CyAD 2026: Cybersecurity Across Disciplines Summit: Full Schedule

Welcome to the fourth annual Cybersecurity Across Disciplines (CyAD) Summit hosted by the National Cybersecurity Training & Education Center (NCyTE)!

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2:15pm CDT

When AI Fails Undetected: Rethinking Institutional Governance, Operations, and Leadership

Wednesday June 24, 2026 2:15pm - 3:00pm CDT

BLDG T-924

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming woven into how higher-education institutions teach, operate, and make decisions. Yet many of the most consequential AI risks rarely surface as obvious cybersecurity failures. Instead, they emerge quietly through routine use, opaque model behavior, and unclear ownership, often slipping past traditional IT and security controls until trust, compliance, or institutional credibility is already in jeopardy. Drawing on experience building and governing enterprise-scale AI platforms in regulated environments, this presentation examines how AI can reshaping institutional operating models, risk management practices, and lines of accountability. It highlights why cybersecurity teams increasingly find themselves inheriting risks created upstream by governance gaps, and why mitigating AI-driven threats demands leadership, policy clarity, and cross-functional alignment rather than technical controls alone. The presentation concludes by looking forward to the opportunities AI makes possible. When thoughtfully integrated, AI can expand how institutions teach, learn, and collaborate across disciplines. It offers higher education the chance not only to adapt to change, but to actively shape the future it serves.

Speakers

Bich-Thuy Le

Founder, President, LeLumin, LLC

Bich-Thuy Le is an award-winning technology executive, AI patent holder, and enterprise transformation leader with 25+ years of experience shaping strategy, leading modernization, building first-of-the-kind platforms and solutions, and delivering business value at scale. Across Fortune... Read More →

Wednesday June 24, 2026 2:15pm - 3:00pm CDT
BLDG T-924

AI Emerging Technologies and Risk Implications, Presentation

3:30pm CDT

Balancing Innovation and Risk: Integrating AI Security Awareness into Business Education

Wednesday June 24, 2026 3:30pm - 4:15pm CDT

BLDG T-924

As artificial intelligence becomes rapidly embedded in modern business workflows, students across disciplines are adopting AI platforms for productivity, analysis, and decision support, often without fully understanding the associated security and privacy risks. This presentation explores the design and delivery of Introduction to AI in Business, a collaboratively taught interdisciplinary course that intentionally integrated cybersecurity principles into a business-focused AI curriculum.

While the course introduced students to the strategic value and operational benefits of AI, it placed particular emphasis on the risks surrounding sensitive, personal, and proprietary information when using public and enterprise AI systems. Several course modules explicitly addressed data exposure, model training risks, prompt leakage, intellectual property concerns, and organizational policy considerations.

To better understand student perspectives, we conducted surveys measuring perceived risk, trust in AI platforms, and awareness of data security implications before and after targeted instructional interventions. This presentation discusses course structure, instructional strategies, and survey findings, highlighting how intentional cross-disciplinary teaching can improve student awareness of AI-related security risks while preserving an appreciation for AI’s transformative potential.

Attendees will gain insight into practical approaches for embedding cybersecurity literacy into non-technical curricula and fostering more security-conscious AI use across academic disciplines.

Speakers

Reed Nonken

Associate Professor Business, University of Maine at Presque Isle

Reed Nonken is an Associate Professor of Business at the University of Maine at Presque Isle, where he teaches across both the Business and Criminal Justice programs and plays a central role in curriculum design, assessment, and academic governance. He is a primary architect of UMPI’s... Read More →

Seth Woodman

Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Program Director, University of Maine at Presque Isle

Seth Woodman is the Cybersecurity Program Director and Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity at the University of Maine at Presque Isle (UMPI), where he leads curriculum development, program expansion, and applied learning initiatives across traditional and competency-based modalities... Read More →

Wednesday June 24, 2026 3:30pm - 4:15pm CDT
BLDG T-924