What is the BSides Montreal Conference?

BSides is the great equalizer conference. By keeping conferences affordable and local, and by encouraging talks that may not fit into the mainstream, BSides makes it easy for anyone – newcomers and veterans alike – to lend their voice to the collective conversation. All are welcome to come to learn, teach, and share their passions, and we are all better off for it. BSides Montreal is an intimate and safe conference where we can have private conversations and talks that will not be published or made accessible online. You just have to be there.

When and Where

BSides Montreal will be hosted on Saturday September 14th 2024 at Grande Bibliothèque de Montréal (BAnQ) at 475 Boul. de Maisonneuve E.

Topics we love

We eat, breathe and live cybersecurity. If you have anything new and interesting to discuss about threat intelligence, defensive hunting, reverse engineering, exploitation, network forensics, application and infrastructure security or cryptography and obfuscation, we want to hear about it!
BSides Montreal is not only a technical conference. If you have something to say about cybersecurity from an ethics, law or sociological point of view, we definitively want to hear about it! The human aspect in cybersecurity is too often neglected, and you can help us understand how human and technological factors contribute to protect - or open to attack - networks and systems.

Not sure if your talk fits? Drop us an email at speakers@bsidesmtl.ca and we’ll give you feedback!

Timeline for Round 2

CFP Opens: April 2nd, 2024
CFP Closes: June 17, 2024
Decisions sent: July 1st, 2024

Event Format

BSides Montreal has a single track of speakers. Talks can be in French or English, and will all be 30 minutes long. The talks may be recorded.
Speakers will be organized in blocks, with questions from the audience at the end. Speakers will know in advance who will be part of their block, and will be connected to the moderator and other speakers in their block in advance of their presentation. The moderator will be a subject matter expert who will be able to guide the conversation with the audience.

If you are a first time speaker, don't be shy of submitting a talk! We will support you in every way we can to make sure you deliver the best possible talk.

Speaker perks

We can't make any promise at this point, beyond promising that BSides will be the most fun, creative and stimulating conference you will attend all year!

You can enter proposals until 2024-06-17 23:59 (America/Montreal), 1 month, 2 weeks from now.