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Cyber Project Speaker Series with Michelle Watson on 5G and National Security **Now via Webinar. Please RSVP for link**

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Please join the Cyber Project as we welcome Michelle Watson, expert on 5G telecommunications and security.  Please RVSP. 

5G technology lies at the center of the technological and industrial world that is taking shape. In essence, communications networks are not just for communications anymore. They are evolving into the central nervous system of the next generation of internet, called the "Industrial Internet.”

We see 5G emerging as more important for the technologies it will enable than the technology of 5G itself. However, there is a great deal of debate and confusion surrounding 5G today. What are the facts and what is propaganda? In our current geopolitical environment, governments, private sector and academic executives are all struggling to discern the best strategy to harness the benefits of 5G while avoiding the economic and security risks.

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Michelle Watson

About

Michelle C. Watson – brings 25 plus years experience in international business, information security, telecommunications, cyber intelligence and business risk management, to her present role as the founding President and CEO of Cyber Intelligent Partners (CIP) LLC. CIP is a Washington D.C. based consulting and training firm focusing on: Geopolitical Risks Impacting Businesses, 5G-Economic & National Security Risks, Economic Warfare, Cyber Intelligence & Risk Management, and Insider Threat Program Assessment & Training.

Previously she served as the co-founder and Director of the Cyber Intelligence Initiative at the Institute of World Politics, where she was also Vice-President of Corporate Relations, and co-created, co-taught the Corporate Statecraft and Cyber Statecraft graduate courses.

She began her career in Silicon Valley working for Cable & Wireless plc, then at British Telecom plc (BT), heading up business development in the Hi-tech sector for BT’s Global Solutions Group. As a Vice-President at BT, Michelle was responsible for leading North American and European based business development teams and partnering with AT&T Solutions on joint global managed network service engagements.

Her academic research as a Professor of Practice focused on Cyber Intelligence; Geopolitical Risks to Businesses; 5G: Economic and National Security Risks; NationState Adversaries & Threat Landscape; and the complex relationship between the Public-Private sectors and the impact of those relationships on U.S. Economic and National Security.

Michelle earned a Masters’ Degree in National Security and Statecraft from the Institute of World Politics, studied International Relations at University of Oxford, New College, earned a Certification in Cyber Risk Management from Harvard University, a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Kentucky and studied Data Communications at Golden Gate University.