Spies have always relied on deception - building trust, mirroring language, creating chance encounters that were anything but chance. Those same techniques that once required months of training, surveillance, and manipulation are now supercharged by AI. Deepfakes, voice cloning, and AI-driven social engineering aren’t just technical tricks; they’re psychological weapons designed to exploit the very biases that make us human. By the end, you won’t just understand the risks - you’ll see AI through the eyes of a spy.

This keynote, led by Shawnee Delaney, a former undercover spy turned cybersecurity leader, translates real espionage tradecraft into practical, everyday defenses for business leaders, professionals, and families. You’ll leave with practical tools to protect your life, your loved ones, and your business from the fastest-growing threat of our time.

What You’ll Learn:

• Tradecraft 2.0: See how AI takes the scripts and skills of classic spycraft—targeting, disguises, surveillance, elicitation, “affection engineering”—and turns them into industrial-scale social engineering.
• The New Insider Threat: how digital double agents exploit employees, executives, and even families in everyday life.
• Targeting & Recon: Discover how adversaries, human and machine, profile you and your team before the first phish and how to break their kill chain early. 
• Trust & Manipulation: Unpack the moves behind deepfakes, AI personas, fake recruiters, and VIP spoofs. Learn how our brains’ trust shortcuts become the real attack surface.
• Counterintelligence for All: Turn employees (and even families) into a resilient control layer with reality-checking frameworks from the spy world.
• Sector Realities: Explore why high-IP organizations, healthcare, finance, and more are prime targets and what every sector can borrow from counterintelligence.

Modern threats demand modern tradecraft. Outsource your thinking, and you outsource your outcomes. Leave prepared, not paranoid, with actionable tools to guard your judgment, your secrets, and your people from the fastest-evolving espionage threat of our time.

Insider threats are more than just malicious acts, they span a spectrum from accidental mistakes to deliberate espionage. In this compelling presentation, former case officer Shawnee Delaney unpacks what "insider threat" truly means by revealing the psychological and behavioral pathways that lead some individuals down a risky path.

Drawing on the Critical Pathway model developed by Shaw and Sellers, you’ll gain insight into how personal predispositions, life stressors, and concerning behaviors converge over time to create insider risk. Learn how subtle warning signs changes in attitude, policy violations, withdrawal or conflict, can escalate without proper organizational awareness and response. 

You’ll explore:

• How the Human Factor Shapes Risk: Understand the crucial role individual vulnerabilities and motivations play in insider threats.
• Organizational Culture’s Impact: Discover how your company’s environment can either mitigate or magnify insider dangers.
• Spy vs. Social Engineer: See how malicious actors, whether human or digital, use similar tactics of trust-building and manipulation to exploit both individuals and systems.
• Lifecycle Approach to Insider Protection: Learn how to design comprehensive programs that map the employee journey, highlighting critical touchpoints and gaps where risks often emerge. 

Through vivid case studies and actionable strategies, this talk equips you to recognize early indicators of insider risk and build a resilient organizational culture that protects people, data, and reputation without fostering fear.

Espionage is not just the stuff of thrillers, it’s a very real and growing risk for organizations of all sizes. Think you’re too wary to be recruited into the world of spies? Think again. Shawnee Delaney, a former Case Officer, pulls back the curtain on the sophisticated methods spies use to identify, target, and recruit insiders across industries, from casual chats in airport lounges to high-stakes surveillance operations.

In this eye-opening keynote, you’ll delve deep into the secrets of espionage tradecraft and discover how these tactics threaten your organization every day. 

What You’ll Learn: 

• The Human Intelligence Recruitment Cycle: Understand how adversaries spot, assess, and slowly recruit people just like you, turning access into advantage.
• Elicitation Defense: Identify subtle conversational tells that leak secrets and learn simple, effective counters to shut down espionage attempts.
• The Power of Motivation: Grasp the critical role of personal vulnerabilities and motivations insiders may have and how threat actors exploit them.
• The Spectrum of Espionage: Explore the many faces of espionage from industrial sabotage and corporate spying to foreign intelligence with vivid case studies spotlighting financial stakes and recruitment tactics.
• The Espionage Toolkit: See how traditional spy methods fuse with modern cybersecurity strategies to create a formidable defense.

This keynote will illuminate the shadowy tactics used by hackers, nation-states, and organized crime groups, revealing how espionage remains alive and evolving. Arm yourself with clear, actionable takeaways to detect, deter, and defend against both human operatives and cyber threats targeting your organization.

Raising Digital Natives: Protecting Kids in a Hyper-Connected World Every tap, swipe, and click is shaping your child’s world, are you ready to protect them?

Today’s kids aren’t just using technology, they’re growing up in it. From YouTube rabbit holes to online gaming and social media, the digital world is their playground, their classroom, and sometimes, their greatest risk. 

In this engaging, eye-opening keynote, we’ll uncover:

• The real risks of online gaming (Fortnite, Roblox, Minecraft, Dune), who’s really talking to your child?
• How social media and YouTube affect developing brains (spoiler: it’s not all bad, but it’s not all good either).
• Online predators, cyberbullying, and digital addiction, what every parent needs to know.
• Smart strategies to keep kids safe without extreme restrictions (yes, it’s possible!)

This talk is not about fear, it’s about empowerment. You’ll walk away with practical tools, real-world examples, and expert insights to help your child thrive safely in a world where screens are unavoidable. Because in today’s digital age, parenting isn’t just about teaching kids to look both ways before crossing the street, it’s about teaching them to navigate the online world without getting lost in it.

In this engaging keynote, digital wellness keynote, taught by a former spy who knows firsthand the tactics threat actors use, because she once used them, we'll explore the vital connection between personal health care and cyber hygiene.

This isn’t your typical, boring talk on not reusing passwords. Instead, you'll get actionable, practical advice on how to protect yourself and your family from real-world digital threats. From understanding dangers like phishing and ransomware to adopting strong cyber hygiene practices, you’ll learn how to safeguard your digital life. With insights such as treating antivirus software like your immune system and using regular updates as digital vitamins, this talk equips you to maintain a secure, healthy online presence.

By the end, you'll understand how to protect your digital well-being, just as you would your physical health—straight from someone who knows the tricks of the trade.