This SSCL event will be held on an online platform (Microsoft Teams) and will also have limited availability in person.
Speaker:
Dr Junade Ali
Dr Ali is a software engineer and cybersecurity researcher whose technology has been adopted in a variety of areas – from transportation systems to critical internet infrastructure, including being built into products by Apple and Google. He earned his PhD in cryptography after studying for a computer science masters degree aged 17. Aged 23, he earned Chartered Engineer status, the terminal regulatory status for engineers in the UK, and last year aged 27 he became a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the youngest ever Fellow of a professional engineering institution on record.
About the event:
2024 has seen catastrophic computer outages which have affected everything from High Street shops to policing systems. Crowdstrike has gone from obscurity to becoming an infamous household name. At the same time, there are a number of large-scale challenges brewing which are set to affect critical infrastructure from national security to healthcare systems which are not yet publicly known. This talk will take you behind the scenes of the secretive world that gives rise to these scandals and how they can be averted.
STRUCTURE:
17.30-18:00 SSCL AGM
18:00-18:45 Dr Ali – The Secretive Anatomy of a Tech Scandal (Killer Computers!)
18:45-19:00 Q&A
19:00-19.30 Networking
The event will be held at: The Mackenzie Building, Faculty Of Advocates, Old Assembly Cl, High St, Edinburgh EH1 1QX.
Administration Notes:
This event is free to attend and open to all. Please click here to book a place.
This event will be held on an online platform (zoom/teams) and will also have limited availability in person.
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