DerbyCon was a

computer security conference A computer security conference is a convention for individuals involved in computer security. They generally serve as meeting places for system and network administrators, hackers, and computer security experts. Events Common activities at hacke ...

based in

Louisville, Kentucky Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border ...

. The first DerbyCon took place in 2011 and was founded by Martin Bos, Dave Kennedy, Alex Kah and Adrian Crenshaw. The conference has been held at the Hyatt Regency Louisville typically in late September. On January 14, 2019, organizers announced that DerbyCon 9.0, to be held in September 2019, would be the last of the series, citing the increasing difficulty of holding conferences in the face of "a small, yet vocal group of people creating negativity, polarization, and disruption".

Events

DerbyCon common activities included: * Presentations from keynote speakers, with topics including software security, social engineering, cyber security, security in the present day and future, and mobile applications. * Preconference training * Vendors and publishers *Lockpick Village *Mental Health & Wellness Village * BourbonCon, a social gathering during DerbyCon focusing on sampling fine Kentucky Bourbon * DerbyCon Party, which has featured

The Crystal Method The Crystal Method is an American electronic music act formed in Las Vegas, Nevada, by Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland in the early 1990s. They were pioneers of the big beat genre and their music has appeared in numerous TV shows, films, video gam ...

(2013, 2015) and

Infected Mushroom Infected Mushroom is an Israeli musical duo formed in Haifa in 1996 by producers Erez Eisen and Amit Duvdevani. They produce and perform psytrance, electronica, dream trance and psychedelic music. They are one of the best-selling groups in I ...

(2014)

Conferences

* DerbyCon 1.0 2011 * DerbyCon 2.0 "Reunion" 2012 * DerbyCon 3.0 "All in the Family" 2013 * DerbyCon 4.0 "Family Rootz" 2014 * DerbyCon 5.0 "Unity" 2015 * DerbyCon 6.0 "Recharge" 2016 * DerbyCon 7.0 "Legacy" September 20–24, 2017 at the Hyatt Regency in Louisville, Kentucky * DerbyCon 8.0 "Evolution" October 3–7, 2018 at the Marriott in Louisville, Kentucky

References

External links

Derbycon website
Computer security conferences Recurring events established in 2011 2011 establishments in Kentucky Events in Louisville, Kentucky {{compu-conference-stub