Speakers and Presenters

Everyone has been saying it’s time to migrate to IPv6 for about, oh, a decade or so now. “No, really, this year we mean it! Stop laughing, dammit!” So in a quick introductory talk, we’ll go over what’s new, what’s old, what’s a myth, what’s busted, how to make it work, how to break it, and some tips learned from my own deployment experiences… because this year, they might actually be right.

Mike spent about a decade in the service provider realm, helping people in rural Kentucky get their spam and malware more reliably. In between the occasional Arduino project or bottle of Makers Mark, he’s also been the Server Monkey for Fark.com since its debut in 1999.

It’s Spring 2012 – and time for us all to admit that Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt. It’s time to take back our information, our identity and our selves from the Corporations who see us as nothing more than a product for them to sell. A long time ago, in the frigid darkness of the Nineties, I was the keeper of all of my information. As time wore on and I found that sysadmin was not the job I wanted forever, I slowly began to lose control over my identity – trading little bits of myself for pretty GUIs and shiny features. In 2011, I realized that the Corporations owned more of me than I did – and so I changed that. Here’s how I did it and how you can do it too. Bonus: watch video in reverse to learn how to become exactly the product they desire.

James Arlen, sometimes known as Myrcurial, is a security consultant usually found in tall buildings wearing a suit, founder of the Think|Haus hackerspace, contributing analyst for Securosis, columnist at Liquidmatrix Security Digest, Infosec geek, hacker, social activist, author, speaker, and parent. He’s been at this security game for more than 15 years and loves blinky lights and shiny things.

Have you ever wondered what techniques the semiconductor companies use to design chips with dozens of millions of transistors? Have you dreamed about experimenting with these techniques using FPGAs? Do you believe in open source hardware?

Then you will certainly like this presentation about how we created a cool open hardware device for VJs (video performance artists), based on a FPGA that implements our own system-on-chip comprising a CPU, peripherals and graphics hardware acceleration. We are selling it since December 2010 and it’s waiting for your hacks.

Sébastien Bourdeauducq is an inventor passionate about science, electronics and open source. After working for several small companies – which included developing the Wi-Fi driver infrastructure for the Nabaztag/tag – he founded Milkymist in the summer of 2007. The project combined his interest for the world of music with the desire to learn about and open up system-on-chip design, and it has now grown into a full-fledged open source project and commercial venture. Since 2011, he is also providing FPGA design services for the CERN’s open hardware repository. Sébastien holds an engineering degree from Supélec and a MSc in SoC design from KTH.

This talk is about information security. Tons of it. Each topic we discuss is getting *around* 30-60 seconds, then we’re moving on to the next. We’re gunna hit it hard and we’re going to hit it fast. Touching(and showing) what matters most about varying topics that people encounter daily in information security/penetration testing, as well some of the big ‘things’ at the moment. This won’t entirely be serious business. Who needs a minute, man?

This talk will be especially useful to the people who aren’t inundated with security on a daily basis; giving them a look into what we deal with.

A Sr. Security Analyst at Stach & Liu, a consulting firm dealing mainly with Fortune 100 companies; performing penetration tests, code review and all types of assessment work. Been in the security industry for 5 years, former Notacon presenter(2007) as well as a local Clevelander who recently moved to San Francisco, bringing a fresh perspective to the security and IT industry scene of Cleveland. Former speaker at Defcon, B-Sides and a known face in Cleveland’s security industry.

Do you run find yourself drowning in the explosive growth in data, logs, and other sources of information? People simply are not able to keep up — or are we? This talk will focus on using “smart stats” and other innovative data visualization tools. Various tools and techniques will be discussed, culminating in the use of a microsoft kinect to explore and interact with relationships inside data cubes.

While Mick enjoys and actively participates in penetration testing, his true passion is defense — tweaking existing networks, systems, and applications to keep the bad guys out. In addition to his technical work, Mick jumps at every chance to participate in a social engineering engagement. Mick has a bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University in Communications. In his spare time, you’ll likely find him fleeing all things electronic by scuba diving, trying in vain to improve his photography skills, and either hiking or camping.

