Security Engineer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) (video)
  
  
• "Seamless Security over Public & Private Networks" Robert Koldys, Managing Director, SiRRAN Communications (video)
  (presentation pdf)
  
  
• "Edward Oates Symposium: Security in the Cyber Age" Warren Yu, Chief Learning Officer, Cebrowski Institute, presents at
  San José State University (program pdf)

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  Academic Year 2012 Institute Hosted and Supported Brown Bags, Events and Visitors
  
  
• "Cyber Security for Connected Devices" with Nadaradjane Ramatchandirane, CEO and Co-founder of Confia Systems
  
  
• "Government and Industry Satellite Communications Trends and Developments" with James J. Shaw, CDR (Ret.) USN, Vice President, Product Development, Inmarsat Government
  
  
• "Marine Corps Expeditionary Energy Office Visit" with Colonel Bob "Brutus" Charette, Jr., Expeditionary
  Energy Office Director
  
  
• "Networking, Relationship-Building, and Collaboration as Underpinnings of Resilience" with Eric Kutner, a homeland security specialist and founder of Emergency Response Design Group
  
  
• "SXSW Conference: Bringing NPS Research to the Tech World" with Andrea Davis, Librarian at the Dudley Knox Library
  (SXSW + NPS for 2013)
  
  
• "Leveraging Your Time at NPS: Turning Passion into Opportunity" with Major Brandon Newell, Technology Lead, Expeditionary Energy Office (presentation pdf) (video)
  
  
• Ms. Valencia de la Vega Visit "You are Brave, Brainy and Beautiful"(video)
  "Afghan Vet inspires Salinas Youth to be Brave, Brainy & Beautiful" (article pdf) (video)
  "Ms. Latina World 2010, Valencia de la Vega Visits the Steinbeck House in Salinas" (English pdf) (Spanish pdf)
  
  
• "Smartphone Security" with David Wheeler CISSP, CSSLP, GSLC, president of Secure Comm, Inc. (presentation pdf)
  
  
• "The Rebound Effect from Improving Energy Efficiency" with Dr. Kenneth Gillingham, Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (presentation pdf)
  
  
• "Innovation and Installation Energy" with Dr. Jeffrey Marqusee, SERDP and ESTCP Executive Director (presentation pdf) (video)
  
  
• "MACE Metrics Matter! How Do You Measure a Pound of Netcentric?" with Chris Gunderson CAPT USN (ret), a Research Associate in the Information Science Department
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• "Mastering Complex Infrastructure for Research and e-Science" with Professor Cees de Laat who serves on the U.S. Department of Energy Sciences Network (ESNet) Policy Board (EPB) (video)
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• "Technology and Governance, Risk and Pipe Bombs" with Asst. City of Monterey Police Chief Michael Aspland
  
  
• "The Logic of Energy Efficiency" with Alan Meier, Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory  and UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center, Faculty Researcher and Associate Director of Curriculum (presentation pdf) (video)
  
  
• The Dual - Fuel Strategy: An Energy Transition Plan" with Dr. William Ahlgren, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (presentation pdf) (video)
  
  
• "Reduce Energy = Improve our Security" with CDR Matt McCann, formerly head of NPS Public Works, now with the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense's Facilities Energy (presentation pdf) (video)
  
  
• "Social Collaboration Data in an Open World" with Dr. Sujata Millick, Visiting Researcher with HP Labs on detail from ONR (presentation pdf) (video)
  
  
• "Computer Science Unplugged" with Dr. Tim Bell, Deputy Head of Department, Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand (article pdf) (video)
  
  

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