Call for presentations and tutorials - NOW CLOSED

The AusCERT2011 Call for Presentations is now CLOSED (21st January).

We had an overwhelming response and were blown away by the amazing quality of the submissions. AusCERT2011 is going to be a fantastic event! Thank you to everyone who submitted papers.

For those of you interested in the Call for Presentations process...

About the Call for presentations and tutorials

The AusCERT2011 program committee welcomes original contributions for presentations and tutorials not previously published nor submitted in parallel for publication to any other conference or workshop.

Important Dates

Presentation/Tutorial Summary Submission deadline:	21 January 2011 1300h UTC
Notification of acceptance:	18 February 2011
Final presentation material (slides) due:	8 April 2011
AusCERT2011 Conference	15-20 May 2011

Presentation/Tutorial Submission

Submissions could fall under one of the following broad categories:

• (Web) Application Security and Software Assurance
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
• Case studies of real life incidents/prosecutions with either positive or negative outcomes
• Compliance, Audit and Security Management
• Computer/Network Forensics and Investigations
• Critical (Information) Infrastructure Protection
• Cybercrime & Identity Theft
• Malicious Software, Honeynets and Honeypots and Intelligence gathering/analysis
• Infrastructure, Network, Virtualisation, Mobile and Wireless Security
• Incident Response
• Legal and Privacy and Information Security

NOTE: Submissions made by people other than a presenter/author will not be accepted, unless prior arrangements have been made.

Submissions promoting specific products or services will not be considered nor accepted.

Presentation summaries should be up to a maximum of 2 pages. Submissions will only be considered if they provide a clear idea of the presentation content, key points to be covered during the presentation and are followed by the PowerPoint presentation at a later date.

Summaries should be submitted in text.  Submissions will NOT be accepted after closing time:

Friday, 21 January 2011 at 11:00:00 PM Australian Eastern Standard Time
Saturday, 22 January 2011 at 00:00:00 AM Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time
Friday, 21 January 2011 at 8:00:00 AM US Eastern Time
Friday, 21 January 2011 at 5:00:00 AM US Pacific Time
Friday, 21 January 2011 at 1:00:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time
All presentations and tutorial submissions will be handled electronically.

Presentation requirements

Presentations comprise a 40 minute timeframe. We recommend presenters allow 5 minutes for questions. If deemed worthy, we would consider a double timeslot.
Note that if your presentation is selected you must comply with the following:

1. Provide PowerPoint or PDF slides by 8th April 2011 for inclusion on the digital conference media as PDF.
2. If PowerPoint or PDF slides are NOT received by 8th April 2011 then the program committee may decide to replace the presentation with an alternative.
3. If for any reason the nominated speaker cannot present then the conference program committee or the conference organisers must be informed as soon as possible and no later than seven days prior to the commencement of the conference. The program committee reserves the right to allocate the presentation slot to another presenter in this event.

AusCERT2011 requires a non-exclusive copyright license for all presentations at the conference and for the presentation material. This includes potential distribution on a conference USB stick and the conference website.

Tutorial requirements

Tutorials may be half (3.5 hours) or full day (7 hours) or two days (14 hours) and can cover topics with a business or technical focus. Note that if a tutorial is selected, handout material for distribution to tutorial attendees must be provided at least 14 days prior to the commencement of the conference.

AusCERT2011 requires a non-exclusive copyright license for all tutorial handout material for distribution to tutorial attendees.

Presentation and Tutorial Selection

The AusCERT2011 Program Committee will independently select all topics and speakers based on the quality of presentations. Acceptance of these submissions is at the discretion of the Program Committee which has the right to refuse any submission. The Program Committee's decisions are final.

The above conditions may be varied under special circumstances.

Assistance for speakers selected

AusCERT is able to assist in covering the travel and accommodation costs of conference speakers. The standard offer includes:

• Return economy class airfares
• Accommodation at the five star Royal Pines Resort (3 nights for international speakers or 2 nights for local speakers)
• Free registration to the three day conference (not including tutorial sessions)

The above conditions may be varied under special circumstances.

We look forward to receiving your submission. Good luck!

Regards,

Zane Jarvis and Claire Groves
AusCERT2011 Program Committee Co-chairs
On behalf of the AusCERT2011 Program Committee