Speaking

Dr. Payne headshot 2012

Dr. Payne is available as a keynote and invited speaker on technology, education and leadership.

June 4, 2015 – Dahlonega Sunrise Rotary Club, “Teach Your Kids to Code”

June 2, 2015 – BootCamp Report – Interview with Fred Fishkin, “Can you ‘Teach Your Kids to Code’?”

May 7, 2015 – Thunder 104.3FM WZTR  – Interview on “Public Eye with Dr. John Raber” for new book, Teach Your Kids to Code

May 6, 2015 – Silver City Elementary School, Career Day, Cumming, GA

May 5, 2015 – Dahlonega Rotary Club, “Teach Your Kids to Code”

May 4, 2015 – Lumpkin County High School, “Coding, Bots, and Drones”

May 1, 2015 – Silver City Elementary School, 3D Printing demo for Mrs. Tribble’s Kindergarten class

April 17, 2015 – ConnectAbility Talent Show, Emcee

March 27, 2015 – IABD annual conference 2015, “Big Data on GPU: A low-cost approach to searching large, unstructured data using commodity graphics cards”

December 8, 2014 – Lumpkin County High School, 3-hour workshop on 3D Modeling & Printing

November 8, 2014 – CCSC Southeast Conference 2014, “Teaching Android and iOS native mobile app development in a single semester course”, Charleston, SC

October 11, 2014 – InfoSecCD 2014 conference, “Motivating secure coding practices in a freshman-level programming course”, Atlanta, GA

October 7, 2014 – Dahlonega Rotary Club, “3D Printing at UNG”

April 2, 2014 – INTERFACE 2014 information security conference, moderator for panel session, “The State of Cyber Security in Higher Education”,  Atlanta, GA

December 12, 2013 – North Georgia Digital Economy Conference, invited speaker and panel moderator, “It’s Their Future”

November 14, 2013 – Leadership Lumpkin, invited speaker, “Technology in North Georgia”

October 17, 2013 – EDUCAUSE 2013, “Challenges and Choices across Two Categories of IT Consolidations”, panel presentation with Dana Roode, CIO, UC Irvine

October 2, 2013 – USG Staff Council Leadership Conference, invited speaker, “Leading from the Heart”

September 24-26, 2013 – BB&T Center for Ethical Business Leadership/Junior Achievement Business Ethics Program, “Making Ethical Decisions”

September 13, 2013 – Leadership Georgia, invited speaker, “What Fiber Means to North Georgia”

April 2, 2013 – Dahlonega Rotary Club, “Computer Science at UNG: The Right Place at the Right Time”

March 12, 2013 – Lanier-Forsyth Rotary Club, “Computer Science at UNG: The Right Place at the Right Time”

March 7, 2013 – Dahlonega Sunrise Rotary Club, “Computer Science at UNG: The Right Place at the Right Time”

February 26, 2013 – UNG Computer Science Department Kickoff, IT Industry Panel, moderator

October 25, 2012 – USG Annual Computing Conference, “Notes to the next CIO”, CIO Leadership Track presentation

August 16, 2012 – Georgia Public Broadcasting – “Morning Edition”, Interview with Joshua Stewart on the North Georgia Network’s impact on education in the region, computer science at UNG

July 5, 2012 – Thunder 104.3FM WZTR  – Interview with Dr. John Raber on new “GigaParks” in Lumpkin County thanks to fiber network (Rebroadcast 7/12/12 and 7/19/12)

May 25, 2012 – University System of Georgia L3:Summit Closing Speech – “Leaving a Legacy of Leadership” – complete text of speech: https://brysonpayne.com/2012/05/25/leaving-a-legacy-of-leadership/

May 17, 2012 – North Georgia Toastmasters – “Confessions of a Problem Solver” – [speech slides: Confessions of a Problem Solver]

May 2, 2012 -North Georgia Network Core Point of Presence Ceremony – “What fiber means to the University” – [speech notes]

March 23, 2012 – TAG Radio – “Tech Talk with Tino”, Interview on the North Georgia Network, https://tagtvonline.com/index.php?option=com_seyret&catid=7&Itemid=55

March 22, 2012 – Dahlonega Sunrise Rotary – “Going Gigabit: How ultra-broadband fiber is going to change our future”

Slides: NGN Dahlonega Sunrise Rotary 2012-03-22

February 21, 2012 – North Georgia Student Leadership Presidents’ Breakfast 2012 – “Leading from the Heart: 15 Character Traits of a 21st Century Leader”

Notes and Slides: https://brysonpayne.com/2012/02/21/leading-from-the-heart/

February 2, 2012 – Great Decisions 2012, Cumming, GA – “Great Decisions Lecture Series: Cybersecurity in 2012” https://www.northgeorgia.edu/greatdecisions/

Notes and Slides: https://brysonpayne.com/2012/01/31/cybersecurity2012/

January 30, 2012 – Great Decisions 2012, Gainesville, GA – “Great Decisions Lecture Series: Cybersecurity in 2012” https://www.northgeorgia.edu/greatdecisions/

Notes and Slides: https://brysonpayne.com/2012/01/31/cybersecurity2012/

January 30, 2012 – WDUN 102.9FM Morning Show with Bill & Joel – radio interview on cybersecurity and preventing identity theft – https://www.wdun.com/shows/bill-and-joel/

November 10, 2011 – Leadership Lumpkin 2011, Dahlonega, GA – “I.T. at North Georgia: Innovation and NGN Update for Leadership Lumpkin”

Leadership Lumpkin 2011-11-10

October 27, 2011 – University System of Georgia 2011 Annual Computing Conference, Rock Eagle, GA – “Managing Projects and Motivating People”

October 11, 2011 – Dahlonega Rotary Club, Dahlonega, GA – “NGN Fiber Update”

Notes and Presentation Slides

July 16, 2011 – North Georgia Alumni Council Meeting – “North Georgia IT Update”

Notes: North Georgia IT Update

July 14, 2011 – Dawson County Chamber of Commerce, Dawsonville, GA – “NGN Fiber Update”

Notes and Presentation Slides

June 13, 2011 – Educomm 2011 CIO Summit, Orlando, FL – “Right-sizing project management at a mid-sized university”

Link to Educomm 2011 CIO Summit site

June 9, 2011 – Dahlonega Sunrise Rotary Club, Dahlonega, GA – “Fiber for North Georgia”