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2026 Conference Talks for Charles Herring

New for 2026: abstracts on Coding with AI (lessons from building WitFoo's analytics platform with Claude Code) and Empathetic Processing and Temporal Link Analysis (research pathways for AI in cyber defense). The classics on CyberGrid, SECOPS-as-law-enforcement, and the Seven Unstable Conversations are still on the menu. Bio refreshed for the Chairman era and the New Zealand base

Empathetic Processing and Temporal Link Analysis: Research Pathways for AI in Cyber Defense

Empathetic Processing models analytics as a human‑centric dialogue: systems listen to diverse signals, resolve dissonance among conflicting narratives, and speak findings in role‑appropriate language for analysts, auditors, and executives. This approach reduces reliance on brittle parsers through NLP‑based intent comprehension and anticipates compliance requirements from the moment of ingestion—predestination of data—ensuring forensic completeness before incidents occur.

GrrCON 2024 - Birthing Perjury-free AI

Abstract

Cybersecurity analysis leading to deterrence of cybercrime requires processing thousands to billions of digital signals per second. Those signals must be accurately comprehended, forensically preserved then used to detect and investigate potential cybercrime. The work products must not only assist the investigators but must be translated into language that non-technical lay audiences including judges, lawyers and jurors can understand.

This presentation explores how generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), natural language processing (NLP), graph-theory and artificial narrow intelligence (ANI) can play a role in delivering these outcomes.

The session includes demonstrations of opensource toolkits, datasets and models designed to assist in this work.

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