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Upcoming Industry Events

BLACK HAT - Upcoming Events - Tuesday October 1 through Wednesday December 31, 2025

Cisco Events World Wide - Tuesday October 1 through Wednesday December 31, 2025

Microsoft Events World Wide - Tuesday October 1 through Wednesday December 31, 2025

The NPA Public Webinar - May 2025 -  Online Global Chapter -  Tuesday May 20, 2025

Cyber Security & Cloud Congress - North America - Wednesday June 4 through Thursday June 5, 2025

The NPA Member Advocator - June 2025 -  Online Global Chapter -  Tuesday June 17, 2025

The NPA Public Webinar - July 2025 -  Online Global Chapter -  Tuesday July 15, 2025

Ai4 2025 - Monday August 11 through Wednesday August 13, 2025

The NPA Member Advocator - August 2025 -  Online Global Chapter -  Tuesday August 19, 2025

The NPA Public Webinar - September 2025 -  Online Global Chapter -  Tuesday September 16, 2025

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NPA Pillar of Professional Development

Interviews with 1000+ Experts

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Alan Smithson: Serial Entrepreneur; Founder; Futurist; DJ; Author and Julie Smithson: Co-Founder and CEO of METAVRSE; Co-Founder of Unlimited Awesome; Co-Founder of XR Women

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Ehsan Vaghefi: Founder, President & CEO of Toku Inc., a health technology company leveraging AI and retinal imaging

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Jacqueline Henle: Vice Department Manager of Embedded Systems and Sensors Engineering at FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Ali Khademhosseini: CEO and Founding Director at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation; previous Professor of Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering and Radiology at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Thippaporn Ahriyavraromp: Founder & Chairman, Dhanin Tawee Chearavanont Foundation; Chairman, Buddharaksa Foundation; Vice President, Blue Carbon Society Association; Founder & Chairman, Chairman of The Executive Committee DTGO Corporation Limited (DTGO)

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Bronson Messer: Distinguished Staff Scientist and Director of Science for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Taylor Shead: Founder and CEO of Stemuli (named the 2024 Global Champion of AI For Good, the U.N. platform on AI) and Dr. Matt Cummins: PhD, Head of Engineering & AI, Stemuli

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with David Solomon: Founder, BES; Founder of the first Global Impact Summit for the Financial Times; a Founding Steward of the World Indigenous Forum

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Anya Smith: Entrepreneur; Founder, CEO SelfFull Inc., an AI-driven platform for personalized accountability

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Noor Sweid: Author; Investor; Founder and Managing Partner of Global Ventures

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Geoffrey E. Hinton: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024; the "Godfather of AI"; Pioneer in the field of deep learning; Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award recipient (alongside Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun)

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Patrick Tammer: Senior Investment Director at Scale AI; Steering Committee Member of the Canadian Centre for the Innovation Economy (CCIE); Editor for the Journal of Business and Artificial Intelligence.

VIDEO INTERVIEW: From Youthful Prodigy to Young AI Trailblazer: Samay Veeral Lakhani's Journey in R&D, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Pedro Domingos: Machine Learning Pioneer; Renowned AI researcher; Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington; Founding director of the D. E. Shaw machine learning lab; Best selling Author of The Master Algorithm and his new book, 2040: A Silicon Valley Satire

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Rob Follows: Founder and Chairman, STS Capital Partners; Founding Chairman of Altruvest Charitable Services

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Fernando Garibay: Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, The Garibay Institute; academic polymath; record producer; songwriter; entrepreneur, author, keynote speaker, and scholar

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Olga Muller: Leader in healthtech and digital product innovation; CEO & Founding Partner at Kepler Team

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Alvin Wang Graylin: Author; Investor; Technology pioneer; Serial Entrepreneur; Global VP at HTC; Chairman of the Virtual World Society; Vice-Chair of the Industry of VR Alliance; President of the Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Michael Langer: Co-Founder and Managing Partner of T.Rx Capital; former Head of Search, Evaluation & In-licensing at Pear Therapeutics; Active in non-profit organizations: serves on the Leadership Board at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the Global Board of Directors for MassChallenge, the Leadership Board at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation, is Senior Advisor of Special Projects at the Galenus Foundation

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Eugenio Zuccarelli: AI Leader; a Forbes Under 30; a Fortune Under 40; TEDX Speaker; WEF Global Shaper

