BSidesOttawa 2010
November 12, 2010
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Security B-Sides is the first grass roots, DIY, open security conference in the world!  Security B-Sides is a great combination of two event styles: structured anchor events and grass-roots geocentric events.

Cost: FREE! (that's right, FREE!)

Venue

Tuscon's
2430 Bank Street
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1V 8S1
(613) 738-7596

For more info:
http://www.securitybsides.com/BSidesOttawa

Don

I had the pleasure to participate to this conference.
I only have good words about it. Everything was perfect: the place (a nice club), organisation, the speakers and the audience.
Giving the fact that we were inside a club, and only around 100 participants, the atmosphere was very intimate and the presentations had sometimes the form of public discutions.

In the first day the presentations covered general security subjects. The speakers had a lot of humour and they tried to get the audience involved.
In the second day the subjects were a little bit more technical, but the speakers tried to keep them general enough in order not to lose any of the participants (some of them were very tired after the 1st day party  )

For me it was an excellent opportunity to meet interesting people (I have met H1t M0nk3y which I only knew from this forum). I also discovered that I am not paranoid when it comes to security, and that there are others that have the same problems as I do.

Thank you very much to the wonderful people that made this conference possible!