Session Descriptions:

Session 1: Opening 1A and 1B: Introductions and Congressional / NSF senior management talks. Content of NSF senior management talk could include a brief history of the NSF programs in this area, to help set the context for new PIs. 1C. Opening talk by Angela Sasse (University College London) addressing SaTC themes from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Session 2: Cross-disciplinary cool results. Four short talks presenting interesting results that will be new to most of the audience and represent work that crosses disciplinary boundaries.

Session 3: Other Government Programs. Provide the researchers with a broad view of the government research programs outside of NSF in the area.

Session 4: Update on National Strategy for Federal Cybersecurity R&D Program. Presentations by OSTP, ODNI, NSF on the national strategy (what it is) and what progress has been made since it was released (just about a year ago).

Session 5: Cross-Disciplinary Conversations and Posters. Help PIs establish contacts with researchers working in other disciplines relatively early in the meeting. Each participant will be scheduled for eight 15-minute one-one conversations according to information provided on background and interests.
Posters will also be available during this period and in the evening. PIs will be invited to prepare posters; they will be submitted electronically and produced local to the conference. A template poster has been developed; the posters can also be placed on a website. Micah Sherr (Georgetown University) has agreed to organize the poster session.

Session 6: Posters/Rump/BoF. Evening session available for those who wish to self-organize meetings on topics of mutual interest. Not explicitly scheduled in order to avoid overloading. Posters can actually be up all day.

Session 7A: MOOCs & Cybersecurity. Massively Open Online Courses are here, and the past year has already seen some offered in the area of cybersecurity. A speaker will be sought who has experience in teaching such courses and can give an interesting perspective on how such courses might evolve and whether they can provide an effective path to increasing the pool of well-trained researchers and developers.

Session 7B: Competitions & SaTC. How might competitions be used to educate students to build more secure systems? What are the pluses and minuses of such an approach to education in SaTC? What can we learn from the competitions that are currently running (upwards of 75, apparently).

Session 8: Transition to Practice Plenary Startup companies provide one path for successful research ideas to move from the laboratory to the cyberinfrastructure. but there are others. Speakers with diverse, successful experiences in moving cybersecurity-related research to practice will give short talks on their experiences and engage with the audience in discussion.

Sessions 9, 10: Discussion sessions. The balance of the second day will be conducted as a set of parallel discussion sessions. Fifteen topics have been developed, formulated as questions to be discussed / answered in the sessions. The total number of discussion groups could be more (or less) than the fifteen indicated if facilities and interests dictate; space to hold as many as 20 sessions is planned, in order to keep the groups small enough to encourage discussion. Chairs for about 10 of the groups are confirmed. Detailed content and structure of each discussion session is delegated to the session chair. Report-outs will be coordinated in the evening by the chairs and delivered the following morning.

Session 11: Rump/BoF. See Session 6 above.

Session 12: Workshop Report-Outs. Discussion chairs provide coordinated reports on the results of the previous afternoon’s work.

Session 13: Concluding Plenary Stuart Firestein (Columbia University) on Ignorance as a motivator for science.