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Community Events and Trade Show List

SANS is committed to supporting cybersecurity community events and programs around the world to carry out our mission of educating as many people as possible with practical security skills. Learn more about upcoming community events and trade shows below.

Community Events

This list is meant for reference only. While SANS may sponsor some of the following events, they are not organized by SANS and are run by entities outside of SANS.
Event Name Location Event Start Date SANS Instructor(s) Event Site CFP Deadline
CactusCon Phoenix 2/4/22 "Ryan Chapman, Barrett Darnell" https://www.cactuscon.com/ 11/1/21
HackCon "Oslo, Norway" 2/9/22 https://www.hackcon.org/ -
SnowFROC "Denver, CO" 3/3/22 "Serge Borso, Aaron Cure" https://www.snowfroc.com/ 1/31/22
WiCyS- 2022 "Denver, CO" 3/17/22 https://www.wicys.org/events/wicys-2022/ -
InsomniHack 2022 Switzerland 3/24/22 https://insomnihack.ch/ -
Shmoocon Washington DC 3/24/22 https://www.shmoocon.org/ -
BSides Nashville "Nashville, TN" 4/2/22 https://bsidesnash.org/ -
AtlSecCon "Halifax, Nova Scotia" 4/7/22 "Adrien de Beaupré, Eric Conrad" https://atlseccon.com/ -
BSides Tampa "Tampe Bay, FL" 4/23/22 https://events.bsidestampa.net/B-SidesTampa2022/ 2/18/22
BSides Charm 2022 Baltimore 4/30/22 https://www.bsidescharm.org/ 2/14/22
WWHF Way West "San Diego, CA" 5/4/22 Chris Crowley https://wildwesthackinfest.com/way-west/ -
AUSCert Gold Coast 5/10/22 https://conference.auscert.org.au/ 1/30/22
CyberUK UK 5/10/22 https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/section/keep-up-to-date/cyberuk/ -
BSides Seattle "Redmond, WA" 5/14/22 https://www.bsidesseattle.com/2022-conference.html/ 12/15/21
CanSecWest "Vancouver BC, Canada" 5/18/22 https://www.secwest.net/agenda2022/ -
NolaCon "New Orleans, LA" 5/20/22 https://nolacon.com/ -
Paranoia Conference "Oslo, Norway" 5/23/22 https://paranoia.watchcom.no/ -
Qubit Prague Czech Republic 5/25/22 https://prague.qubitconference.com/ 3/15/22
ITWeb Security Summit "Johannesburg, South Africa" 5/31/22 https://www.itweb.co.za/event/itweb-security-summit-2022/ 2/28/22
BSidesSF San Francisco 6/4/22 https://bsidessf.org/ 10/25/21
RSA 2022 "San Francisco, CA" 6/6/22 https://www.rsaconference.com/usa/ 6/15/21
FIC France 6/7/22 https://www.forum-fic.com/en/2022-programme/ -
BSides SATX "San Antonio, TX" 6/18/22 https://www.bsidessatx.com/ 4/30/22
Infosec Europe 2022 UK 6/21/22 https://www.infosecurityeurope.com/en-gb.html/ -
BlackHat USA 2022 "Las Vegas, NV" 8/6/22 https://www.blackhat.com/us-22/ 4/4/22
DefCon 30 "Las Vegas, NV" 8/11/22 https://defcon.org/ 5/1/22
GSX (Global Security Exchange) "Atlanta, GA" 9/12/22 https://www.gsx.org/save-the-date/ 2/1/22
BSidesKC "Kansas City, MO" 9/23/22 https://bsideskc.org/ 5/28/22
GopherCon "Lake Buena Vista, FL" 9/26/22 https://www.gophercon.com/ 3/6/22
BruCON Belgium 9/29/22 https://www.brucon.org/2022/ 4/30/22
BSides Augusta "Augusta,m GA" 10/1/22 https://bsidesaugusta.org/ -
GrrCon "Grand Rapids, MI" 10/13/22 https://grrcon.com/ 6/30/22
it-sa Germany 10/25/22 https://www.it-sa.de/en/ -
Infosec Netherlands Netherlands 11/2/22 https://www.infosecurity.nl/ -
BSidesNoVA Northern Virginia TBA 2022 http://www.bsidesnova.org/ -
BSides Las Vegas Las Vegas TBA 2022 https://www.bsideslv.org/ -
GridSecCon USA TBA 2022 https://www.nerc.com/pa/CI/ESISAC/Pages/GridSecCon.aspx -
Black Hat Europe London TBA 2022 https://www.blackhat.com/eu-21/ -
CloudSec Virtual TBA 2022 https://www.cloudsec.com/ -
BSides Orlando "Orlando, FL" TBA 2022 https://bsidesorlando.org/ -

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As an attendee, you'll walk away from your Summit experience with a fresh perspective and new tools that you can immediately leverage in your work.