Upcoming
Launch Reading & Conversation
Kill Latency Launch Event
92nd Street Y — New York, NY
An evening with George Portman celebrating the publication of Kill Latency. Reading, conversation, and Q&A. Tickets available through the 92nd Street Y box office.
Panel Discussion
Milken Institute Global Conference
Beverly Hilton — Beverly Hills, CA
Panel: "The Invisible Attack Surface: Fiction, Finance, and the Future of Infrastructure Risk." With practitioners from national security and financial services.
2025
Keynote Address
Aspen Security Forum
Aspen Meadows Resort — Aspen, CO
"AI and the Future of Infrastructure Defense." A keynote on the intersection of AI-driven threat detection and the structural vulnerabilities it leaves unaddressed.
Literary Event
PEN America World Voices Festival
New York Public Library — New York, NY
Panel: "The Techno-Thriller After the Internet." A conversation on genre, technology, and the changing nature of the unseen adversary.
Conference Panel
RSA Conference 2025
Moscone Center — San Francisco, CA
"Fiction as Threat Intelligence." A discussion on how speculative fiction models threat scenarios that formal intelligence analysis underweights — and what that gap means for practitioners.
Author Reading & Signing
McNally Jackson Books
McNally Jackson — New York, NY
Reading and signing for the paperback release of Privilege Escalation. In conversation with a journalist from Wired.
Speaker
Bloomberg Technology Summit
Bloomberg HQ — New York, NY
"When the Signal Is the Attack." On the use of normal operational data as a vector — and what financial infrastructure and critical systems share in their blind spots.
Discussion
Council on Foreign Relations
Harold Pratt House — New York, NY
"The Unseen Adversary." An off-the-record conversation on fiction, intelligence, and the challenge of adversaries who operate below the threshold of attribution.
2024
In Conversation
92nd Street Y
92nd Street Y — New York, NY
In conversation with The Atlantic's technology editor on the Blake Knox series, the evolution of the techno-thriller, and the role of fiction in understanding systems we can't otherwise see.
Author Signing
The Strand Book Store
The Strand — New York, NY
Signing for Privilege Escalation on publication day.
Panel
SXSW — Technology & Culture Track
Austin Convention Center — Austin, TX
"Tech Thrillers and the Real Threat Landscape." A panel with security researchers and fiction writers on the gap between how technology is portrayed in fiction and how it actually fails.
Invited Presentation
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
Congress Centre — Davos, Switzerland
Informal session: "What Thrillers Teach Us About Systemic Risk." A private discussion on narrative as a tool for modeling low-probability, high-consequence scenarios in financial and infrastructure systems.