Recon 2026 Call For Papers - June 19 to 21, 2026 - Montreal, Canada

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           .            June 19 to 21, 2026                     .
                         Montreal, Canada                    .

REcon is a computer security conference with a focus on reverse
engineering and advanced exploitation techniques.  It is held annually
in Montreal, Canada.

The conference offers a single track of presentations over the span
of three days along with technical training sessions held before
the presentation dates.  Technical training varies in length between
two and four days.

REcon 2026 is almost upon us.  As with years past, it will offer a
great lineup of trainings, talks from some of the top reversers in the
world, and a lot of fun.

Attendees help define the event. They have always been, and will always
be, those looking to learn something new, share ideas, and unwind in a
welcoming environment. With the release of this CFP, we are happy to
announce registration is now open.

We are now inviting speakers to submit proposals for this year's talks.
Some guidelines for talks are:

 - 30 or 60 minute presentations

 - We are open to proposals for workshops that would occur alongside talks.
   REcon have a dedicated area for workshop and
   village, there will be a Software and a hardware village,
   the Hardware village will have a electronic lab.
   We are planning to bring soldering equipment, BGA Station,
   microscope, Oscilloscope, Spectrum Analyser, Protocol Analyser,
   Bench Power supply, reflow oven, 3D Printer, ... Note that the
   talks will be broadcasted in the workshops area so you won't miss
   anything.

 - There will be time for five to ten minute informal lightning talks
   during the REcon party

Registration for training is also now open. This year we have another
great set of trainings available:

- Advanced .NET Exploitation by Sina Kheirkhah
- Advanced IC Reverse Engineering & Data Extraction by Olivier Thomas
- Advanced Malware Reverse Engineering by Marion Marschalek
- AI Agents for Cybersecurity by Richard Johnson
- Attacking Real-World IoT and Embedded Devices by Patrick Ventuzelo
- Automated Reverse Engineering by Kyle Martin
- Automating Reverse Engineering with AI/ML, Graphs, and LLM Agents by Malachi Jones
- Bug Hunting in Hypervisors by Corentin Bayet & Bruno Pujos
- Building Agentic RE by John McIntosh
- Embedded & Shredded by Caleb Davis
- Exploiting the Linux Kernel by Andrey Konovalov
- Modern Malware OPSEC by Silvio La Porta & Antonio Villani
- Modular Implant Design for Windows by Kai (Kbsec)
- Reversing Modern Binaries by Daniel Frederic & Mathieu Hoste
- Rust Development for Cyber Security by Tanguy Duhamel & Christophe Matthieu
- Software Deobfuscation Techniques by Tim Blazytko
- The Art of Fault Injection by Cristofaro Mune
- The FLARE Team's Guide to Reverse Engineering Modern Malware by Josh Stroschein
- Windows Internals for Reverse Engineers by Yarden Shafir

The conference talks in the following fields are encouraged (but not
limited to):

 - Hardware reverse engineering
 - Software reverse engineering
 - Protocol reverse engineering
 - Finding vulnerabilities and writing exploits
 - Novel data visualization for hackers and reverse engineers
 - Bypassing security and software protections
 - Attacks on cryptography in hardware and software
 - Techniques for any of the above on new or interesting architectures
 - Wireless hacking (We aren't talking about wifi here)
 

Speakers Benefits:

 - Invite to speaker dinner the night before the conference
 - Invite to speaker after party
 - Full access to the conference
 - Unless your employer can cover your travel costs, We will reimburse your travel for economic
   Class round trip and hotel for at least 1 speaker / talk ( for more than one speaker,
   we'll need to evaluate)
 - If it's a new talk that has never been presented before, you get 1000 USD
 - 40% rebate for a Recon Training
 - 10% rebate for up to 5 of your friends / coworkers


How to submit: https://cfp.recon.cx/recon-2026/cfp

Get back to us soon! The first round of the CFP will end on March 28,
and the CFP closes on April 25.

Submit CFP