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Join aspiring cybersecurity professionals, career changers, students, veterans, and working adults for an informative forum exploring financial pathways to cybersecurity education, certifications, and career development.

Learn about workforce development funding, veteran education benefits, scholarships, and financing options that may help you take the next step toward a cybersecurity career.

Registration is free, but space is limited.

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Cybersecurity Career Funding Forum

Navigating the Financial Pathways to a Cybersecurity Career

Pursuing a cybersecurity career requires more than identifying the right training program. Understanding how to finance your education, certifications, and professional development is equally important.

Hosted by the MNC Cybersecurity Workforce Hub, this forum will help participants explore available funding resources, understand potential eligibility requirements, and identify practical next steps toward pursuing cybersecurity education and career opportunities.

Whether you're entering the workforce, changing careers, or advancing your professional skills, this forum is designed to help you make informed decisions about investing in your future.

What You'll Explore

  • Workforce Development Funding: Learn about potential funding opportunities through workforce development programs, including WIOA.
  • Veteran Education Benefits: Explore education and training benefits that may be available to eligible veterans and military-connected individuals.
  • Scholarships and Financial Assistance: Understand potential scholarship opportunities and other education funding resources.
  • Education Financing Options: Learn about available payment and financing pathways for cybersecurity training.
  • Planning Your Next Steps: Gain insight into how to evaluate funding options and prepare for your cybersecurity career journey.

Who Should Attend?

This forum is designed for aspiring cybersecurity professionals, career changers, veterans, students, and individuals seeking to understand how they might finance cybersecurity education and career preparation.

Why Attend?

Cybersecurity career opportunities begin with access to information, education, and resources. This forum is designed to help you better understand the financial pathways available so you can make informed decisions about your professional future.

Take the next step toward your cybersecurity career. Register today!

Funding availability, program eligibility, and financial assistance are subject to the requirements of individual funding providers. Attendance does not guarantee funding or program acceptance.

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2027 MiC Annual Conference

March 21st-25th, 2027 | Dallas, TX

It Always Seems Impossible Until It’s Done

Celebrating Five Years of Leadership, Community, and Impact

Lead. Inspire. Advance.

For five years, the Minorities in Cybersecurity Annual Conference has brought together cybersecurity professionals, executives, emerging leaders, and industry partners committed to leadership, professional advancement, and strengthening the cybersecurity community.

In 2027, we celebrate how far we have come and challenge ourselves to consider what is possible next.

Our theme, It Always Seems Impossible Until It’s Done, reflects the determination, leadership, and collective effort required to turn ideas into action and challenges into progress.

The 2027 MiC Annual Conference will bring together up to 200 cybersecurity leaders, innovators, and changemakers in Dallas for meaningful conversations about leadership, career advancement, professional growth, and the evolving demands of the cybersecurity profession.

Through keynotes, fireside chats, interactive sessions, and opportunities to build meaningful professional relationships, attendees will hear from industry leaders and visionaries while gaining practical insights they can carry back to their careers, organizations, and communities.

This is more than our annual conference.

It is a celebration of five years of leadership, community, and impact, and a reminder that what seems impossible today can become what we accomplish together tomorrow.

Why Attend

  • Engage in authentic, high-level conversations about leadership, professional growth, and the future of cybersecurity.

  • Connect with cybersecurity executives, professionals, emerging leaders, and industry partners from across sectors.

  • Gain actionable insights from respected voices in cybersecurity, technology, business, and leadership.

  • Build relationships within a mission-driven professional community committed to leadership excellence and career advancement.

  • Celebrate five years of MiC leadership, community, and impact while helping shape what comes next.

Opportunities for Sponsors

The fifth anniversary of the MiC Annual Conference provides organizations with a meaningful opportunity to demonstrate their commitment to cybersecurity leadership, professional development, and the people shaping the future of the profession.

As a 2027 MiC Conference sponsor, your organization can add its V.O.I.C.E. to the MiC community:

  • V | Visibility: Build visibility as an organization that values leadership development and the cybersecurity profession.

  • O | Opportunities: Create opportunities to connect with cybersecurity professionals and subject matter experts who can add value to your organization.

  • I | Impact: Help influence career trajectories through learning, professional exposure, recognition, and meaningful engagement.

  • C | Connection: Add your company's voice to conversations focused on developing and advancing cybersecurity leaders.

  • E | Engagement: Engage directly with professionals, peers, community leaders, and strategic partners throughout the conference.

Sponsorship packages are available at multiple levels to support different organizational goals and engagement strategies.

To learn more about 2027 sponsorship opportunities, contact [email protected] 

Join Us in 2027

Five years ago, we set out to build something meaningful. In 2027, we celebrate what has been accomplished and look ahead to what once again may seem impossible.

Join us in Dallas as we celebrate Five Years of Leadership, Community, and Impact and continue building the next chapter of MiC.

It Always Seems Impossible Until It’s Done.

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