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Call for Proposals Now Open - NICE K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference

NICE K12 Call for Proposal Hero

Share your cybersecurity education message at the 2019 NICE K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference

December 9-10, 2019
Hyatt Regency Orange County
Garden Grove, California


The 2019 NICE K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference Planning Committee is seeking timely and thought-provoking K12 cybersecurity-focused individual speakers & group panels that will challenge and inform educational leaders from across the stakeholder community.

The theme for the 2019 conference is, “Innovation, Vision, Imagination: Harnessing the talent of today to build the cybersecurity workforce of the future”. This year the conference will build upon previous year’s excellent student involvement and is calling for education, industry, government, and students to present in each of the 5 tracks. Both individual and group panel speaking proposals are encouraged to highlight effective collaborations, bold experiments and innovations, metrics of success, and other potentially game-changing methods in K12 cybersecurity education.

The conference will feature five tracks:

  1. Increasing Cybersecurity Career Awareness
  2. Infusing Cybersecurity Across the Education Portfolio
  3. Integrating Innovative Cybersecurity Educational Approaches
  4. Designing Cybersecurity Academic and Career Pathways
  5. Promoting Cyber Awareness

Act now - Submissions close on June 15!

Submit a Speaker Proposal


Learn more at k12cybersecurityconference.org

Follow the conference on social media with #NICEK12

This event is hosted by the iKeepSafe Coalition and supported by the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE), a program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the U.S. Department of Commerce, under financial assistance award #60NANB16D302.

Released April 11, 2019