Bell will bring together over 35 speakers and tutors to discuss present and future hacking & security issues. No vendor pitches! BCS Asia 2005: 21-24 March 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia. BCS Europe 2005: September, Frankfurt, Germany.

Black Hat Conventions put you face to face with people on the cutting edge of network security, and with no vendor pitches! Black Hat Europe 2005: March 29-April 1 in Amsterdam; Black Hat Asia 2005: April 5-8 in Singapore; Black Hat USA 2005: July 23-28 in Las Vegas.

Annual conference held in Canada that focuses on newly emerging information security research, and topics such as auditing and penetration testing. CanSecWest/core05: May 4-6 in Vancouver.

Celebrating the arrival of the Heart of Gold spaceship, the Chaos Computer Club organizes a big meeting at the estimated landing zone near Berlin, Germany.

Information about the largest hacker convention in the US, including past speeches, video, archives, and updates on the next upcoming show as well as links and other details. Def Con 13: July 29-31 2005 in Las Vegas.

Hacking eXtreme is a really cool hacker con. Phrack 63 will be released at HEX2005! HEX2005: August 1 in Den Boesch.

HITBSecConf is the most intimate of the hacker conferences. Meet the best hackers, security researchers and practitioners in Kuala Lumpur and Bahrain. HITB 2005 Bahrain: April 10-13 in Bahrain; HITB 2005: September 5-9 in Kuala Lumpur.

PacSec Core focuses on newly emerging information security research, with a balance of both topics on auditing and pen-testing as well as security and defensive strategies. PacSec.JP/core04 was held in Japan.

Pakistan's First Cyber Security Convention, Pak Con, is an exclusive cyber security convention, the first initiative of its kind in the history of Pakistan Hacking & Security scene.

A convention for hackers, phone phreaks, cypherpunks, programmers, civil libertarians, ham/scanner enthusiasts, security experts, feds, and culture jammers.

ShmooCon is an all-new, annual East coast hacker convention hell-bent on offering an interesting and new atmosphere for demonstrating technology exploitation, inventive software & hardware solutions, as well as open discussion of critical information security issues. ShmooCon 2005: February 4-6 in Washington.

Conference location and venue information, along with announcements and archive of past events.

The Symposium on Security for Asia Network in Singapore aims to be a very different security conference from the rest of the security conferences that the information security community in Asia has come to be so familiar and frustrated with. SyScAN intends to be a non-product, non-vendor biased security conference. SyScAN'05: August 18-19 2005 in Singapore.

Three-day event held annually in San Diego, California, U.S that features lectures and a competitive game involving simulated network penetration.