44CON 2017 CFP Now open

44CON Our Call For Papers, Talks and Workshops is now open. If you'd like to speak at 44CON 2017, submit your talk here.

44CON 2017 will take place from the 13th - 15th September 2017, featuring talks, workshops, the bus bar and Gin O'Clock! Tickets open on the 24th of February.

The conference consists of 3 speaking tracks of which two are filmed, and one separate workshop track over the two days. The event features a mix of talks aimed across a range of attendees from information security professionals to hardcore reverse engineers and people who like to pull things apart with spanners. (We also support people who don't have spanners, but won't let that stop them from pulling things apart).

The proposed schedule will be posted in early July at https://44con.com/.

In particular, we are looking for original talks of the highest quality in the following areas:

- Offensive and Defensive Technologies and Techniques
  - Bugs and Reverse Engineering (finding, fixing and tooling)
  - The computing equivalent of “Hold my beer”
  - Incident Handling, Forensics and Anti-Forensics
  - Virtualisation, Container, and Cloud Computing Security
  - Owning the Enterprise, Infrastructure, Security Products, SAP, Oracle, Databases, and Client-side security and internals
  - Cryptography, Cryptocurrencies, Cryptozoology, and Tales from the Crypt(3)
  - Embedded/Hardware Hacking attack and defence tools, techniques and practices
  - Application and Mobile Security
  - Networking, Comms, Critical National Infrastructure (CNI)
  - Information Assurance, Cyberspace, Policing, Cybercrime
  - Privacy, Decentralised communications, Opening walled gardens
  - Relevant technical and legal aspects of GDPR, Brexit and/or the IP Act on our industry and the wider public

Note: this is not an exhaustive list. If you have a good talk proposal, please get in touch through the CFP system.

As always, 44CON speakers will be entitled to free travel and two night's accommodation (if living more than 1 hour outside of London).
Speakers with accepted workshops will be entitled to an extra night's hotel accommodation.
People submitting workshops will be entitled to two night's accommodation.

Submit your talk at our CFP system here.

We welcome speakers of all genders, origins, attributes and physical abilities. If you have any particular disabilities or requirements please let us know so we can accommodate.

- CFP Opens Thursday 2nd February
- Early Bird Tickets on sale from 24th February
- Final CFP Deadline: Monday 31st May, 6pm UTC
- Speaker reject notifications start: 16th June
- Public speaker announcements: 6th July
- Speaker flight details to be submitted by 30th June
- Papers/Tools/Presentation Submission Deadline: Friday 8th September
- 44CON Training: 12th and 13th September
- 44CON Open Evening: 13th September
- 44CON Conference: 14th and 15th September

To find out more about 44CON visit https://44con.com/, follow us on twitter @44CON, or use the #44CON hashtag and take part in the discussion on Twitter.

Videos from previous 44CON events can be watched here.

By agreeing to speak at 44CON you are granting Sense/Net Ltd (owners of 44CON) the rights to reproduce and distribute your presentation and recording (unless otherwise agreed in writing in advance of the event) including but not limited to https://44con.com/, advertisements in various mediums and through partner sites and mediums. If you are not comfortable with this arrangement then this must be agreed with us in writing prior to the event.

Earlybird tickets for 44CON will go on sale on the 24th of February, follow us on Twitter and Facebook to keep up to date with all things 44CON. We'll send another update later this month before the early birds launch, and with our guide to gaming the 44CON CFP system.