Closing Keynote: Professor Fred Piper on Cryptography: Past & Present
We are very excited to announce that Professor Fred Piper of Royal Holloway University of London will be delivering our closing keynote (on Saturday the 1st of October at 14:30 in the Marquee Tent). Professor Piper is a world-renowned expert in the field of information security and (in line with our choice of venue this year, and our focus on mobile security) will be talking about the past & future of cryptography.
Prof Fred Piper BSc PhD (London) CEng CMath FIEE ARCS DIC FIMA M.InstIISP was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the University of London in 1975 and has worked in information security since 1979. In 1985, he formed a company, Codes & Ciphers Ltd, which offers consultancy advice in all aspects of information security. He has acted as a consultant to over 80 companies including a number of financial institutions and major industrial companies in the UK, Europe, Asia, Australia, South Africa and the USA. The consultancy work has been varied and has included algorithm design and analysis, work on EFTPOS and ATM networks, data systems, security audits, risk analysis and the formulation of security policies. He has lectured worldwide on information security, both academically and commercially, has published more than 100 papers and is joint author of Cipher Systems (1982), one of the first books to be published on the subject of protection of communications, Secure Speech Communications (1985), Digital Signatures - Security & Controls (1999) and Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction (2002).
Fred has been a member of a number of DTI advisory groups. He has also served on a number of Foresight Crime Prevention Panels and task forces concerned with fraud control, security and privacy. He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees for Bletchley Park and the Board of the Institute of Information Security professionals. He is also a member of (ISC)2’s European Advisory Board, the steering group of the DTI’s Cyber Security KTN, ISSA’s advisory panel and the BCS’s Information Security Forum.
In 2002, he was awarded an IMA Gold Medal for “services to mathematics” and received an honorary CISSP for “leadership in Information Security”. In 2003, Fred received an honorary CISM for “globally recognised leadership” and “contribution to the Information Security Profession”.
In 2005 he was elected to the ISSA Hall of Fame. He was named Professional of the Year at the Communications in Business Awards 2005. In 2008 he was elected to be a Fellow of (ISC)2. In 2008 he was the first person to be elected to the InfoSecurity Europe Hall of Fame. In 2008 he was elected to the International Advisory Board of IMPACT (the International Multilateral Programme Against Cyber Threats)
Opening Keynote: Dr. Sue Black: Building Bletchley Park
We are very excited to announce that Dr. Sue Black will be delivering the opening keynote talk for this year's Over the Air! A senior research associate at University College London, Dr. Black has been tireless in her support of Bletchley Park and of women in technology. She was also named one of London's “Top 20 Technology Tweeters” by LondonLovesBusiness.com. She'll be talking a bit about the history of our venue and the pioneering work in the field of computer science that took place there.
Sue Black is Senior Research Associate in the Software Systems Engineering group in the the Department of Computer Science at University College London and a Senior Consultant with Cornerstone Global Associates. You can find Sue on Wikipedia, Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter.
In 2009 Sue has been named Tech Hero by ITPRO magazine: "We look to Sir Tim, Sue Black and other tech leaders for inspiration". She has also been presented with the BCS John Ivinson award and nominated for the Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards 2009: IT Twitter User of the Year!!!
A keen researcher, Sue completed a PhD in software measurement in 2001 in which she reformulated an algorithm used to compute the ripple effect measure for C source code. Her research interests aresoftware engineering, software measurement and software evolution and she is interested in anything that can help to improve the quality of software. Her most recent collaborative research paper is "Formal vs Agile: survival of the fittest" and single author paper "Deriving an approximation algorithm for automatic computation of ripple effect measures" .
Since 1998 Sue has been campaigning for equality, and more support, for women in tech. She founded the online networks LondonBCSWomen in 1999 and BCSWomen in 2001, BCSWomen now has over 1200 members.
Sue blogs about her campaign to save Bletchley Park and the interesting times that she has had while raising awareness of its financial situation. Since July 2008, Sue has been raising awareness of the plight ofBletchley Park the site where codebreakers such as Alan Turing worked during World War Two. The work carried out there shortened that war by possibly two years saving millions of lives. Bletchley Park is also the birthplace of the first programmable, digital computer Colossus invented by Tommy Flowers .
The Full Speaker Roster is on the Schedule
For a full roster of speakers for our 2011 event, take a look at the event schedule. You'll find session titles, speaker names and affiliations there.
The Product Doctor can see you now..
The Product Doctor returns to OTA 2011 for the 3rd year running!
