BoT In April

Good tidings dear fellow DC4131ers,

We hope you have fully disconnected and set that OOO for the long Easter weekend. But we stop not, and continue our events into the new month, with a few exciting awesome Swiss infosec events upcoming (more details below).

 

Please see the following events that are planned for April:

Chur/Sargans:  April 02 –  18:30 CET – Deja Vu Bar  – Best drinks in the mountains!

Zurich:  April 09 –  18:30 CET – Schiffbau Bar Our warehouse sized home from home…

Berne:  April 16 18:30 CET – Restaurant Beaulieu Best beverages with the bears….Don’t forget to pour one out for them….

Mandatory pre-sign up required! – Please email jb[@]defcon-switzerland[.]org to secure your spot!

Basel:  April 16 – 18:30 CET – Bierrevier – The most northerly old-school feeling meetup around.

Mandatory pre-sign up required! – Please email bot-basel[@]defcon-switzerland[.]org to secure your spot!

Lucerne: April 23 – 18:30 CET  – Magdi Beiz/Bar – Holding it down for the middle of our nation

Mandatory pre-sign up required! – Please email rico[@]defcon-switzerland[.]org to secure your spot!

Lausanne: CANCELLED FOR THIS MONTHDue to our good friends here being heavily involved with the upcoming Insomni’hak Infosec Con & world renowned CTF contest, patrons of this location will have to await until May for the next edition. BUT fret not, our local BoT Masters are still looking to have an informal, ah-hoc meet-up, of which the details will be announced exclusively on our Discord Server. Be sure to be present to get the infos! 🙂 And hopefully catch some of you at this great event…

!NEW SHINEY LOCATION!COMING TO YOU MAY 2024 – 😀

 

When we are not at official meetups, we are still available as a community across our available virtual environments, on both our Slack ChannelDiscord Server!

 

************** Additional Events Info **************

! Area41 News ! – A lot of new info releases have been made for Area41 this last month, most notably the Call For Papers (CFP) opening up, of which you have until end of April to submit so get to it and show us your awesome work and have a chance to speak at one of the best and most respected technical infosec cons in Switzerland! 😀

Additionally, we have also announced the ticket release date, April 26th at 16:00, for which there will be battles to death to try secure your golden pass. For you official DEF CON Switzerland Members (Shout out DC4131 gang!), you should have already received a lovely little surprise this week via email, demonstrating the continued benefits of being an official DC4131 member 🙂
If you’re don’t know what we’re talking about here, feel free to drop us a line at board [at] defcon-switzerland.org and we’ll be more than happy to fill you in.


Don’t forget we also have our official DC4131 Swag e-Shop over at Industry Ink! (COMING BACK SOON!! 😀 )

But we don’t stop there, we are continually evaluating available options for additional events organized by the DC4131 team, as well as evaluating a new potential location(s)! 😀

If you have any further comments or suggestions for ideas, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us 🙂

You can now subscribe to our calendar feeds to get real-time updates of event location/time changes, not just for the BoT, but all DC4131 hosted events 😀

RSS   –    iCal   –   Outlook

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As always, we are here for you and should you want to reach out to us at anytime about anything you can use all the available comms channels 🙂

Stay safe and look forward to seeing you again soon!

Your DEFCON Switzerland Team 🙂

BoT In March

Greetings DC4131 Community!

Apologies for the delay in officially informing you of this months activities, as you can imagine we are in full steam of organising Area41 conference items, supporting the expansion of existing events, experiencing record breaking attendance numbers across multiple locations (you guys are awesome!! :D) and re-introducing old event friends in coming months, so always a lot to keep us busy! And we appreciate the support you guys give us over these times.

As a reminder for our community in Chur/Sargans, an exciting new effort is in effect to better entice and accommodate our infosec neighbours in Liechtenstein, meaning the BoT Chur is now meeting across 2 locations, alternating monthly. On EVEN months (i.e. 02/o4/06/08/10/12) the meetup is happening in the brand spanking new Sargans locaiton (Deja Vu Bar) . On ODD months (i.e. 01/03/05/07/09/11) the meetup is happening in the well known and loved location Sunshine Pub.

 

Please see the following events that are planned for March:

Chur/Sargans:  March 05 –  18:30 CET –  Sunshine Pub  – Best drinks in the mountains! !PLEASE NOTE THE LOCATION SCHEDULE CHANGE!

Zurich:  March 12 –  18:30 CET – Schiffbau Bar Our home from home…

Berne:  March 19 18:30 CET – Restaurant Beaulieu Best beverages with the bears….Don’t forget to pour one out for them….

Mandatory pre-sign up required! – Please email jb[@]defcon-switzerland[.]org to secure your spot!

Lucerne: March 19 – 18:30 CET  – Magdi Beiz/Bar – Holding it down for the middle of our nation

Mandatory pre-sign up required! – Please email rico[@]defcon-switzerland[.]org to secure your spot!

Lausanne: March 19  – 18:30 CET – Les Brasseurs Lausanne Our best friends to the west!

Mandatory pre-sign up required! – Please email bot-lausanne[@]defcon-switzerland[.]org to secure your spot!

Basel:  March 19 – 18:30 CET – Bierrevier – The most northerly old-school feeling meetup around – !NOTE THE DATE CHANGE!

Mandatory pre-sign up required! – Please email bot-basel[@]defcon-switzerland[.]org to secure your spot!

 

When we are not at official meetups, we are still available as a community across our available virtual environments, on both our Slack ChannelDiscord Server!

 

************** Additional Events Info **************

Don’t forget we also have our official DC4131 Swag e-Shop over at Industry Ink! (COMING BACK SOON!! 😀 )

But we don’t stop there, we are continually evaluating available options for additional events organized by the DC4131 team, as well as evaluating a new potential location(s)! 😀

If you have any further comments or suggestions for ideas, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us 🙂

You can now subscribe to our calendar feeds to get real-time updates of event location/time changes, not just for the BoT, but all DC4131 hosted events 😀

RSS   –    iCal   –   Outlook

****************************

As always, we are here for you and should you want to reach out to us at anytime about anything you can use all the available comms channels 🙂

Stay safe and look forward to seeing you again soon!

Your DEFCON Switzerland Team 🙂

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