Security BSides St John's 2015 Call for Papers is Open

Security BSides St John's Call for Papers is open!

BSides St. John’s 2015 is happening on September 25th, and will consist of a single speaking track. Regular presentation slot lengths are a fixed duration of 45 minutes plus 15 minutes for Q&A if necessary. For 2015, BSides St. John’s is also accepting submissions for Lightning Talks. They will be limited to 10-15 minutes in duration and typically consist of 2 to 3 presentation slides. We are hoping that this short presentation time will encourage those new to presenting to submit.

We are currently investigating our options to live stream the event and record all presentations for later distribution. If the recording and live streaming of your presentation poses an issue for you then please contact us to discuss your concerns.

It is important to note that any presentations or talks deemed to be of a marketing or sales pitch nature will be politely rejected.

Submissions will be in plain text and should address the following points

• Your preferred email address
• Are you representing anyone (yourself, company name, group name)
• The title and abstract for your presentation
• Approximate length of your presentation

Additionally, your submission should answer the following questions:

• Has this material been presented elsewhere? If so, where and when?
• May we record and stream your presentation? If not, why?
• Will you be travelling to the event? If so, from where?

Submissions must be emailed to BSidesStJohns@gmail.com. The CFP opens on July 1st and the deadline for submissions is September 10th. A confirmation of receipt of your submission will be sent within 48 hours. A follow-up email, if required, will be sent to you requesting further information or clarification.

Submissions will be reviewed as they are submitted. Submitter’s will receive a personal response to their submission with our decision as to whether it has been accepted within two weeks of their submission date.

All submissions are greatly appreciated and we thank you in advance for your interest in BSides St. John’s 2015.

Using OpenCL on OpenDaylight

GPU processing on OpenDaylight!

I've been preparing for OpenDaylight Summit 2015, the yearly gathering of the OpenDaylight SDN community for tutorials, keynotes, sessions, and design forum. I wanted to build a little demo or two that I could run while on the conference floor. The first one is KTop: the Karaf Top processes command, the second is a small OpenCL on OpenDaylight demo.

OpenCL allows developers to construct kernel functions that execute on OpenCL capable devices - such as your GPU. Given there are a few use cases where massively parallel computing on a GPU could drastically reduce processing time, having OpenCL made available to applications running on OpenDaylight could be interesting.

My demo is just a proof of concept at this stage, however I'd enjoy discussing what could be made of the underlying concepts. That being said, I'd also love to chat about how OpenDaylight can make more use of its Apache Karaf container, and how we at Savoirtech can help organizations develop and maintain their Karaf-based applications.

Full Stack, Toronto 2015

This Fall, I'll be speaking at Full Stack, Toronto 2015! The conference focuses on the full stack used by developers to power the web. My talk will present how Apache Karaf provides an ecosystem (stack) for building micro service architectures for SOA and SDN.

Tittle:
"Empowering MicroServices with Apache Karaf"

Description:
"Deploying modular Java applications requires a container capable of supporting their special needs out of the box - Apache Karaf provides this and more.

Apache Karaf has become the defacto modular application container for Service Oriented Architectures and Software Defined Networking. These Karaf-based projects are powering web services and network infrastructure world wide.

In this session we'll present how Apache Karaf provides an ecosystem for supporting modular development and deployments of modern micro service architectures found in today's largest SOA and SDN infrastructures."