Chaos Communication Congress

31C3 in Hamburg
Audience at the keynote of Glenn Greenwald at 30C3
The 22C3 in December 2005

The Chaos Communication Congress is an annual conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club. The congress features a variety of lectures and workshops on technical and political issues related to Security, Cryptography, Privacy and online Freedom of Speech. The event takes place regularly at the end of the year since 1984, with the current date and duration (December 27–30) established in 2005. It is considered one of the largest events of this kind, alongside the DEF CON in Las Vegas.

The congress started out in 1984 in Hamburg, moved to Berlin in 1998, and back to Hamburg in 2012, having exceeded the capacity of the Berlin venue with more than 4500 attendees. Since then, the meetings in the considerably larger venue in Hamburg continue to attract an increasing number of people, around 6,600 attendees in 2012 and most recently more than 13,000 in 2015.

A large range of speakers are part of the scene. Organizational work is done by volunteers called Chaos Angels. The non-members entry fee for four days has been 100 Euros in 2016.

An important part of the congress are the assemblies, semi-open spaces with clusters of tables and internet connections for groups and individuals to collaborate and socialize in projects, workshops, and hands-on talks. These assembly spaces, introduced at the 2012 meeting, combine the hack center project space and distributed group spaces of former years.[1]

From 1997 to 2004 the congress also hosted the annual German Lockpicking Championships. 2005 was the first year the Congress lasted four days instead of three and lacked the German Lockpicking Championships.

Congresses

Starting with the 16th congress in 1999, congresses are abbreviated C3 and prefixed with the congress number (e.g. 30C3 for the 30th congress). Most have been subtitled with a motto reflecting the zeitgeist and congress topics.

No. Year Motto short venue place
11984CCC'84 nach Orion'64 Eidelstedter Bürgerhaus in Hamburg, Germany
21985Du Darfst
31986Damit Sie auch morgen noch kraftvoll zubyten können
41987Offene Netze – Jetzt!
51988ich glaub' es hackt
61989Offene Grenzen: Cocomed zuhauf
71990(no motto)
81991Per Anhalter durch die Netze
91992Es liegt was in der Luft
101993Ten years after Orwell
111994Internet im Kinderzimmer – Big business is watching you?! Bikini-Haus in Berlin, Germany
121995Pretty Good Piracy – verdaten und verkauft Eidelstedter Bürgerhaus in Hamburg, Germany
131996Der futurologische Congress – Leben nach der Internetdepression
141997Nichts ist wahr. Alles ist erlaubt.
151998All Rights Reversed Haus am Köllnischen Park in Berlin, Germany
161999(no motto)16C3
172000Explicit Lyrics17C3
182001Hacking Is Not A Crime18C3
192002Out Of Order 19C3
202003Not A Number 20C3
NaN		Berliner Congress Center in Berlin, Germany[2]
212004The Usual Suspects 21C3
222005Private Investigations 22C3
232006Who can you trust? 23C3
242007Volldampf voraus! 24C3
252008Nothing To Hide! 25C3
262009Here Be Dragons 26C3
272010 We come in peace27C3
282011 Behind enemy lines28C3
292012 Not my department 29C3 Congress Center Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany
302013 (no motto) [why? 1] 30C3
312014 A New Dawn 31C3
322015 Gated Communities 32C3
332016 Works for me 33C3
  1. ↑ In the opening talk of the 30C3 (2013), Tim Pritlove stated that there was no motto because everyone was speechless after what happened that year, that is the Snowden revelations.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Assemblies at 29C3
  2. ↑ "Welcome - 27C3 public wiki". Events.ccc.de. 2010-12-21. Retrieved 2012-07-11.
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