I’m heading to Defcon 16 on Thursday to talk to some fellow hackers, meet colleagues, and to hopefully, not lose my shirt in Vegas. I think I’ll be much too busy to gamble, really.

For a conference that is so technically minded, they didn’t post the conference schedule in a useful format (HTML only! ew!), so I converted the web pages to iCal format with quite a bit of scripting and cutting/pasting.

Just download the following zip, import it into iCal, and you should have a (fairly) complete conference schedule to carry with you on your iPod, iPhone, or any device that can read iCal/vCalendar formats.

This schedule includes everything except the contest area and very-long descriptions of each event. I decided not to include the contest area because most events run all day, or most of the days. Since the rooms for each of the conference tracks haven’t been announced yet, there’s very little in the way of room locations in these files. Sorry, but you’ll have to figure it out when you get to the Riveria!

The events are broken out into the five tracks in five seperate files, and a seperate ics file for Defcon Social events and meetups. Unpack the zip, and import each file into iCal.

Click here for the zipfile of .ics files

Once you;ve downloaded the zips, double click to unzip them, then import to iCal. If the system asks you what calendar to put events into, just click ‘New’, and our ICS files will fill in the rest.