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Re: Paid-for Vendor talk .... seems legit?
From: Wim Remes <wremes () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:51:37 +0100
FTR : BruCON has never done and will never do sponsor-paid keynotes. While it may be that the company where one of our speakers (keynote or not) is employed will sponsor the conference, the keynotes are preselected by the core organizers and the talks are selected by an independent committee without sponsorship as a criteria for either. So, I would argue on over-generalization but I agree that the trend is very visible. Cheers, Wim On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com> wrote:
Why is it that every conference has gone the full hog and decided that you must sell keynotes? When I tried to watch the Whitman Diffie keynote at BH EU, it was proceeded by a 30 minute Fortigate infomercial. RSA had like 5 paid-for keynotes for every one real keynote. Everyone who hasn't should watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7iM5CbBLBY to see why this is a terrible idea. Even if the paid-for talks (and they're not just keynotes!) were good, it should still be considered an unacceptable way to run a technical conference. Here's my promise about INFILTRATE 2013 - there will be no paid talks. None. We choose talks solely based on technical content, speaking skill, and amount of Buffy quotes. Example (assuming you are speaking about some part of the industry perhaps?): *Xander <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xander_Harris>*: Well, how about this: we whip out the Ouija board, light a few candles, summon some ancient unstoppable evil? Mayhem, mayhem, mayhem; we show up and and kick its ass. *Giles <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Giles>* *[pauses to contemplate]*: A wee bit unethical. -dave -- INFILTRATE 2013 January 10th-11th in Miami - the world's best offensive information security conference.www.infiltratecon.com _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunityinc com http://lists.immunityinc.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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