Difference between revisions of "OWASP & WASC AppSec 2007 Conference"

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We are still in the planning stages for the next OWASP U.S. conference, eBay in San Jose, CA Nov 12-15, 2007.

Web Services Track: The conference will have 3 tracks on the first day instead of 2. The 3rd track will be focused on Web Services Security which is a new area for OWASP. If you are interested in speaking at this conference on a Web Services Security topic, please contact Gunnar Peterson, who is organizing that track.

Application Security Vendor Expo: This conference will also have a vendor expo for the first time Application Security product vendors can demonstrate the technical capabilities of their products. More information about conference sponsorship is available here.

Conference Location

This year's US OWASP conference will be held at eBay at their facility at: 2211 North First Street in San Jose, CA Nov 12th-15th.

Training Days: Novermber 12th-13th

Main Conference: November 14th-15th

Agenda and Presentations - Oct 17th-18th

The agenda will follow the (current) standard OWASP conference format of two tracks, with opening keynotes and presentations in the main auditorium, split tracks in the middle of the day, and closing presentations back in the main auditorium both days. In addition, on the first day, there will be a third track focused on Web Services Security.

This conference will include presentations from many different OWASP contributors and leading Application Security professionals, and will include one panel each day.

The OWASP AppSec San Jose 2007 agenda is still being developed.

Training: Monday-Tuesday - Nov 12th-13th

OWASP has arranged for a suite of two day Application Security training courses to be offered prior to the conference. The tutorials being offered are:

Building and Testing Secure Web Applications

Secure Coding for Java EE

Advanced Asp.Net Exploits and Countermeasures

Web Services and XML Security

Conference Committee

OWASP Conferences Chair: Dave Wichers - Aspect Security - dave.wichers 'at' owasp.org

Web Services Security Track Chair: Gunnar Peterson - Arctec Group - gunnar 'at' arctecgroup.net

Vendor Exhibition Chair: Pravir Chandra - Cigital - chandra 'at' list.org

Refereed Papers Chair: Frank Piessens - KU Leuven - Frank.Piessens 'at' cs.kuleuven.ac.be

Conference Sponsors

The following organizations are sponsors for this conference. If you are interested in sponsoring either of the 2007 OWASP conferences, please contact OWASP at: conferences 'at' owasp.org.

We are also going to have vendor booths at this conference for the first time. If you are interested in demonstrating your application security product to a sophisticated audience of application security professionals, please contact us for more information. Please contact either Dave Wichers (the OWASP Conferences Chair) or Pravir Chandra, who will be organizing the vendor area for this conference.

More information about conference sponsorship is available here.