The world is nearly out of IPv4 addresses. IPv6 is the path forward, but this road is rocky. For the last year, Jeff has been working on enabling IPv6 on a university network, one subnet at a time. This is the story of what happened and what we’ve learned in the process.

For the last 10 years, Jeff has operated, maintained, built, and now designs networks for Michigan State University.   Jeff holds a bachelor’s of computer science. His experience ranges from systems administration, to security, despite officially working on a network.

Sure. You collaborate every day at work, right? Except you don’t. Because collaboration is not the same as cooperation. Cooperation is where everybody does their part. Collaboration creates a solution that’s more than the sum of those parts. Cooperation helps us choose a winner among competing ideas, but collaboration creates new, better ideas.

In this workshop, you’ll learn specific ways to enhance your teams’ ability to fully collaborate, discover solutions only collaboration can create, and experience real collaboration first-hand.

Angela is an unschooler, explorer, collaborator, and love-monger. She is obsessed with the study of compassion, and makes her living in the world of Agile software development.

Kids (and kids at heart) welcome to come play with hackish toys appropriate for kids under 5 (megabloks, duplo, toy workbenches, and more). Children must be accompanied by a responsible adult. Adults are free to discuss how hacking and parenting intersect (“Lego for girls” anyone?).

Kadiera is an engineer by training and an artist and writer by avocation. She has been hacking since early childhood. She is also the mother of two small (and very complicated) children who are being raised as hackers.

At the beginning of 2011 I made a resolution to learn how to cook something new each week for the entire year. Up until that point I had a handful of recipes in my pocket and was boring my family with a constant rotation of very similar dishes. Not to long after starting this journey I realized that cooking and technology have a lot in common. In fact, people in the information security field often talk about how we should “Bake in Security” instead of adding it on at the end. I will talk about what I have learned from cooking and baking all while making some delicious recipes (using some TV magic). You may think it a stretch that the two topics have something in common, but by the end I hope you walk away understanding what “Baking in Security” actually means.

After 14 years as both an internal/external auditor, I decided to “see the light” and got into the field of information security. Most of my time in audit was spent reviewing IT systems in both the private and public sector. Being a father of four young children helps me keep things simple, while being married to a School Neuropsychologist helps me understand the way people think and learn. Mixing that all together, I try to bring a different perspective by associating real life events to the challenges in information security at ghostnomad.com while trying to simplify the complexities of Technology through the simplicity of Haiku at it-haik.com.

20 years ago I graduated from high school with a 386 SX desktop computer, connected to the local FreeNet with my 9600 baud modem, and used the local libraries dialup card catalog to telnet to the internet. Today my kids connect to the internet at speeds once only available to high paying customers and don’t just use computers to go online. All the while threats to us online have grown exponentially and show no signs of slowing. As we try to educate others who didn’t grow up with computers, our kids are surpassing us in ability and knowledge.

My two oldest sons will discuss how they use technology and we will dive into what being secure means. From gaming to blogging, making to breaking, and protecting your identity to social engineering, we take on the topics that challenge information technology professionals and information security people everyday. We will open up the discussion for everyone to ask the next generation how they perceive security and the future of technology. We may be reaching our maximum kinetic energy, but the future generation is still building up their potential energy to change the information security landscape.

Ghostnomadjr is a typical fifth grader who enjoys spending time with his dad playing/making games, and telling stories in his own way. As a black belt in Tae Kwon Do he understands the need for discipline and the need to help others with compassion and leadership. This translates into a fearless approach to understanding technology and making it work the way he wants it to.

Knuckles is a second grader who loves telling stories and playing outside. Along with his brother, he loves to play games and challenge what he could build as an ideal game. Using technology to tell stories has become a love for him as he has gotten into producing stop motion videos and writes stories to share with his friends. He never misses and opportunity to share the need to stay secure when he sees his friends heading down the wrong path.

