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The traditional Summercon pre-registration is once again at Canal Bar, Thursday night from 7pm-10pm.

Get your wristbands, T-shirts, and swag; see your friends, throw a shoe; whatever. We’ll see you at Canal – 270 3rd Ave # A, Brooklyn, NY 11215.

Most of our speaker biographies are now posted here. Some of our speaker biographies are either state secrets or will become available shortly. We’ll update this post when we’ve got ’em all.

We posted a schedule a few days ago, but people couldn’t find the link, up there, where it says “Schedule.” Anyway, here’s the schedule.

With the opening of the Summercon 2023 CFP, here are a few friendly tips for what makes a great Summercon presentation. These seven points represent the kinds of things that we are evaluating when we look at CFP proposals.

1. Technical
   • While we occasionally incorporate talks of a non-technical nature, almost every presentation that shows up at Summercon is deeply technical. They’re not sales pitches, and they’re not about righting societal wrongs. So if you’re planning on submitting a talk about why people should buy your company’s particular security snake oil, or why your company has the best culture (and you can too!), you’ll have more success somewhere else.
2. Novel
   • From time to time, in the interest of getting important content in front of the best audience in the world, we let people present something they’ve already shown at events of lesser stature. But we prefer totally new presentations instead of rehashed talks. New content has a better chance of getting shown on the Summercon stage.
3. Irreverent
   • While the presentations are technical, successful Summercon presentations get their point across is through non-traditional means. This is not the place to read slides. One memorable presentation used an Android-shaped piñata as a prop. Another invited participation through an AA-meeting style format. The sky’s the limit (within the limits of our code of conduct, of course).
4. Revels in the Journey
   • If you like talking about the trials and tribulations of research, we are all ears. Even though your final results may be super polished and look effortless, everyone knows you had at least three major setbacks and went down two totally worthless paths before you arrived at a good solution. Share those. People love that, especially our speaker selection committee.
5. Sticks it to The Man
   • Despite all the sponsorships, corporate attendance, and more buttoned-up nature of Summercon (see our Code of Conduct, which is totally reasonable, by the way), we are still, at heart, a hacker conference. Challenge authority. Show you’re not a patsy for The Man. Fight the Power.
6. Engages the Audience
   • Summercon speakers are a special breed, because Summercon attendees are a special breed. Prepare to have people call out your mistakes, heckle if you’re less than prepared, and generally push your buttons. Successful presentations channel this misplaced audience enthusiasm. We still fondly recall a choose-your-own-adventure presentation, where randomly selected audience members got to dictate the direction of the talk. Engage your audience, and they won’t turn on you. (This can be good life advice, too.)
7. Fits into the Allocated Time
   • We cannot overstate this: fill the time, generally 45 minutes of speaking with 10 minutes of Q&A. Our speaker selection committee has been around the block, so if you’re going to try to pretend that a six hour seminar fits into 55 minutes of speaking slot, it’s probably not going to get selected.

We look forward to your submission!

We have a few speakers lined up already, but we’re always looking for more!

Please submit your proposals using our Google Form.

Here’s what we have cooking!

Friday, July 14

Saturday, July 15

Time	Speaker	Presentation
10:00am		DOORS OPEN
10:45pm	John Terrill & Mark Trumpbour	Welcome back:, Recap, Apology, and Police Blotter.
11:00am	Christopher Surage	Why can’t we be friends? Solving the social challenges of application security
11:30am	Claudiu-Vlad Ursache	Code Property Graphs & joern – simple, precise static code analysis
12:00pm	Christine Fossaceca	Race Against the Machine: Consumers vs. Bots
12:30pm	Jatin Kataria	The Debugging Uncertainty Principle
1:00pm		LUNCH
2:00pm	Dan Guido	The title of this presentation is [REDACTED], and it’s gonna be awesome
3:00pm	Harri Hursti	Sub 1 Ghz and other radio/side channel attacks
4:00pm	Samantha Davison & Jennifer Leggio	Protect Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
5:00pm	John Viega	Grab Bag with wrappers, cookies, ELFs and injections
5:30pm	The Summercon Family	In Memoriam – A VIDEO PRESENTATION
6:00pm		HAPPY HOUR / CLOSING CEREMONIES / FLIP CUP (The usual shenanigans)

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It’s time to register for Summercon.

Some notes:

• If you elect to attend at Littlefield, you’ll need to abide with whatever COVID protocols the venue and NYC DOH impose. If you register and for whatever reason you cannot abide by these COVID rules, we’ll refund your ticket. It’s been two years of this, so you know the drill.
• We’re hopeful that there will be a Summercon simulcast at Parklife. Frankly, it might be nicer to be outside in the Parklife courtyard for the duration of Summercon.
• You can also register for the live stream. 

Choose your ticket at Eventbrite here. 

Hey, brave viewers! Here’s the Day 1 live stream of Summercon 2021!

Turns out, YouTube is very fast to kill streams if they detect music with a copyright. Try this link instead.

And to address audio problems, we now have this link.

Summercon starts tomorrow, Friday, July 9. Believe me, we’re as shocked as you.

You’ll see that the schedule, speakers, and presentations have all been updated. We won’t have printed programs, so keep these links handy.

Notes:

• If you’ve managed to snag a ticket for the Littlefield location, you will absolutely need to provide evidence of vaccination. This is a Littlefield policy, and they have their own verification rules. Their verification process takes place when they check ID to make sure you’re 21 or older. 
• Littlefield accepts the following forms of evidence: 1) your CDC vaccination card, 2) a digital health passport (e.g. NY Excelsior Pass, Clear Pass, etc.), 3) a clean photo of your CDC vaccination card, 4) (if you were in the trial vax studies) an email from the hospital or clinic that you received the full vaccination from as a participant in that initial vax trial.
• If Littlefield decides your evidence is insufficient, or you decide that you don’t want to share your vaccination status with Littlefield, we’ll refund your admission to the original method of payment and you will be free to do anything you want, just not at Littlefield. For example, there’s a live stream you could check out. 
• Parklife will be open to the public.  We’ve been informed that there is some construction going on over there at the Parklife courtyard, so the live video of Summercon to that location may only be available indoors, but the audio will be available outside.
• We’re all in this together, and this whole thing only works if everyone works together. We’re grateful for your contributions to the history of Summercon.

Thanks; we’re extremely excited to see you all!