At Red Canary, we champion knowledge sharing within the cybersecurity community. To support this, we actively track calls for papers (CFPs) for security conferences, empowering our experts and others in the community to contribute their insights through speaking engagements.
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Open CFPs
The following CFPs are listed in order of submission due date. All close in the next 90 days.
CackalackyCon 2026
Durham, NC | May 15-17, 2026
Submissions due by February 15, 2026
NolaCon 2026
New Orleans, LA | May 15-17, 2026
Submissions due by February 28, 2026 (Round 1)
Hack the Bay 3.0
San Francisco, CA | March 23, 2026
Submissions due by March 1, 2026
NorthSec 2026
Montreal, QC | May 14-15, 2026
Submissions due by March 2, 2026 (Round 2)
fwd:cloudsec North America 2026
Bellevue, WA | June 1-2, 2026
Submissions due by February 13, 2026 (Round 1)
Watch Matt Graeber’s Bob Ross-themed talk from last year’s fwd:cloudsec: “Painting Pictures with Microsoft Cloud and Identity Data.”
BSides Boulder 2026
Boulder, CO | June 13, 2026
Submissions due by March 10, 2026
Black Hat USA 2026
Las Vegas, NV | August 4-6, 2026
Submissions due by March 20, 2026
RVAsec 15 2026
Richmond, VA | June 9-10, 2026