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RSA Conference 2024, my first big tech conference.
On vacation in San Francisco, working from a hotel lobby, a stranger gave me a ticket to RSA Conference. That's how I got to my first conference.
In 2024 I was on vacation in San Francisco. One morning I was working in the hotel lobby, laptop open, when a man came over and asked if I was in town for RSA.
I told him the truth: I was on vacation and had no idea what that was.
He was the head of cybersecurity at Grupo FV in Argentina. He explained what it was about and gave me a ticket.
That's how I ended up at RSA Conference, one of the largest cybersecurity conferences in the world. Unplanned, and without really knowing what I was walking into.
I walked the expo. Some booths were companies I already knew; others were new to me. I talked to people from all over the world.
Cybersecurity isn't my specialty, and I didn't go to understand all of it. I took away something else: my first conference, in San Francisco, by pure chance.
It all came down to one question in a hotel lobby. Had I sat somewhere else that morning, I'd have missed it.
