Welcome to the CFP for BSides Nashville 2023!! We strive to have a varied and diverse set of presentations. You may have a great basic-level talk for new folks that can be a refresher for seasoned professionals. Feel the need to engage an audience in a presentation that extrapolates into the stratosphere? We want those too.
If this is your first BSides CFP submission, or you want to delve into some BSides history, navigate to this link to get a feel for the style that is BSides.
BSides Nashville follows a blind CFP protocol. When you submit, the platform will ask for identifying information. This information will be hidden from the evaluation team. BSides Nashville has a core foundation that includes an atmosphere of learning and inclusion. In order to provide diversity of speakers, it is important that we remove implicit bias and a blind CFP supports this. Please respect this protocol and refrain from referring to yourself by name, gender, or ethnicity in the presentation descriptions. This would not apply if, for example, you were submitting for a Green track and the presentation was specific to gender or ethnicity.
Looking forward to reviewing all of the breadth and depth of topic options for BSides Nashville 2023. Just a few items before you send in your submission:
A special note for our potential speakers who live outside the United States. As we are a small conference, we do not have the budget or personnel to support travel and lodging expenses or to facilitate visas.