Introducing our 2024 Keynote: Deviant Ollam!

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Every year I am so honored and humbled by the amazing speakers who agree to keynote PancakesCon purely out of the goodness of their hearts and their care for the community. I hope you tune in this year to see the absolutely incredible-fantastic Deviant Ollam opening our con with, “Getting the Right Rotation: Safe Locks and Sushi Rolls”! Deviant is a fixture in the hacking community, especially the fascinating niche of breaking into (and out of) buildings, and lots of other physical stuff that is supposed to be secure.

In his own words:
“While paying the bills as a physical penetration specialist with
The CORE Group and the Director of Education for Red Team Alliance,
Deviant Ollam also sat on the Board of Directors of the US division of
TOOOL — The Open Organisation Of Lockpickers — for 14 years… acting
as the the nonprofit’s longest-serving Boardmember. His books Practical
Lock Picking and Keys to the Kingdom are among Syngress Publishing’s
best-selling pen testing titles. In addition to being a lockpicker,
Deviant is also a SAVTA certified safe technician, a GSA certified safe
and vault inspector, member of the International Association of
Investigative Locksmiths, a Life Safety and ADA Consultant, and an NFPA
Fire Door Inspector. At multiple annual security conferences Deviant
started Lockpick Village workshop areas, and he has conducted physical
security training sessions for Black Hat, the SANS Institute, DeepSec,
ToorCon, HackCon, ShakaCon, HackInTheBox, ekoparty, AusCERT, GovCERT,
CONFidence, the FBI, the NSA, DARPA, the National Defense University,
the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, and the United States
Military Academy at West Point. In his limited spare time, Deviant
enjoys loud moments with lead acceleration and quiet times with
podcasts. He arrives at airports too early and shows up at parties too.”

Thank You – 2023 is a Wrap!

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I want to extend my deepest gratitude to our incredible board, volunteers, Village organizers, speakers, and attendees for making PancakesCon 4 a success. We are so honored to have such great global attendance and participation, and it is only with it we can run every year. We will now begin processing videos for upload to YouTube and thinking towards next year. Again, thank you from all of us. It was an amazing conference.

Final 2023 Pre-Con Reminders!

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We are about a week out from PancakesCon 4, so just a few important pre-conference notes from our team!

  • Streams will be linked on this website the day of the conference, and are hosted on YouTube. We change the redirects on the site if there is any stream issue, so always check back here for the best links.
  • If you want to participate in the conference chat, Q&A, raffles, CTF, or villages, you do have to be in our Slack, linked above. Help us be a vibrant community!
  • Thanks again to SANS Institute for hosting our CTF. Think about playing and learning!
  • Our Villages are also looking awesome!
  • We will have some raffles in Slack during the conference. Once you enter them, you’ll need to be present to win (because we have to know how to reach you!)

One last reminder, be cognizant of the US time change and check your time conversion to Chicago time CAREFULLY!

Introducing our 2023 Keynote: Jamie Levy!

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One of the most fun privileges of running my own tiny virtual con is getting to choose from a landscape of amazing human beings in the field to invite to keynote every year.

This year, I am deeply honored that Jamie Levy, otherwise known as @gleeda, has graciously accepted my invitation.

In her own words, “Jamie Levy is the Director of R&D at Huntress, as well as a Core Developer on the Volatility Project. When she’s not messing up hackers’ plans, Jamie runs a small farm that includes goats, sheep, emus, and various types of poultry. “

In my opinion, she is far too humble. It is absolutely impossible to understate the contributions Jamie has made to the field of memory forensics, as well as to cybersecurity mentorship and education. I’m incredibly excited to her her keynote speech, “Making Decisions in Cybersecurity and on Your Farm: Creating a Functional Ecology”, which will open PancakesCon 4.