Welcome to the BSides Cape Town 2026 CFE (Call for Papers and Workshops)
Event: 4-5 December 2026
Venue: Lagoon Beach Hotel (Milnerton)
5 Session Types (Talks and Workshops)
Theme: [WOVEN]
CFP Close: 30 September 2026 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 2025 Speakers and Workshoppers below. Be sure to follow them.
2025 Talks and Workshops
Charl van der Walt - I had a (bot) farm in Africa
Brent Shaw, Dr Roboto - From Impersonation to Exploitation: A look at Mobile Malware Campaigns
Jacques Louw, Tyrone Erasmus - No endpoints were harmed in the making of this talk
Geoffrey Chisnall - Whack A Phish
Ross Simpson - Knock knock. Race Condition. Who's there?
Kobus van Schoor - Help, I lost my keys: Recoverable, monitored FDE at the Edge
Keith Makan - Peering behind the Shadows: Reverse Engineering Android JNI Binaries
Dale Nunns - Rapid Unplanned Disassembly: Hacking flying things sounded like a great idea
Veer Gosai - The Hidden Crisis: Mass Fraud in the SASSA SRD Grant System
Ethan Havinga - Beyond Stored XSS: Reclaiming Persistence Using <REDACTED>
Logan Kroeger - From Clone to Cloak: Bypassing EDR with Open-Source Tooling
Szymon - Making OpenINTEL open up
Tinus Green - You Are an Expert CFP Submitter: Prompting AI to Hallucinate
David de Villiers - Injection at Conception: Abusing the Android Zygote Process
Ivan Burke, Heloise Meyer - From Redacted to Ready: How Competitions Build a Nation's Next Generation Cybersecurity Specialists
Jared Naude - To Protect and Control: The Militarization of the Internet
Harry Grobbelaar - Hackers Hunt, Execs Fund: Measuring the ROSI of Bug Bounty Program to Win the Business Case
Rogan Dawes - MeLTEd Modems
Roelof Temmingh - Timestamping the web and tracing hidden metadata
Rinya Singh, Christof Jooste - Grounds for Concern: What a Coffee App Taught Us About Insecure Design
Andrea Brosio - Weaponizing AI for Red Teaming
Jay Bissict, Lisa van Staden - Fool me once? Good. Cloud deception done right.
Leon Jacobs - 7 Vulns in 7 Days: Breaking Bloatware Faster Than It's Built
Aldu Cornelissen, Kyle Findlay - ~Truth~ Narrative Influence Markets
Jaco Swanepoel - SocVel Live: Command The Breach
2025 Workshops
** No Workshops for 2025 **
Support and what you get
If you become a speaker or workshopper for BSides Cape Town 2026, 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 2026 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