Call for Presentations

Continuing the success of the Rochester Security Summit 2010, the premiere IT security event in Upstate/Western NY that gathered more than 200 attendees, executives from Fortune 500 firms along with information security professionals, developers and software architects, we are pleased to announce that the sixth annual Rochester Security Summit is being planned for October 4-5, 2011 in Rochester, NY at the beautiful and totally renovated Hyatt Regency Rochester, with Marcus J. Ranum as the keynote speaker setting this year’s theme to “Security Sanity.” Last year we had 26 outstanding technical presentations in addition to a sold-out Capture The Flags (a.k.a. Ethical Hacking 101) event and an extremely well received end panels with representative of the 3 sponsoring organizations, ISSA, ISACA and OWASP. The conference is looking for top speakers. This year there will be three tracks: Business Professional, Software Professional, and Technical Professional.

If you believe you have a significant research or technical presentation that the security community would value and enjoy hearing, we invite you to submit your presentation topic for consideration.

All three tracks will consist of presentations in 50-minute blocks, including Q&A. Presentations may be allowed to span two blocks to accommodate topic exploration to different depths if the committee sees the merit in the longer time allotment.

Please submit proposals before June 30, 2011.
We will respond to proposals by July 30.
Draft copy of the slides for the papers must be submitted by Aug 26, 2011,
Final abstracts are due by Sept 15.
Final submissions are due by Sept 23.

Please review the speaker guidelines on the web site, <http://rochestersecurity.org/speakers/speaker-guidelines.html>, before submitting a proposal.

Proposals may be submitted via e-mail to present2011 at RochesterSecurity.org.

Summit attendees are a mix of technical security professionals, vendors, programmers, web application developers, security testers, students, network administrators and IT executives. Preference will be given to speakers who can present innovative technical content to a broad technical audience. Of course, all presentations are expected to challenge the brightest and quickest of attendees.

The Rochester Security Summit is not a vendor fest. There is zero tolerance for heavy commercial content in presentations. Presenters are expected to avoid any marketing that is not immediately backed up with rationale for its inclusion. Proposals should consist of the following information:

Presenter and contact info (country of origin and residence-mail, postal address, phone, fax).
Employer and/or affiliations.
Brief biography, list of publications and papers.
Any significant presentation and educational experience/background.
Topic synopsis, proposed paper title, and a one paragraph description.
Reason why this material is innovative or significant or an important tutorial.
Optionally, any samples of prepared material or outlines ready.
Will you have full text available or only slides?
Please list any other publications or conferences where this material has been or will be published or submitted.
If you think a second 50-minute block will be required to do your topic justice, please let us know and give a rationale for the longer format.

Please include the plain text version of this information in your email as well as any file, pdf, sxw, ppt, or html attachments. Please forward the above information to

present2011 at RochesterSecurity.org.

For more event information, or to register, visit us online at <http://www.rochestersecurity.org/>.

Thank you,

Rochester Security Summit Organizing Committee

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