Security conferences

In 2019

Name	Location	CfP ends	Conference dates
OffensiveCon	Berlin, Germany	December 1	February 15-16 2019
BSides Budapest @BSidesBud	Budapest, Hungary	January 15 2019	March 28 2019
Disobey	Helsinki, Finland	Oct 31	Jan 11-12
Hack in Paris	Paris, France	December 10 (talk)	June 16-20 2019
Troopers	Heidelberg, Germany	November 19, 2019	March 18-22 2019
Insomnihack	Geneva, Switzerland	December 10	March 19-22 2019
Bsides Munich	Munich, Germany		March 24-25, 2019
RootedCON	Madrid, Spain	December 21	March 28-30, 2019
Paranoia	Oslo, Norway	Passed	May 21-22
CARO	Copenhagen, Denmark	January 14	23-24 May 2019
Confidence	Krakow, Poland	February 15	June 3-4
Hack In The Box	Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Feb 28	May 6-10
RuhrSec	Bochum, Germany	Passed ?	May 28-29
Copenhagen Cybercrime Conference	Copenhagen, DK	?	May 29
Virus Bulletin	London, UK	March 17	2-4 October 2019
BSides London	London, UK	March 20	June 5
SANS DFIR Europe Summit 2019 @sansforensics	Prague, CZ	March 29, 2019	September 30, 2019
Pass The Salt	Lille, France	March 31	July 1-3 2019
le Hack	Paris, France	April 8	July 6-7
Hardwear.io USA	Santa Clara, USA	April 25	June 11-14
44CON	London, UK	April 30	September 11
BruCon	Brussels, Belgium	April 30	October 10-11
Sthack	Bordeaux, France	?	June 14
Secsea	Marseille, France	?	June 15
Hardwear.io	The Hague, The Netherlands	May 15	September 26-27
r2con	Barcelona, Spain	July 1	September 6-7
Botconf	Bordeaux, France	July 5	December 4-6
SEC-T	Stockholm, Sweden	First round June 1 - Deadline Aug 1	September 19-20
T2.FI	Helsinki, Finland	July 31	October 24-25
MISP Threat Intelligence Summit	Luxembourg, Luxembourg	June 15, 2019	October 21, 2019
Hack.lu @hack_lu	Luxembourg, Luxembourg	June 15, 2019	October 22-24, 2019
BSides Luxembourg @BSidesLux	Luxembourg, Luxembourg	August 30, 2019	October 25, 2019
Hacktivity @hacktivityconf	Budapest, HU	July 15, 2019	October 25-26, 2019
BlackAlps	Yverdon les Bains, Switzerland	Open - Closing: ?	November 7-8
Defcamp	Bucharest, Romania	November 8-9
GreHack	Grenoble, France	July 19	November 15
BlackHat Europe		?	December 2-5
ph0wn CTF	Sophia Antipolis, France	-	December 13

Outside Europe

Name	Location	CfP ends	Conference dates
RSA Conference	San Francisco, USA	Closed	March 4 - 8
NorthSec	Montreal, Canada	?	May 14-20
NullCon	Goa, India	Nov 15, 2018	February 26 - March 2 2019
Recon	Montreal, Canada	May 12	June 28-30

In 2018

Conferences are ordered by submission date (as much as possible).

