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My name is Diana Davis, and I am the VP of R&D at Arctic Wolf Networks. I really, in high school, I just really liked math a lot.

I really enjoyed it.

I took all the advanced level courses.

And I didn't really know what to do with that.

So I went to the career counselor at my school. And I said, you know, I'm really good at math. I really like it. I don't know what to do. And he said, well, you should be a math teacher. And 17-year-old self was pretty naive and thought, okay, I guess that's what I should do.

So I went off to university to become a math teacher.

And at that point, I was like, well, now I really don't know what I'm going to do.

I'm just getting a math degree here.

But as it happened, in my third year of university, I took my first computing course. And within two or three classes of that first class, I was like, this is amazing. I'm like, I love this. And so I ended up

working for the Canadian government. And that was my introduction to cryptography. And as it happens,

the job was to implement the Bluetooth protocol in C++ for the research team so they could evaluate

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