Meet the FireOak Team at these Upcoming Conferences and Events
Contact us to schedule a time to meet with us, or drop by our booth.
KM Showcase
Join us in Arlington, Virginia on March 4-5 for this year's Knowledge Management (KM) Showcase, sponsored by the KM Institute. Abby Clobridge and Eric Smith from the FireOak team will be on-site. Stop by our booth to discuss managing, sharing, and securing your organization's knowledge, information, and data. Event Details
Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC)
This year's Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), hosted by NTEN, will be held in Baltimore, Maryland. We'll be at booth #453. More details coming soon!
AidEx Brussels
This can't miss event will be held in Brussels in November. Details later this year. Learn More About FireOakConferences and Events: Recent FireOak Presentations, Keynotes, and Panel Disussion
Members of our team often present at conferences and events. Abby Clobridge (Founder of FireOak Strategies) and Eric Smith (Chief Technologist and Information Security Officer) have presented at international, national, and regional conferences on knowledge management, cybersecurity, and various topics related to managing, securing, and sharing information, knowledge, and data.
CGIAR Big Data in Agriculture 2019 - Hyderabad, India
Over the past few years, many organizations have been working to enhance their approaches to data management from research design to making research outputs open and findable, accessible, interoperable, and re-usable (FAIR). This panel was designed to share good practices that could be adopted by other organizations. More Details
ICT4D - Organizational Considerations for Data Transparency and Information Security
As data transparency has become a bigger trend within the international development and humanitarian aid communities, organizations are grappling with the practical implications of what that means. Abby Clobridge (FireOak Strategies), Kait Maloney (Catholic Relief Services), and Forrest Wilhoit (NetHope) participated in a panel discussion to discuss organizational considerations, best practices, and lessons learned. More Details
KMWorld and the O365 Symposium 2018 - Washington, DC
What are the privacy and security-related implications of enterprise search? Eric Smith (FireOak Strategies) joined moderator Marydee Ojala and Sue Feldman on a panel to discuss issues surrounding security, privacy, and ethics in enterprise search. Watch the Video
CGIAR Big Data in Agriculture 2018 - Nairobi, Kenya
Abby Clobridge shared three stories of data loss horror from an information security perspective -- situations that led to entirely preventable data loss. Ensuring that data is accessible and available is critically important. But not following good information security practices puts people and organizations at risk of losing critical data. More Details