The ITEN WIRED Team

Carson Wilber

Marketing

Penetration Tester, IBM X-Force Red

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Carson has worked across the Emerald Coast in robotics, software design, IT and web management, and education, in all of nonprofit, government, higher education, and private sectors. He is currently a Penetration Tester at IBM X-Force Red and serves throughout the community with different organizations and initatives. In 2017, he co-founded a Pensacola nonprofit, INERTIA Education Programs, Inc., which teaches STEM to underserved students in Escambia County. He currently serves as Chair of the Board after 4 years as Director of Education, while also serving as a member of the Board of Directors of WSRE-TV Foundation, Inc.

He joined the ITEN WIRED Planning Committee in 2019 after co-presenting “Digital Media & Social Engineering: Using Your Data Against You” in 2018 and attending as a student in 2017. Carson has hosted the ITEN WIRED Podcast, published articles and other content for ITEN WIRED on the conference’s website, social media, and print media partnerships, and facilitates other special projects with a focus on bringing students to the annual Summit and Career Expo.

Carson earned Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Science and Cybersecurity at the University of West Florida and served as the first student ambassador for the UWF Center for Cybersecurity, in addition to joining and rising to President of the AI Research Group, becoming a Senator in the Student Government Association, participating in the Cyber Security Club, founding a network of students and alumni in Computer Science and Cybersecurity, working for the UWF Center for Entrepreneurship as a Student Entrepreneurship Ambassador, and representing students at special events and Days at the Capitol from 2016 to 2020.

Carson consults on technology touching quantum computing, artificial intelligence, distributed systems, cybersecurity, and general IT, and is a member of IT Gulf Coast, Women in Cyber Security (WiCyS) Florida Affiliate, Escambia County School District Business Advisory Committees for IT and Cybersecurity, Pensacola Young Professionals, and many more regional academic and business groups.

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