Welcome to the BSides Cape Town 2025 CFE (Call for Papers and Workshops)
Event: 5-6 December 2025
Venue: Lagoon Beach Hotel (Milnerton)
5 Session Types (Talks and Workshops)
Theme: [REDACTED]
CFP Close: 30 September 2025 23:59
Code of conduct: Code of Conduct
Recordings of previous years: BSides Cape Town 2024
We once again want to give a big shout to our 2024 Speakers and Workshoppers below. Be sure to follow them.
2024 Talks
Anna, Christine Gordon-Bennett - Zen and the Art of Cognitive Defense: Zero-Trust Mindsets and Cyber-Mindfulness
Jason Jordaan - Ignorantia Juris Non Excusat – Understanding the Impact of the Law on the SA Hacker Community
Ethan - Breaking the Barrier: Exploring modern WAFs.
Jonathon Everatt - DevOps or DevOops? Securing a Pipeline Without Losing Your Mind
Sharon Knowles - Unmasking the Digital Shadows: OSINT Techniques for Cybersecurity Professionals
Johan VD Merwe, Jacob Simmons - Attack of the clones: Modern deepfake phishing
Tinus - Dependable Red Teaming by using Confusion
Jared Naude - Cloud Security Theater: Rising above the noise of misguided strategies
Brent Shaw - LOLGrid: Don’t bring your own network, one already exists
Keith Makan - Attacking GraphQL : A guide for penetration testers
Callian Berends - Find and fix Vulnerabilities within open source projects
David Baker Effendi, Rohan Dayaram - Attacking Pipelines: Large Scale Exploitation of Workflow Files
Roberto Arico - Going Beyond your own Barriers
Blessing Mufaro Kashava - Rite of Passage: My Journey from BSides Volunteer to Black Hat Asia Attendee
Robin Roodt - Hacking the Airwaves: Beyond Relay Attacks!
Roelof Temmingh - AI in OSINT – Zero snake oil
Nunudzai Mrewa - SpeedRunners: The Hackers of the Gaming World
2024 Workshops
Elastic Security Analyst Workshop.
Better open-source investigations with Ubikron.
Binary Instrumentation with Frida.
You Can’t Hide in Memory: The Importance of Memory Forensics.
Support and what you get
If you become a speaker or workshopper for BSides Cape Town 2025, we will comp you with a full swag ticket. That being said, while we do our best to accommodate speakers from other parts of the country, and internationally, BSides Cape Town generally does not have huge resources to financially assist speakers with travel and accommodation arrangements. You will most likely need to make your own arrangements to attend the conference. We may be able to get some special rates from the adjoined hotel, but that is TBC. We will do our best to assist where possible, so please don’t be discouraged from submitting a talk if this is a problem. Send us an email explaining your situation and we’ll see what we can do.
Deadline
The deadline for submissions is 30 September 2025 23:59PM, but the earlier you submit the better.
For any questions email
cfpreview@bsidescapetown.co.za | For CFP questions, queries or feedback!
organisers@bsidescapetown.co.za | For anything BSides related, not specific to CFP