Ghostnomad is a husband and father who is passionate about technology. He doesn’t push his kids into technology, but helps guide them to explore the digital world while staying secure. With four kids in the house he always needs to stay ahead of the curve with online threats while letting them explore the digital world and use it to enhance their lives. This inspired him to start writing Haiku about technology in hopes of explaining complexity through simplicity.

Over the recent past, many talks have been given suggesting that hackers, and similar personality types are better suited to survival situations than the general populations. Unfortunately, the reality is that this idea is far from the truth. If you think that you know what you’re doing in the wild back country based upon watching some videos or reading some books, perhaps you’d better attend this talk and find out what it’s really like out there when things go very wrong. You’ll also find out field-tested, simple, proven techniques for surviving long enough to get back to civilization.

Mark Lenigan has been camping and doing dumb, interesting, exciting and adventurous activities in the back country since at least the mid-1980s. He’s been a hunter for a decade now and routinely goes where there are few roads and even fewer people in search of small (and not-so-small) tasty woodland creatures. As he frequently, and humbly likes to put it, “he’s a member of an elite unit (Eagle Scouts) who’s motto is “Be Prepared”". He also thinks that most of what constitutes outdoor and survival programming on TV is utter tripe.

Have you every multiplied 2 by itself over and over to see how big it could get?  Ever wonder about really big numbers?  Starting from common “large” numbers like 2^56(DES) and 2^128(ipv6) through really big numbers such as the Ackermann numbers and Grahm’s number we will touch on hyperoperation, alternative numerical representations, and the arrival at large numbers through complexity and Ramsey theory.

Brian has a bachelors degree in computer science and 13 years of industry experience.  He currently works at Google dealing with infrastructure and cluster management systems.  Hobbies include high performance computing and mathematics.

PCI Requirement 6.6 is meant to ensure that there are security controls in place to protect web applications that store, process, or transmit credit card data. One of Dave’s main jobs as a QSA is to ensure that organizations who process credit cards comply with the PCI DSS standard. As a Security Consultant one of Gary’s main roles is to perform web application security assessments. Gary thinks that PCI Requirement 6.6 is not a good enough standard to truly protect web application securely, but Dave believes that other controls in the standard help should help protect web applications. In this presentation Gary will review why PCI DSS 6.6 does not equal security (through discussion and demonstrations) and Dave will try and defend the PCI DSS using the controls that are required to be in place. Watch Gary and Dave battle over the ability of PCI DSS 6.6 to protect web applications.

Gary McCully: I’m a Hacker and I believe that compliance with PCI DSS 6.6 is not a good indicator that a web application is truly secure. Just like any honey badger, I will fight to prove David wrong because honey badgers just don’t care. In my years of assessing web applications I have encountered many vulnerabilities that many web application scanners are unable to detect. I have also encountered many web application firewalls that are so poorly configured that they did very little to protect the web application from attack. I am Security Consultant on the Risk Management team at SecureState, a Cleveland, Ohio based security consulting company. At SecureState, I perform vulnerability assessments, war dialing, penetration tests, physical penetration tests and web application security reviews. My research interests include the development and implementation of vulnerability management programs, lock picking, and SSL vulnerabilities.

David Sopata: I’m a QSA and I believe that the PCI DSS provides a good starting point for organizations to help secure their cardholder data (CHD). I believe that there are other controls within the PCI DSS that can help prevent some security vulnerabilities that can squeak by bad web application vulnerability assessments and poorly implemented web application firewalls. It really does not matter what Gary thinks, because he will never be compliant. I am a Senior Consultant for the Audit and Compliance group at SecureState. At SecureState I have both led and participated on dozens of engagements ranging from audit activities including SAS70(Yeah, I know SAS70 is, dead get over it! ) Now SSAE16/AT101/SOC, COBIT general controls, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Payment Card Industry (PCI) Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA), and ISO 27001, and Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) to technical assessments including vulnerability assessments, war-driving, social engineering, and physical access. Some of my interest include picking the locks to women’s chastity belts, teaching puddles how to fly, and striking fear, doom, and despair into the hearts of PCI merchants and service providers.

