The Forum for Incident Response and Security Team (FIRST) was established with the vision of providing access of best practices, tools and trusted communications among member incident response teams. The FIRST Technical Colloquium (TC) provides a discussion forum for FIRST member teams to share information about vulnerabilities, tools and other issues that affect the operation of the incident response and security teams. The FIRST TC is hosted by the members and takes place usually every quarter.

The next coming TC will be hosted by CNCERT/CC at the China National Convention Center (CNCC), in Beijing, China. It is a three day event comprising of technical talks and hands-on workshops on a wide range computer security topics. This event is open to FIRST members and invited guests. The TC September 2010 will be held in conjunction with the CNCERT Annual Conference 2010.