In a couple of weeks I’ll be heading to Seattle for Microsoft’s internal security conference, BlueHat, and ToorCon’s invite-only conference, ToorCon Seattle (Beta).

I’ve never been to BlueHat before, but that’s not really surprising since most of my research targets, both now and in the past, have had absolutely nothing to do with Microsoft products. The primary reason I’m attending is that BlueHat takes place the two days before ToorCon Seattle and I’ll already be in town those days due to attending ToorCon Seattle and returning through Seattle from a trip to Vancouver which will get me there a few days early.

ToorCon Seattle (Beta) is the first of ToorCon’s invite-only conferences and is adopting an extremely familiar approach to structure; Basically, all speakers will have up to 20 minutes to present on research currently in progress rather than finished work, followed by a hand-full of 5 minute turbo talks toward the end of the day. It seems like I’ve seen this format somewhere before…

I’ve submitted something to speak about at ToorCon Seattle but haven’t heard back yet on whether or not I’ll get a slot, so I’ll refrain from talking about that just yet.