TNMOC Guided Tour Giveaway

Proudly sponsored by F-secure

Following the recent prize draw for Steelcon tickets, it’s time for the next opportunity to win with 44CON.

F-Secure are sponsoring a guided tour of The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) which will take place on Saturday 1st September from 12:30.

The tour will last around 2 hours and cover the full museum collection from the Colossus, war code breaking machines and the history of computing from 1940 to the start of smart phone. Much of what is on display actually works, and the guide will describe how the computers were used, tell anecdotes on their design and operation, and operate some of the equipment.

After the tour you will be able to stay in the museum if you’d like to go back and look at certain computers. TNMOC also has a few old gaming consoles which you’ll be able to play on.

How to enter:

Sign up to our newsletter
Send an email to marizel@44con.com letting us know you’re interested in the TNMOC tour. Please either use the email you used to sign up to the mailing list or mention it in your email.
Keep an eye on your emails in mid August to see if you’re a winner

Winners will be contacted around the 15th of August and the tour will take place on the 1st of September 2018. Instructions/directions will be sent to the winners prior to the tour taking place.

Detailed information about getting to TNMOC situated in Bletchley Park can be found here.

Steelcon Ticket winners

44CON Soldering Area at Steelcon

Steelcon is coming up soon, Steve and Marizel are looking forward to running the soldering area on the 7th of July. We’ll be offering hands on help for those new to soldering or who haven’t had a chance to solder in a while. So come over, say hi and have a go!

We’ll also have some new sticker designs and a Steelcon exclusive discount code for 44CON tickets!

And the winners are…

After being generously provided with two Steelcon tickets to give away to 44CON supporters, last week we did a random draw. If you bought a 44CON2018 ticket and are signed up for our newsletter you had a chance to win.

We are very happy to announce that Will Deane and Mick Vaites are the winners of the two tickets and were contacted last week.

SteelCon2018 Tickets up for Grabs!

Ey up, We’ve got two SteelCon 2018 Tickets to give away. Make like a whippet and you too could be at Sheffield’s finest hacker conference!

Nah then, 44CON will be exhibiting at SteelCon in July 2018. We’re also running a soldering area and have stickers and reyt good goodies to grab! Even better, we have two tickets to give away! As lovely as it is, Sheffield is uphill both ways in the snow. If you’re heading up from that London, make sure you wrap up warm.

How to enter:

For a chance to win one of two SteelCon 2018 tickets all you have to do is this before the 31st of May 2018:

Purchase a 44CON 2018 ticket
Make sure you’re signed up to the 44CON mailing list (you can do this by ticking the relevant box when purchasing your ticket or here).

Obligatory fine print:

Don’t stress love, if you’ve already bought a ticket and are signed up to our mailing list using the same email address for both, you’re already in the draw.
Winners will be contacted around the 4th of June 2018. If you would rather someone else had your SteelCon 2018 ticket just let us know and we’ll make it happen.
Marizel is running the draw, and her decision is final. She cannot be bribed with crisps, breadcakes, nor flat caps, although you’re welcome to try.

We’d love to see you at SteelCon!

If you’re planning to attend SteelCon 2018 please come over and say hi. We’ll be the ones selling 44CON tickets, sticking things to people and soldering to our <3’s content. The SteelCon team have two 44CON 2018 tickets to give away, so look out for a chance to win these too.

CRESTCon & IISP Congress 2018

44CON is exhibiting at CRESTCon & IISP Congress on 3rd May at theRoyal College of Physicians in London. Tickets are available now – www.crestandiisp.com.

Now in its sixth year, CRESTCon and IISP Congress is a unique event that brings together leading technical and business information security professionals and is a key date in the industry calendar, attracting an impressive line-up of speakers and senior delegates.

This year it also welcomes the BCS Security Conference in the third stream. 2017’s event welcomed over 450 delegates, had three conference streams, a bookshop/meeting area, as well as expanded exhibition and demo areas and 2018 is building further on the success of these features. The length of the day is being increased to incorporate further networking and entertainment in response to the feedback received from delegates and sponsors.

Delegates at the event include senior security, risk and compliance managers from a wide range of public and private sector organisations, along with security consultants and business directors working in the technical information assurance and response industry.

If you’re attending, please stop by and say hello to Steve and Marizel!