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INFILTRATE - and conferences in general.
From: Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com>
Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 13:51:09 -0400
I think a lot of us have spent the last decade or so going to security conferences. And frankly, a lot of them have been pretty bad. The last BlackHat I went to was too big, and you spent much of your time walking from one end of Cesears to the other if you wanted to see talks. At RSA the talks are generally panels, which is another word for "low quality and unprepared". Occasionally they are decent, but only by mistake. And of course in many cons speakers do have a tendency to be writing their slides the night before (or even the DAY OF), which means the talks have weird structure, or are simply bad. At INFILTRATE, we counter this by doing peer reviews - not just to let speaker's have a chance to run through their talks, or force them to get their talks done in time, but actually to provide the kind of commentary on their work that is sorely missing from most modern conferences, with their usually unused question periods. In a way, a conference is a date. We want people to make high quality connections at INFILTRATE. That's why it's a high end conference. Sure you can do a conference at the local Hilton with crappy food and no free alcohol, but you end up having a much less valuable experience. There's a reason you don't take your dates out to Five Guys and make them buy their own beer. So in any case, you should come to INFILTRATE next week. It's a better conference. -dave
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