Thank you for your interest in applying to speak at BSides Seattle 2026, which will be held in-person on Friday and Saturday, February 27 and 28, in Redmond, WA. Decisions on submissions will be sent no later than December  8.

This year's theme is United We Secure. The world can be a scary place. The attackers relentless, the malware insidious and the user overwhelmed. Collaboration in the workplace, the industry, the public sector, and our community strengthens all. While it would be great for you to incorporate this into your submission, it is not a requirement at all.

Real-World Chronicles: Real-world lessons from engineering and securing complex workloads. This topic focuses on tackling hard security problems through innovative approaches, frameworks, tools, and processes.
Lurking Dangers: The threat landscape is constantly evolving and keeping up with threat actors, TTPs, and attack techniques is a challenge for all. This topic focuses on the latest threats and attacks seen in the wild as well as new vulnerabilities discovered.
Uncharted Territory: Pushing the boundaries of security in new and interesting ways. This topic focuses on items like investigating ways an attacker might use and abuse systems that haven’t been seen in the wild, discovering strange or unexpected behavior in systems, or a deep dive into a very specific (new) niche in the security world.
Bridging Divides: Building community and raising others up. This topic focuses on the human side of security and how we can all make each other stronger and more resilient by sharing our lessons learned through our careers and community building both inside and outside our organizations.
Sec Jam (Workshop): This topic is for hands-on workshops. These sessions should include skills building activities and be applicable to a wide range of security professionals while being as tool agnostic as possible.  

If you’ve got interesting security content that you’re not sure where it belongs, don’t worry - put it in anyway, and pick whichever track you think is the best fit. The review board will consider it on its merits just as any other submission.
Talks can be 25 or 55 minutes including Q&A
Workshops can be 4-hours, 8-hours, or 2 days.

Additional information. Please be sure to follow this to avoid your submission from being rejected:
•    Talks must be submitted by the author / speaker who performed the work, and not by PR agencies or marketing teams on the speaker’s behalf. 
•    Do not include PII (your name, your company name, etc.) in your submission. 
•    CFP submissions must abide by our  Code of Conduct.
•    CFP submissions cannot be sales pitches for products/services or marketing campaigns. 
•    While security is a team effort, talks may have at most two presenters. 
•    Panels can have up to 4 panelists and a moderator.
•    You can submit up to 2 different submissions.

Unsure what we look for in talks? Examples of previously accepted submissions can be found here:

• Example 1 (55 minute talk)
  
• Example 2 (25 minute talk)
  
• Example 3 (55 minute panel)
• Example 4 (Workshop)
  

If you have questions about the CFP please reach out to us (bsidesseattle.presentations@gmail.com).