Richard Thieme

Bio of Richard Thieme

Richard Thieme (www.thiemeworks.com) is an author and professional speaker focused on the deeper implications of technology, religion, and science for twenty-first century life. He speaks professionally about the challenges posed by new technologies and the future, how to redesign ourselves to meet these challenges, and creativity in response to radical change.

In 2022, Thieme spoke for the twenty-sixth year for the Black Hat Briefings (intelligence and corporate security) and Def Con (Def Con 4 – Def Con 30), an annual computer hackers' convention. as well as Black Hat Windows – Seattle, Black Hat Europe - Amsterdam, and for BH at GITEX in Dubai (he keynoted the first 2 Black Hats). He was given an Uber Contributor acknowledgement by Def Con in 2022. He provided three keynotes for the CSO Perspectives Road Show in Melbourne, Canberra, and Sydney Australia in September 2014. He keynoted O'Reilly Security NY in 2016. He engaged in a “fireside chat” with Dan Geer, CISO of CIA’s In-Q-Tel, as a keynote for SOURCE Boston 2013. He keynoted SOURCE Boston and SOURCE Seattle in 2016, SOURCE Dublin in 2017, and SOURCE Austin in 2018. He keynoted Thotcon – Chicago in 2014. He has spoken for security conferences such as NorthSec, Troopers (Heidelberg Germany), Toor Con, PumpCon, Interz0ne West, SecurityOPUS, Xmas Con (New Orleans 2600), RubiCon, HiverCon (Dublin), ShmooCon, NotaCon and RootFest. He spoke for ISACA and ISSA (Chicago - 4 times, Ohio Regional Conference, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, San Antonio). He keynoted Hacker Halted in Miami in 2012. He keynoted AUSCERT in Brisbane, Australia in 2005 2006 and 2007. He was invited to keynote again in 2011 and invited to do talks for local AUSCERT events in Perth and Brisbane in 2014. He keynoted govcert in The Hague in 2006 and in Rotterdam in 2009 and 2010. He keynoted Wireless Australia and the ID Management Summit in Sydney. He keynoted Microsoft Tech Ed in consecutive years in Eilat, Israel, and keynoted MIS InfoSecWorld. In 2007 he keynoted conferences in Auckland and Wellington NZ. He keynoted IT Defense in Berlin in 2009 and ReCon in Montreal in 2010. In 2011 he keynoted the ITWeb Security Summit in Johannesburg and Hack in the Box in Amsterdam. He provided a closing keynote for eComm in San Francisco in 2011. He keynoted Hack in the Box - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2011, 2013, and 2014 and keynoted HITB on its tenth anniversary in Amsterdam in 2019. He keynoted CONFidence in Krakow and Haxpo in Amsterdam in May 2015. In 2015 he keynoted CornCon1 in Davenport Iowa and Corn Con 2 in 2016. Also in 2015 he spoke at BruCon in Ghent, Belgium and keynoted Code Blue in Tokyo Japan. He spoke for CFI-CIRT in Toronto in March 2017 and keynoted Cyphercon in 2017. He keynoted the University of Wisconsin IT Management Council systemwide conference in La Crosse WI and the UNC Cyber Conference in October 2017. He keynoted SaintCon in Salt Lake City UT in 201, and keynoted Qbitz in Montreal in 2019 keynoted the 21st Annual Privacy and Security Conference in Victoria BC in 2021. He has delivered numerous speeches for Secure 360.

In Canada, in addition to ReCon and NorthSec (Montreal), he keynoted the Privacy and Information Security Congress 2011 (Ottawa), the 13th Annual Privacy & Security Conference 2011 in Victoria B.C. and lectured on “Designing the Future” at the University of Calgary in 2013. He keynoted the 17th Annual Privacy and Security Conference in Victoria BC in 2016. He keynoted the 19th Annual Privacy and Security Conference in Victoria in February 2018 and will keynote again in 2021. He spoke at CFI-CIRT in Toronto in June 2017.

He spoke in London in August 2012 for “The Real Truth: A World’s Fair,” hosted by the Raven Row Gallery and curated by Suzznne Treister of Hexen fame. He also keynoted a conference on "Untimely Stories" at the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz Poland on how European artists might reimagine “Europe” as prior conceptualizations disintegrate.

