AppSecEU2013/CfPresos

Call for Presentations (Industry)
The German Chapter of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is proud to organize this years' OWASP AppSec Research EU conference.

OWASP AppSec conferences are the premier gathering for Software Security leaders and researchers. It brings together the application security community to share cutting-edge ideas, initiatives and technological advancements.

Topics
OWASP AppSec conferences are true security conferences, with expected talks and presentations all around (web) application security. Non-technical talks (see below) are welcome too. Please refrain from submitting marketing talks or having sales pitches in your talk.

We are interested in all topics related to Web Application Security and OWASP, in particular:


 * Secure development: frameworks, best practices, secure coding, methods, processes, SDLC
 * Vulnerability analysis: code review, pentest, static analysis
 * Threat modelling
 * Mobile security
 * Cloud security
 * Browser security
 * HTML5 security
 * OWASP tools or projects in practice
 * New technologies, paradigms, tools
 * Privacy in web apps, Web services (REST, XML) and data storage
 * Operations and software security
 * Management topics in Application Security: Business Risks, Outsourcing/Offshoring, Awareness Programs, Project Management, Managing SDLC

Terms
By your submission you agree to the OWASP Speaker Agreement. It requires that you use an OWASP presentation template. You are welcome to include your company logo to the first and last slide. All presentation slides will be published on the conference website. Please make sure that any pictures and other materials in your slides doesn't violate any copyrights. You are solely liable for copyright violations. You may choose any CC licence for your slides, including CC0. OWASP does  suggest open licenses.

Participants and speakers are all warmly invited to attend the conference dinner on Thursday. Subject to the budget situation there's an extra evening program for all accepted speakers.

Unfortunately we can't cover travel expenses or costs for accomodations.

Program Committee (Industry)

 * Dinis Cruz, OWASP O2 Platform
 * Sebastien Deleersnyder, OWASP BeNeLux
 * Jeremiah Grossman, WhiteHat Security
 * Dr. Boris Hemkemeier, OWASP Germany
 * Achim Hoffmann, OWASP Germany
 * Dr. Giles Hogben, Cloud Security Alliance
 * Dr. Martin Johns, SAP Research (head research PC)
 * Holger Junker, Federal Office for Information Security (BSI)
 * Alex "kuza55" Kouzemtchenko, Coverity
 * Jim Manico, OWASP USA
 * Dr. Konstantinos Papapanagiotou, OWASP Greece
 * Prof. Dr. Sachar Paulus, University of Applied Science in Brandenburg
 * Thomas Roessler, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), ICANN Board Member
 * David Ross, Microsoft
 * Dr. Sebastian Schinzel, University Erlangen-Nuremberg
 * Dr. Dirk Wetter, OWASP Germany (head industry PC)
 * John Wilander, OWASP Sweden + Linköping University
 * Michal Zalewski, Google Inc

Contact: pc2013//lists/appsec/eu

Deadlines

 * Submission of proposals by: April 14, 2013 (11:59pm GMT)
 * Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2013
 * Publication of program: May 10, 2013
 * Conference Date: August 22-23, 2013

Submission
To submit a proposal, please submit online (see link below) an abstract of  your intended presentation (500 to 4000 chararters) and a brief biography (150 to  800 characters). Your planned presentation time is 40 minutes (excl. ~5 minutes for discussion and change of speaker). Feel free to attach a preliminary version of your presentation if available. Any proposal submitted is subject to a democratic vote by the program committee (pc). Keep in mind: The better your description the better our picture (do not count on "fail open"). Please watch out for any mistakes as after approval by the pc we take your abstract and publish it 1:1 in our program.

All proposals for this industry part have to be submitted through EasyChair.

Related Cf{P^2,T}
Please note that there are two related invitations to submit a proposal for this conference:


 * Call for Papers (Research track)
 * Call for Trainings