DEF CON used to be canceled. We un-canceled it.
After a sizable 25 365 days relationship Caesars like a flash terminated their contract with DEF CON, leaving us without a venue for DC 32, and appropriate about seven months to Con!
We don’t know why Caesars canceled us, they gained’t dispute past it being a manner swap and it’s a long way not connected to one thing that DEF CON or our team has done. This more or less no-survey cancellation of a contract is extra special in the conference industrial. The parting is advanced, but amicable.
So now we beget got a mission. Without a venue, will we be in a position to UN-Rupture DEF CON 32 sooner than time runs out?
Hackers are flexible. We gain solutions. We favor a plight that can tackle an tournament our measurement, and configurable sufficient to accommodate our stammer material. We favor a location cease to our launched dates, and with fantastic short survey… No small feat.
We straight away scrambled a venue strike team to Las Vegas. Ground had been walked. Meetings had been held. Fingers had been shook and alternatives weighed. When the smoke cleared, the field narrowed to one obvious resolution and we began forging the requisite agreements.
W00T! DEF CON Is UN-CANCELED!
DEF CON 32 will quiet be August 8-11 2024, but now held on the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) with workshops and practicing on the Sahara.
DEF CON 32 will be an adventure the build we’ll gain a procedure to try things no longer doable in our former Casino Hotel areas. What namely you query? Smartly we’re quiet studying the full specifics but we’ll gain a procedure to beget more plight, a lawful food court, and the greatest indoor venue LCD wall in the nation.
There are quiet many questions to be answered, and we beget got started a are residing FAQ portion on the Boards for DEF CON 32 the build we’ll gain a procedure to be updating questions and answers. The preliminary FAQ is found here: https://forum.defcon.org/node/248358
I survey forward to seeing all people this summer, the inaugurate of a fresh DEF CON generation!
The Darkish Tangent
P.S. We made shirts and stickers:
https://shop.defcon.org/merchandise/def…d-mens-t-shirt
https://shop.defcon.org/merchandise/def…ed-sticky label-insist
Final edited by The Darkish Tangent; 13 hours in the past.
