Cybersecurity

BSides Montreal 2026

BSides Montreal is a community-driven cybersecurity conference aimed at making information security knowledge accessible and affordable for all. The event encourages diverse talks that may not fit into mainstream conferences, fostering an inviting environment for newcomers and veterans alike to learn, teach, and share. It is an intimate, safe space prioritiz…

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30Speakers
10Sponsors
33Sessions
24Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at BSides, in alphabetical order.

Alessandra Rizzo
Senior Threat Researcher at Panther · Panther
Alex Holden
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Founder at Hold Security, LLC · Hold Security, LLC
Alexis Dorais-Joncas
Ali Alame
co-founder of CyberArmor · CyberArmor
Allyn Stott
Andre Piazza
Cybersecurity Strategist · BforeAI
Chaimaa Mhab
Global Cybersecurity Advisor at CAE · CAE
Charles F. Hamilton (Mr.Un1k0d3r)
Chris McDonald
Principal Systems Engineer · Veeam
Clément Cruchet
David Goulet
dead1nfluence
Penetration Tester at Software Secured · Software Secured
Faan Rossouw
Independent Researcher, Instructor @ AntiSyphon Training, Builder at AionSec.ai · AionSec.ai
Filip Jodoin
Offensive Security Professional
Francis Venne
Responsable de la sécurité informatique (RSI) · Wepoint Canada
Ikhtear Bhuyan
Jie Wu
Jonathan Nomed
Lee Yang Peng
Luke Jennings
VP of R&D at Push Security · Push Security
Mathieu Saulnier
Mina Movahedi

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

Beauceron Security
ESET
Flare
GoSecure
Mokn
Object First
Polysecure
Propolys (Polytechnique Montréal)
SEKOIA.IO
Sentrix

Agenda

Selected from 33 sessions.

  • 10:20AM – 10:45AM

    Breaking Backup: Attacking the Last Line of Defence

    Backups are widely treated as the last line of defence against ransomware and destructive attacks. In practice, they are often among the first systems deliberately targeted once an…

  • 10:45AM – 11:10AM

    Emmerdissement, Érosion de plateforme… et si on en parlait?

  • 11:05AM – 11:30AM

    Entra conditional access pLOLicies

    “Multifactor Authentication blocks 99% of attacks” - but only when a Conditional Access Policy (CAP) actually fires. Microsoft built CAPs to give IT teams fine-grained control over…

  • 1:10PM – 1:35PM

    Tinker Tailor LLM Spy: Investigate & Respond to Attacks on GenAI Chatbots

  • 1:10PM – 4:25PM

    Workshop “Windows Forensics for Insider Threat”

  • 11:10AM – 11:35AM

    Developing Your Own Local LLM (GenAI) for Cybersecurity GRC

  • 11:30AM – 11:55AM

    Rewiring the SOC: From Detection-as-Code to Agentic MDR in Production

    The SOC has always evolved to keep pace with attacker speed. Detection-as-Code introduced engineering discipline and version control to threat coverage. SOAR platforms brought auto…

  • 11:35AM – 12:00PM

    Agentic Access: OAuth Gets You In. Zero Trust Keeps You Safe

  • 11:55AM – 12:20PM

    Can LLMs Really Find IDORs? Limits of AI Security Reasoning

    Can AI actually find IDORs in real code? We tested top coding agents against real-world apps - and the results were mixed. The models discovered genuine vulnerabilities, but also g…

Company intelligence

An audience of 24 companies, parsed from the program.

24 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.

Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
10Sponsoringsponsor only
14Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

13% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite13%
  • Founder / Owner13%
  • VP-level13%
  • Director / Head of13%
  • Manager / Lead27%
  • Research / Science413%
  • Advisor / Investor13%
  • Other roles1963%

Of 30 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1Beauceron SecuritySponsor-
2ESETSponsor-
3FlareSponsor-
4GoSecureSponsor-
5MokNSponsor-
6Object FirstSponsor-
7PolysecureSponsor-
8Propolys (Polytechnique Montréal)Sponsor-
9Sekoia.ioSponsor-
10SentrixSponsor-
11Act Digital Canada1
12AionSec.ai1
13BforeAI1
14Broadcom (Symantec)1
Sponsors by tier
unspecified10
100% of 10
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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