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AI Village @ DEF CON 34

Join AI Village at DEF CON 34 for demos, CTF, and a new poster track on adversarial attacks against agents and agentic systems. AI Village brings together hackers, researchers, engineers, and policymakers to advance public-interest AI security through education, hands-on activities, and community research.

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33Speakers
1Sponsors
25Sessions
6Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at AI, in alphabetical order.

Aditi Narasimhan
Brandon Kovacs
Bruce Schneier
Curt Barnard
Anthropic
Daniel Fabian
Google
David C Eight
UK NCSC AI Safety Institute
Dr. Deepti Gupta
Emanuel Gawrieh
AI Village Co-Chair · Google
Emily Soward
Emma Yuan Fang
Farzaan Kaiyom
Heather Adkins
Google
Ingmar Van Glabbeek
Jack Cable
Jason Clinton
Anthropic
Jeff Crume
Jigar Bhavsar
Google
João Maria Campos Donato
Zenity
Julie Brunias
Karol Piekarski
Krity Kharbanda
Matt Galligan

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

Reality Defender

Agenda

Selected from 25 sessions.

  • During village hours

    AI Village Plays Pokémon: DEF CON Edition

    A novice-friendly competition and live demo showing how custom tooling can give local models the ability to play Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen. All of the models and tools are open…

  • During village hours

    Cyber Mirage: Real-Time Deepfake Demos

    Shows how open-source video and voice-cloning tools enable convincing real-time impersonation on consumer hardware. It runs during village hours on all three days.

  • During village hours

    HalCTF: Hostile Autonomous Layer CTF

    An agentic security competition. Build an autonomous agent, package it as an OCI container, and deploy it against sandboxed challenges. All model inference runs through our central…

  • Friday 10:00–10:30 AM

    Opening Remarks

  • Friday 11:00 AM–12:00 PM

    Federated AI Agent Community Forum & DNS-AID Discovery Lab @ AI Village

  • Friday 1:30–3:00 PM

    Keynote Panel: What is the Right Balance of Rules for Defenders & Adversaries?

    Policy, product safety, and thirty years of history. Moderation on whether restricting dual-use AI capability protects defenders or hands attackers the advantage.

  • Friday 2:00–3:00 PM

    Fooling Coding Agents for Fun and Profit

    Fireside chat
  • Friday 3:00–4:00 PM

    Pwning the Internet of Agents: Zero-Click Backdoors in OpenClaw and a Global Agent Botnet on MoltBook

    Fireside chat
  • Friday 4:00–4:30 PM

    AgentBreaker: A blind spot detector for your coding agents

Company intelligence

An audience of 6 companies, parsed from the program.

Six companies in attendance.

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  • Other roles33100%

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