Name	Location	CfP ends	Conference dates
Hack It N @hack_it_n	Pessac, France	?	January 25
BSidesLeeds	Leeds, UK		January 26
DFRWS EU	Florence, Italy	October 9 2017	March 21-23 2018
OverDrive	Girona, Spain	December ?	April 18-20
RECon Brussels	Brussels, Belgium	?	January 29 - February 4 2018
CoRIIN	Lille, France	November 12	Jan 22
RootedCon	Madrid, Spain	?	March 1-3
Hack in Paris	Paris, France	Nov 29 (training), Feb 13 (talk)	June 25-29 2018
BSides Budapest @BSidesBud	Budapest, Hungary	Dec 15	March 1 2018
Troopers @WEareTROOPERS	Heidelberg, Germany	Dec 20	March 12-16 2018
Hack in the box	Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Dec 31 2017	Apr 9-13
CHES	Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Dec 31 2017	9-12 Sept 2018
JSSI	Paris, France	January 7 2018	March 13
Insomni'hack	Geneva, Switzerland	Jan 15	March 20-23 2018
Securi-Tay	Dundee, UK	Jan 15	March 2-3
THCon - Toulouse Hacking Convention	Toulouse, France	January 17	March 9-10
SSTIC	Rennes, France	Jan 28 2018	June 13-15 2018
RivieraDev	Sophia Antipolis, France	January 31, 2018	May 16-18 2018
BsidesMunich	Munich, Germany	February 1	April 8-9
BSidesLjubljana	Ljubljana, Slovenia	February 10	March 10 2018
Confidence	Krakow, Poland	February 28	June 4-5
BsidesCopenhagen @bsidescph	Copenhagen, Denmark	?	May 2018
PhDays	Moscow, Russia	March 10	May 15-16 2018
RuhrSec @ruhrsec	Essen, Germany	?	May 15-18 2018
WarCon @WarConPL	Warsaw, Poland	?	June 1-2, 2018
AREA41	Zurich, Switzerland	March 11	June 15-16, 2018
Bsides London	London, UK	March 15	June 6 2018
Paranoia	Oslo, Norway		May 29-30
Carthage Cyber Arena	Carthage, Tunisia		June 28-29
Pass the SALT	Lille, France	March 31	July 2-4, 2018
BsidesAthens @BSidesAth	Athens, Greece	April 2	June 23
SteelCon @Steel_Con	Sheffield, UK	April 24	July 7-9
SEC-T	Stockholm, Sweden	June 1	September 13-14
Bsides Manchester @BSidesMCR	Manchester, UK	June 4	August 16
R2con	Barcelona, Spain	End of June	September 5-8
t2.fi	Helsinki, Finland		October 25-26
BlackAlps	Yverdon les Bains, Switzerland	June 30	November 8-9
BruCon	Belgium	?	October 3-5
AMUSEC	Marseille, France	?	October 11-12
Hack.lu @hack_lu	Luxembourg	June 10	October 16-18
GreHack	Grenoble, France	July 1	November 16
SANS DFIR Summit @sansforensics	Prague, CZ	July 10, 2018	October 1, 2018
Hacktivity @hacktivityconf	Budapest, HU	July 15, 2018	October 12-13, 2018
Linux Security Summit	Edinburgh	July 16	October 25-26
BSides Luxembourg @BSidesLux	Luxemburg, Luxemburg	August 31	October 19
BlackHat Europe	London, UK	August 20	December 3-6
BotConf	Toulouse, France	?	December 4-7
NetSecure Day	Rouen, France	September 9	December 13
eSAME	Sophia Antipolis, France		December 13
ph0wn CTF	Sophia Antipolis, France	N/A	December 14
35C3	Leipzig, Germany	October 15	December 27-30

Outside Europe:

Name	Location	CfP ends	Conference dates
BlueHat IL @BlueHatIL	Tel Aviv,	Dec 4	January 23-24 2018
CrikeyCon	Brisbane, Australia	-	24 February
Nullcon	Goa, India	Nov 15, 2017	2-3 March 2018
Security Analyst Summit	Cancun, Mexico		March 7-11
Zer0con	Seoul, South Korea	February 25	29-30 March 2018
Virus Bulletin	Montreal, Canada	March 18	October 3-5
BlackHat US	Las Vegas, USA	April 9	August 8-9
DEFCON 26	Las Vegas, USA	May 1st	August 9-12 2018
WOOT	Baltimore, MD, USA	May 30	August 13-14

In 2017

Conferences are ordered by submission date (as much as possible).

