Speaking Engagements Info
If you would like to invite me to speak at your conference, then please read the information below.
First of all, I do appreciate every invitation! I really do! Unfortunately, I’m no longer able to accept all the invitations, as otherwise I would be spending most of my time travelling and would not have time for work at all (not to mention my afternoon naps!).
Money
Thus, some time ago, I’ve come up with a simple policy that allows me to keep my traveling on a reasonable level - a requirement for a speaking honorarium. This means that in most cases, i.e. unless your conference is very special, I won’t be interested in coming without a speaking honorarium. The speaking honorarium doesn’t include travel and hotel expenses (see below).
The other reason for requesting a speaking honorarium comes from the fact that majority of the research that we do is sort of an after-hour activity and thus is not directly founded by our customers and conference speaking honorariums are one way of supporting this form of our activity.
Travel
For all travels within Europe standard economy class flight is all I need. For all intercontinental flights business class is a must. My airlines of choice are those belonging to the Star Alliance.
Additionally I would expect that you arrange a pickup from the airport and also a pickup from the hotel on my way back to the airport. On short distances (less then 2h) I can travel by train, but not by bus or coach! Also when arranging a car pickup, please make sure it’s a full-size car (in smaller cars I get sick).
As for the hotel, the standard 4-star business hotel is fine. Please make sure to put me on a non-smoking floor.
Politics
In general I’m not interested in traveling to those countries which are not part of the civilized world and where basic human rights are not respected. This especially includes countries having problems with accepting the concept of Women’s Rights.
History
The list of all the public conferences I spoke at can be found here. This list doesn’t include various internal conferences and on-site trainings.
Bio
Joanna Rutkowska is a recognized researcher in the field of stealth malware and system compromises. Over the past several years she has introduced several breakthrough concepts and techniques on both the offensive and defensive side in this field. Her work has been quoted multiple times by international press and she is also a frequent speaker at security conferences around the world. In 2007 she founded Invisible Things Lab, a boutique security consulting company focusing on OS and virtualization systems security. Invisible Things Lab hires well known industry experts in those fields.