BSides Amsterdam 2026

The Amsterdam edition of Security BSides, the community-run information security conference, at KIT Amsterdam on Mauritskade. The organisers are aiming at over 400 practitioners this year.

Talks skew technical and unpolished in the good way: BSides programmes are built by the local infosec community rather than a vendor committee. Paid. The organisers' site reports first-wave tickets sold out with a final wave still to come, so check availability before planning around it.

Why go: the Dutch security community's own conference, where talks come from the people who found the thing rather than the people selling the fix. Best for security engineers, pentesters, researchers and blue-team practitioners.