THOTCON
THOTCON is an American hacker conference that is organized by Nicholas J. Percoco, Zack Fasel, Matt Jakubowski, Jonathan Tomek and several other OPERs (volunteers from the local DEF CON 312 chapter[1]) . It is held in Chicago, Illinois USA at a somewhat different Top Secret location each year.
The conference runs as a single track, held on a single day, and has between 10-12 talks on various information security and hacking topics.
The name THOTCON is made of of the first letter in the words that represent the main Chicago Area Code (312); as in THree-One-Two.
History
- THOTCON 0x1 was held on April 23, 2010 at Joe's Bar[2].
- The conference had approximately 235 attendees and 8 talks. It was also the very first hacker conference to be held in Chicago.
- THOTCON 0x2 was held on April 15, 2011 at Joe's Bar in Chicago, IL.
- The conference had approximately 336 attendees and 12 talks.
- THOTCON 0x3 is scheduled to take place on April 27, 2012 at a TOP SECRET location.
- The conference will have approximately 500 attendees and between 10 and 20 talks depending on final venue configuration.
Past Speakers
Past speakers of THOTCON events have included:
- Jayson E. Street, author of "Dissecting the hack: The F0rb1dd3n Network"[3]
- Rafal Los, author of the HP blog: "Following the White Rabbit"[4]
- Ryan Jones, star of the TV show Tiger Team (TV series)
- Dave Marcus, director of security research at McAfee[5]
- G. Mark Hardy, president of National Security Corporation[6]
Music
THOTCON has become known for its live mixed hacker music between talks by Zack Fasel of brb.clubbing[7]].
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