OWASP AppSec conferences are the premier gathering for software security leaders and researchers. It brings together the application security community to share cutting-edge ideas, initiatives and technological advancements.

OWASP AppSec conferences are true security conferences; with all talks and presentations focusing on various areas of information security. Topics should focus on the technical and social aspects of security, and should not contain marketing or sales pitches.

OWASP encourages and prioritizes submissions around the three focus areas of AppSec USA 2015:

Web Application Security - Research and new work impacting the security of web applications.
DevOps - Research and new work impacting the security of DevOps processes, architectures, and tools.
Cloud Security - Research and new work impacting the security of applications designed for and/or deployed to cloud environments, especially public cloud environments.

In addition to these three focus areas, OWASP is interested in all topics related to information security, in particular:
Privacy
Secure development
Security assessment (Application/Code review, penetration testing, etc)
Mobile security
Browser security
HTML5 security
OWASP tools or projects in practice
Management topics in Security
New technologies, paradigms, tools