September 10, 2012 SB Report

Sarah Baso - Report of Conference Activity for August 2012 (Prepared for September 10, 2012 Board Meeting)

Conferences Committee
General Committee Info
 * Committee Membership: no changes, currently 8 members: Mark Bristow, Ralph Durkee, Richard Greenberg, Lucas Ferreira, John Wilander, Mohd Fazli Azran, Lorna Alamri, and Benny Ketelslegers.
 * Committee Chair: Mark Bristow


 * July Committee Meeting Minutes:
 * September 10


 * Recurring meeting time: the third Wednesday of the month at 3pm GMT/UTC. 'Next Meetings scheduled for:
 * Wednesday, Septembeer 19, 2012 at 3:00 PM (15:00) UTC/GMT
 * Wednesday, October 17, 2012 at 3:00 PM (15:00) UTC/GMT


 * Global Conferences Committee Budget - $26,029 of $40,000 remaining ($13,971 spent).

Major Activities/Projects (in addition to attending monthly committee meetings, taking & posting meeting minutes):
 * Working with committee on setting goals for 2013, drafting committee budget for 2013, and drafting proposed revenue goals for 2013 Global AppSec Events
 * Proposals for the 2013 AppSec USA event - one submission received from NYC. Submission to be reviewed/decided at September meeting.
 * Soliciting proposals for the 2013 AppSec Latam Event
 * Requested comments from committee on conference planning documents drafted by Sarah Baso:
 * Conference Planning Timeline/Overview
 * Detailed Conference Planning Checklist
 * Conference Planning - Project Plan with Deadlines
 * Ongoing - Updated and monitored google form for tracking schwag requests and monitor OCMS for events that have requested schwag but not entered request into google form.
 * Ongoing - Work with Konik, Kate, Rocksport, Zazzle, Lulu, and other misc. vendors to fulfull merchandise and conference requests.

OWASP Events
AppSec India 2012 - Regional
 * Schedule for conference talks and training posted
 * Over 150 people attended training, and 400 people attended conference
 * Local event planners project the event to have made a profit, no details have been received from local team as of 10-Sept-2012
 * Event attended by Sarah Baso: Post Event Report

AppSec Ireland 2012 - Regional
 * Approx 100 people registered through cvent
 * Conference Schedule posted on event website: appsecireland.org
 * Sponsors: F5, WhiteHat Security, BCC Risk Advisory
 * Other orgs/supporters: (ISC)2, irishdev, Pentest Magazine, Google Developer Group Dublin, Irish Internet Association, Irish Computer Society, British Computer Society, Irish Reporting and Information Security Service
 * Event attended by Samantha Groves (staff), Michael Coates (Board), Eoin Keary (organizer, Board)

OWASP Israel 2012 - Regional
 * Event website: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Israel_2012
 * Free event with over 450 people registered to attend through cvent
 * Sponsors
 * Gold: Quotium, Imperva, Ernst & Young, Akamai, IBM, Radware
 * Silver: GRSec, Liveperson, RSA, Foresight, Komodo Consulting, Secoz, HP, Rafael Co
 * Event projected to make a profit, no details have been received from local team as of 10-Sept-2012

AppSec USA 2012 - Global
 * Current conference profit estimate: $25,000 (Budget)
 * Sponsorships = $180,000 - new sponsorships include: NTObjectives (Platinum), Akamai (Silver), Rapid7 (Silver), RSA (Silver), Security Innovation (Silver + reception)
 * Training courses posted: http://www.appsecusa.org/schedule/trainings/
 * Jim Manico & Eoin Keary are offering 2 Free, half day training courses targeted at the developer community: Registration through Eventbrite:
 * Morning session: http://appsectrainingmorning.eventbrite.com/
 * Afternoon session: http://appsectrainingafternoon.eventbrite.com/
 * Speaker selection complete and schedule posted: http://appsecusa2012.sched.org/
 * Currently finalizing details on: Open Source Showcase, CFT, University Challenge/Hackademic Challenge, & Social Events
 * Extra-curricular conference events:
 * Conference Attendee Social Event (Thursday evening after conference talks until 8pm)
 * Movie sneak peak: Reboot - http://www.appsecusa.org/schedule/reboot/ (Thursday evening 8-10pm)
 * 5k Race - Friday Morning
 * Current Registration: 174 Paid + 264 Comps (Sponsors, Speakers, Trainers, OWASP Leaders, Giveaways, etc) = 438
 * Estimated Event Profit: $120,000

AppSec Brazil 2012 - Regional
 * Event cancelled - was to be hosted by OWASP Paraíba Chapter but Chapter Leader (who was the main person driving the event) had to drop out due to personal reasons.

AppSec Latam 2012 - Global
 * http://appseclatam.org
 * Fabio Cerullo is serving as their GCC liaison
 * Event logistics (location and date) finalized:
 * Hosted at Antel National Telco Building in Montevideo, Uruguay
 * 2 days of training: Nov. 18-19
 * 2 days of conference talks: Nov. 20-21 (2 Tracks)
 * 4 Keynotes confirmed: Jerry Hoff, Pravir Chandra, Cristian Borghello, and Hernan M. Racciatti
 * CFP and CFT deadline was Friday, hope to have decisions on schedule within 1 week.
 * Sponsorship Opportunities - a 25% discount will be offered to sponsors who sign on by the end of September 2012.
 * In the process of finalizing hotel room block

AppSec APAC 2013 - Global
 * Sarah working with local team to set up status calls

AppSec EU/Research 2013 - Global
 * Hamburg, Germany (related documents)
 * Local team working to finalize dates within the next week
 * Conference/Project management set up in Redmine

Upcoming Outreach Events

 * Brucon
 * Hacker Halted USA
 * BSidesDFW
 * Hacker Halted Asia Pacific 2012
 * Malaysia Open Source Conference 2012
 * HITBSecConf2012

Other Activities

 * Marketing:
 * Global Membership Handout (Template created by PR with Brains for NY Chapter, and modified for use at BlackHat Booth)
 * Contract with Patrick Calder at Design Foundry & DeNita Morris at Sisterworks Publishing to fulfill needs as outlined in Marketing RFP. Sarah has ongoing weekly status calls to discuss progress & next steps.

Resource Pages

 * Event Contracts
 * Event Budgets
 * Event Sponsorship Documents