Call for Papers
Adversary Village at DEF CON 34
6 Aug 2026
9 Aug 2026
Las Vegas Convention Center Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Adversary Village is a community initiative which primarily focuses on adversary simulation/emulation, purple teaming, and adversary tradecraft. The village covers offensive operations, threat/APT/ransomware simulation, breach and adversarial attack simulation, supply chain security, adversary tactics, research on nation-state-sponsored threat-actors, adversary intelligence, adversarial mindset, philosophy, and hacker survival skills.
The goal of the Adversary Village is to build an open security community for the researchers and organizations, who are putting together new means, methodologies towards the simulation-emulation of adversary tactics and collaboration.
Adversary Village shall focus on hosting hands-on deep technical workshops, live demonstrations, panel discussions and a ton of other hands-on activities on adversarial attack simulation/emulation, adversary tactics and hacker survival skills.
We are excited to be back at DEF CON this year!
Call for Papers
14 Apr 2026
31 May 2026
[The call for talks closes on 12th June]
[Call for workshops closes on 12th June!]
Please submit your awesome research to Adversary Village at DEF CON 34, this year.
Presentation categories
- Talks [30 minutes]
[The talks will be hosted in the DEF CON Creator Stage] - Workshops [2 hours | Hands-on deep technical workshops]
[The workshops will be hosted in the Adversary Village area] - Offensive and Adversary Tools [30 minutes]
- Hands-on Activity [2 hours]
What kind of content we want?
Note: We only accept submissions strictly focused on below mentioned topics. If you have talks outside the mentioned topics, please refer other DEF CON Village CFPs.
The talks have to be vendor neutral and the submissions should not be a sales pitch of products/services, or marketing campaigns.
If you would like to recognize your organization as a sponsor, please review our Sponsorship opportunities.
- Adversary simulation / Adversary emulation
- Purple teaming and detection engineering
- Offensive cyber security operations
- Threat-Informed Defense
- Latest adversary tactics, offensive trade-craft, tools and TTPs
- Cyber adversary threat intelligence and incident response
- Nation state sponsored threat actors, Targeted cyber attacks
- New tactics, techniques and procedures for simulation or emulation
- Breach and adversarial attack simulation, Security control validation
- Simulation plans, platform and infrastructure
- Threat / APT / Ransomware / Threat actors research, emulation and defense
- Hacker survival tactics and culture
- Adversary philosophy and adversarial mindset
Speaker benefits: - This is a community event and we will not be able to sponsor the expenses of the speakers OR the DEF CON tickets.
- But, we may have a limited number of DEF CON passes, which will be given first come, first served basis.
- Tons of love and respect from the community!
- Finally, the Adversary Village speaker goodie bag and cool ADV badges!
- Adversary Village at DEF CON 34 timeline
- August 6th to 9th 2026, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas
- DEF CON Villages webpage:https://defcon.org/html/defcon-34/dc-34-villages.html
- DEF CON Forum:
- CFP review board: https://adversaryvillage.org/cfp-review-board-dc34/
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