[DFSci] Women in Forensic Computing 2022 - Call for participation

[Felix Freiling]

Women in Forensic Computing  (WinFC)
Digital Forensics Bootcamp and Workshop
in cooperation with DFRWS EU 2022
March 28, 2022 in Oxford, UK and online (hybrid)

https://www.cybercrime.fau.de/winfc2022/


Call for Participation

This bootcamp/workshop will be held physically and virtually on Monday, 
March 28, 2022, and is associated with the Digital Forensic Research 
Conference Europe (DFRWS EU), an academic conference in the area of 
digital forensic science which begins on March 29 and ends on March 31, 
2022. The workshop is part of a workshop series that started in 2019.

Background

Digital forensic science is the application of scientific methods of 
computing in order to recover and investigate evidence found in digital 
devices, often in relation to computer crime. Digital evidence is 
increasingly important in almost all types of juridical proceedings, 
mainly due to the increasing volume and quality of digital evidence.

The objective of this workshop is to increase the interest of students 
and academically young researchers in digital forensic science as a 
career field or a research field. Another aim of this workshop is to 
increase awareness and appreciation of the achievements of women in the 
area of forensic computing/digital forensics and therefore this workshop 
wishes to be a forum to help women build their technical confidence and 
thereby attract more female researchers to the field.

The workshop will include a sequence of presentations that introduce 
some fundamental and current topics in the field and allow for 
first-hand hands-on experience.

Bootcamp

New to the area of digital forensics? No problem. This workshop is aimed 
to introduce new people to the area. Talks will be technical but aimed 
at novices in the area.

Confirmed speakers are:

- Katrin Franke (NTNU), talk title to be announced
- Svenja Mischur (intersoft consulting services AG, Hamburg, Germany) 
and Christian Müller (Trufflepig IT-Forensics GmbH, Pfaffenhofen an der 
Ilm, Germany) will talk about "Incident Response and Memory Forensics"
- Mariya Shafat (Department of Electronics and Instrumentation 
Technology, University of Kashmir) will talk about "Digital Forensics 
Research: A Roadmap"


Call for Participation

Participation in the workshop is limited. To participate, send a 
one-page letter describing your current affiliation, your research 
interests, why the workshop is interesting to you and whether you wish 
to participate in-person or online via email to

    women-in-forensic-computing at lists.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

by *February 21, 2022*. Applications after that date are also possible 
but will be handled on a first-come-first-served basis.

Workshop participation is free of charge and open to both male and 
female participants. We also offer several scholarships (sponsored by 
FAU) for female students who wish to participate in the workshop: The 
scholarship covers the attendance fee for the DFRWS EU 2022 conference 
and may also partially cover travel expenses. To apply for such a 
scholarship, please indicate this in your application email.

Participant Presentations

Participants of the workshop also have the opportunity to present their 
current research or insights into the profession in the field of digital 
forensics in a ~10-minute talk. Presentations can be delivered on-site 
or online.  Presentations should include one slide to motivate why 
digital forensics is an interesting field.

If you are interested in presenting, please send the title and an 
abstract of your presentation proposal together with your registration 
(see above) by *February 21, 2022*. There will be a lightweight 
selection process for presentations by the organizing committee.

Organizing Committee

Felix Freiling
Yasin Koese
Daryl Pfeif
Svenja Mischur
Mamoqenelo Morolong
Theresa Mueller
Maike Raphael
Sophia Seubert
Mariya Shafat
Radina Stoykova
Lena Voigt


For further information see the following website or contact the 
following email:

https://www.cybercrime.fau.de/winfc2022/

women-in-forensic-computing at lists.informatik.uni-erlangen.de


This workshop series is supported by the office of Gender and Diversity 
of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) and by Deutsche 
Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) as part of the 
Research and Training Group 2475 “Cybercrime and Forensic Computing” 
(grant number 393541319/GRK2475/1-2019).