Conventions

ShmooCon is an annual East coast hacker convention hell-bent on offering an interesting atmosphere for demonstrating technology exploitation, inventive software & hardware solutions, and open discussions of critical infosec issues.

Black Hat Conventions put you face to face with people on the cutting edge of network security, and with no vendor pitches! Black Hat Europe 2005: March 29-April 1 in Amsterdam; Black Hat Asia 2005: April 5-8 in Singapore; Black Hat USA 2005: July 23-28 in Las Vegas.

This conference focuses on newly emerging information security research, with a balance of both topics on auditing and pen-testing as well as security and defensive strategies.

The Symposium on Security for Asia Network aims to be a very different security conference from the rest of the security conferences that the information security community in Asia has come to be so familiar and frustrated with. SyScan'06 intends to be a non-product, non-vendor biased security conference. It is the aspiration of SyScan'06 to congregate, in Singapore , the best security experts in their various fields, to share their research, discovery and experience with all security enthusiasts in Asia.

The PacSec meeting provides an opportunity for foreign specialists to be exposed to Japanese innovation and markets and collaborate on practical solutions to computer security issues.

From 30th to 31st August 2006, the second annual information security & hacking conference in Asia will take place in Jakarta, Indonesia at the Jakarta Convention Center.

PhreakNIC is an annual convention held in Nashville, TN. Originally started as a "hacker convention," it has since grown to include all things of interest to the technology minded individual, such as sci-fi/fantasy, gaming, anime and other areas of tech culture. PhreakNIC is organized by the Nashville 2600 Organization and the Nashville Linux Users Group. There are technical presentations, cultural exhibits and panels, as well as plenty of socializing.

ToorCon has been providing a meeting place for many of the top hackers and security professionals from all around the world to get together and discuss today's bleeding edge issues. ToorCon's main goal is to provide a low cost conference with a high quality atmosphere.