Lilly Ryan

Lilly Ryan is an historian, systems engineer, security analyst, and privacy activist.
She consults on identity and access management systems, security architecture, and software delivery, gives public lectures on ethics and the security mindset, and provides what she calls “Paranoia as a Service".
She is always up for a conversation about greyhounds.


Session

05-25
14:00
30min
Don't Look Back in Anger: Wildman Whitehouse and the Great Failure of 1858
Lilly Ryan

In the 1850s, Edward Orange Wildman Whitehouse was appointed the lead engineer of the first attempt to build a trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. This is a tale of a project gone horribly wrong in the age of magnificent facial hair. Step up to learn the secrets of recovering your project from failure!

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