Dear all, the Call For Papers for B-Sides Vienna | NinjaCon 11, 3rd edition, taking place in Vienna (Austria) is open! This year, the conference will be held Saturday, June 18th - or in other words, the day after the 23rd annual FIRST conference, at The Hub in Vienna. 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110111111111111111111111 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110000111111111111111111111 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111100001111111111111111111111 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111000000001111111111111111111111111 1111111111111111111111111111000000000111111110011111111111111111111111111111111 1111111111111111111111111000000000000000001110011111111111111111111111111111111 1111111111111111111111100000000000000000000110011111111111111111111111111111111 1111111111111111111111000000000000000000000000111111111111111111111111111111111 1111111111111111111111100000000000000000000011100111111111111111111111111111100 1111111111111111111111100000000000000000000110011111111111111111111111100000011 1111111111111111111111100111111111111000000011111111111111111110000000000001111 1111111111111111111111110000000000000000000000111111100000000000001111111111111 1111111111111111111111111000000000000000000000000000000000111111111111111111111 1111111111111111111111011100000000000000000000000111111111111111111111111111111 1111111111111001111110000000000000000000000000001111111111111111111111111111111 1111111000000000000000000010000000000000000000000111111111111111111111111111111 1111100000000000000111101000000000000000000000000011111111111111111111111111111 1110000000000000011111110000000000000000000000000001111111111111111111111111111 1111110000000000111111110000000000000000000000000001111111111111111111111111111 1111111000000011111110000000000000000000000000000001111111111111111111111111111 1111110000000001110000000000000000000000000000000011111111111111111111111111111 1111100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000111111111111111111111111111111 1111000000000000000000000000000000000000000000011111111111111111111111111111111 1110000000000000000000000000000000000000000000111111111111111111111111111111111 Introduction ____________ B-Sides Vienna | NinjaCon 11 is a unique hacker conference targeted at security researchers, system and network operators, application developers, hardware hackers, hackerspace members, and generally open-minded folks working or participating in the broad fields between information warfare and digital art. It will combine the knowledge of experienced security speakers, hackers, and information warriors with the fun of a small but 1337 conference. Its main goal therefore is to help attendees understand the current state of art in information technology and security, and showcase projects evolved from the hackerspace movement. The official event language is English. After the last years' NinjaCon taglines - A Series of Tubes, and Make a Good Hack - B-Sides Vienna | NinjaCon 11 will take our approach towards security, hacking and technological innovation yet another step further, therefore being sub-entitled: ON THE PRIVILEGE ESCALATOR TO SHELL ___________________________________ How ever much seriousness or amusement you bring into this, we'll make sure you get an overview of today's state-of-the-art technologies, insight into a bunch of the best hackers' mindsets, and learn new things! Not only will you again have the chance to participate in workshops and the mainly security and network-focused talks, but also get your hands on some hardware hacking, and join in to various activities. NinjaCon 11 goes B-Sides Vienna? I don't get it. What's the big deal? _____________________________________________________________________ As part of the organizing team is leaving Vienna for good this summer, NinjaCon will no longer be taking place in Austria, but instead Germany's capital after this year. However, to ensure the Viennese community still has an event to gather at and discuss the most interesting topics in IT security, hacking and hardware, NinjaCon 11 was merged into Vienna's upcoming NEXT BIG THING event: namely the Security B-Sides Vienna. In other words: It will combine the awesomeness of both formats, while giving our attendees the possibility of voting for their favorite talks and speakers. Voting will be made possible for anyone holding a ticket to the conference. Admission to the conference is FREE (as in free beer)! Save the date: June 18th, 2011 ______________________________ Talks, workshops and trainings will be held throughout Saturday, June 18th 2011, at the most wonderful location ever, The Hub Vienna - making it a full day and night of talks, trainings, hands-on workshops, epic haXX0r battles and partying afterwards; the perfect combination of technology, IT security, hardware hacking, art, music, socializing and good times. This date also marks the end of 23rd annual FIRST conference in Vienna, so if you're already participating in FIRST, we'd love to see you come by to see how the other side lives! Have a talk, workshop or training proposal to do with security, hacking or making you'd like to submit? _______________________________________________________________________ At B-Sides Vienna aka NinjaCon 11, we're looking forward to see a selection of trainings, hands-on workshops, 50-minute presetations and 15-minute lightning talks. As we understand ourselves as an open, international event, the official conference language for all talks, trainings and workshops (as well as submitted abstracts), as always, is English. Topics of interest include (but are in no way limited to) the following: * Information technology * Network security * Web application security * Virtualization and cloud computing * Innovative attack strategies * Forensics * Embedded devices * Physical security and lock picking * Biometrics * Hardware hacking * Phone phreaking * Biohacking * Open source software * Evolutionary computing * Robotics * Massive abuse of technology To apply, please use the submission form on http://cfp.bsidesvienna.com/ where you'll be asked to include the following information: * contact details (name & e-mail address) * a brief bio (including qualifications, speaking experience, and affiliations) * the title of your talk * short intro & abstract (& any supporting materials, if available) * the talk format you are submitting for (talk/panel/lightning talk/training/workshop) Important Dates _______________ If you are thinking of participating and sending in a submission, please take the end of our CFP seriously: Absolute deadline for submission of abstracts is the May 06th, 2011 (midnight CEST) - all proposals submitted before this date will be entered into the voting process. Final notification of acceptance: May 23rd, 2011; Final material submission (including slides and optionally white papers) for accepted presentations: June 03rd, 2011. Sponsoring __________ B-Sides Vienna | NinjaCon is a non-profit event and thankful for every helping hand it's given. If you want to support the initiative and gain visibility by sponsoring, please contact us by writing an e-mail to sponsor@ninjacon.net More details about NinjaCon and the CFP can be found at http://ninjacon.net and http://cfp.bsidesvienna.com/ Disclaimer __________ B-Sides Vienna | NinjaCon 11 has full permission to record any material that is presented at the conference if not otherwise agreed upon, and make it available to the public under a Creative Commons license. Unfortunately, B-Sides Vienna | NinjaCon will not be able to cover travel expenses. However, if you're coming in from out of state and are looking for a place to stay during the conference weekend, feel free to get in touch. P.S.: Our apologies in case you received this message multiple times through different channels. Hack on, /astera