2026 Conference Line-Up

Keynote Speaker

Perry Carpenter

Perry Carpenter is a multi-award-winning author, podcaster, and speaker, with over two decades in cybersecurity focusing on how cybercriminals exploit human behavior. As the Chief Deception Strategist at KnowBe4, Perry helps build robust human-centric defenses against social engineering-based threats. His latest book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions(Wiley: Oct 2024), explores AI’s role in deception. Perry also hosts the award-winning podcasts 8th Layer Insights and Digital Folklore.

Guest Speakers

Bhargab Acharya

Your Car Knows Too Much: Forensics, PII, and Bluetooth Impersonation from Used Infotainment Systems

Saeed Fazal,
Abdul Baseer Mohammed

Closing the Detection Gap: Defending Software Supply Chain Infrastructure

Otha Mabry

How to Discover if the Security Consultant is Bu11$#!Ting with OSINT 201

Dr. Ryan McNeal

Building a Cybersecurity Career for Beginners

Nicholas Redmond

Northstar-RF: An Interactive Relational Taxonomy of
Radio Signal Security in Space Communication

Adrian Sanabria

Destroyed by Breach: The Tales of Companies That Didn’t Make It

Greg Schaffer

So You Want To Be An Information Security Consultant

Melanie Suria

Why Your Cyber Risk Is a Business Decision: What Every Leader Needs to Know

Phillip Wylie

Optimal Offensive Security Programs

Lindsey Yagi-Hatake

Predators Within: Trust Exploitation in Cybersecurity Communities

Villages

CTF with Ostrich Labs

The IoT Village

Linux Village

Lock-Picking with Fox Pick

Mental Health Village with Mental Health Hackers

Non-Profit & Community Village

Soldering Village with 615 labs