The Cyber Security Summit Planning Committee is pleased to announce the 2008 East Tennessee Cyber Security Summit to be held on October 21 through October 22, 2008 in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee. The site is still to be determined.
The fourth annual East Tennessee Cyber Security Summit will again be co-hosted by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI), University of Tennessee, Fountainhead College of Technology, the Tennessee Valley Authority
(TVA), and the TVA Office of inspector General. This is an opportunity to bring together security professionals
from the East Tennessee region and beyond.
We need your help to make this the best year yet for our conference. Please review the Call for Papers
below and send your submissions in or forward this on to a speaker you know would be great for this year's event.
East Tennessee Cyber Security Summit -
Call for Papers
Tuesday October 21, 2008 - Wednesday October 22, 2008
2008 is the 4th anniversary of the East Tennessee Cyber Security Summit and we hope to provide thought provoking presentations that will inspire the local security community. We would like submissions that will not only be entertaining, but provide information our attendees can use to improve their job performance and their careers. Some of the main areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Cryptography - Protecting mobile data
- Forensics/Malware Analysis - Reverse Engineering, Incident Analysis
- Vulnerability Discovery/Exploit Creation - Fuzzing etc.
- Application Vulnerabilities - Secure coding practices/vulnerability prevention
- Control Systems/SCADA Security - Securing National Infrastructure
Submission Guidelines
Proposals should be submitted in English no later than June 20, 2008.
Presentations must be educational/informative in nature and should run about 45 minutes in length. Presentations must be vendor neutral;
no sales pitches. We do not compensate speakers, however we will reimburse for travel and hotel expenses. To be considered by the review
committee, please provide the following:
- Title of your presentation
- Presentation Proposal - (approx. 200 Words).
- Describe the topic you will be presenting in concise detail.
- Why would your subject be of interest to the attendees?
- Biography - (approx. 100 words).
- Written in 3rd person.
- Describe your professional work experience/speaking engagements.
Submissions should be sent to submissions@etcybersummit.org
Committee Review
Submissions will be reviewed by the selection committee per the guidelines above. Failure to submit all
requested information will result in your submission being rejected. The selection committee will send out acceptance and
rejection letters no later than July 18, 2008.
Final Submissions
Selected presenters will be expected to provide the following by the dates specified in each section.
- Presentation Abstract (approx. 150 Words)
- The abstract and speaker bio will be published on the website.
- Provided no later than August 1, 2008.
- Presentation slides
- A projector and laptop will be provided for displaying presentations.
- Presentations should be about 45 minutes in length.
- Please provide presentation slides no later than October 1, 2008.
- Changes can be accommodated; however, we do require presentations be submitted prior to the conference to speed transitions between speakers.
Failure to Submit
In the event that a deadline is missed we reserve the right to revoke any offer to present. We will also accept
some offers on a provisional/alternate basis so that if offers to present are revoked we may fill the empty slot.
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