What is Docent Institute?
Docent Institute (Docent) is a 501(c)(3) registered charitable non-profit educational institution based in Iowa. Its mission is “Cybersecurity and STEM education, inclusion, and outreach for the benefit of society.”
Programs and Services
Docent organizes cybersecurity/STEM camps for K-12 students, cybersecurity career days for high school students and competitions for college students. Docent hosts the premier Midwest annual cybersecurity conference, CornCon, held in the fall in Davenport, IA. Docent provides college scholarships, mentoring, apprenticeships/internships, career services and performs other public outreach related to cybersecurity education and career development, advancing technology, and the ethical use of technology. Docent also works with IEEE to develop industry standards around the ethical application of technology. Current projects include developing a process for evaluating the trustworthiness of news sources, and a standard on the ethical use of AI.
DR. JOHN D. JOHNSON, PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER, DOCENT INSTITUTE
Dr. John D. Johnson is Founder/President/CISO at Docent Institute and Chairman of the Board of Directors. He is a Founding Member of Security Advisor Alliance, a member of SC Media Editorial Board, founding
John is CEO/Founder of Aligned Security, providing CISO advisory services and working with tech startups. He was previously a senior cybersecurity executive at Campbell Soup and was previously Cyber Risk Advisory Senior Manager at Deloitte. His focus areas include IoT, Industrial IoT/ICS security and Risk Management. John’s focus areas are cybersecurity and advancing technologies, including Artificial Intelligence, IoT, OT, blockchain, and quantum computing.
John has taught and developed numerous cybersecurity graduate courses for Excelsior College, St. Ambrose University and Eastern Iowa Community Colleges from 2003-2019. John is Chair of the IEEE Special Technology Community on Cybersecurity.
John was previously CTO of Revolutionary Integration Group (RIG), a startup focused on integrating disparate AI systems, leveraging blockchain and advanced analytics. John worked at John Deere for 18 years, serving as security architect where he managed security infrastructure and developed strategy and secure architecture solutions for protecting a global corporate network, endpoints, industrial systems and the supply chain.
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DR. SOMCHAI RICE, DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Cyber Advocacy, WWT
Board Director, CISO Retired
Mass Cyber Corp
Global Cyber Security Initiative
FINRA
