Speaking

I’ve been doing a ton of public speaking lately, so I figured I would publish a list. At the moment slide decks for some talks are linked; I’ll be going through and adding older ones as well.

April 2010 SourceBoston – “Rugged Software: A Value Based Strategy For Improving Our Digital Infrastructure” – participated in a panel with Josh Corman, Chris “WeldPond” Wysopal, Tiffany Rad, and Rob Cheyne discussing the Rugged Software manifesto.
April 2010 Notacon 7 – “Hacking The Future: Weaponizing the Next Generation” – panel with Tiffany Rad and James Arlen on hacker parenting. I presented the perspective of someone without kids who nonetheless does a lot of mentoring and education with other folks’ kids.
March 2010 Security BSides Austin – facilitated discussions on hackerspaces and hardware hacking.
March 2010 Security BSides San Francisco – “Unicorns, Clubhouses, and Ruffled Feathers: Women in Security” – panel with Erin Jacobs, Jennifer Jabbusch, Andrew Hay, Lisa Lorenzin, Leigh Honeywell, Michelle Klinger. We discussed our experiences being female in the infosec industry, ways to foster the participation of young women in the field, and build community among those already working in it.
February 2010 PyCon – “Think Globally, Hack Locally – Teaching Python in Your Community” – a talk about the Python class I ran at the HackLab in 2009.
January 2010 Toronto Geek Girl Dinner – “Disclosure Matters: Learning to Listen to Security Researchers” – on best practices for dealing with the disclosure of security vulnerabilities
January 2010 Canadian University Software Engineering Conference – “The Sky is Already Falling – getting your feet wet in infosec” – about the basics of application security and secure coding practices.
November 2009 Ignite Toronto – “Fresh Immersion” – an Ignite talk (5 minutes, 20 slides which auto-advance) about building communities and attracting people to open source projects from unexpected places.
September 2009 Ontario [GNU] Linux Fest – “Hackers, TNG: Getting kids hooked on FOSS with hardware hacking!” – discussed using open source hardware and the Arduino microcontroller platform to introduce kids to the collaborative elements of Free and Open Source Software.
August 2009 Defcon 17 – “Robot Shark Laser! What Hackerspaces Do” – panel discussion on existing hackerspaces and what kind of projects have been accomplished through them. I spoke about the introductory programming class I’ve been teaching at HackLab.TO for the past year.
April 2009 MeshU – “Break it while you make it: writing (more) secure software” – spoke to a developer audience about secure coding practices and web application security.
April 2008 HickTech – “Who’s Watching Your Tubes? – Security and crypto for end-users”
February 2007 Toronto Area Security Klatch – “Mobile Privacy” - this was an update of the CCC talk.
December 2006 23rd Chaos Communications Congress – “Mobile phone call encryption” and “Secure VOIP” workshop (with Paul Wouters) – proposed a design for end-to-end encrypted cellular communication using Asterisk and Openswan.
September 2006 CopyCampToronto – Speed Geek: “Open Source 101”
September 2006 Toronto Area Security Klatch – “Fun with Phones: Phreaking, Fraud, Scams, and the Next Generation of Telephony Problems”
April 2006 NOTACON 3 – “Hacking Gender: Strategies for Inclusion and Change” – using lessons learned from studies in the Computer Science discipline, this talk suggested ways in which the infosec community can attract and retain more women.

In the past couple of years I have also spoken about Information Security as a career to students at Lester B. Pearson Collegiate Institute, the University of Toronto, and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.