OWASP AppSec Europe 2009 CFT

CALL FOR TRAINING PROVIDERS - OWASP AppSec Europe 2009 Poland.

May 13th–14th 2009, OWASP will hold its annual European Application Security conference in wonderfull Kraków, Poland. The Conference consists of two days of training sessions on May 11th–12th, followed by a two-day conference with 2 different tracks.

In 2008, we attracted great European and international speakers and trainers in Belgium, and we hope to achieve the same again in 2009. This year we organise the conference together with OWASP Poland and Confidence2009, a conference in the same venue on May 15th-16th.

We are seeking people and organisations that want to provide training courses on any of the following topics:
 * Web Services and Application Security
 * Common Application related Threats and Risks
 * Business Risks with Application Security
 * Vulnerability Research in Application Security
 * Web Application Penetration Testing
 * OWASP Tools and Projects
 * Secure Coding Practices
 * Technology specific presentations on security such as AJAX, XML, etc.
 * Anything else relating to OWASP and Application Security.

The following conditions apply for people or organisations that want to provide training at the conference:
 * Training provider should provide class syllabus
 * Proceeds will be split 75/25 (OWASP/Vendor) for the training class. The 75% for OWASP goes towards:
 * Classroom Rental, Conference Logistics/Registration, and Food
 * OWASP Grants for Research Projects
 * Each classroom has a maximum capacity of 30 people, minimum of 12 people signed up before class is considered operational.
 * Price per attendee: 2-Day Class €1200 / 1-Day Class €600
 * Provider branded training materials to increase your exposure
 * Trainer is to provide training materials
 * Students are to bring their own laptops
 * Classes are to be focused around Application Security as mentioned above
 * Training provider must be an OWASP Member

The call for trainings is out. The official closing date for receiving a synopsis of the presentation is February 15th, 2009, with announcements on selected candidates to be provided the first week of March 2009. Complete training material will need to be submitted by the 1th of May 2009.

Training proposals should consist of the following information:

1. Training and contact info (country of origin and residence-mail, postal address, phone, fax). 2. Employer and/or affiliations. 3. Brief biography, list of publications and papers. 4. Any significant presentation and educational experience/background. 5. Training synopsis, Proposed training title, and a one paragraph description. 6. Reason why this material is innovative or significant or an important tutorial for the OWASP conference. 7. Optionally, any samples of prepared material or outlines ready. 8. Will you perform hands-on labs or only slides? 9. Please list any other publications or conferences where this material has been or will be published/submitted. 10. Provide a list of items/software needed for class

Please include the plain text version of this information in your email as well as any file, pdf, sxw, ppt, or html attachments. Please submit your proposals to seba@owasp.org.

The conference page will be updated regularly: AppSecEU09