Gary Palgon
Vice President, Product Management
nuBridges
While you can attend a conference any week or weekend throughout the year, most of us can’t afford the time away from the office, even when we’re on the vendor side of the business equation like I am. And given summer is a time when many people travel, it turns out that March through June and September through December are prime times for the “conference tours.” Surely not as glorious as a “band tour,” but exciting nonetheless. For me it’s an opportunity to meet customers, prospects, business partners and other people I’ve connected with during the year who I may have or have never met. And for them, the same – an opportunity to put a face with the name.
First up is the Payment Card Industry’s Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) Community Meeting which will be held September 22nd - 24th in Las Vegas. This is the third one, with the previous ones having been held in Toronto and Orlando. The surroundings will surely be better than the prior cities (no offense to them – heck, I have to visit them during other conferences in the coming months too) and I would expect a bigger crowd than ever as each year it has grown since it started in 2007.
There’s always some interesting topics, discussions and debates (and this year we’ll add gambling to that). Last year there was a focus on the quality of Qualified Security Auditors (QSAs) and network segmentation while this year all indications are there will be lots of discussion about virtualization, PCI scope, tokenization, end-to-end encryption, and chip and pin.
If you’re planning on being there, drop me an email at gpalgon AT nubridges DOT com. I’d love to meet or catch up with you.
Gary
