TROOPERS
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Stands for: TROOPERS - ERNW's Heidelberg conference, Europe's practitioners' favorite
ERNW's Heidelberg conference - the one experienced European practitioners name when they can only pick one: trainings, three tracks, and roundtables where speakers and attendees argue as equals.
Running since 2008 at Heidelberg's Print Media Academy under the motto of making the world a safer place, TROOPERS built its reputation on density rather than scale: two days of high-end trainings, two of talks (the Active Directory and Entra ID track has become a signature that gathers Europe's identity-security researchers like nowhere else), and a closing day of roundtables. The culture shows in the details - electronic badges with a soldering corner to modify them, the IPv6 Security Summit heritage, a town small enough that the conference takes over its evenings. Modest in size, outsized in the respect it commands.
Also known as: troopers, ernw