Thank you for your interest in submitting to speak or train at BSidesCharm 2026.
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 2026 event. Talk can be either 20 minutes or 50 minutes. Training sessions can be either 3 hours or 6.5 hours. Multiple submissions are allowed by the same person. The Call for Paper will CLOSE on 30 Jan 2026. 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, from the Shmoocon page in the Internet Archive is a link to some [tips] (https://web.archive.org/web/20250513225221/https://www.shmoocon.org/2019/10/28/cfp-submissions-hints-and-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