In this Their Story podcast, Richard Greenberg, the OWASP Los Angeles chapter president, connects with Sean Martin to provide an update on the upcoming 2018 AppSec California conference being held January 28th to the 31st in Santa Monica, California.

During the chat, Richard describes the agenda, highlighting keynote sessions from:
- Eric Baize, Chairman of SAFECode and Vice President, Product Security, Dell EMC
- Dr. Christian Dameff, Emergency Medicine physician, researcher, and Clinical Informatics fellow at the University of California San Diego
- Richard Seiersen, SVP/CISO of Lending Club
- Cory Doctorow, Science Fiction Author, Activist, and Journalist

Richard also highlights the amazing training sessions held during the first 2 days of the conference, with world-renowned trainers, including:
- Vikram Salunke, Information Security Researcher, Consultant, and Founder, Vmaskers
- Peter Kim, Director of Vulnerability Research, Blizzard Entertainment
- Nikki Becher and Tanya Janca, AppSec Trainer and PenTester
- Jim Manico, Owner/Trainer, Manicode Security
- William Bengtson, Senior Security Engineer, Netflix
- Nag Medida, Cloud Security Engineer, Netflix

More information about the conference can be found at:
https://itspmagazine.com/events/appsec-california-2018