Public Safety: Challenging People, Technology and Process was the theme for the 2014 APCO Australasia Conference and Exhibition event, which had a number high calibre local and international speakers, not to mention thought-provoking topics and expert panel discussions, plus insightful presentations.
The conference celebrated Amazon Web Service’s 8th Birthday and some impressive achievements Amazon has made in a short period of time. Werner Vogels, VP and CTO, Amazon.com in the opening address showed a slide showing a Infrastructure-as-a-service Magic Quadrant 2013 graphic that was published by Gartner, Inc, showing AWS as a clear leader. It was noted that AWS has more than five times the compute capacity in use than the aggregate of its closest fourteen competitors!
Unearth Technologies attended 2nd Police Technology Forum and reports on AWS updates in the Cloud Technologies panel discussion.
The ADM Congress with the theme ‘What does government want of industry?’ program included speeches, panel discussions from senior government ministers and defence officials, plus workshops to cover key defence developments, capability innovations, project management, defence procurement and planning for the future.
The DEF CON Conference experience is like no other on the security conference calendar and is one of the world’s largest annual hacker conventions.
The Black Hat Conference experience is quite unique and one of the well-know on the annual security conference calendar; not just from the shear size of the event, but it’s unique and diverse range of participants (e.g. security-professionals, hackers and academics) and presenters.