Iryna (Erin) Okhrymenko
Iryna (Erin) is a Product Manager who's passionate about making AI actually work for humans instead of against them. With a unique background spanning AI technologies, empathetic UX design, and cybersecurity Erin has spent her career figuring out why brilliant technology often fails spectacularly when it meets real human needs.
As a Lean Innovation Coach, Iryna mentors startups on turning innovative ideas into viable products that people actually want to use. She's also actively involved with the Cyber ASAP accelerator, where she helps academics bridge the gap between groundbreaking research and commercial reality. In addition, Iryna mentors emerging professionals in both cyber and AI bootcamps. Her passion for this intersection runs so deep that she's starting a PhD in AI for Customer Intelligence and Cybersecurity, because apparently solving one complex problem at a time isn't challenging enough.
Session
Tired of banging your head against the wall because users keep clicking dodgy links despite your brilliant phishing training? Fed up with SOC analysts burning out faster than you can hire them?
Yeah, I feel you. 95% of successful cyberattacks still involve human error despite us throwing billions at shiny security tech. But.. what if we've been solving the wrong problem this whole time?
This hands-on workshop offers a new framework for cybersecurity - techniques that treat humans as partners, not problems. Learn to map stakeholder emotions, redesign those cringe security moments that make everyone groan, and transform incident response from finger-pointing festivals into proper learning opportunities. Work through real exercises using your actual organizational challenges.
No vendor pitches. No expensive tools. Just human psychology applied to cybersecurity that actually works.