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Not to be confused with NordicFuzzCon.
Not to be confused with Nordic FuzzCon, the Swedish furry convention
I'm disappointed they didn't name it FuzzBizz.
Kinda odd they reject gmail addresses for a free, online conference.
“Professional Emails Only”

But yeah it sucks for people that don’t want to use their corporate email address or don’t have one or an edu email.

That said it did accept my personal domains including one which is well NSFW so it looks like they just blacklisted the common free email providers.

The signup form refuses to allow you to register for a ticket unless you check the “allow us to send spam” check box. That really doesn’t inspire confidence in the quality of the conference.
Only 1 woman speaker out of 15 isn't an amazing look for a conference in 2020
If I cared about tokens I'd go to ChuckECheese. Are there any specific male speakers you feel don't deserve to be there?
Do you feel that there's only one woman in the field who does deserve to be there?
What do you think is the gender ratio in such a high-tech area of IT security? 7% is probably not far from reality...
Yeah, I think so too. I'm sure the conference will be great and the speakers all excellent. The not-a-good-look part is whether or not that 7% is helped or hindered by this kind of line-up and whether or not it should be. I certainly wouldn't have expected close to a 50/50 gender split, but 1 / 15 is pretty low.

It's fine to disagree, finding and approaching good speakers is hard, especially during a pandemic I imagine. But then again the organizer Code Intelligence has 'driven by our passion for challenging the status quo' as one of their company values, so I think it's fair enough to point out?

Agreed, the single quota speaker certainly looks suspicious. I certainly don't need to listen to quota pep talk in a technical conference. Thankfully this talk is about FairFuzz (afl-rb)

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SMRGdi0AAAAJ&hl=en

https://github.com/carolemieux/afl-rb

Which is a very interesting idea for mature code and was discussed to be included into AFL++ but was eventually not. Good for a seperate slave instance though. https://github.com/AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus/issues/18

Hm, the calendar item they sent out isn't working for me; anyone know what timezone it's in?