Hour one: Bee2Bee Network. Yasmine P. Clarke, Founder and President
The Bee2Bee Network is a free program to all participants and was created to provide hands-on STEM based internship and apprenticeship opportunities for the sole purpose of introducing young professionals to coding, software engineering/product development and the Agile Software Development Methodology in a real-world digital agency environment. As part of this comprehensive program, students are given the opportunity to earn stipends, hardware, software and scholarships to aid in their school expenses and reduce their student loan debt while building their resumes with industry relevant, proven and demonstrated skillsets. The Bee2Bee Network’s university and high school partnerships also allow students to receive high school and college credit for their participation in the program.
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Hour two: EdgeWave. Mike Walls, Managing Director, Security Operations
EdgeWave‘s mission is to enable enterprises to confidently embrace the cloud-connected world. They do this by providing simple but highly effective data security and advanced threat protection in bundled solutions that are affordable, scalable and easy to use. EdgeWave delivers Protection, via sandboxing and the world’s most accurate URL classification service, Privacy, by ensuring your data is encrypted in the cloud, in motion and at rest, and Policy, by enabling and enforcing granular network policy management at the individual user level.