Clients include: National Security Agency; the Pentagon; the FBI (internal presentation + 3 Infragard conferences); the US Secret Service; Los Alamos National Laboratory; US Department of the Treasury; GE Medical Systems; Medtronic; Microsoft; Johnson Controls; Thunderbird School of Global Management; IT Defense (Berlin); Ajilon; OmniTech; Strong Capital Management; Neohapsis; Network Flight Recorder; Merge eFilm; System Planning Corporation (SPC); International Intelligence Ethics Association; Cypress Systems; Ross Systems; Institute for Applied Network Security (IANS); Information Systems Security Assn. (ISSA); Assn. for Investment Management and Research (AIMR); Alliant Energy; Wisconsin Electric; UOP; Firstar Bank; Financial Services – Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC); Psynapse/Center for the Advancement of Intelligent Systems; MAPICS; MIS Training Institute WebSec, HealthSec, and InfoSec Conferences; Influent Technology Group; Case Management Society of America); The CMA Group; Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co.; Advanced Health Care; Navy Federal Credit Union; Arthur Andersen; Credit Union Executives Society; Graduate School of Banking; Allstate Insurance; American Council of Life Insurance; Conference of State Legislatures; Society for Technical Communication; the Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin; the Governor’s Conference on Economic Development;

numerous colleges and universities, including the U of Wisconsin (Madison, Eau Claire, Milwaukee, Parkside, Washington County and Stout campuses) and the University of Wisconsin - Waukesha Distinguished Lecture Series; University Research Park; Marquette University; Loyola University – Chicago, University of Chicago - Ryerson Astronomical Society; University of Calgary; Alverno College; Cardinal Stritch University; Wisconsin Medical College; Illinois Institute of Technology; Purdue University – CERIAS; the Technology, Literacy and Culture Distinguished Speakers Series of the University of Texas; and as the Nathan B. Stubblefield Distinguished Lecturer in Telecommunications Systems Management at Murray State University. He keynoted a conference on meta-data for the University of Texas – San Antonio in March 2015.

publications:

"The Mobius Vector: The Long Road Home" (Exurban Press: 2022) - a novel - Book Two of the Mobius Trilogy

"Mobius: A Memoir" (Exurban Press: 2020) - a novel - Book One of the Mobius Trilogy

"Mobius Out of Time: The End of the Journey" - a novel - Book Three of the Mobius Trilogy - coming in 2023-2024

A Richard Thieme Reader - an ebook collection (2015/2016)

FOAM - a novel (Exurban Press: September 2015)

Mind Games, A Collection of Nineteen Stories of Brave New Worlds and Alternate Realities Duncan Long Publications, April 2010

Richard Thieme’s Islands in the Clickstream, a collection of non-fiction, Syngress Publishing (a division of Elsevier), July 2004.

UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry (Anomalist Books: San Antonio, TX: 2012) by Michael Swords and Robert Powell, with Richard Thieme, Clas Svahn, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Bill Chalker, Barry Greenwood, Jan Aldrich, and Steve Purcell – a team effort by a collection of veteran UFO historians and researchers who spent four plus years researching, consulting, writing, and editing to develop a work of historical scholarship on government response to the UFO phenomenon from WWII to the present. Recommended by CHOICE for inclusion in all academic libraries, currently in 50+ university and many public libraries..

“Silent Emergent, Doubly Dark” in Subtle Edens (editor Allen Ashley, Elastic Press: Norwich UK: 2008)

"I Remember Mama" in New Writing, Volume One: An Anthology of Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Drama From Press Americana (2013)

“Entering Sacred Digital Space” published in New Paradigms for Bible Study: The Bible in the Third Millennium from T. & T. Clark, Ltd., June 2004.

“Identity/Destiny” published in Prophecy Anthology, Volume 1"  a full-color book featuring sequential art by artists such as Shannon Wheeler, Scott McCloud, Sho Murase, Yuko Shimizu, Nathan Fox and Bernie Mireault by Sequent Media (2004).

"The Changing Context of Intelligence and Ethics:  Enabling Technologies as Transformational Engines" in Defense Intelligence Journal (accepted). Published in an adapted version in the proceedings of the New Paradigms for Security Workshop (NPSW 2008) and at the Ethical Spectacle (January 2009 – www.spectacle.org/ as “Changing Contexts of Security and Ethics: You Can’t Have One Without the Other.”

Richard Thieme

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