Julia Shalet @ OTA10 - photo credit Benjamin Ellis
Following the successes of the Travelling Teen Panel at OTA 2009 and the Product Doctor Drop in Surgery at OTA 2010, the Product Doctors are offering complimentary Product Health Checks at OTA 2011.
The Doctors will be happy to see you if you have a product at any stage, from concept through to live - perhaps you want to bring the product you are creating for the hacking competition?
To book your session, please email julia@productdoctor.co.uk with some preferred times.
Google+ APIs at Over the Air
Yesterday, Google announced the highly anticipated launch of their developer platform for Google+. We're very excited to announce that Google's Ade Oshineye will be on stage at Over the Air to give attendees the scoop on how to use this new social platform.
The Bill will be on the Bill
One topic we'll be covering closely at Over the Air this year (in line with our high-security venue) will be mobile security! We are very lucky to have on the program Andy Williams from the Metropolitan Police's National Mobile Phone Crime Unit is going to tell us about his work there and will be challenging developers to create applications that can help with the lost / stolen mobile situation.
Ignite Bletchley Park
Even if you can't join us for the full OTA11 event, you should definitely try to make it out to Bletchley Park for Friday evening, as we will be introducing an exciting new element to the programme:
Ignite is a global event, organized by volunteers, where participants are given five minutes to speak about their ideas and personal or professional passions, accompanied by 20 slides. Each slide is displayed for 15 seconds, and slides are automatically advanced. The Ignite format is similar to Pecha Kucha, which features 20 slides displayed for 20 seconds each. The presentations are meant to "ignite" the audience on a subject, i.e. to generate awareness and to stimulate thought and action on the subjects- Wikipedia
The event-within-an-event is being organised by Ignite Cardiff's very own Claire Scantlebury, and the submission form is still open for speakers to come along and volunteer to give a five minute talk. The rule is - you can't talk about yourself or your job (so no blatant self-promotion is allowed) but if you're passionate about something or want to talk about something cool and innovative then just fill in the form behind the link above and we'll be in touch.
See you on Friday night!
Opening Speaker - Bill Thompson
We are thrilled to announce that our opening speaker is Bill Thompson of the BBC, who will be taking a philosophical look at the way the proliferation of online and mobile has changed society and will introduce the Digital Public Space as a concept which will potentially change the landscape of society and the internet.
New media pioneer Bill Thompson is a journalist, commentator and technology critic based in Cambridge, England. He has been working in, on and around the Internet since 1984. He contributes to other publications both on and off-line, including The Guardian and The New Statesman. He writes a monthly column for new net users for BBC WebWise, and a technology column for Focus magazine
Bill appears weekly on ‘Click‘ (formerly ‘Digital Planet’ and ‘Go Digital’) on the BBC World Service and occasionally on other BBC radio and television programmes. You can find him online, working in one of Cambridge’s many cafés, or at the bar of the ICA.
Ewan Spence
Ewan is known for his strong views on mobile technology and ensuring assessibility to it all; a love of trivia; the new media landscape on the internet; the effect technology and communication will have on the public conscious and existing businesses.
He has been active in this space for over ten years, working for a number of sites, publications and media companies, some for long periods of time, others for commissions, one-off pieces or a series of articles or shows.
As Scotland’s first podcaster, he's been a prominent voice in the rise of podcasting and new media online, picking up a BAFTA nomination for my coverage of the Edinburgh Fringe along the way.
At Ignite Bletchley Park, Ewan will be talking about 'Everything I ever needed to know about European politics I learned from the Eurovision Song Contest'
www.ewanspence.com
http://twitter.com/#!/ewan
Alistair MacDonald
Alistair is a self-confessed geek with a fascination for transport. By trade he is a real-time software developer and radio travel presenter, two completely different skills that often get mixed up in his "pet projects". Currently Alistair is working with the start-up Usable HQ Ltd.
At Ignite Bletchley Park, Alistair will be talking about 'The Metro Simulator. Simulating a light transport system on a web server'
http://www.agm.me.uk/blog
http://twitter.com/#!/alistair
Terence Eden
Terence Eden has been working on the mobile Internet since long before it was fashionable. He consults on QR codes, mobile strategy, and mobile security matters.
His work has featured in Wired, The Guardian, The Register, and Now Celebrity Weddings.
At Ignite Bletchley Park, Terence will be talking about 'QRpedia - linking museums and Wikipedia with QR codes'.
http://shkspr.mobi/blog/
http://twitter.com/#!/edent
James Hugman
James is a geek living in Brighton. Despite being on the internet since 1991, he doesn't have a tan, and is not an anarchist. At Ignite Bletchlye Park, James will be talking about 'The Technologies of a Modern Revolution'.
http://hugman.posterous.com
www.twitter.com/jhugman
Chris Monk
Chris is a carer, educationalist, once a teacher and now volunteer at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. He is keen to encourage young people to learn about computing and whenever possible to get them to experience learning outside the classroom.
