BSides Leeds 2026

Sat 13th June 2026 – Cloth Hall Court Leeds

Local Events, Groups and Meetups

Leeds

  • Leeds
    • DC151 – A monthly social gathering in Leeds for hackers, makers & people interested in security at the Cross Keys on Water Lane in Leeds every second Wednesday of the month starting at 7pm.
    • L2600 – 2600 meet – everyone welcome to come along. An opportunity to meet new people, chat with friends and socialise.
    • Leeds Hack Space – A Maker and Hacker Space in Leeds.
    • LBSU EHS – Leeds Beckett Student Union Ethical Hacking Society.
    • Cybrewary – Not Your Typical Networking Evening. IT and Cyber Networking events, with a Northern touch.
    • Cyber Night Take Away – Cyber Night Takeaway is not just an event ,it’s a platform designed to unite the local cybersecurity community.
    • Leeds Cyber Security Conference – A casual one-day event for IT professionals. Where community matters.
    • Leeds Digital Festival – UK’s Largest Open Tech Festival.
  • Sheffield
    • SteelCon – A three day hacker con in Sheffield. We have a day of workshops, a day of talks and partying, and a day of recovery and lunch.
    • SHH+M – Simply put, we’re a maker-space. Together we’re helping the people of Sheffield get involved in using tools for hobby projects in fields such as electronics, wood-working, textiles, machining and anything else you’re interested in.
  • Manchester
    • BSides Manchester – BSides Manchester is a volunteer-run initiative rebuilding a community-led security and engineering event in the North West. We’re practitioners, not vendors. Everything we do is free, open, and community-first.
    • M2600, -2600 meet – everyone welcome to come along. An opportunity to meet new people, chat with friends and socialise.
    • Leigh Hackspace – Leigh Hackspace is a social enterprise created for the benefit of our members and the wider Leigh community.
    • HacMan -A place for people who make things, to make things.
    • OWASP MCR – The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) is a non-profit foundation that works to improve the security of software.
    • Crackchester – The one and only cyber security society at The University of Manchester..
  • Newcastle
    • BSides Newcastle – BSides Newcastle is a community-organised information security conference held annually in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
    • Newcastle Cyber Soc – Newcastle Uni SU society for anyone with an interest in cyber security and learning how to ethically hack!
    • Newcastle Maker Space – Maker Space is a community owned and run workshop in Newcastle Upon Tyne. We are an eclectic group of makers, creatives, programmers, scientists and engineers who have set up a space to meet, work, socialise, share ideas and collaborate.
  • Lancaster
    • BSides Lancashire – The North West Cyber Corridor is well-established, so now is the time to bring BSides back to the North West.
    • LUHack – Lancaster University Ethical Hacking Group (LUHack) is a student group for learning and practising ethical hacking techniques in a safe and legal environment
  • Scotland
    • Hack Glasgow – Hack Glasgow is an annual community-led hacker conference based in Glasgow, Scotland.
    • Securi-Tay – Securi-Tay is Europe’s largest student-run cybersecurity conference, proudly hosted at Abertay University by the Ethical Hacking Society.
    • Hack Thursday – Come and join likeminded infoseccers talk some cyber and non-cyber stuff. It doesn’t matter if you’re new to cyber, a veteran, or not in infosec at all – all we ask is you be curious (and not a dick).