About
"Don't wait for perfect" is the unofficial slogan of the Brucon Lightning Talks.
A Lightning Talk is a 5-minute talk given by someone that looks a lot like you. For precisely 300 seconds, you get the podium to talk about and show off your hacking/infosec related idea, concept, policy, tool, technique, exploit, countermeasure, survey, statistical analysis, visualization, architecture, blueprint, or hardware.
Perhaps you've found a novel use for an existing tool, or you've automated something that usually takes forever...or maybe you've started up a security related project and you're looking for volunteers...or you discovered an attack, defense or response technique you hadn't seen anywhere else (or you saw it but feel others would benefit from hearing about it).
Tips
- pick something that hasn't already been done to death (avoid over-exposed ideas)
- 5 minutes means an absolute maximum of 10 slides for most presenters - more than that and you're probably trying to say too much.
- In terms of slides, less truly is more (for your audience...). Remember, a picture is worth a thousand words so don't "bullet point the audience to death".
- When designing your talk, think about it from your audiences point of view - assume they have a reasonable infosec background but don't specialise in the subject you are presenting. Limit introductory points to the "bare essentials" - if the "warm up" part of your talk is longer than 2 minutes, cut it back to give you enough "space" to talk about the meat of your idea (we can help if you ask us).
- What do you want your audience to walk away with after? What do you want them to remember? Loads of studies show audiences forget most of what you tell them...this again means focus on a few things rather than going into "firehose" mode.
- Got something concrete you can show? Then show it :). It does not have to be complete, it absolutely does not have to be perfect.
- Unsure about *anything*? If you've read this page and still not sure about something, contact me.
Talks must be of a non-commercial nature. Sales or vendor pitches will bring forth the wrath of a few hundreds geeks.
If you're nervous about presenting, we'll even offer some free coaching if you ask for it. Brucon is most definitely a con without attitude. Tip: humour is a good way to catch the attention of the audience ;-) Don't be shy about asking - it won't cost you anything...
Don't let the biggest thing stopping you giving a lightning talk be "you" :).
To sign-up to give a lightning talk you only need edit this page and enter your name and talk idea/title in a free slot in the table below. We watch this page so will see your update - there is nothing else you need to do to sign-up. If all the free slots have gone, fill in a reserve slot (last year a handful of people didn't show up so all the reservists got to give their talk). If the reserve slots have gone, sorry but you'll have to wait til next year.
Note: To avoid unnecessary questions from people that don't grok the nature of a non-profit, volunteer run conference, we do not give any financial or expense related incentive for giving a lightning talk. Instead, we give you 5 minutes in the spotlight to showcase your thang in front of a kick-ass audience"
Got a question?
Lightning talks day 1
Sign-up below to give a lightning talk. One slot per topic!!
- Moderator1: Craig Balding
- Moderator2: We still want a volunteer for this, feel free to contact us if you are interested
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Lightning talks day 2
- Moderator1: Craig Balding
- Moderator2: We still want a volunteer for this, feel free to contact us if you are interested
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Contact/Feedback
Got a question?
- FEEDBACK -
Feedback is very important to people, especially those who are doing lightening talks in order to improve their presentation skills. So if you saw something you liked, please fill in some feedback for them!
Please list the name of the presenter, the theme, or the name of the presentation so we know who to fwd the feedback to.
Day 1 --> link will be posted later
Day 2 --> link will be posted later