This year is the first “Hardware Security Conference and Training”, Sep29-Oct2, with 2 days of training, and 2 days of conference, in The Hague, Netherlands.

Hardware.io is the conference for hardware security researchers and companies to brainstorm on breaking and securing hardware: backdoors, exploits, trust, assurance and attacks on hardware equipment, firmware and related protocols. The objective of the conference revolves around four key concerns in hardware, firmware and related protocols i.e. backdoors, exploits, trust and attacks (BETA). Hardwear is owned and managed by the team behind nullcon, one of the premier security events in Asia.

Some of the talks:
* got HW crypto? On the (in)security of a Self-Encrypting Drive series, Christian Kison & Gunnar Alendal
* Security of Medical Devices, Florian Grunow
* Hardware Hacking with the Beaglebone (Bl|H)ack, Joseph FitzPatrick & Jeremy Richards
* Advanced Attack Methodologies against Security Microcontrollers, Marcus Janke & Dr. Peter Laackmann
* Demystifying the Sagemcom ECGI420 OneBox, Tamir Bahar
* Scan and Destroy: Opening A New Attack Surface With Barcode Scanners, Nitay Artenstein
* Advanced IC Reverse Engineering Techniques : In Depth Analysis of A Modern Smart Card, Olivier Thomas

Training:
* IC Security 101, Olivier Thomas & Dmitry Nedospasov
* Low level Hardware reversing, Javier Vazquez Vidal & Henrik Ferdinand Nölscher
* Applied Physical Attacks on X86 Systems, Joseph FitzPatrick

More Information:
http://hardwear.io/