Call for Speakers

Balkan Cybersecurity Days 2025

The call for speakers is open to the global community at large, however, ideal candidates are those interested in, familiar with, or have recent experience working within the Balkan region.

If you are interested in participating as a speaker or panelist please complete the submission form for consideration.

Submissions must be received by February 10th, 2025 20:00 UTC.

Please keep the following guidelines in mind before submitting:

• Plenary and panel sessions are limited to either 30 or 60-minute durations, inclusive of audience question and answer. Plenary and panel sessions will host multiple speakers. Individual talk times will range anywhere from 10-20-minutes. Plenary and panel topics can be found below.
• Please have a brief biography (1-2 paragraphs) ready at submission time.
• This event will be open to the community at large and the plenary day will be recorded for public viewing. Plenary materials should be TLP:CLEAR. For more information about the Traffic Light Protocol, visit https://www.first.org/tlp/.

No marketing presentations that purposely promote vendor products.

Call for Speakers Guidelines

We welcome all themes and topics that might be of interest to incident response teams.

Suggested Session and Panel Topics Include...

• Incident Handling

  • Case studies, lessons learned, IR playbooks
  • Tools, trends, and security technologies
  • Attack trend updates (malware, bots, DDoS, etc.)
  • Malware analysis, anti-virus evasion, etc.
  • AI and ML applications, AI approaches applied to network attacks detection
  • Submarine Cable attacks
  • DNS Cache poisoning
    
    

• Network Monitoring

  • Attack detection, mitigation, and remediation
  • Attack trend updates (malware, bots, DDoS, etc.)
  • DNS, IPv6, and routing security and best practices
    
    

• Application and Product Security

  • Product security, PSIRT
  • Supply chain cyber resilience
  • Secure Dev-Ops
  • CVE
    
    

• Open-source Tooling

  • OSINT
  • Threat intelligence sharing platforms and tools
    
    

• Standards and Frameworks

  • CIS controls
  • Security standards
    
    

• Cyber Security Policy and Strategy

  • Norms and CBMs
  • Cybersecurity economics
  • Funding models
  • National strategies
  • Capacity building
  • Security awareness

• Team Updates

• Data Privacy

• Social Media Mitigation Best Practices

Presenter Privileges

There is no fee to attend the event. Accepted speakers will be required to complete the online event registration form for badging purposes.

Submission Procedure

All submissions must be submitted via the online submission form.

Access the Submission Form!

Submissions must be received by February 9th, 2024 20:00 UTC.

Important Dates

• Call for Papers/Speakers Open: December 23^rd, 2024
• Call for Papers/Speakers Close: February 10^th, 2025
• Notification of Acceptance: Week of February 17^th, 2025
• Acceptances Due: February 24^rd, 2025
• Final Versions for Approval Due: March 9^th, 2025

Speaker Privileges

This is a free conference; we are unable to sponsor travel or other honorarium support.