Introducing our 2024 Keynote: Deviant Ollam!

Every year I am so honored and humbled by the amazing speakers who agree to keynote PancakesCon purely out of the goodness of their hearts and their care for the community. I hope you tune in this year to see the absolutely incredible-fantastic Deviant Ollam opening our con with, “Getting the Right Rotation: Safe Locks and Sushi Rolls”! Deviant is a fixture in the hacking community, especially the fascinating niche of breaking into (and out of) buildings, and lots of other physical stuff that is supposed to be secure.

In his own words:
“While paying the bills as a physical penetration specialist with
The CORE Group and the Director of Education for Red Team Alliance,
Deviant Ollam also sat on the Board of Directors of the US division of
TOOOL — The Open Organisation Of Lockpickers — for 14 years… acting
as the the nonprofit’s longest-serving Boardmember. His books Practical
Lock Picking and Keys to the Kingdom are among Syngress Publishing’s
best-selling pen testing titles. In addition to being a lockpicker,
Deviant is also a SAVTA certified safe technician, a GSA certified safe
and vault inspector, member of the International Association of
Investigative Locksmiths, a Life Safety and ADA Consultant, and an NFPA
Fire Door Inspector. At multiple annual security conferences Deviant
started Lockpick Village workshop areas, and he has conducted physical
security training sessions for Black Hat, the SANS Institute, DeepSec,
ToorCon, HackCon, ShakaCon, HackInTheBox, ekoparty, AusCERT, GovCERT,
CONFidence, the FBI, the NSA, DARPA, the National Defense University,
the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, and the United States
Military Academy at West Point. In his limited spare time, Deviant
enjoys loud moments with lead acceleration and quiet times with
podcasts. He arrives at airports too early and shows up at parties too.”