Black Hat team, <info@blackhat.com>

* for the opportunity to present my research titled 'Advanced SQL injection to operating system full control' at Black Hat Europe 2009 Briefings on April 16, 2009 in Amsterdam (NL). I unveiled and demonstrated some of the sqlmap 0.7 release candidate version new features during my presentation

SOURCE Conference team, <press@sourceconference.com>

* for the opportunity to present my research titled 'Expanding the control over the operating system from the database' at SOURCE Conference 2009 on September 21, 2009 in Barcelona (ES). I unveiled and demonstrated some of the sqlmap 0.8 release candidate version new features during my presentation

AthCon Conference team, <cfp@athcon.org>

* for the opportunity to present my research titled 'Got database access? Own the network!' at AthCon Conference 2010 on June 3, 2010 in Athens (GR). I unveiled and demonstrated some of the sqlmap 0.8 version features during my presentation

Metasploit Framework development team, <msfdev@metasploit.com>

* for their powerful tool Metasploit Framework, used by sqlmap, among others things, to create the shellcode and establish an out-of-band connection between sqlmap and the database server

OWASP Board, <info@owasp.org>

* for sponsoring part of the sqlmap development in the context of OWASP Spring of Code 2007