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BSides Boulder 2026

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Sides Boulder is a community-driven information security conference held in Boulder, Colorado. The event offers participants the opportunity to engage in talks and activities focused on cybersecurity topics, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing.

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18Voices
5Underwriters
0Exhibitors
19On the bill · sessions
16Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at BSides, in alphabetical order.
Aaron Rosenmund
Managing Dir, Tradecraft & Programs, OnDefend · OnDefend
Abhilasha Kalkunte Ramaswamy
Annie Hedgpeth
Co-Founder of People Work · People Work
Ariel Ropek
Principal Threat Researcher · Panther Labs
Derron Carstensen
Security practitioner and researcher
Harshad Sadashiv Kadam
Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer
Jacob Burgess
Jason Ford
Principal Research Engineer · Proofpoint
Jason Norred
CISO · Solutions II
Mani Sai Kamal Darla
Senior Data Analyst
Matt Barnett
CEO · SEVN-X
Michael Haag
Principal threat research engineer · Splunk
Natalie Somersall
Principal Field Engineer, Public Sector · XBOW
Nathaniel Quist
Senior Threat Researcher, Unit 42 | Prisma Cloud · Palo Alto Networks
Tejas Luthra
Student · SANS Technology Institute
Theresa Beazer
Cyber security practitioner
Thiago Vieira
Founder cybertech, Lawyer, Business Angel
Will Shand
Senior Research Engineer · Karambit.AI
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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Material SecurityContributing
Rule4Leading
ScannerLeading Sponsor
Sythe LabsLeading Sponsor
Ten Eleven VenturesContributing
§III

The Programme

Selected from 19 sessions on the bill.
  • 10:00 am

    Defending Elections Low Hanging Fruit: Reducing 90% of the Risk with 10% of the Effort

  • 10:00 am

    Firewalls and Friendships: Building a Balanced Professional Network

  • 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

    Workshop: Bypassing Windows Antivirus: Practical Evasion Techniques for Red Team Operation

  • 10:55 am

    ClickGrab: A Year of Hunting ClickFix and FakeCAPTCHA in the Wild

  • 10:55 am

    Forensic Challenges in Real-World Cases of Digital Manipulation

  • 11:50 am

    BSides Boulder Internals

  • 12:00 pm

    Lunch

  • 1:30 pm

    Cloud Fingerprints: Attributing Cloud Attacks Through Alert Pattern Analysis

  • 1:30 pm

    Data Analytics as Cyber Defense: Scaling Security Intelligence

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 16 companies, parsed from the program.

Sixteen companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
0All threespeak · spons · exh
5Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
11Companies Speakingspeaker only
02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

22% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite211%
  • Founder / Owner211%
  • Manager / Lead16%
  • Engineer · IC211%
  • Research / Science633%
  • Other roles528%

Of 18 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01Material SecuritySp·C
  2. 02rule4Sp·L
  3. 03ScannerSp·L
  4. 04Sythe LabsSp·L
  5. 05Ten Eleven VenturesSp·C
  6. 06Karambit.AI1V
  7. 07OnDefend1V
  8. 08Palo Alto Networks1V
  9. 09Panther Labs1V
  10. 10People Work1V
  11. 11Proofpoint1V
  12. 12SANS Technology Institute1V
  13. 13SEVN-X1V
  14. 14Solutions II1V
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
contributing2
40% of 5
leading1
20% of 5
leading sponsor2
40% of 5