*2600* magazine's semi-annual Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) con - now in its 31st year! - has gone annual, and they're pre-selling tickets at a freakishly low earlybird rate:
https://store.2600.com/products/tickets-to-hope_16
I keynoted HOPE last year and it was every bit as much fun as I remembered. Sure, DEF CON is amazing, but you can't really call a 40,000-person gathering in the Las Vegas Convention Center "intimate."
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