For technology professionals and business-people alike, attending technology conferences is one of the best ways to stay up to speed on the latest developments, current issues, and practical information. There is a wealth of technology conferences held every year, and attending all of them or even most of them is not feasible for most people due to busy work schedules and high costs of travel. Now you can “attend” a technical conference without the hassle of taking time off from work and the high overhead of travel fees with Linux Pro Magazine’s Live Conference Streaming service.

Linux Pro Magazine offers live streaming of technical conferences on their website for a nominal fee. In addition to the technical sessions and talks, most conferences offer official training programs where industry leaders offer the most current training. Often times the training delivered at conferences is on the bleeding edge of technology and typically costs an extra $1500-3000 depending on the conference, and amount of training offered. Linux Magazine’s live streaming offers training programs delivered at the conference and the materials provided at the event for a fraction of the cost of taking the training in-person.

The audio quality and video quality of the conferences are top-notch and makes it feasible to go back and review keys points from the talk itself instead of referring to notes for those present at the conference or reviewing information for a conference that was attended a few weeks or months ago.

Currently, Linux Pro Magazine is streaming the 17th Annual USENIX Security Symposium from San Jose, CA. Some of the talks at this event include Debra Bowen, California Secretary of State on e-voting, DDoS attacks, and training on how botnets operate from Bruce Potter of the Shmoo group.

Linux Pro Magazine archives past events and offers a 20% discount to current subscribers. See http://streaming.linux-magazin.de/en/index.htm for a full list of conferences. Currently the USENIX ’08 Security Symposium is taking place in San Jose, California: http://www.linux-magazine.com/usenix_sec08