Dan Moceri, the recipient, is the co-founder and executive chairman of Convergint, a global systems integrator with a workforce of nearly 10,000 colleagues spread across more than 200 offices worldwide.

Janae Love of SAFR from RealNetworks and Nicole Rigby of Axis Communications share their top career development takeaways from this year’s conference.

If anyone happened to wander off the street into this year’s Securing New Ground conference, held October 17-18 in New York City, they would have been forgiven for thinking they had come to an IT conference — not a physical security one.

Highlights from the industry’s latest news stories.

The new LMS offers a modern, simple and centralized place to access role-based training, certification prep materials and other relevant educational content anytime, anywhere and on any device.

New York State Department of Education Commissioner Betty A. Rosa issued a determination that lifted the nearly three-year ban on use of biometric technologies in both public and private K-12 schools.

25 on the RISE Awards is a program presented by SIA’s RISE community for emerging security leaders together with Brivo and the Foundation for Advancing Security Talent (FAST). 

Aiden O’Brien dishes about the importance of security technicians and FAST’s ideas and initiatives around solving the industry’s hiring challenges.

Securing New Ground (SNG), the security industry’s executive conference, will take place Oct. 17-18 at the InterContinental Times Square in New York City.

The deadline to apply for the SIA RISE Scholarship is Friday, Sept. 22, 2023.