As some of you early arrivers are finding out, the TDL bar at the Hilton is under construction.  They had hoped to have it done by the time we arrived, but clearly no joy. Here’s what is happening instead: First, the McClellan’s sports bar is still open. In addition theyRead More →

WHO SUBMITTED? Total of 231 submissions.  up 4% from last year. 36 Accepted for normal speaking slots, plus closing plenary. Acceptance Rate = 15.55% 296 unique names on submissions (some submissions had more than one author, some authors made more than one submission). Using dubious best guess methods (based onRead More →

ShmooCon and The Shmoo Group are pleased to announce the keynote for ShmooCon 2017, Dr. Gary McGraw. Gary McGraw is the Vice President Security Technology of Synopsys (SNPS), a silicon valley company headquartered in Mountain View, CA. He is a globally recognized authority on software security and the author of eightRead More →

The last few confirmations have arrived – so here’s the rest of that speaker line up. A reminder to anyone who may have submitted but did not receive notification from us last Friday: Emails were sent out Friday evening but we discovered that maybe 10-15% of submitters never saw anything.Read More →

ShmooCon and The Shmoo Group are pleased to announce (most of) the speakers for ShmooCon 2017.  We’re still waiting to hear back from a few folks, but here’s who has confirmed with us so far.  We’ll get bios and abstracts posted soon and watch for that schedule to be updatedRead More →

There were 1460 tickets released in three sales rounds. All tickets were held in 8.16 seconds. The wait lists filled up 1.02 seconds after that. In other words ShmooCon 2017 sold out in 9.18 seconds.  Remember – this is the time in which the “line” to reserve tickets fills up.Read More →