The control systems of public drinking water systems are vulnerable to attack by malicious hackers. This has been shown through several penetration tests and the reported attack (which later was not corroborated by a DHS investigation) on an Illinois public drinking water system by foreign hackers in November, 2011, the most recent publicly known cyber attack on a drinking water utility. This talk will examine the many vectors of attack on the IT systems of a drinking water utility, their vulnerabilities, proposed defensive measures, and potential consequences of a malicious hacker attack. The control systems, including the programmable logic controllers (PLC’s) and the human machine interface (HMI), will be described. The talk will discuss the many institutional, cultural, and financial obstacles to ensuring that the national public drinking water infrastructure is adequately protected from attacks by malicious hackers. The current threat environment of the national drinking water infrastructure will be discussed, including the repeated threats by Al Qaeda to poison the US drinking water supply, along with existing programs to address those threats and finally a discussion of what more needs to be done.

John McNabb is Principal of InfraSec Labs, which researches security of critical infrastructures. He was an elected Water Commissioner for a small New England drinking water utility for 13 years. His current research focuses primarily on security of the drinking water infrastructure. He has presented papers on that subject at Defcon 18 (Cyberterrorism and the Security of the National Drinking Water Infrastructure), Defcon 19, Black Hat, and Shmoocon. John has published several papers on drinking water infrastructure issues and recently wrote a chapter on drinking water security for the book Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism, 2nd Edition (McGraw-Hill, 2012).

Have you ever wondered exactly what’s happening when you hold that magnet up to your head? Or what is happening inside the skull to create those brain waves? This presentation will attempt to answer these questions in a format that’s friendly for biologists and non-biologists alike, tying anatomy and physiology into currents and circuits.

meecie has a bachelor of science in biophysics, and continues to work in academia. Her geekery takes a decidedly biological twist, and she has a continued fascination with how all the messy bits come together into a wonderfully complex system, especially in the areas of senses and perception. Additional random areas of interest include crafting, sci-fi, and dog sports/training.

You probably don’t read a website’s Privacy Policy when you give them your information. Do you know what a business can and cannot do with the information you give them? This presentation will discuss what privacy rights you have on the Internet while also discussing the “privacy landscape” today and through last year. The format will be open and random privacy questions are highly encouraged.

Nick Merker is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional with over a decade of engineering experience in both the public and private sector, ranging from a hometown Internet Service Provider to a major dot com. He is an Associate at Ice Miller LLP where he focuses his practice on legal issues found in emerging technologies.

If Max Zoran succeeded in “A View to a Kill” and flooded Silicon Valley, what would we do in the aftermath? Just how much of the knowledge and experience responsible for our modern world is locked within a few companies in California? What if some of our favourite tech companies decided to turn evil? What about rebuilding after the inevitable robot-triggered apocalypse? Just how “open” is the Arduino, really? A look at what could happen if the entities responsible for our modern world decided to turn evil or fall off the face of the Earth and left only some talented hackers to pick up the pieces.

movax is an electrical engineer at a R&D company where he works with the latest and greatest technology coming out of Silicon Valley. He contributes actively to open-source software/hardware in his spare time, and loves sharing his projects and knowledge with local hackerspaces. In spare time, he’s in the gym or playing with lasers.

Network security engineering has largely devolved into people pushing packets and people writing (crappy) ACLs. This is a revival discussion on network security focusing on closing that gap by putting enterprise network technologies into the hands of hackers for free. In particular I will discuss my approach to modeling networks with virtual machines and open software including coverage on:

• Virtualization Methods
• Open Routing Platforms (Linux, BSD)
• Routing Domain Isolation using VRFs
• Dynamic Routing Protocol Support
• OpenBSD MPLS Support

An accompanying workshop will be held for a hands-on lab environment where I will help students build fully functional network topologies under a virtualized environment in a straight forward, and flexible way:

• ESXi under VMware Desktop Products
• Virtual Network Backbones using
• 802.1q Trunking for virtual links
• IP Forwarding and Static Routing
• Dynamic Routing using OpenOSPFd / OpenBGPd
• OpenBSD MPLS Label Distribution Protocol Daemon

kevN has been building and breaking networks and infrastructure for as long as he can remember. He has previously been the chief infrastructure architect for a large dot com, a principal security consultant, and now runs the penetration testing team for a big bank. He has an MS in Computer, Information, and Network Security from Depaul University.

