NaClCON Schedule

Join us May 31-June 2, 2026 at Courtyard by Marriott Carolina Beach Oceanfront, for talks, workshops, and networking with top minds from our industry and culture (SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE)

TALKS

CEREMONIES

MEALS

VENDOR VILLAGE

SUNDAY MAY 31

DAY 1

1pm - 2pm: Registration & Bag Check

2pm - 4pm: Opening Ceremony with CTF & Badge Intro brought to you by DEAD MEAT SOCIETY and SHIPSTONE

4pm - 6pm: Hotel Check-In & Welcome Mixer/Open Bar brought to you by BSIDES312

6pm - 8pm: Speaker Dinner @ Sunny Daze BBQ

6pm - 7pm: Boardwalk Bar Crawl

7pm - 11pm: Hotel Pool Party/Open Bar brought to you by BSIDES312 with DJ Lex Longa

8pm - 11pm: Fireside Chats with Edison Carter - Digital Hooligan: Origin and Exploits of an Old- School Hacker and Phone Phreak Dustin Heywood - The early Hashcat beta days, the rise of the Alberta Hashcat super cluster, DROWN [..] Tom Jackiewicz - Operational SunDevil, Gail Thackeray, and details of those things

11pm - 2am: Boardwalk Bar Crawl

MONDAY JUNE 1

DAY 2

7:30am - 9am: Sweet Sunshine Breakfast

9am - 5pm: VISIT VENDORS & VILLAGES ROOM DAILY

9am - 10am: Opening Keynote - Lee Felsenstein - Homebrew Computing Club, Me and My Big Ideas, The History of Hacking" brought to you by ThreatLocker

10am - 11am: Edison Carter / Jericho - Life in an Early 90's Hacker Group

11am - 12pm: Josh Corman / Casey John Ellis - Smashing the (Policy) Stack for … Public Safety & (Not) Profit?!

12pm - 1pm: Heidi & Bruce Potter - AMA with the Potters

1pm - 2pm: Savory South BBQ Lunch brought to you by MITNICK SECURITY

2pm - 3pm: Andrew Brandt - Bring Me (Back) To Life: Running early hacking tools on obsolete computers

3pm - 4pm: Johnny Shaieb - Axiomatic Events that Evolved Vulnerability Databases

4pm - 5pm: Richard Thieme (REMOTE) - human impacts of technological change

5pm - 6pm: HAPPY HOUR brought to you by BSIDES312

6pm - 8pm: Hacker Jeopardy

8pm - 11pm: Fireside Chats with Jeff Man - Meanwhile at the NSA Noid - DEFCON War Stories with Unkie Noid. Hack Beer'd - Avast, ye LAN lubbers! Grab a grog and park yer ParrotOS while cap'n HackBeer'd tells a `tail -f /dev/urandom`.

10pm - 11pm: Dual Core Private Hotel Performance

11pm - 2am: Boardwalk Bar Crawl

TUESDAY JUNE 2

DAY 3

7:30am - 9am: Shore to Fill Breakfast

9am - 5pm: VISIT VENDORS & VILLAGES ROOM DAILY

9am - 10am: G Mark Hardy - A Hacker Looks at 50

10am - 11am: Benjamin DeLong - In January 1999, a small group of volunteers at Attrition.org decided to do something no one else was doing systematically: capture and archive defaced websites

11am - 12pm: Jamie Arlen - An epic career of doing all the wrong things and somehow still being right

12pm - 1pm: Brain Harden (Noid) - Community Organizing Before Social Media… How we did it

1pm - 2pm: Taco Tuesday Beach Lunch brought to you by MITNICK SECURITY

2pm - 3pm: Izzac Falken - ## The Persistent Antipattern'); DROP TABLE keynote; -- In-band Signaling

3pm - 4pm: Mei Danowski - Subduing the Enemy Without Fighting: Ancient Strategy & the Birth of China's Early Hacker Imagination

4pm - 5pm: Closing Keynote - Chris Wysopal brought to you by RedHelm

5pm - 6pm: HAPPY HOUR brought to you by BSIDES312 and Book Signing

6pm - 8pm: Hacker Jeopardy

8pm - 11pm: Dinner & Closing Ceremony @ The Lazy Pirate

11pm - 2am: Boardwalk Bar Crawl