At Ignite Bletchley Park, Chris will be talking about 'Kids can't code' and has asked that you show your support for the National Museum of Computing by tweeting using #tnmoc.
www.tnmoc.org
www.twitter.com/ChrisMonk_oo
Dr Alex Blewitt
Dr Alex Blewitt is passionate supporter of both OSGi and Eclipse, having first been introduced before the release of Eclipse 1.0, and getting involved in the open-source project just before the OSGitransition happened with the release of Eclipse 3.0. He was nominated (and a top three finalist) for Eclipse Ambassador in 2007, as recognition of his contributions as chief editorEclipseZone.
Alex spent many years working with Java, having founded International Object Solutions Limited in 1997, just after Java 1.1 was released. Now he spends his time development on mobile platforms at Bandlem Limited, which he founded in 2010. Alex currently writes for InfoQ covering both OSGi and Eclipse, and continues to develop modular applications in his spare time. His ObjectivEClipseproject was used as the basis for the Sony Snap Developer IDE, and many are using the ZFS port on OSX, which he maintains. In what little time he has left over, he spends with his young family and has been known to take them flying if the weather's nice.
At Ignite Bletchley Park, Alex will be talking about 'Git and Gerrit for Distributed Code Review'.
http://alblue.bandlem.com
www.twitter.com/alblue
Imran Ghory
Imran used to work in the city figuring out how currencies worked, until he discovered that it was much more fun to make up your own job. He now focuses full-time on geeky side-projects, drawing a web-comic and blogging. He accidentally built up expertise in the startup world so occasionally does consultancy and lecturing in the field.
At Ignite Bletchley Park, Imran Will be talking about 'Cracking Cryptics'.
BBC Digital Public Space Project
We're exited to announce that Mo McRoberts from BBC will be presenting on the BBC's Digital Public Space Project at this year's Over the Air. You can learn more about this exciting project in Mo's blog post on BBC's Internet Blog.
Security Stream at OTA 2011
Bletchley Park is renowned for its mathematics work in breaking encryption during the second world war. It is also the home of the world’s first programmable digital computer: Colossus and the National Museum of Computing. Where better to hold a security stream for Over the Air?
Security in the mobile world is increasing in prominence. Convergence of technologies within mobile handsets mean that more people have more reason to attack mobile phones and their users. From mobile payments and company emails to our photo albums, our entire lives are centring on one thing – the handset. If we lose our phone it is more than a big deal.
As we all get hooked on our connected lives, malware and virus creators are thinking of new dastardly ways to wreak havoc and steal money from us and even from the developers of the applications we download. Developers need to think more and more about how to protect their own applications and user data, alongside being responsible with the private data they have access to.
Speakers in the Over the Air security stream will be giving attendees the low-down on how to secure mobile applications, the evolution of malware and the history of codes and ciphers:
- What’s going on with security in the mobile industry and what’s coming up?
- The threat from mobile malware and how to make sure you don’t develop something bad
- Stolen and lost phones – can mobile applications help with this problem?
- Webapp security, signing and app stores
- Break the code! – A mobile application challenge for developers
Stay-tuned for Speaker Announcements....
BlueVia at Over The Air 2011
Hopefully you will have seen that BlueVia is a gold sponsor for this year’s event. This is the third year we have worked with the Over The Air team, and once again we are looking forward to a fun packed and creative two days.
So what can you expect from BlueVia over the weekend?
Firstly we will be running code camps for the BlueVia API’s. You can get a taster by checking out our API documentation, watching a few of our short tutorial video’s, and of course playing with our new API console from APIgee.
In addition to that, the crew from BlueVia Labs will be out in force. BlueVia Labs is the place where we release experimental stuff for you to try out and attempt to break. Attendees to OTA 2010 may be familiar with #Blue – well its back and one year older, so you can do even cooler stuff than before. Richard Spence will be on hand throughout the weekend to get you started.
In addition to that, we will be announcing two new services at OTA 2011, wandering around filming the whole event and interviewing you, plus coming armed with a ton of prizes and other schwag to liberally chuck in the direction of anyone hacking with our stuff.
To get a feel of what you may be able to do with BlueVia over the weekend, listen to Tom from Future Platforms give you his two cents on BlueVia:
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