The Security Industry Association (SIA) RISE community for emerging security leaders recently hosted the 2023 AcceleRISE conference — a unique event designed for young industry talent that took place Aug. 14-16 in Denver, offering meaningful career, business and security technology content, lively networking opportunities and engaging activities.

Among the lineup of relevant and impactful sessions at AcceleRISE 2023 were insightful lessons on emotional intelligence (EQ), wisdom on feedback and knowing your worth, as well as building a team to support you on your path to career success. For this month’s Workforce Strategies column, we spoke with two RISE community members — Janae Love, marketing specialist at SAFR from RealNetworks, and Nicole Rigby, sales and operations planner at Axis Communications — about their top career development takeaways from this year’s conference.