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Call for Papers

Submit your presentations for consideration at the BSides DSM 2025 conference on June 7th.

Background

BSidesDSM is a grassroots driven event to share knowledge on new research, experience, and other interesting topics in information security.

Our goal is to bring a quality, low-cost cyber security conference to Iowa encouraging engineers, administrators, hackers, students, and any others to share ideas, experience, and knowledge in the field.

BSidesDSM is an intense one-day con complete with security discussions, demonstrations, CTF competitions, and interactions across participants.

The non-profit event is established by local volunteers with the generous support of commercial sponsors.

Call for Presentations

The BSidesDSM team aims to create a conference that is both inclusive and diverse. We encourage security students as well as veteran speakers to share presentations across any topic in security. Specific topics that may be of interest to the B-Sides audience are listed below, but we absolutely encourage alternate ideas.

  • Network Security and Analysis

  • Penetration Testing

  • Forensic Investigation and Incident Response

  • Embedded System Security

  • Web Application Security

  • Fuzzing and Software Vulnerability Analysis

  • Reverse Engineering and Binary Analysis

  • Security Management

  • Security Career Development

  • SDR/Wifi Security

  • Cryptography

  • Cyber Law and Ethics

  • New Security Tools and Tutorials

  • Emerging Threats and Technology

Presentations should be 45-50 minutes in length, not including time for questions.

We are not accepting sales pitches or vendor presentations.

If you wish to consider presenting at this year’s annual event, please complete the online CFP registration form by April 30th, 2025.

All proposals will be reviewed and scored by the BSidesDSM team. Successful proposers will be notified shortly thereafter.

Important Dates:

  • March 1st, 2025: CFP Opens

  • April 30th, 2025: CFP Closes

  • May, 2025: Accepted Speakers Notified

  • May 2025: Agenda Released

  • June 7th, 2025: BSidesDSM!

Final Note:

BSidesDSM is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization supporting security education. We believe in creating an inclusive event atmosphere and will tolerate zero harassment of any attendee.

If you or your company is interested in sponsoring please reach the B-Sides team at bsidesdsm@gmail.com

Submissions

Speaker submissions for the BSides DSM 2025 conference on June 7th, 2025.

Inquire

bsidesdsm@gmail.com