{"id":4236,"date":"2022-01-05T10:40:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T10:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=4236"},"modified":"2022-01-05T12:45:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T12:45:37","slug":"global-challenges-and-opportunities-for-cyber-security-research-virtual-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/01\/05\/global-challenges-and-opportunities-for-cyber-security-research-virtual-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Challenges and Opportunities for Cyber Security Research virtual event."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">A half day sandpit to engage in multidisciplinary debate about global challenges in Cyber Security with seed funding available to support the development of a number of projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">This virtual event is intended to encourage<span class=\"x_xapple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><b>interdisciplinary discussions aimed at finding innovative solutions<\/b> to major cyber security challenges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Open to all Kent academics and PhD candidates in all divisions, come along to listen to others\u2019 ideas and \/or to present your own by delivering a (maximum) 2-minute \u201cpitch\u201d on the day. After the initial pitches, you will have the chance to work in one or more smaller groups to develop the ideas further. By the end of the morning, we hope to have identified a number of potential projects that could be developed into external funding applications.<span class=\"x_xapple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><b>At least \u00a310,000 of seed funding will be available to support the development of a number of projects after the sandpit<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"js-date-time-first-line\"><strong>Thursday, 13 January 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"js-date-time-second-line\"><strong>09:00 \u2013 12:00 GMT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">To take part, please first register your interest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/global-challenges-and-opportunities-for-cybersecurity-research-tickets-221917399917\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"3\">HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Registration will remain open until<span class=\"x_xapple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><b>7 January<\/b>. The team will be in touch the week commencing 10 January with links to meeting rooms and further details about how to prepare your pitches (if you choose to do that). Do get in touch beforehand, however, directing queries to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/2275\/toros-harmonie\">Dr Harmonie Toros<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A half day sandpit to engage in multidisciplinary debate about global challenges in Cyber Security with seed funding available to support the development of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/01\/05\/global-challenges-and-opportunities-for-cyber-security-research-virtual-event\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":4237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4242,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236\/revisions\/4242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}