CONFERENCE METADATA — incomplete historical coverage; source presence is not proof of delivery.
Research dataset: Lukas Walter, Clemens Sauerwein, Daniel Woods, InfoSec.pptx, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15989593, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Changes: metadata extraction, exact-match reconciliation and uncertainty flags. No endorsement implied.

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  "title": "Government Transparency in a Time of Shadows",
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    "Kel McClanahan, Esq."
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  "delivery_status": "Not independently verified",
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  "presenter_status": "source display credit; grouped names preserved",
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      "status": "cached; extraction pending",
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