WHAT AND WHEN

WICCON is a not-for-profit, English-speaking, one-day, single-track information security conference, taking place on the 31st of October, 2023, in The Netherlands. At WICCON, we want to recognize and showcase women’s success in the cybersecurity field. We want to inspire the rest of the community to pursue a career in security and demonstrate how women can also be successful subject matter experts. The hard stuff doesn’t scare us, and we’re ready to talk about what truly matters in the field.

WICCON is a conference with an all-women speaker line-up designed to highlight women’s achievements in the cybersecurity field.

The speaker slots on our schedule are 45-60 minutes, including a Q&A.

WHAT CONTENT DO WE LIKE

We are a single-track conference that wants to demonstrate how women can also be successful subject matter experts in information security. The hard stuff doesn’t scare us, and we’re ready to talk about what truly matters in the field. Since we are a single-track conference, talk slots are limited, and we are therefore unlikely to feature several talks covering the same subject.

WHAT WE NEED

To be considered for a speaker slot at WICCON, you need to submit via our CFP platform providing us with the following information:

  • Contact information for you and any joint speaker you require for your presentation (email, phone, twitter and “preferred name” when referencing you in announcements and schedule).

  • The Talk Title please name your talk as this will make it easier to reference it.

  • A short description (<6 sentences) of who you are (bio) that we are permitted to publish in case of your acceptance.

  • A short description (<6 sentences) of your content that we are permitted to publish in case of your acceptance.

  • A longer description of your content for our understanding of your research material and presentation format for our consideration. This could contain any papers, articles or presentation material you have created that will help us understand your content.

  • References, if any, to other talks you have given, articles published or videos of previous presentations for our consideration.

  • The estimated length of your talk.

  • Has this presentation been given before somewhere?

  • Can we record/stream your talk?

  • Any material you need from us on stage (apart from a microphone and a place to plug in your laptop).

All material must be presented to us and our audience in English.

THE SCHEDULE

The submission deadlines are:

FIRST SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 1st

FINAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 1st.

COMMUNICATION

All official communication between speakers and the WICCON organizers will be handled through the CFP platform and speakers@wiccon.nl.

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