The Many Hats Club Con – - “Just fix it in prod!”

7th December 2019, Code Node, London

Who are are?

The Many Hats Club is one of the largest online information security communities and podcasts, and we are currently the only officially partnered information security Discord. The Many Hats Club hosts various workshops, shares information, and runs meetups in London (with USA and Australia planned later this year). We have over 5,000 members; from CISOs/Heads of Information Security, Blue Team, DFIR, Law Enforcement, Red Team to Students. Our co-founder Stuart Peck (Cybersecstu) is passionate as it gets about information security, and has attracted and amassed an awesome and diverse leadership team to help sustain the growth of the community. Our community has been featured in Bleeping Computer and ZDNet, amongst many other news publications. We are a a truly global community with members from Asia, Middle East, Africa, Europe (Including UK), and the Americas.

We also run a weekly podcast where we've had a diverse set of guest sharing their experience in Social Engineering, Incident Response, AppSec, OSINT, Defence Strategies and Hacking. Below is a sample of some of our guests:

The Many Hats Club is all about bringing diverse communities together, engaging in conversation, collaboration, fun, and knowledge transfer, this is what our conference will be all about.

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The Many Hats Club Con 2019 – “Just fix it in prod!”

We are not just another hacking con; our vision is to be conference for information security people from all teams/backgrounds, where we actively want to encourage collaboration and participation, something the organisers have found missing from attending hundreds of events all over the world. We want our Attendees, Speakers, and Sponsors to be immersed in events, activities and debates around the challenges we all face in our working and personal lives.

We are running a full day conference focused around information security and, of course, our online Discord community. We will take what's best in the traditions of security conferences, both local (UK) and around the world and take it to the next level - in terms of content, interaction, organisation, conduct and experience for everyone: sponsors, speakers but most of all, our guests on the day.

Our mission, as mentioned above, is to include and welcome everyone to information security which we believe is a great field to work in and is always in need of new talent. In that regard the conference will be a fantastic hiring opportunity. We are currently the platform to go to for connecting those who are just starting in this industry with seasoned professionals willing to help and share their knowledge and experience. The conference is neither an entry level one nor it is an expert only event - it's about connecting both of those worlds. Now we are taking the step forward to a physical world.

We want to show that we can make a difference, that an information security conference can be welcoming to all; to our guests, to our speakers, but also to our sponsors. We are all on the same team. We want to welcome both the outgoing, extrovert seasoned conference participants but also all those who never dreamed of being able to go a conference like this and are perhaps unsure about taking the first step. Most importantly, we want everyone to feel safe with us whoever they are.

The event is organised around the following key elements:

• a high profile Keynote; • interesting, engaging and unique talks; • speaker tracks: two parallel speaker tracks in two rooms throughout the day, both tracks will be recorded and streamed live; • workshops: interactive, hands-on courses in small groups (one room), • a hacking village: a whole-day event themed with one specific topic, for example lock- picking or car-in-a-box hacking challenge with its own programme; • a mental health care pack: a dedicated room for everyone to take care of themselves, rest from the crowd and noise of the conference and recharge; • an unique Real World Capture the Flag: Blue Team vs Red Team vs Law Enforcement; • an after party in the same location. On top of the above we will have various shorter activities happening through the day in the general breakout area. We will be providing a light breakfast, lunch, a proper hacker-worth food in the evening, plus soft drinks and token-based alcoholic beverages (the location has a fully licenced bar open 04:30pm - 09:30pm).

https://themanyhats.club [email protected] Twitter: @TheManyHatsClub We are also working closely with several community organisations and will have a dedicated team whose task for this event is to create, promote and enforce Code of Conduct for the conference to make sure that everyone is included. We will also have a certified physical security team on site during the event to ensure everyone feels safe and can enjoy themselves without worry!

The Team

Stuart Peck Toffee Sy Meadow Ellis (CyberSecStu)

Stu is the Lead Toffee is our Talk Lead Sy's role with the Con Meadow is Organiser and Co- handling all matters covers all areas responsible for the Founder of The Many regarding team regarding the logistics of the Hats Club responsible operations for Track 1 workshops, villages conference and the for the overall and 2 content. She is a and breakout area venue operations. She direction and strategy malware analyst at an activities. He is a is a hardware security for our Con, he has antivirus company. developer with a focus engineer for over 15 years’ on appsec. fintech/law experience in Infosec, enforcement. and is known for his social engineering and OSINT engagements and Keynotes across Europe and US.

https://themanyhats.club [email protected] Twitter: @TheManyHatsClub Where and when? The Many Hats Club Con 2019 - "Just fix it in prod!" will happen on Saturday, December 7th 2019 in CodeNode - 10 South Place, London EC2M 7EB - located in Central London between Moorgate (5 mins), Liverpool Street (7 mins) and Old Street (15 mins) stations. The location has been created and is being managed by Skills Matter- a company organising events in the IT space (in this location since late 2015). Skills Matter is providing us with the managed venue for the whole of Saturday plus a Friday evening before for setting up the sponsor and event areas (from 6pm until 10pm). On the event day the doors will open around 09:15am, with the conference starting properly with a keynote at 10am, closing words at 7pm and an after-party lasting until around 09:30pm.

