2012 HTCIA Conference Call for Speakers

If you’ve considered presenting to other high tech crimes investigators in 2012, we hope you’ll submit a paper to us! As always, the 2012 HTCIA International Training Conference & Expo organizers seek to provide the best possible training on the latest topics in high technology crime by the best speakers available.

To this end we’re soliciting speakers for the conference in the following areas (not an exhaustive list):

• Information security
• Investigations (identity theft, child pornography, cyber crime, intellectual property theft, white-collar, and corporate)
• Computer forensics
• eDiscovery
• Legal issues
• Courtroom testimony techniques
• Financial crimes – tax evasion & money laundering
• International trends – situations – experience
• White collar & corporate investigations
• Legal issues – civil & criminal
• Legal mock trial
• Report writing for forensic examiners
• Report writing for investigations

The 2012 HTCIA International Conference & Training Expo will be held September 16-19, at the Hershey Lodge, Hershey, PA. If you would like to speak on any of the above topics, or have a topic of your own, please contact Jimmy Garcia, chair of the Program Committee – jrgarcia@da.lacounty.gov. We look forward to hearing from you!

Going to ADUC? See you there!

Our Platinum Star Supporter AccessData has sponsored our international conference and our members for years, including this coming year. This year, we’re pleased to support them back.

Our SoCal Chapter President, Chris Curran, and SoCal member Dave McCain will be staffing our booth at the AccessData Users’ Conference (ADUC), running May 15-18 in Las Vegas. Focused on three hands-on lab tracks – eDiscovery; cyber security, incident response, and forensics; and a legal review – ADUC will also provide a “Hot Topics” lecture and discussion track.

“We are there to branch out and attract individuals who are not members to our organization” says Curran. “And there is no better company to pair with than one of the preeminent forensic software manufacturers. A company that is always at the forefront of finding the best, most effective ways to access data, conduct analysis, and report on it – keys for any forensic examiner.”

For $400, conference attendees will have their pick of a wide variety of tracked topics, in addition to meals and snacks, exhibit hall access, and of course the ACE or SCE preparatory workshop and certification exam. Guest speakers include the Honorable Judge Bill Riley, Chief Judge of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals; Steve Williams of Cox Communications; Barry Murphy of eDiscovery Journal; Jesse Kornblum and Mike Viscuso of Kyrus Technology Corp.; and many others.

To register, visit www.accessdata.com/aduc; if you’re already registered, please look for our booth once you’re there!