This years conference was even more successful than last year with a broader group of speakers and larger crowds. We had speakers from New Zealand, Italy, the U.K., Argentina, the Mainland US, and Hawaii. Topics ranged from those in the highly technical and Ninja-esque category to those with more of an executive appeal focusing on policy and risk management.

We also had two top notch activities anchoring Shakacon II - Capture the Flag and Lockpicking. Chris put together a custom built, six stage, CTF, with only one competitor able to finish five of the stages. Francisco Amato took the grand prize and walked away with the iPOD touch. We were very lucky to have Jackalope and Deviant come down and run their infamous "Lockpicking Village" including Gringo Warrior. Easily the favorite activity of the conference there was rarely a time when there weren't twenty people standing around learning how to pick locks and participating in Gringo Warrior. It was a close game but Shakacon's very own Chris won the Gringo Warrior competition also earning an iPOD touch.

All talks are posted online here: http://www.shakacon.org/Presentations.zip

All pictures are posted online here: http://www.shakacon.org/images/index.html

We would like to thank everyone who helped put on this amazing conference. Special thanks to our sponsors who make this event financially possible, our speakers who flew in from all over the world and the Secure DNA team for planning and executing everything even with their busy schedules.

We are already planning for a bigger and better ShakaCon III in June 2009 so stay tuned for updates.