2022 Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace Principal Investigators' Meeting
The major goal of this project was to coordinate and execute the program logistics for the 2022 Secure and Trustworthy CyberSpace Principal Investigators’ Meeting (2022 SaTC PI Meeting). The meeting was held Wednesday, June 1 and Thursday, June 2, 2022 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City Hotel in Arlington, VA. This meeting highlighted the 10-year milestone of the NSF Secure and Trustworthy CyberSpace Program.
The NSF SaTC PI Meeting is a biennial forum of the SaTC scientific community comprising academia, industry, and Federal agencies, who will come together to address game changing challenges resulting from the global adoption of cyberspace by reviewing new developments in SaTC fundamental ideas and concepts that minimize the misuses of cybersecurity; to discuss ways to bolster education and training in cybersecurity; to identify new, emerging applications; and to transition promising research into practice. The program of the meeting includes keynote presentations, PI presentations about SaTC research-related projects funded by NSF and other Federal agencies, panel discussions, and breakout sessions.
- Actual Attendance Metrics: 484 total number of actual attendees
- Pre-Meeting Registration Metrics: 672 total number of pre-meeting registrants (Based on pre-meeting data collected, including):
- 116 invitees who pre-registered, but who indicated they did not plan to attend the PI Meeting
- 556 invitees who pre-registered who indicated they planned to attend the PI Meeting
- 461 PIs with 367 indicating the planned to attend the PI Meeting and 94 indicating they planned not to attend the PI Meeting
- 72 Co-PIs with 52 indicating they planned to attend the PI Meeting and 20 indicating they did not plan to attend the PI Meeting
- 81 Non-PI academics
- 28 Government Representatives (19 from NSF, one from NIST, and 9 from US Defense Department agencies)
- 2 Industry representatives
- 2 NGO representatives
- 19 Student project representatives
- 3 Keynote speakers
- 8 Organizers including Vanderbilt and Student Volunteers from the Co-Chairs' institutions
3. Documents Metrics: The following artifacts were generated from this meeting:
- 3 invited keynote talks
- 13 Panel Talks
- 193 PI project posters
- 14 breakout sessions
4. Program Metrics:
- One (1) Early Arrival networking reception on arrival night
- Two (2) NSF Government Opening and Welcome Remarks presentations with one each on both meeting days.
- Three (3) 45-minute Keynote Sessions with two on day one and one on day two given in the following order:
- Cindy Cohn (Electronic Frontier in Education) on the topic of Security for the Rest of Us – The Past, Present, and Future of Protecting Users and Empowering Makers
- Yi-Kai Liu (National Institute of Standards and Technology) on the topic of Don’t Look Now: Quantum Computing and Cybersecurity”
- Renee DiResta (Stanford Internet Observatory) on the topic of Influence and Influencers: Collective Models for Addressing Disinformation
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- Fourteen (14) 1.5-hour breakout sessions on day one each with Co-leads and Scribes on the following topics:
- AI for Security
- Blockchain: Cryptography Meets Economics
- Cyber-Physical Security and Privacy
- Defense by Deception
- Formal Methods for Security
- Game Theory and Distributed System Security
- Improving the Quality and Reuse of Cybersecurity Datasets, Software, and Other Artifacts
- Information Integrity
- NextG and Wireless Security
- Privacy, Policy, and People
- Security Education
- Security for AI
- Security in a Post-Quantum World
- Software and Hardware Supply Chain Security
- Five (5) 1-hour Birds of a Feather sessions each with Co-Leads on the following topics:
- Sustainable Security Tools
- Mitigating Harassment and Chilling Effects
- Tenure Track Tips for Success
- Need-Based Funding for Undergraduate Students Pursuing Cyber-Security Pathways (including Community Colleges)
- Biometrics
- Three (3) panel sessions
- Five (5) PI project poster sessions of nearly equal number per session with two sessions on meeting day one and two on meeting day two
- Fourteen (14) breakout session report backs approximately 5-minutes each.
- Two (2) closing session presentations.
- One Post-Meeting Networking Reception
1. Post-Meeting Questionnaire: Over 99 attendees responded to the post-meeting questionnaire, however all 99 did not respond to each question. Following
a. How would you rate the 2022 SaTC PI Meeting? Following are the responses out of 88 respondents:
- Excellent (28 responses, 32%)
- Very Good (50 responses, 57%)
- Good (7 responses, 8%)
- Fair (3 responses, 3%)
b. Would you prefer future SaTC PI meetings be in-person only, hybrid (in-person and virtual) or virtual only? Following are the responses from 94 respondents:
- In-person (66 responses, 70%)
- Virtual only (3 responses, 3%)
- Alternate PI Meetings between being virtual and in-person (9 responses, 10%)
- In-person with the option to virtually attend (14 responses, 15%)
- No preference (2 responses, 2%)
c. Would you prefer future SaTC PI Meetings to be in the Spring, Summer, or Fall? Following are responses from 89 respondents:
- Spring (16 responses, 18%)
- Summer (58 responses, 65%)
- Fall (15 responses, 17%)
2. The SaTC Retrospective Panel discussion that in-part underscored the tenth Anniversary of the NSF SaTC Program.