Europe only

Name	Location	CfP ends	Conference dates
EuroS&P @IEEEEUROSP	Paris, France	Aug 4 2016	April 26-28
Eurocrypt	Paris, France	Oct 1 2016	April 30-May 4
Recon BRX @ReconBrx	Brussels, Belgium	November 27	January 23-27
THCon	Toulouse, France		March 3
RootedCon	Madrid, Spain	December 19	March 2-4
Hack in the box	Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Dec 31 2016	Apr 10-14
SecuriTay	Dundee, Scotland	January 8	February 24
RuhrSec	Bochum, Germany	January 15	May 2-5
SSTIC	Rennes, France	Jan 27	June 7-9
SHA2017	Scoutinglandgoed in Zeewolde Netherlands	February 1	August 4-8
CARO	Krakow, Poland	February 14	May 11-12
BSidesMunich @BSidesMunich	Munich, Germany	February 15	April 3
BSidesLjubljana	Ljubljana, Slovenia	February 14	March 10
DIMVA	Bonn, Germany	February 22	July 6-7
BSidesEdinburgh @BSidesEdinburgh	Edinburgh, Scotland	End of February	April 7
Android Security Symposium	Vienna, Austria	?	March 8-10
Sthack @sth4ck	Bordeaux, France	?	April 7
Insomni'hack	Geneva, Switzerland		March 23-24
Paranoia	Oslo, Norway	March 1	May 10-11
PhDays	Moscow, Russia	March 15	May 23-24
Virus Bulletin	Madrid, Spain	March 19	October 4-6
SecITC	Bucharest, Romania	March 17	June 8-9
ARES	Italy	March 31	August 30-Sept 1
WarCon	Warsaw, Poland	?	June 2-3
Confidence	Krakow, Poland	?	May 18-19
DotSecurity @DotSecurityIo	Paris, France	?	April 21
Security of Things World	Berlin, Germany	?	June 12-13
La nuit du hack	Paris, France	April 5	June 24-25
SecurityFest @securityfest	Gothenburg, Sweden	April 15	June 1
ESORICS	Oslo, Norway	April 19	September 11-15
BruCon	Bruxelles, Belgium	April 30	October 5-6
RMLL Security track	Saint Etienne, France		July 1-7
SteelCon	Sheffield, UK	?	July 15-17
Bornhack	Bornholm, Denmark	July 1st ~	August 22-27
AlligatorCon @AlligatorCon	Krakow, Poland	June 25	August 25-26
r2con	Barcelona, Spain	?	September 7-9
Hardwear.io	The Hague, Netherlands	May 20	September 21-22
44Con	London, UK	May 31	September 13-15
BSidesZurich @BSidesZurich	Zurich, Switzerland	June 20	September 23
MALWARE	Puerto Rico, USA	June 25	October 24-26
Hacktivity	Budapest, Hungary	June 30	October 20-21
BlackAlps @BlackAlpsConf	Yverdon les Bains, Switzerland	June 30	November 15-16
Sec-T	Stockholm, Sweden	July 1	September 12-15
SaSeIoT	Valencia, Spain	July 15	November 6-7
BotConf	Montpellier, France	July 15	December 5-8
Hack.lu	Luxemburg	July 21	October 16-19
Cardis	Lugano, Switzerland	July 21	November 13-15
GreHack	Grenoble, France	July 23	November 17
DeepSec	Vienna, Austria	July 31	November 14-17
EICAR		?	October ?
T2.fi	Helsinki, Finland	August 9	October 25-26
BSidesLuxembourg @BSidesLux	Luxemburg, Luxemburg	September 15	October 20
e-SAME - CTF on Nov 30	Sophia Antipolis, France	Invited talks	Nov 30-Dec 1
BlackHat EU	London, UK	August 14	December 4-7
ROOTS	Vienna, Austria	August 25	November 16-17
DefCamp	Bucharest, Romania	October 25	November 9-10
NetSecure Day	Rouen, France	October 31	December 14
ZeroNights	Moscow, Russia	October 1st	November 16-17
BSidesVienna @BSidesVienna	Vienna, Austria	October 12	November 18-19
BlackHoodie	Luxemburg	-	November 24-26
Ph0wn CTF	Sophia Antipolis, France	-	Nov 29 2017
34C3	Germany	?	December 29-30