Whether you are interested in using code to develop or adapt musical ideas, turn mathematical functions or data into music, or generally explore the intersection of music and programming, this talk will give you a place to start. This talk will introduce you to what algorithmic composition is, what free and open source frameworks exist for algorithmic composition, and some basic concepts of music theory that are important for composing music with code. Then, it will delve into creating algorithms to explore existing musical forms, as well as creating algorithms to make music out of statistical data. You will both see how the programs are structured, as well as hear the music generated by the code. Code examples are in Python, but music theory and programming concepts will be explained in a language-independent way, so you can apply the concepts in any programming language or algorithmic composition framework.

nicolle neulist, otherwise known as rogueclown, has been interested in music her entire life, and has been playing with computers in various capacities since she was three. She gave a presentation at Notacon 8 entitled “The Free Software Studio: Open-Source Tools for Musical Exploration and Composition”. nicolle has been an avid singer since she was young. However, until discovering computers as musical instruments, her lack of finger dexterity made it rather difficult for her to translate her knowledge of music theory into anything but vocal music. Given her love of both music and writing code, the day she discovered algorithmic composition was a very happy one, indeed.

What’s better than giving a talk that you’ve carefully formulated and rehearsed? Giving one you have no idea about until you hit the stage! Twenty people (including you, if you’re brave enough…) will have the chance to take the stage and improvise a five-minute lightning talk based on a short deck of never- before-seen slides. It’s guaranteed to be a night of gaffes, laughs, and fun for speakers and spectators alike!

nicolle neulist, otherwise known as rogueclown, has always been a connoisseur of the absurd. However, sometimes the world isn’t quite weird enough for her, and she wants to help it along a bit. To this end, she is occasionally known to compile decks of whimsical and nonsensical slides, and to unleash them upon an unsuspecting public.

Face it, doing InfoSec really well is hard – if not downright impossible. But you are here, so you likely already know this. Join the wonder twins for a whirlwind tour of the rather serious topic of how to get it all wrong. Using performance methods including spontaneous interpretive dance, pantomime, and jazz hands EggDr0pX and his trusty sidekick CheezMan will get you laughing and hopefully leave you with something to think about.This talk is appropriate for all audiences from the paranoid CISO/CXO to the bitter and disgruntled engineer/hacker.

Based on years of experience and painful lessons learned in the school of hard knocks (not to mention a healthy dose of cynicism toward InfoSec marketing FUD), this preso is guaranteed to provide laugh therapy at a time when the likes of Anonymous and LulzSec are driving some to abandon all hope and stick their heads in the sand.

Christopher Payne, (EggDr0pX)

Christopher Payne has held numerous positions in the Information Technology and Information Security fields over the last decade. Christopher currently works as an Information Security Architect, Adjunct Professor, Co- founder of GrrCON, President of GR-ISSA, and holds a myriad of industry certifications. Christopher is a regular speaker on Information Security topics and has been featured by multiple television, radio, internet and print organizations.

Doug Nibbelink (Tha Cheezman)

Doug Nibbelink has been working in the IT field for nearly 20 years and InfoSec for more than 10. Most of that time has been spent in the municipal government and public utility sectors. Doug currently works as the IT Security Specialist at the Holland BPW

Teaching the future Information Security Professional is a challenging and frustrating task. As Information Security has become a “hot” career field educators of all types have quickly put together programs aimed at training the next wave of Security Professionals and “Ethical Hackers”.  The market for “Hacker” courses is high and sometimes the standards are low, too low. Students come to expect to be taught the “test” and believe certifications are the road to the promise land. Universities are less concerned with knowledge consumption as keeping students happy and paying their bills. We will discuss some of the real world challenges encountered and some solutions to get smart and talented students to become future security professionals. We will also discuss how to weed out the posers.