We are looking to host around 350-400 participants.

CodeNode has two levels: the ground floor that houses the reception and the main talk room and the lower ground floor with the breakout and catering/bar area, Track 2, Workshops and the remaining rooms.

Ground floor, entrance, reception, Track 1 (CTRL):

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Lower ground: Track 2, Workshops, Villages, breakout area (ESC) and catering:

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We need your help!

No conference is possible without help from sponsors and we are no different. We want our sponsors not to be just another logo on massive banner, we want to build strong long lasting partnership and encourage engagement throughout the conference. The Many Hats Club is a community driven with the sole purpose of serving the community, we want to continue along this mission and ensure that our sponsor get maximum PR exposure, and value from the conference. We have 3 Tiers of Sponsorship (and a community level), all with benefits to each level.

We wanted to host our event at a self-contained venue and not a hotel for maximum immersion. This also gives us full freedom for branding everything, control over layout and what happens during the conference. For our sponsors this is a real opportunity to think outside the box, and we will welcome any ideas that you want to propose. However, venues like this come a huge cost, so therefore we require assistance to support our collective visions. We will therefore require help with the following:

• venue hire; • audio-video production, streaming, post-production; • speaker-care packs (transport, hotel), • catering; • an after party.

https://themanyhats.club [email protected] Twitter: @TheManyHatsClub We are open to discussing any arrangements of the above: you will be named as a sponsor/co- sponsor of the particular area on top of any promotional activities. We have also prepared a complete sponsor packs on four tier levels, those packages are also open to individual negotiation - especially regarding the exhibition space (within the tier limits):

Tier 1- Top Hat (£10,500)

This is our top tier sponsorship, where you will get VIP treatment by the Staff at The Many Hats Con, have one of our tracks names after your company, with premium position of your branding not only in the room but also in presentations, handouts and in the sponsor zone. There are only 2 Top Hat slots.

This tier offers:

• one of the rooms (track 1 or track 2) named after you: for example Track 1 talks will be held in CTRL room - it will be promoted as "Track 1 - Your Company"; • premium logo listing (1/3 of sponsor space shared between the two Top Hats) as Top Hat Sponsor, sponsor spaces include, but are not limited to: • side banners in Track 1 room on both sides of the main screen; • pull-up banners (up to 10 across the whole venue); • 1/3 of the screen on streamed talks; • a full page in the Con booklet; • 3.5m x 2.5m area in the breakout (Esc, lower ground) zone (for a booth or a large table, we can provide tables with clothing plus chairs); • promotion on the talks sponsors (talks will be recorded and streamed live); • 8 tickets to the conference; • 40 minute speaker slot; • an opportunity to be featured with our Media partners including pre-event PR; • a slot on The Many Hats Podcast Prior to the conference - a semi-technical talk and an opportunity to promote brand/speakers; • an option to add a full booklet in the swag bag (plus the minor materials: stickers, pens, etc.); • promotion in the conference PR materials as the main sponsor (e.g. the website, the mailing list).

Tier 2 - Bowler Hat (£6,500) Everyone loves Bowler Hats. Well - we do, it's the heart of our logo and our community. Bowler Hat level sponsorship represents supporting the broad information security community. With this level of sponsorship you will still get a VIP treatment, branding in the handouts, and space in the sponsor zone. There are only 6 Bowler Hat slots. This tier offers:

• gold logo listing (1/3 of sponsor space shared between the six Bowler Hats) as a Bowler Hat Sponsor, sponsor spaces include, but are not limited to: • side banners in Track 1 room on both sides of the main screen; • pull-up banners (up to 10 across the whole venue); • 1/3 of the screen on streamed and recorded talks;

https://themanyhats.club [email protected] Twitter: @TheManyHatsClub • a half of a page in the Con booklet; • a table in the breakout (Esc, lower-ground level) zone (we can provide a table with clothing plus chairs); • 4 tickets to the conference; • promotion as workshops and challengers sponsors; • being included in communications from our mailing list; • an option to add material to the swag bag (one page leaflet, stickers, pens, etc.). Tier 3 - Fedora Hat (£3,250)

This is our entry level package and you will still get some great benefits. This package represents our journey together starting a great conference legacy. There are 10 Fedora Hat slots.

This tier offers:

• 2 tickets to the event; • a listing on a Fedora Sponsor Con booklet page (all Fedora Sponsors will be presented on one page); • a small table in the exhibitors lounge; • a small logo on event banner and slides (1/3 of the sponsor space shared between the ten Fedora Hats); • shared sponsor area on the screen on streamed and recorded talks (between the talks); • being included in communications from our mailing list. Tier 4 - Community Hat, Donation

We are all about communities, and so this level of sponsors is solely for non-profit infosec initiatives such as other conferences or communities. Donations are welcome for sponsorship here.

With this level of Sponsorship your logo will be listed in the booklet on one page for community sponsors, and a small section on banners.

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