Abstract

The task is mammoth and hence i have divided it into chunks. I am listing my current progress here so can keep a track of what is going on in this project.

Currently Tracked Conferences

Indian Conferences

• C0c0n
• Nullcon
• Clubhack
• Groundzerosummit
• Securitybyte
• Malcon
• Owaspappsecindia

International Conferences

• Blackhat
• Hitbsecconf
• Defcon
• Hacklu
• Deepsec
• Rootcon
• Phdays
• Brucon
• Troopers
• 44con
• Cansecwest
• Grrcon
• Hackfest
• Appsecdayaustralia
• Hackinparis
• Syscan
• Ekoparty
• Pacsec

Award tracking

For now only one award that is “web hacking top 10” is included as it go through rigorous scrutiny and is in public. If we find more such awards we will track them. Prospective candidates

• Pwnie awards

More Things to track

• Indian Conferences
  • sacon
• Add more international conferences
  • CCC
  • OWASP AppSec
  • Defcon villages
• Books Listing
• Tool Authors

Concious Decisions

I have made some concious decisions around following items

• ACM sessions are not covered as even the event proceedings are behind paywall
• IEEE also would fall under same bucket of paywalled content
• Local regional chapter level events like owasp or null chapter proceedings are not covered
• No profile data to be listed on website to avoid overhead on data gathering process
• Workshops or trainings are not considered in this listing. Multiple reason listed below, hard to objectively consider one when rejecting others so entire class is not kept on website
  • closed door events
  • no requirement to publish content even if its free event