44CON 2018 Call For Papers

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Welcome to the Call for Papers, Talks, and Workshops for 44CON 2018 which will consist of 2 dedicated speaking tracks, a dedicated workshop track and combined speaking/workshop track over the two days. Talks range from softer subjects in areas such as governance, law and policy through to reverse engineering, exploitation, tooling and abuse of weird machines. Talks are 45 minutes long while workshops are either 60 or 120 minutes in length.

44CON 2018 is the UK's best annual Security Conference and Training event. The conference spans 2.5 days with training on the 10th and 11th of September, a free evening event on the 12th of September, and a full two-day conference on the 13th and 14th of September. The event takes place at the ILEC Conference Centre near Earls Court, London. 44CON 2018 includes catering, private bus bar and Gin O'Clock breaks. Early Bird discounted tickets are available now with and without included accommodation.

Purchase early bird tickets (capped at 50) or sign up to our mailing list to be notified when regular tickets go on sale.

If you have any pressing queries or concerns, please get in touch.

Submissions are reviewed by a panel consisting of over-hyped slackers rapidly approaching middle age, with thinning hair, widening paunches and debatable liver function. Submissions must be in English only.

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

Note: this is not an exhaustive list. If you have a good talk proposal, please submit it for consideration.

  • Offensive and Defensive Technologies and Techniques
  • Bugs and Reverse Engineering (finding, fixing and tooling)
  • Malware campaigns, takedowns and tales of other fiendishness and villainy
  • 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 use and abuse
  • Black Hat Cryptocurrency foo, double spending, smart contract exploitation, and scam hunts
  • 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, or please god no whatever Maybot's come up with next, just make it stop.

Speakers at 44CON will be entitled to the following:

  • Paid travel (for speakers outside of Fulham or Kensington, London)
  • 2 nights accommodation (see below)
  • Breakfast & Lunch during conference
  • Pre & Post Conference Party Invite
  • Exclusive 44CON speaker T Shirt
  • Love and TLC from our awesome speaker ops team
  • Press Access (for those that want it)
  • Fun and Frolics (and Alcohol if you want it)

We welcome speakers of all genders, origins, attributes, and physical abilities and don't tolerate harassment or bullying. If you have any particular disabilities or requirements please let us know so we can accommodate. Talks are to be delivered in English only. Partners are welcome to come along, we’re happy to help arrange for tourist things for you and your partners to do while in London - Please let us know should you want to do this.

For accepted talks we cover your travel costs from wherever in the world you are at the time (if more than an hour from London), provide access to the event for both days and 2 nights of accommodation. Speakers based in or under one hour from London have a different reimbursement policy, but our goal is to make your experience as cost neutral as possible. Should you have an accepted talk and workshop we will grant you an additional night of accommodation (up to 3 nights). For accepted workshops with no accompanying talk we will provide two night's accommodation and access to the event for both days, but no travel reimbursement.

Official CFP open:Monday 26th February 2018
Final CFP deadline:Monday 30th April 2018, 23:59pm UTC
First accept notifications:TBD
Speaker notifications start:4th June 2018
Speaker announcements start:6th June 2018 @ BSides London 2018
Speaker flight details to be submitted by:30th June 2018
Papers/Tools/Presentation submission deadline:Friday 7th September 2018
44CON Training10th-12th September 2018
44CON Conference12th-14th September