Lead or attend a BoF! Meet with your peers! Present new work! Don't miss these special activities designed to maximize the value of your time at the conference. The always popular evening Birds-of-a-Feather sessions are very informal gatherings of persons interested in a particular topic.
Vendor BoFs
Want to demonstrate a new product or discuss your company's latest technologies with Security '13 attendees? Host a Vendor BoF! These sponsored one-hour sessions give companies a chance to talk about products and proprietary technology—and they include promotional benefits. Email sponsorship@usenix.org if you're interested in sponsoring a Vendor BoF. Click here for more information about sponsorship opportunities.
Scheduling a BoF
BoFs may be scheduled during the conference at the registration desk or in advance by contacting bofs@usenix.org with "Security '13 BoF" in the subject line and the following information in the body of the email:
The Software Assurance Marketplace (SWAMP): A Place to Try Out Your Software Assurance Ideas Miron Livny and Barton Miller, University of Wisconsin Wednesday, August 14, 9:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
The SWAMP research facility is a place where designers of software analysis tools can test, evaluate, and improve their tools and techniques; where researchers can test their ideas about software and tools; and where educators can
bring their students to learn about software assurance. Funded by the Cyber Security division of the DHS S&T, the SWAMP will provide access to a wide variety of open source software packages and test programs with known weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
For tool designers, it will provide automated continuous evaluation of your tools against these packages and programs, comparison with other tools, and auxiliary software to help automate the application of your tools against software with complex build structures. The SWAMP will offer the necessary compute and storage capacity required to support comprehensive and frequent tests.
For researchers, the SWAMP offers a growing collection of software packages, test suites, and tools to conduct studies.
For educators, the SWAMP facility can be used by instructors and students as part of their course to learn about software assurance in a university, corporate, or government setting.
Come and hear an overview of the SWAMP and how you can get (free) access. And, this is your chance to provide input as to how this facility can better help the research and education community.
Launching University Startups - What's Important and What's Not Sudip Chakrabarti, Osage University Partners Wednesday, August 14, 10:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Osage University Partners is a venture fund that invests exclusively in university spinouts by partnering with 60+ universities. In this session, Sudip will share Osage’s experience and perspectives on what investors are looking for before investing in university startups:
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