Community in Time of Crisis

1 min readEvent: June 2, 2020

About the Speaker

Jesse Trucks

Minister of Magic at Splunk

Jesse Trucks has over 23 years of experience in ITops and SecOps. He has worked in non-profit group and organizational management since 2005, beginning with helping draft the LOPSA Code of Ethics and being a founding member of LOPSA and then later serving as a LOPSA board member for several years. Trucks has founded and managed two LOPSA chapters - including our own LOPSA East Tennessee - as well. He routinely consults with other non-profits on their bylaws and other organizational forming and management matters, and he is a founding member of ETSA, the organization forming to take over management and operations of ETENN. He works in security for Splunk as the Minister of Magic.

Presentation Resources

Community means many things to many people. In these days of pandemic driven isolation and event cancellations, many people are struggling to define community in new ways and forced to seek connection in different ways and for different reasons than before. This talk discusses those differences and envisions a path forward to building and maintaining community connection in a post-pandemic world.