“We don’t know why Caesars canceled us, they won’t say beyond it being a strategy change and it is not related to anything that DEF CON or our community has done.”
Caesars ended a 25-year relationship with DEF CON about seven months before the show and won’t say why. DEF CON calls this kind of no-notice cancellation unheard of in the conference business. The con moves to the Las Vegas Convention Center for the same August 8-11 dates. A “strategy change” that dumps tens of thousands of hackers with seven months’ notice is a strategy nobody at Caesars wants to explain.