🎤 BSidesSF 2026 Call for Participation is OPEN until October 28th, 2025!

We’re thrilled to announce that the CFP for BSidesSF 2026 is now live! Submit your presentations, workshops, and ideas to be part of our upcoming program.

This year’s theme is BSidesSF: The Musical — and it promises to be bigger, bolder, and louder than ever. We can’t wait to see what our amazing community brings to the stage!

What

BSidesSF is a non-profit organization designed to advance the body of Information Security knowledge, by providing an annual, open forum for discussion and debate for security practitioners. We produce a conference that is a source of education, collaboration, and continued conversation for information technologists. The technical and academic presentations at BSidesSF are given in the spirit of peer review and advanced knowledge dissemination. This allows the field of Information Security to grow in breadth and depth, and continue in its pursuit of highly advanced, scientifically based knowledge.

We are a practitioner-focused event that attracts a wide range of attendees ranging from engineers & security leaders to executive decision makers. This is a great opportunity for you to showcase your work and share your ideas with industry peers. Bonus points if you can tie your presentation to this year’s conference theme!

The BSides community has continuously raised the bar and put the info back in infosec. We thank each and every member/participant/organizer of this community for their hard work, sweat, and relentless pursuit of making high quality content accessible. We celebrate diverse approaches and points of view and believe that our commitment to diversity fosters innovation. BSidesSF is continuing to build upon a culture that drives our community to include a wide range of thoughts and ideas.

Note: We DO NOT provide speaker or travel reimbursements at this time (except on a case-by-case basis with villages). We also DO NOT accept vendor pitches of any sort in our conference program. Thank you for your understanding.

When/Where

BSidesSF will take place on March 21-22, 2026. The conference will be located at City View at the Metreon in downtown San Francisco.

Theme

🎵 BSidesSF: The Musical 🎶

This year, we’re turning up the volume and spotlighting the rhythm of security.
Like a musical score where harmony meets dissonance, today’s infosec landscape is a composition of challenges, innovations, and unexpected crescendos.
We’re calling on our community to take the stage: share your symphonies of success, your improvisations during incidents, and your orchestrations of offense.

Whether your session is a solo act or part of a larger ensemble, come help us make BSidesSF 2026 a performance to remember!

Submit to the CFP!

Our —> CFP <— is now open and will close on October 28th, 2025. Don’t miss your chance to submit!

Questions?

E-mail program [at] bsidessf.org

You can also ping @program-ops in #2026-cfp-helpdesk on the BSidesSF Slack (use the Slack logo at top right of page for an invite to the Slack).