Christopher Payne has held numerous positions in the Information Technology and Information Security fields over the last decade.  Christopher currently works as an Information Security Architect, Adjunct Professor, Co- founder of GrrCON, President of GR-ISSA, and holds a myriad of industry certifications. Christopher is a regular speaker on Information Security topics and has been featured by multiple television, radio, internet and print organizations.

So you decided to start up a hacker conference in your town? Awesome! Now how the hell are you going to get money? I’ll tell you how! A little bit of BS (well perhaps a touch more than that), a pinch of social engineering, and a whole lot of patience and spamming! Apply my concepts not only to conferences, but your Hacker Space, local ISSA chapter, or maybe even your school’s cyber defense team. Who knows? Just get that cash!

By day Jaime is a mild mannered data analyst in a super secret cubicle for a pharmaceutical company. Then by late afternoon to early evenings she is the marketing director/ninja master for Midwest InfoSec – the awesome people who bring you GrrCON. She begs for money on a professional level and rocks the casbah!

twitter: @jaime_payne

Geocaching is a high-tech game of hide & seek wherein those that hide provide coordinates and then those that find sign the log and trade swag. There are over 1.3 million caches present in the world and over 5 million active users on the Geocaching.com website. Using either a GPS or Smart Phone, you have the ability to download caches and set out for a day of fun and likely frustration in trying to find an assortment of caches ranging in size. From no bigger than a fingernail to a full size ammocan and can be made from just about anything with others looking like fence posts or even rocks to blend in with their surroundings but they have one thing in common, a log book.

Jon holds a Master’s degree in both Information Technology and Business Administration from Kettering University in Flint, MI. He currently works supporting the internal Service Management application at Anthelio Healthcare Solutions and droning along writing Crystal Reports that no one is ever going to use while watching all the good American jobs transferred over to India.

Ever wanted to learn how to make your own video games? Did you think it was too hard or too complicated? This 2-hour presentation will provide you with an overview and some recommended practices for how to develop your game in Game Maker.

Initially released in 1999, Game Maker has become a fantastic, albeit flawed, development environment for rapid prototyping of simple 2D games, and has been used by students, entry-level programmers and non-programmers to get their first taste of how video games are built.

If you are participating in the A Game, Any Game jam this weekend, it is strongly recommended that you do not miss this talk!

Wannabe game designer Chris Sanyk has spent 83% of his life dreaming of making videogames, and 2.7% of his life actually doing it. For the last year plus, he has been working on his first independent game title, Boobie Teeth, which should hopefully be at 1.0 by the time you read this. In 2011, Chris presented the talk “How I (FINALLY) Made My First Video Game” to Notacon 8, and contributed technical review to an upcoming book from Packt Publishing, Game Maker Recipes. He is an active participant in the local Meetup.com group, Cleveland Videogame Developers.

Can you hack a videogame in one weekend? You will! A Game, Any Game is Notacon’s 72(ish) hour game jam, open to all coders, artists, and designers who have the urge to create. Anything goes – any platform, any tech, any skill level, solo efforts or teams, any theme, any style. I don’t care, just make a game, make it fun, and make it in one weekend. This is a collaboration event, not a competition. Don’t know what tools to bring? We’ll have some free ones on hand for you to install and learn. Show up willing to share your ideas and tricks with other participants. If you’re thinking of participating, be sure to show up at the preview talk on Thursday for rules and instructions.

Wannabe game designer Chris Sanyk has spent 83% of his life dreaming of making videogames, and 2.7% of his life actually doing it. For the last year+, he has been working on his first independent game title, Boobie Teeth. In 2011, he contributed technical review to an upcoming book, Game Maker Recipes, from Packt Publishing. He is an active participant in the local Meetup.com group, Cleveland Videogame Developers.

