QuahogCon (Providence, RI)

Once we properly got the word out last year, we managed to sell out in 3 weeks. We’re going to keep it small again for next year, so be sure to keep an eye on our RSS and/or Twitter feeds. It’s hella easy to get to PVD. All you folks in Boston, NYC, Philly, DC: take the train here and check out all Providence has to offer.

HitB (Malaysia)

Venue: Crowne Plaza Mutiara Kuala Lumpur,
Jalan Sultan Ismail,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

27C3 (Berlin, Germany)

The 27th Chaos Communication Congress (27C3) is the annual four-day conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). It takes place at the bcc Berliner Congress Center in Berlin, Germany.

27th Chaos Communication Congress
December 27th to 30th, 2010
bcc Berliner Congress Center, Berlin, Germany

DojoCon (Dulles, VA)

Registration is FREE and opens Noon Friday 11/12/2010.

FloCon (Salt Lake City, Utah)

January 10-13, 2011

Salt Lake City Marriott Downtown
Salt Lake City, Utah

FloCon is an open workshop that provides a forum for operational analysts, tool developers, and other parties interested in the analysis of large volumes of traffic to showcase the next generation of flow-based analysis techniques. Flow is an abstraction of network traffic in which packets are grouped together by common attributes over time. In security, flow has been used to survey and analyze large networks and long periods of time, as well as to provide a retrospective view of network activity for incident handling.

This year’s workshop will focus on learning about your network. Presentation submissions are highly encouraged, but they are not required to attend the workshop. Presenters should consider how flow can be used to find out what is really happening on a network, not just how the network was designed to work or how you think it works.

NOTaCON (Cleveland, OH)

NOTACON, an annual conference held in Cleveland, Ohio, explores and showcases technologies, philosophy and creativity often overlooked at many “hacker cons”. Our desire is not to supplant other events, but complement them and strike a balance that has gone unnoticed in our community for far too long.
Notacon 2009 Dual Core Concert
Dual Core Concert
Notacon 2009
– Image credit Rltvty

With each new year we build upon the successes and knowledge of the previous years. Our goal is to enlighten, educate, and entertain attendees, presenters, and staff alike. We do this by finding new ways to apply technology to graphics, art, music, or social interaction.

Notacon espouses an ethos of exploration, participation and positive contributions. Hence, while some of the material we may cover is controversial or potentially “black hat” in nature, we feel it is important to openly discuss all topics so that others can learn from the experience and create something good, fun or interesting from it.