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Only 1 woman speaker out of 15 isn't an amazing look for a conference in 2020

If I cared about tokens I'd go to ChuckECheese. Are there any specific male speakers you feel don't deserve to be there?

Do you feel that there's only one woman in the field who does deserve to be there?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I cared about tokens I'd go to ChuckECheese. Are there any specific male speakers you feel don't deserve to be there?

Do you feel that there's only one woman in the field who does deserve to be there?

What do you think is the gender ratio in such a high-tech area of IT security? 7% is probably not far from reality...

Re: FuzzCon – European Online Conference About Fuzzing

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you feel that there's only one woman in the field who does deserve to be there?

What do you think is the gender ratio in such a high-tech area of IT security? 7% is probably not far from reality...

Yeah, I think so too. I'm sure the conference will be great and the speakers all excellent. The not-a-good-look part is whether or not that 7% is helped or hindered by this kind of line-up and whether or not it should be. I certainly wouldn't have expected close to a 50/50 gender split, but 1 / 15 is pretty low.

It's fine to disagree, finding and approaching good speakers is hard, especially during a pandemic I imagine. But then again the organizer Code Intelligence has 'driven by our passion for challenging the status quo' as one of their company values, so I think it's fair enough to point out?

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Only 1 woman speaker out of 15 isn't an amazing look for a conference in 2020

Agreed, the single quota speaker certainly looks suspicious. I certainly don't need to listen to quota pep talk in a technical conference. Thankfully this talk is about FairFuzz (afl-rb)

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SMRGdi0AAAAJ&hl=en

https://github.com/carolemieux/afl-rb

Which is a very interesting idea for mature code and was discussed to be included into AFL++ but was eventually not. Good for a seperate slave instance though. https://github.com/AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus/issues/18

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