Further away

Not exhaustive! I won't really be maintaining this list

Name	Location	CfP ends	Conference dates
BlackHat Asia	Singapore	October 31	March 28-31
IEEE S&P	San Jose, CA, USA	Nov 11 2016	May 22-24
Infiltrate @InfiltrateCon	Miami, USA	Dec 14	April 6 -7
RealWorldCrypto @RealWorldCrypto	New York City, USA	?	January 4-6
ShmooCon	Washington DC, USA	?	January 13-15
ENIGMA	Oakland, CA, USA	?	Jan 30 - Feb 1
CrikeyCon	Brisbane, Australia	?	Feb 25
ThotCon	Chicago, USA	Jan 1	May 4-5
eCrime	Scottdale, AZ, USA	January 13	April 25-27
DockerCon	Austin, TX, USA	-	April 17-20
RSA conference	San Francisco, USA	?	February 13-17
NullCon	Goa, India	?	February 28 - March 4
BSides Canberra	Canberra, Australia	?	Mar 17-18
USENIX Security	Vancouver, BC, Canada	February 16	August 16-18
WAHCKon	Perth, Australia	?	May 6-7
You Shot The Sheriff	Sao Paulo, Brasil	Feb 28	May 22
AtlSecCon	Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada	February 29	April 27-28
CanSecWest	Vancouver, Canada		March 15-17
NOPCon	Istanbul, Turkey	?	May ?
CircleCityCon	Indianapolis, IN, USA	March 3	June 9-11
Recon	Montreal, Canada	?	June 16-18
AfricaHackon	Nairobi, Kenya	?	June 24-24
NorthSec @NorthSec_io	Montreal, Canada	March 15	May 16-21
CHES	Taipei, Taiwan	March 17	September 25-28
WiSec	Boston, USA	March 20	July 18-20
SAS	St Maarten	?	April 2-6
ICMC @CryptoModConf	Washington DC, USA	?	May 16-19
BSidesKC @_BSidesKC	Kansas City, MO, USA		May 20
Recon	Montreal, Canada	?	June 16-18
BlackHat US	Las Vegas, USA		July 22-27
DEFCON 25	Las Vegas, USA	May 1	July 27-30
ACM CCS	Dallas, USA	May 19	October 30-Nov 1
USENIX WOOT	Vancouver, BC, Canada	May 31	August 14-15
HITCON	Taipei, Taiwan	?	August 25-26
Ekoparty @ekoparty and CFP	Buenos Aires, Argentina	?	September 27-29
MRMCD	Darmstadt, Germany	July 23	September 1-3
MALWARE	Puerto Rico, USA	June 25	October 24-26
Ruxcon	Melbourne, Australia	June 30	October 21-22
DerbyCon @DerbyCon	Louisville, KY, USA	July 1	September 20-24
SyScan	Beijing, China	July 31	September 12-13
NDSS	San Diego, USA	Aug 21 2016	Feb 18-21 2018
H2HC	Sao Paulo, Brasil	July 17	October 20-21
IoT Security Summit	Washington DC, USA	?	October 23-24
GrrCON	Grand Rapids, MI, USA	?	October 26-27
SecTor	Toronto, Canada	August 27	November 13-15
Hackfest	Quebec, Canada	September 30	November 3-4
AVAR	Beijing, China	September 30	December 6-8
Kiwicon	Wellington, New Zealand	October 14	November 17-18

Hey, that awesome conference is missing :)

• It's not an exhaustive list :)
• If it's awesome + not too far away + you'd like me to submit, be sure to tweet (@cryptax) me as perhaps I don't know about it :)

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