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Challenges of Setting Up a Security Conference
Orome1 writes "The founder of the SecurityByte conference talks about his motivations for organizing such an event in his native country and what he hopes it will achieve. He shares knowledge regarding the differences between the organization processes involved when setting up this type of event in India as opposed to North America, which he says have a lot to do with the fact that there is lack of awareness about security in India, and that the majority of such events held there are mostly vendor-driven and free for visitors."
In the third world country where I live in, vendor-driven and free events usually have their marketing guys do all the talking. This means biased information. On the other hand, paid events are the ones that have real knowledgeable guys in it. Unfotunately we rarely have such events since the price to have a very knowledgeable speaker in it is very high and only few people will certainly attend. The price is usually higher than an average sysadmins or developers salary (not employed in the top 100 companies in the country or converted 650USD a month). Affordable events do happen but in my experience there is always this one guy in the crowd that is more knowledgeable than the speaker (asks more indepth questions, disagreeing with the facts of the speaker with much more citations, etc.). The best option over here is just to find free webinars of past notable events. Of course you don't get to ask questions but the knowledge that is gained is priceless.
Indian would be very hard to understand, considering it doesn't exist.
Just bacause things are messed up in one place does not mean they are not more messed up in another place.
Have you ever been to India? I have, despite what Indians like to tell people it's very much a third world country with open sewers, piles of rubbish, and rats all over the place. It's hard to believe that they would have any great interest in computer security given the other problems they have.