The variety of Linux distributions available today is vast. Ultimately, most distributions are simple one offs of a small set of popular distributions with remastered installer disks. These child distributions typically differ by simply utilizing a different default window manager (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc) or they have a cluster of specialized genera packages pre-installed (Backtrack, Blackbuntu, etc).

Remastering installer disks and live cds is currently the standard for customizing distributions. Alternatively, there is also a lesser known way to tailor distributions though package aliasing. This lesser known approach uses a distributions underlying package management system to overlay functionality. This approach additionally grants more flexibility to the users tuned distribution.

In conjunction with the above overview of distribution creation via package aliasing, I will also be releasing a new package repository and Linux distribution which utilizes installation via package aliasing.

Some Guy on Bridge is just some guy. He lives on Bridge Avenue. He has rattled cages, made trouble, and fought The Man ever since commandeering a high school newspaper in Connecticut in the 1980s. Now he splits his time between software development and Making Cleveland Not Suck.

Ragdoll physics have been popular in video games for years, mostly utilized for rewarding death and torture sequences in first person shooters and stair simulation adventure nova games. But what if you were to invert the premise of ragdolls as uncontrolled death? The player instead controls the individual limbs of the ragdoll to celebrate the nuance and frustration of living as a cephalopodic father masquerading as a human. Devon will go into the details of how this tentacled hero was constructed and controlled using abstract 3D primitives, soft body dynamics, constraints, and a pinch of insanity in a 30-minute presentation including a short video of the bizarre graphical horrors that erupt when dads go wrong.

Devon is a programmer and treasurer for Young Horses, a new game studio working on a commercial sequel to the popular free pc/mac game, Octodad. Octodad was one of the eight Student Showcase Winners for the 2011 Independent Games Festival and has been downloaded over 100,000 times. Devon has a Master’s of Science in Computer Game Development from DePaul University, where he worked on Octodad’s body physics.

After four years of teaching the public about locksport, including running one of the few regular monthly locksport classes in the country, Bill has drawn some conclusions about what locksport call tell us about the state of the security industry and the perceptions of the public. He’d like to share them with you.

Bill is a software architect, blue team member, author, family man, lockpicker, brewer, ninja and insurrectionist.

I like games. Do you like games? Got kids in your life that like games? So do I. In order to keep peace, I needed to water down the incredibly complex game of Warhammer for a 6 year old gamer. I did it successfully, and I’d love to share the rules, and what I learned about little brains in this interactive presentation.

Bill is a software architect, blue team member, author, family man, lockpicker, brewer, ninja and insurrectionist.

Learn the general architecture of compilers and how to create your own languages quickly and easily with two little known standard unix utilities, yacc and lex.

You may remember sigflup from her speeches on programming the sega-genesis or on writing very tiny synth code. Sigflup is a low-lever C/assembly programmer and a general open-source software enthusiast. Sigflup has experience with emulator design and graphics programs, as well as compiler design.

Development Operations (DevOps) brings to infrastructure what Agile has been doing for almost a decade prior with software. There lies a disconnect in many working environments between system administration and software development teams. On the system administration side, little has been changing in terms of process and methodologies employed, while software developers are breaking the mold and finding better efficiency and maintainability of their code-bases. DevOps provides the system administrator with a set of methodologies that can be implemented to take back their infrastructure. Come learn how a Linux system administrator can use a diverse set of tools and process to not only create and maintain better infrastructure, but also close the gap with their software developer counter-parts.

Mark Stanislav is a Senior Consultant for a managed security services provider in Michigan. Through a decade of systems administration, information security, and web application development, Mark has experienced IT within the context of small business, start-up, collegiate, and corporate environments. Mark has presented 20 times in the last two years at various conferences & organizational events around the mid-west. Mark holds his Bachelor’s of Science in Networking & IT Administration and a Master’s of Technology Studies in Information Assurance, both from Eastern Michigan University. His passions include infrastructure automation, cloud computing, information security, Ruby development, and collegiate teaching.

