Call for Papers (closed)

The OWASP AppSec conference in Europe is an established and premier venue for web applications leaders, software engineers, researchers and visionaries from all over the world. OWASP AppSec Europe gathers the application security community in a 5-days event to share and discuss novel ideas, initiatives and advancements. The 2017 conference will take place in Belfast from May 8th to 12th 2017, with papers/talks presented on 11th and 12th May.

Topics

For our event, we are looking for “the next”, cutting edge research in the context of web applications, secure development, security management and privacy. Our goal is to give both academic researchers and industry practitioners the possibility to share their latest findings with the rest of the community, including coverage via our media channels. It won’t be a knockout criteria if your talk has been presented before but we would appreciate if you would let us know.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

• Novel web vulnerabilities and countermeasures
• New technologies, paradigms, tools
• OWASP tools or projects in practice
• Secure development: frameworks, best practices, secure coding, methods, processes, SDLC
• Browser security
• Mobile security and security for the mobile web
• Cloud security
• REST/SOAP security
• Security of frameworks
• Large-scale security assessments of web applications and services
• Privacy risks in the web and the cloud
• Management topics in Application Security: Business Risks, Awareness Programs, Project Management, Managing SDLC

To ensure the best talks available are presented at AppSec Europe we are incorporating blind reading as part of our process. This means that names and job titles will be removed when the paper abstract is being reviewed. All speakers will be given access to speaker mentorship, we especially encourage first time speakers to take advantage of this service.

Submission

Call for papers is now closed

The program committee will review your submission based on a descriptive abstract of your intended presentation. Feel free to attach a preliminary version of your presentation if available, or any other supporting materials. Keep in mind: the better your description is, the better our review will be. Please review your proposal thoroughly as accepted abstract and bio submitted will be published 1:1 on our site. If your presentation is accepted for inclusion in the conference program, you are free to submit a white paper describing your work, which will be added to the website.

Important dates

• Submission deadline: January 9th, 2017
• Notification of acceptance: March 1st, 2017
• Conference days: May 11th – 12th 2017

Program committee

Your submission is subject to approval by a team of the program committee, chaired by Martin Knobloch.

Terms

By your submission you agree to the OWASP Speaker Agreement: https://2017.appsec.eu/assets/docs/speaker_agreement.pdf

OWASP values vendor neutrality. You need to use the OWASP presentation template and you’re not allowed to place marketing pitches in your slides. All presentation slides will be published on the conference website after the conference. Please make sure that any pictures and other materials in your slides don’t violate any copyrights. You are solely liable for copyright violations. You may choose any CC license for your slides, including CC0. OWASP does suggest open licenses.

Participants and speakers are all warmly invited to attend the conference dinner on Thursday.

Unfortunately we can’t cover travel expenses or costs for accommodations.