OWASP Track

This is an initiative jointly led by the Global Conferences Committee and the Global Projects Committee

The OWASP Track initiative is a new effort to help OWASP promote our projects and activities at our own major conferences. The first OWASP Track talks will be at Global AppSec North America 2011, and we hope to extend the track to the other Global AppSec conferences in 2012.

The goal of this track is to highlight and promote OWASP and offer our leaders a chance to showcase their activities. As such, we will be using a different type of CFP from those typically issued. Submissions should highlight a particular OWASP project or activity that is important to the community at large. The joint GCC/GPC program committee will be judging these submissions on a variety of factors, including project/activity maturity, strategic value to OWASP, relevance to the event audience, and past presentation performance. We intend to highlight brand new projects and activities along with established ones, so new project leaders should not be discouraged from applying! Keep in mind though that we are looking for polished presentations so it will help your submission if you can demonstrate that your project/activity has made recent strides in improving quality.

While there are limited OWASP funds to support travel for selected presenters, we will ask that presenters first solicit funding from their employers for travel to the event. As with all OWASP presentations, the presentation must be vendor-neutral. In addition, as this is an OWASP-centric track, presentations must be OWASP branded and presenters must limit mention of their employer to a company logo on the concluding slide of their presentation. Expect to see an announcement soon with details on how you can provide a submission for the OWASP Track at Global AppSec North America 2011.

The OWASP Track will also serve as a proving ground for joining our second new initiative. Presenters that perform well in their OWASP Track talk will be invited to join the OWASP Speakers group.