Learn about ALPRs (Automated License Plate Readers), what they do, why they are popular, regulations in Minnesota surrounding them, recent drama with the largest ALPR provider, learn about the community of people mapping the locations of ALPRs, and how to add ALPR locations to said map.

Bio: RECONLESS (he/him) is a software engineer of 6 years at a large legal technology company, specializing in web scraping, content/data normalization, cloud infrastructure, and security/SDLC best practices. He’s also a cybersecurity hobbyist, interested in legal compliance, consumer rights, and the odd Capture The Flag here and there.

Have you ever considered getting a 3d printer? Have you ever been bored waiting for a 3d print to finish? Well, this talk will cover a variety of 3d printing related topics, including practical 3d printing/basics, impractical 3d printing (going really fast), alternative uses of a 3d printer (including cooking), PCB assembly, and more. This talk will also cover both ways I managed to have my 3d printer on fire, and how not to make the same mistakes.

Bio: Ashley is a cybersecurity professional specializing in hardware, reverse engineering, and cyber operations, with a wide variety of interests (aka a massive nerd). She is also a federally certified drone pilot. “If you can break things, you can also almost break things, and I think that’s neat”

Cybersecurity isn’t just about firewalls and compliance checkboxes- its about strategy,
leadership, culture, and more. Despite increasing investments in tools and frameworks,
breaches and disruptions continue to plague organizations of all sizes and industries. Why?
Because technology alone doesn’t solve security challenges- but adding strong governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) can.

Bio: Mea Clift is a distinguished cybersecurity executive with a multi-decade career rooted in excellence, innovation, and mission-driven leadership. As Principal Executive Advisor for Cyber Risk Engineering at Liberty Mutual, she provides strategic guidance to underwriters and insureds on emerging cyber risks, maturity models, and industry trends—bridging the gap between cybersecurity strategy and enterprise risk.

With deep expertise in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), Mea is a champion of NIST-based frameworks, fundamental security principles, and supply chain security. Her background spans critical infrastructure protection, regulatory alignment, and the development of governance structures that embed security across the business. She is widely respected for her ability to translate complex technical risks into clear, compelling language for executives and stakeholders alike.

A 2025 Honoree of the SC Media Women in Cyber Award and 2024 Cyversity Educator of the Year, published author, and active mentor, Mea teaches Fundamentals of GRC and advocates for diversity in cybersecurity through many organizations including Wicys, Cyversity and ISACA. Outside of her professional work, she is a passionate quilt historian and educator living in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she shares her love of textiles and design alongside her three greyhounds.

We all know AI can deliver on a solid chocolate chip cookie recipe as a pirate, and can even be used to do some basic chemical analysis if you want to hack together a lava cake in a pinch. But can a language model help in a war games simulation? Join us as we examine a use case where one team was using AI in a war game simulation and what happened.

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A talk in which Ashley attempts to explain low level function of computers, and its implications on cybersecurity, including logic gates, transistors, pipelines, as well as the technical reasons why you may not be getting good performance in games, and what actually bottlenecks computing. This talk will also cover a history of ROM.

Bio: Hi, my name is Ashley Gay and I use She/Her pronouns. I’m an Offensive Security Engineer specializing in low level hardware.