Thank you for your interest in submitting to speak or train at BSidesCharm 2024.

We appreciate your desire to contribute to the Blue Team Cybersecurity community. BSides are exactly that, community driven events for an by infosec community members and your contributions help make this event the value proposition that it is.

We are looking for talks and training sessions for our 2024 event. Talk can be either 20 minutes or 50 minutes. Training sessions can be either 4 hours or 8 hours. Multiple submissions are allowed by the same person. The Call for Paper will CLOSE on 29 Jan 2024. Notifications will go about about 45 days after.

Tips and Guidelines

  • We are a defensive focused conference. While that does not mean we will not accept offensive minded talks, please note we are looking for the those talks to include defensive recommendations and actions.
  • No vendor marketing.
  • First time submitter? Here is a link to some tips to make your CFP stand out

As we are a small, non-profit, we apologize that we cannot provide financial support to our submitters. All training is provided with no additional charge to our attendees; speakers and trainers will not receive payment.

Please refer to our COVID-19 Information page for updated information for our 2024 event.

If there are any questions or concerns, please email speakers@bsidescharm.org