We are so excited about the upcoming 38^th Annual HTCIA International Conference in Atlantic City, NJ Sep 28-30^th with a virtual day on the 27^th. I had the privilege of touring our venue, the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, earlier this month – and to say, “It Rocks!” is an understatement. In addition to the fantastic presentations, keynote speakers (just wait till we announce who they are!), and awards dinner you have come to love – we are adding some fun elements! Wednesday will be all about the music – during lunch we will have an attendee jam session (bring your instrument!), in the evening The Nerds (the same Rock and Roll band that played the HTCIA event last time it was in Atlantic City 20 years ago) will rock the stage in our event space, and afterhours you are all invited to take the stage as part of Hackeroke! The lunchtime fun will continue Thursday with a special Rock ‘n Roll edition of Whose Slide is It Anyway, where speakers will give an impromptu, improvised Information Security and/or Digital Forensics talk  on 5-7 slides they see live for the first time in front of the audience.  Thursday night we will have our annual Awards Dinner where we get to spotlight some fine folks who are making an impact.  Friday we will host a fun trivia game for all that has both digital forensics and music trivia!  We can’t wait to learn, network and have fun with you all.

We have so many other great announcements coming. Not only will we be sharing our awesome keynote speakers, but we are introducing a new program this year, Chalk Talks. We will share more about that in the coming days. To learn more, register, or become a sponsor check out the website https://www.htciaconference.org/.

Here is a list of some of our incredible speakers!

• Devon Ackerman
• Trey Amick
• Alexis Brignoni
• Brian Carrier
• Ovie Carrol
• Russell Chubon
• Derrick Donnely
• Bob Gaines
• Daniel Garrie
• Kevin Hendricks
• Joe Herbert
• Cynthia Hetherington
• Chester Hosmer
• Jessica Hyde
• Jason Jordaan
• Jamie Levy
• Ilia Lvosvski
• Heather Mahalik
• John Pizzuro
• Anthony Reyes
• Heather Smith
• Calvin Weeks
• Ira Winkler
• Thomas Yohannan