This workshop will use the Cleveland-produced computer game Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator as a medium to create and publish an interactive adventure. Artemis can be a rich medium to tell an interactive story reminiscent of an episode of Star Trek. Six players each take on the role of a different starship bridge officer (helm, weapons, communications, science, engineering, or captain) and work together to defeat enemies, rescue allies, contact new life forms, or face any other challenge the mission script offers. Workshop participants will play Artemis to learn its game mechanics, get lessons in XML, then develop a story, create sound effects, record voice dialog, and create the 3-D models needed to bring our interactive story to life. At session end we will publish the script to the Internet and starship crews around the world will begin experiencing our adventure.

Mike is a full-time faculty member at Lorain County Community College teaching Engineering Technology and Computer Game Programming. His energy and dynamic presentation style have made his cable television classes in computer game programming a hit with students. He has published numerous mission scripts and has nearly completed his first science fiction novel. Mike has an MS degree in Industrial Engineering with additional Master’s work in Computer Science and Fiction Writing from Cleveland State University.

To the non-participant, square dancing is square dancing. Not true.
Although a Western-style dancer may participate in a Traditional-style dance
without too much difficulty, a traditional dancer would be lost at most
Western-style dances. The calls at a traditional dance may differ from one
area to another, even in the U.S., but a Western-style dancer can join in
anywhere in the world.

According to experts, a 2 to 2 1/2 hour session is equivalent to
walking 5 miles … and a lot more fun. But if you want to participate in
Western-style at the club level be prepared to attend at least 25 classes
… and that’s just the beginning.

The next National will be held in Spokane, WA with an expected
attendance of about 6,000 people.

Joe began square dancing in 1959 through the local 4-H program but
dropped out for a few years. Suellen joined in in 1970. In the mid- to
late-60s, Western-style square dance took a giant leap toward being a
different type of dancing from Traditional-style. Therefore, Joe had to
take classes again with Suellen to catch up.

Joe & Suellen took another break starting just prior to the birth of
their 3rd child but have been quite active for the past 12 years …
including being on the Michigan Council of Square and Round Dance Clubs
(MCSRDC) and on the Committee for the 60th National Convention in Detroit in
June 2011.

A brief history of how I (and others) went from just taking CS classes, to several dozen YSU CS students doing research(and often being paid for it). Showing how hacking, having idustry experience, and just being an experienced geek puts you ahead in academia. Then, A brief exploration of academic research comparing it to personal research. Finally, a guide on how to get into academic research, and then Q&A.

Grew up in N.E. Ohio. Recieved his Bachelors in Computer Science from Youngstown State University with Honors and Summa Cum Laude, Currently attending Vanderbilt University working towards his Ph.D in Computer Science.

The words on many peoples’ lips today are “Big Data,” but what on earth does that really mean? If you’ve ever used Google, Facebook, or LinkedIn, you’ve seen big data in action. This presentation will explain the tools behind the buzz, with a specific focus on the Open Source Apache Hadoop and HBase projects. It will also providing both historical and technical context, and demonstrate some concrete use cases.

Dan is a systems engineer for Explorys, Inc., a Cleveland-based medical informatics and performance management start-up, where he is the engineer in charge of the day-to-day operations of their Hadoop and HBase data grid. In previous jobs, he has worked as a Unix systems engineer, a SAN storage engineer, and an enterprise virtualization architect. Dan is also a steam-era railroad historian, historical interpreter, and steam locomotive restorationist.

There are constant threats to your privacy everywhere. Whether they be from facebook, google, or a company you will here about after they have all your data. This this talk I will show you that paradoxically the best way to have privacy is through having none of it, and deliberately sharing everything you possibly can.

Zxtx is a researcher at a large private institute where he studies complex systems and large-scale social interactions. He has no credentials that give him authority on the topics he will speak about.