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Hardwear.io USA 2026

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ardwear.io USA 2026 is an in-person conference focused on hardware security, featuring intensive trainings, top-notch talks, professional networking, CTF challenges, and the HardPwn contest. The event brings together hardware researchers, innovators, contributors, and hackers to discuss current and future challenges in hardware security.

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19Voices
7Underwriters
0Exhibitors
17On the bill · sessions
8Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at Hardwear.io, in alphabetical order.
Assem
Daniel Wegemer
Dr. Yossi Oren
Associate Professor · Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Edoardo Mantovani
Eugene Lim
Guanxing Wen
Hash Salehi
Jakub Szefer
Jasper van Woudenberg
Nathan Nye
Philippe Teuwen
Piero Picasso
Rajesh Velegalati
Roman Korkikian
Ruiyi Zhang
Scott Sheahan
Sébastien Dudek
Sultan Qasim Khan
Will Eatherton
SVP, Head of Cisco Networking Engineering · Cisco
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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
CiscoSilver
eShardBronze
DevIT JobCommunity Sponsor
InfoSecMapCommunity Sponsor
LedgerCommunity Sponsor
QuarkslabCommunity Sponsor
Somerset ReconNetworking Party Sponsor
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The Programme

Selected from 17 sessions on the bill.
  • 10:05 – 10:45

    Confusing CNNs on NPUs with LLMs using FI; or, how much AI can we fit?

  • 11:05 – 11:50

    Out-of-Box Exploitation: Breaking the Trust Chain of the Ethereum Phone

  • 11:15 – 11:55

    Breaking the Root of Trust: Practical Side-Channel Key Extraction from a TPM

  • 11:55 – 12:40

    Supercharging the PicoEMP with Surplus High-Voltage Supplies

  • 12:00 – 12:40

    Your Mediatek WiFi Chip's Secrets: Bypassing Firmware Encryption

  • 13:40 – 14:20

    Hacking 5G: From Radio Security to the APIs

  • 13:40 – 14:20

    Workshop: Introduction to IoT Security: Hands-On CTF Style Lab

  • 13:40 – 14:25

    Security Analysis of Bluetooth Channel Sounding: Protocol and Implementations

  • 14:25 – 15:05

    StackWarp: Breaking AMD SEV-SNP Integrity via Deterministic Stack-Pointer Manipulation through the CPU’s Stack Engine

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 8 companies show up — and 1 bet on three roles at once?

Eight companies. one are betting more than once.

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
1All threespeak · spons · exh
6Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
1Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Cisco

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

5% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • VP-level15%
  • Other roles1895%

Of 19 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01CiscoSp·S1V
  2. 02DevIT JobSp·C
  3. 03eShardSp·B
  4. 04InfoSecMapSp·C
  5. 05LedgerSp·C
  6. 06QuarkslabSp·C
  7. 07Somerset ReconSp·N
  8. 08Ben-Gurion University of the Negev1V
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
silver1
14% of 7
bronze1
14% of 7
community sponsor4
57% of 7
networking party sponsor1
14% of 7
05Fig. 05 — The Missing · who's 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.

06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters