2026 SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN!!!
BSides Aberystwyth solicits submissions in the form of a short abstract.
For the purposes of example, we use the case of a password manager. We do not want 20 submissions on password manager related subjects, but it serves here as an example.
No aspect of Cyber-security should be considered out of scope, too technical or not technical enough.
Submission Types
Submissions are open until 31st of October 2026
The submission should take the following format and be emailed to:
Title
Abstract of your proposed talk (max 300 words)
- What are you going to talk about, why is it interesting and why attend.
Explain why you would be good at delivering this talk/workshop (max 150 words)
- This could be your research, reflections, experience, a happy accident or that you are just really interested. Its also OK if you previously knew nothing about the subject, but just really want to present at BSides and that motivated you to dig in and share what you learned.
What concerns you about presenting at BSides? (max 100 words)
- This is NOT considered part of the decision. If you need a little help, we are then aware from the start. This can be left blank if there are no concerns.
We don’t expect all talks to be relevant to all members of the audience. We assume for the purposes of judging relevance that the audience is composed in equal parts of established cyber-security professionals, interested locals, early career or aspirational cyber security professionals and computer science students.
We are cool with a talk that as a side effect benefits an individual or a company’s profile, but it must only be a side effect and not the core feature of the talk.
Original submission is compared to other talks submitted. If there are 15 talks submitted on secure coding and large language models, those 15 will score lower to help avoid too concentrated a programme.
We are also open to submissions to run a Capture The Flag competition. Much as the organisers would like to be involved in this, we can’t run the event and a CTF, so you would be on your own on the day itself.
While the organiser will know who has submitted each proposal, the panel of submission assessors will not, so the final decisions will be on balance blind.
A.I. Policy
We assume that the submitter is responsible for the substance of their own submission. We also assume that A.I. tools have been used to improve the wording, grammar and to remove typo’s. When you submit your abstract you are telling us that it was your own idea and that you wrote the substance of the abstract. If you are, for example, using ChatGPT to overcome some aspect of dyslexia, then please be upfront and it will be taken into account. If we suspect that a submission is mostly A.I. generated, we will contact you to set us straight. We will reject submissions which turn out to be A.I. generated in substance.
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