Event Schedule

The media paints the internet is a dark and dangerous place... And they're not wrong! However without connectivity how do we function in today's world? Our children use it for their school work, entertainment and social lives. How do we help them Thrive in such an unhospitable environment? We will explore facts, bust myths, and discuss a framework on how to have "the internet talk" with your children. And finally we will wrap up the conversation with your questions and provide answers that work in the real world.

Attorney General Bailey will address the positive impact of technology on our society and discuss the proactive measures his office is taking to ensure that technology benefits rather than harms the people of Missouri.

You may not be aware of it, but you're in a fight whether you want to be or not. We will explore the effect of child exploitation on business and present principles you can apply help protect not only your business but also your family.

Fraudsters constantly change their tactics to maximize their chances of gaining access to your money. These days, it's not a question of IF you'll be a victim of fraud, only WHEN. We'll be looking at current fraud trends; how they work and what you can do to better position yourself and your company to mitigate your risk of loss due to fraud.

Artificial Intelligence has been a hot topic with wildly varying views ranging from how it will change our world for the better to how it is going to take over and rule us all. (Those people may have watched too much Sci-Fi.) The answer, as always, is somewhere in between. How will AI impact our world in both good and bad ways? How do we need to think through the ethical questions this technology will present? Should we regulate it or allow the creators to find all kinds of new use cases? In this talk, David Powell, VP of Sales Strategy at Pax8, will break down AI in terms that anyone can understand. He won’t tell you what to think, but he will tell you what to think about in this engaging and informative session.

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Disaster Recovery capabilities do not protect you from the vast majority of APT threats that are increasingly common today. Discover how Cyber Recovery is different from Disaster Recovery and some key guidelines and techniques that can enable your business to recover quickly from a cyberattack and avoid paying ransoms.

Insurance is complicated, and none more than Cyber! According to Verizon, your business has a 46% chance of being the victim of a Cyber Attack, but most business leaders don’t know where to start, or even the right questions to ask. Come learn more about how this specialized type of insurance works and some great questions to ask to help protect your business.

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As cyberattacks continue to expand in scale and sophistication, the digital assault on businesses, organizations and individual users is seemingly endless and evolving at a rapid pace. Threat actors are increasingly seeking out opportunistic targets. Let’s take a look into evolving cybercriminal behavior, along with the actionable threat intelligence you need to safeguard your organization against an increasingly volatile threat environment.

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Exciting information coming soon.

Exciting information coming soon!

Given the current state of the economy, in correlation with the lack of talent in the hiring pool, SaaS solutions leveraging AI will relieve the burden of growing your business while increasing your efficiencies and profitability.

Quinn will be joined by his Chief Technology Officer, Christophe Bobda, a computer engineering professor who specializes in robotics and artificial intelligence. They will discuss Willa's latest innovation, a fully autonomous robotic lawnmower that mows, weed eats, edges, and blows. This new robotic mower is disrupting the lawncare industry and is creating new opportunities for Willa.
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Sam and Robin will share about electric vehicles, which are quickly becoming an everyday reality for many. Learn about electric vehicles, their impact on our grid, and explore how they can reduce your carbon footprint while saving you money. You’ll also learn about our recent federal grant award of $47 million that will enable us to use the latest grid technology to improve reliability, increase the grid’s ability to accommodate renewables, reduce the impact of outages on homes and businesses, all while helping to create direct and indirect jobs and cost savings for customers.

With the introduction of Microsoft Azure Open AI and Microsoft 365 Copilot, you have the opportunity to transform your business from the products/services you sell, to how you engage with your customers, to how your employees get work done. Join us as we dive into these two amazing technologies to understand what new AI enriched products/services your company can go-to-market with and how the employee productivity landscape will be changed forever using AI. We will explore Microsoft 365 Copilot to understand its capabilities and help you to develop a plan for where and how to adopt it within your business. Switching gears to Microsoft Azure Open AI we will explore how Microsoft has pre-built “low code” solutions for you to build your own AI enriched products/services. At the end of this session, you will have an understanding of a roadmap of how to adopt these two AI technologies in your business and immediately get started on next steps.

Today’s modern enterprise has more IT complexity than ever with the average organization having 40+ IT solutions from multiple vendors resulting in high management, integration and monitoring costs. In addition to a higher TCO, a multi-vendor approach can result in lost productivity and a decrease in employee satisfaction not to mention increased attack surface for threat actors to exploit. Join us as we explore how Microsoft 365 can help you perform cost takeout, decrease your attack surface, empower your employees to be more productive and lower your overall total cost of ownership. In this session we will be diving into the financials of Microsoft 365 workloads to understand what you may already own (and paying for) and where consolidation makes sense, along with rich demos of key capabilities, to help you build the business case for taking full advantage of your investment in Microsoft 365. At the end of this session you will have an understanding of how to maximize your return on investment in Microsoft 365 and help your business be more secure and more productive.

Andy will demonstrate the power of using an AI system that has been trained to answer your customer’s frequently asked questions and to engage with potential clients who call, text, or message. Learn how this system prevents you from missing business inquiries by sending automated text messages to any potential client whose call is missed. You will walk away with applicable steps to increase your leads and sales with less time and effort.

Very few school security precautions are designed to help schools after intruders have entered the premises. Stokes Robotics will be discussing how robots can be used to confront an intruder that is already inside a school, identify if they are a hostile intruder, and send live video and two-way communication feeds to security personnel and teachers. We'll also be discussing how robots can be used to distract and disorient an active shooter, providing police with real-time surveillance of the situation, which allows authorities to lock down the active shooter until police arrive on the scene.

Vishing attacks are on the rise. What exactly is it, and why is it important? In this informative session, Shelby breaks down vishing from the attacker’s perspective, so you can better understand how to protect yourself and your company from it.