What is "thotcon"

THOTCON is an American hacker conference that is organized by Nicholas J. Percoco, Matt Jakubowski, Jonathan Tomek, John Mocuta, David "VideoMan" Bryan and several other OPERs (volunteers from the local DEF CON 312 chapter) . It is held in Chicago, Illinois United States at a somewhat different Top Secret location each year.

The conference was historically held on a single day but since 2015 with growing popularity now covers two days. Originally the con featured a single track of speakers presenting between 10-12 talks on various information security and hacking topics. Currently the conference offers multiple tracks including full length talks, shorter 'TURBO' talks, and longer workshops.

The name THOTCON is made of the first letter in the words that represent the main Chicago Area Code (312); as in THree-One-Two.