CyberJourney 2023 (Call for Talks) - https://cyberjourney.it/

The H2020 project AssureMOSS (http://assuremoss.eu) and OWASP Italy would like to announce a call for talks for “CyberJourney 2023”, to be held in Cagliari, Italy, on June 22, 2023. The event will take place downtown (venue to be confirmed). This will be a free, one day, informal conference (in Italian), aimed at increasing awareness and knowledge of application security and related topics. 

The conference is intended to appeal to application security professionals, professional software developers, software quality engineers and computer science students. The conference goal is to stimulate interest in application and secure software engineering practices and new initiatives within organizations. 

Special topics of interest are organized in two areas and include the following:

• AppSec
  • Automotive security
  • Blockchain and smart contract security
  • Mobile security: emerging topics and new attack techniques
  • IoT security
  • Ransomware and cyber threats
  • Security of AI and AI for security
  • Web security: emerging topics and new attack techniques
• Cybersecurity Governance
  • DevSecOps
  • Risk assessment and management
  • Security architectures
  • Security guidelines
  • Security models
  • Use cases of existing solutions

We encourage local students, security professionals and academics to present proposals as an opportunity to share knowledge and lessons learned on relevant application and software security topics with previous experience in presenting at security conferences. 

Submission Rules 

Those who are interested in participating as speakers to the conference can submit an abstract of their proposed talk via Easychair by May 21, 2023. The Easychair link for submission is reported below.

The abstract must be in PDF format and should contain the following information: 

• Name and surname of the speaker
• Institutions and roles of the speaker therein
• Short biography of the speaker
• Title of the contribution 
• Abstract of the presentation

The submission must be no longer than 2 pages overall. No additional formatting requirements are in place.

The submission will be reviewed by the program committee and the most interesting talk proposals will be selected for the conference.

Submission deadline: 21 May, 2023

Acceptance notification: 26 May, 2023

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cj230