Facebook Global Security, Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) team was in need to educate Facebook employees around security topics like policy creation, policy lifecycle, tool standardization and benchmarking on security standards. 

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GRC approached this by creating events around security topics. The event audience ranged from Company wide employees to external speakers and collaborators.

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My role as Project Manager was focused on building cross functional collaborations. I worked together with the Director of the Facebook Blue Team and multiple teams across Global Security to establish, structure, and launch security and policy-related events such as the Benchmarking and Policy Summits. 

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Working on internal Global Security Events the main constraint was a limited budget to bring external speakers. Given that the Company has amazing talent we were able to put together extraordinary events using internal resources. 

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I approached this project using 4 stages of the Project Management process as initiation, planning, execution and closeout. 

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I initiated this project by gathering a planning committee and assigning roles and responsibilities. As part of my creating process I put together a playbook, project charter, project plan, and business requirement document to build the structure around the event, identify roles and responsibilities, tasks, control and monitor the event on the internal project tool and execute dry runs. 
 

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The impact of these initiatives was reflected on Facebook employees around the world where they were able to learn how to create policies, which tools to use and how to standardize the process. As a result the Policy Summit is still going on and their audience has duplicated. Each iteration shows the progress of what an event with a solid foundation can achieve.