The LayerOne hacker conference is coming back to LA this April 23-24. They've put up a call for papers:
The second LayerOne conference is now officially accepting papers and presentations for speaker selection. We are looking for people to speak on a broad range of topics; however, we encourage all submissions. To give you an idea of the sorts of things that were covered last year:
– CryptoMail: mail encryption for all.
– Life Hacks and Hacked Lives
– How the DMCA is Threatening to Strangle Reverse Engineering and the Future of Interoperability
– Visual Deep Packet Inspection
– A User-Centric Distributed Social Software Architecture