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Jane Metcalfe: Entrepreneur; Editor; Advisor; Board chair of the Human Immunome Project; Founder & CEO of proto.life; cofounder and former president of WIRED

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Guru Madhavan: Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar; senior director of programs of the National Academy of Engineering; founding director of the Forum on Complex Unifiable Systems (FOCUS)

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Celina Lee: International development executive; Entrepreneur; CEO, Co-founder of Zindi (an official platform for the ITU AI for Good Summit)

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Neil Friedman: Serial Entrepreneur; Co-founder and COO of BodiMetrics; Founder, Garden of Hope

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Rosalyn Breedy: Managing Director of Breedy Henderson; member of the Integrity and Ethics committee of the Chartered Institute of Securities Investment, a member of Bristol Innovations board (a committee of the University Executive Board and advisory to UEB); former associate fellow of Said Business School Oxford University

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Jerry Luftman, PhD: Professor; Founder and Managing Director, GIIM; International Authority on IT Business Alignment and IT Trends

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Moshe Becker: Innovator; Tech Entrepreneur; CEO and co-founder of RADLogics

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Hassan Dayekh: Founding managing director at Blindspot Ventures

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Bevon Moore: Entrepreneur; Innovator; CEO & Founder of Collabworkx; Founder, ElevateU.work

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Christoph Santner: AI strategist; Speaker; Futurist; Author; Consultant

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Neeltje Pavicic: Project Manager in the Department of Innovation, Municipality of Amsterdam; past Information Analyst at ING; past Editor-in-Chief of NPO Doc

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Reddy Mallidi: Distinguished business executive; AI visionary

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Jean-Philippe Courtois: past President and Executive Vice President (EVP) of Global Sales, Marketing, and Operations, Microsoft; past Executive Vice President and President of National Transformation Partnerships, Microsoft; President of Live for Good; member of the ManpowerGroup Board of Directors; Chairman of the Mission Committee at OpenClassrooms

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Ilyas Khan: Founder,/Vice Chair/Chief Product Officer, Quantinuum; Leader in Residence at the University of Cambridge's Judge Business School; inaugural Chairman of The Stephen Hawking Foundation (until 2019); founding Chairman (non-executive) of the Topos Institute

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Melissa Bernstein: Entrepreneur; Co-founder of Melissa & Doug; Co-founder of Lifelines

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Harry Glorikian: Global business expert; Speaker; CEO of Consilience Inc; General Partner at Scientia Ventures

VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Aliya Grig: Entrepreneur; Mentor; Certified neuroscience specialist, member of Karman Space Foundation; Founder of Evolwe, the Kosmos Foundation, and The Cosmos City

VIDEO INTERVIEW: Chat with John L. Hennessy, ACM Turing Awardee; IEEE Medal of Honor Awardee; board Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Cisco Systems, chair board Alphabet; Shriram Family Director of the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program; 2000-2016 president Stanford University

 

 

Professional Growth Technical Writing

Technical writing is a skill many IT/Networking professionals are called upon to use in their roles, but it is not often taught in engineering and technical schools. For the January NPA Public Webinar, we will explore the purpose of technical writing, how to approach a project, and explore tips and best practices for putting words on paper.

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The NPA is offering the following membership promotions for 2024:

Returning Members

We want to celebrate all the NPA members over the years. Any former NPA member that rejoins the NPA as a Community or Professional Member after more than a year of inactive status will have their membership extended by one year free. Just email membership@npa.org with your Member ID after restarting your membership.

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Any student actively enrolled in a Technical, Junior College, Undergraduate or Masters College program can receive a free six-month Community Membership. Simply elect to Pay by Check and then email membership@npa.org with evidence of active student status.

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Military veterans can receive a trial six-month Community Membership for free, or receive an additional six months on a Professional Membership. For the trial Community Membership, simply elect to Pay by Check and then email membership@npa.org with evidence of military veteran status.
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The NPA Public Webinars provide opportunities for non-member IT/Networking Professionals to enjoy a presentation following one of our core pillars of Career Growth, Professional Development or Ethical Integrity, and explore the benefits of NPA Membership. As an incentive to join the NPA, attendees of our Public Webinars can receive a six month extension to their Community or Professional Memberships. Simply email membership@npa.org with your new Member ID and the date of the Public Webinar you attended.

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