Richard Thieme - Saturday 18th August 2012

A WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS: CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND THE NECESSARY COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE OF EVERYDAY LIFE

Richard Thieme speaks professionally about the challenges posed by new technologies and the future, and how we might reinvent ourselves to meet these challenges. Clients range from GE and Microsoft to the National Security Agency, FBI, US Secret Service and US Dept of the Treasury. Formerly an Episcopalian minister, Thieme has also spoken for sixteen years for the Black Hat Briefings on intelligence and corporate security, and at Def Con, an annual computer hackers' convention. Thieme's books include: Islands in the Clickstream (2004) and Mind Games, A Collection of Nineteen Stories of Brave New Worlds and Alternate Realities (2010).

Challenge Coin - U.S. Department of Defence
Given to Thieme by Assistant Secretary of Defence after he mediated a discussion between the Department of Defence and a group of hostile hackers. The Assistant Secretary of Defence was both relieved and grateful to Thieme for getting them through the experience.