We appreciate your desire to contribute to the Blue Team Cybersecurity community. BSides are exactly that, community-driven events by the infosec community for the infosec community, and your contributions help make this event successful.

We are looking for talks and training sessions for our 2025 event. Talks 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 31 Jan 2025. Notifications will go out about 14 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 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.

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

You can enter proposals until 2025-01-19 23:59 (US/Eastern), 1 month, 4 weeks from now.