BSides London 2026

The London edition of the community-run Security BSides conference, back at the Novotel London West for a full Saturday.

Three main talk tracks, a Rookie Track that pairs first-time speakers with mentors, five hands-on workshop tracks and a set of villages. Volunteer reviewers took 436 submissions this year and accepted fewer than seven per cent of the 345 main-track proposals, with original unreleased material explicitly preferred over vendor talks. The schedule is due on 1 November.

Free, 09:00 to 18:00. Tickets go out only through Eventbrite in timed batches at 13:37; the September release lasted ten minutes, with further releases on 1 October and 1 November.

Why go: the UK's largest grassroots security conference, and the one where new speakers get a real stage. Best for security practitioners, and for anyone who would rather hear research than a product pitch.