Been rather busy this past month traveling, working, family visits, distractions, etc. and haven't completed my "series" from January but will soon as recruiters are my colleagues and anything I can do to help I will. I do answer every e-mail sent to me from my recruiting peers as to help guide them in a time of need and put these e-mails ahead of my blog lately with the volume of responses I've answered.
I did however want to mention the 2 KILLER conferences happening this year that pertain to the CI field at least from my standpoint. I'm attending both. I plan quite a few events and attend conferences for business that I personally don't get education on for my personal professional skillset to help me as a CI professional. These 2 conferences below are in my particular domain of expertise and just jazzed about going!
1 . DEFCON - www.defcon.org
My absolute Favorite conference in the world! This is a meeting of minds here with White hats and Black hats all in one place - "underground hacker's convention" is what this conference has been labeled as. True. Last year was decent, but the year before in 2007 WAS really amazing with content. Probably a few factors as to why 2007 Defcon was better than 2008. No matter what, 2009 will be good content and super fun - the guys I'm going with in 2009 are super cool dudes, smartest guys I know ever, FUN FUN, and totally insisting we enter a few contests together. No doubt - education to be had for sure and reason I go, but life is too short friends so FUN must be included too!! DEFCON is at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, July 31-Aug 2. NO advanced sign-up...come on...hackers...cash only and last year was $125 so probably the same or close to this for 2009.
2. SCIP - Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals. www.scip.org
The annual conference this year is in Chicago (April 22-24). This is the conference within in my TRUE comfort zone and everyone there will speak "my language." What I'm mostly looking forward to is learning some advanced "War gaming/Competitive simulation" techniques and Offense/Defense techniques - combatting social engineer techniques...combatting the Defcon crowd really and being able to train people on this.
Wait - My new friend Kevin should be KeyNote for SCIP conference. Hmmh, I need to make this suggestion to SCIP people for sure for 2010.
Friday, March 6, 2009
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