A Butler County Community College cybersecurity awareness conference scheduled for April 8 in Founders Hall on BC3’s main campus will include speakers and breakout session leaders, top row, from left, Dr. Maria Abunto, Kim Fish and Delvina Morrow; and bottom row, from left, Josh Pribanic and Dallas Stump. Jonathan Holmes, a supervisory special agent with the FBI, will also speak at the event, which requires registration and is free and open to the public.
(Butler, PA) Artificial intelligence will be the focus of a Butler County Community College cybersecurity awareness conference that is free and open to the public and will include experts from the FBI, the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, and from Duquesne University and BC3.
The conference will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 8 in Founders Hall on BC3’s main campus in Butler Township and feature breakout sessions about AI in health care, writing secure code and AI for beginners.
Those interested in attending the event should RSVP by April 6 at bc3.edu/cyber-conference.
Kim Fish, a professor in BC3’s business and information technology division, has planned and moderated the college’s cybersecurity awareness conferences for the past three years.
“Artificial intelligence is on everyone’s mind right now, and this conference meets that head-on,” Fish said. “We’ve curated a range of presentations on AI designed to meet those who attend exactly where they are, from those just beginning to explore the technology to seasoned professionals looking to go deeper.
“No matter what their backgrounds, those who attend will walk away with fresh insight into one of the most transformative topics of our time.”
Speakers include Jonathan Holmes, a supervisory special agent with the FBI; Delvina Morrow, of YMUai, Pittsburgh; and Josh Pribanic, LastLine Cyber, Pittsburgh.
Holmes works with the FBI cyber division’s major cyber crimes unit, where he assists ransomware-case teams and helps to develop the agency’s strategy to combat ransomware.
Morrow is the founder of YMUai, an AI advisory practice that helps nonprofit and social-impact organizations to adopt technology through her people-centered intelligence framework. She moderated a panel discussing “Who architects the future of AI for social impact?” at the 2026 World Affairs Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
Pribanic is the founder of LastLine Cyber who has led information technology, security and data transformation initiatives and helps organizations build secure cultures from the inside-out.
Holmes will discuss cybercrime trends in the region; Morrow, people-centered intelligence and what AI gets wrong without you; and Pribanic, cyber incidents from recent headlines.
Guests can attend one of three breakout sessions scheduled for 11:25 a.m. to 12:25 p.m.
Dr. Maria Abunto, a physician, adjunct professor at Duquesne University and the first ambassador for the American College of Artificial Intelligence and Medicine, Chicago, will lead a health care session addressing what organizations can learn from one of the most data-intensive industries.
Dallas Stump, who with the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency leads a federal team overseeing critical systems that support 87 federal agencies, will lead a writing secure code session addressing best practices for developing software with security built in.
Fish, whose career spans a range of technology disciplines such as computer forensics, networking and cybersecurity, will lead a session about AI for beginners that focuses on terminology, generative tools and practical ways to use AI for learning, work and productivity.