We are thrilled to announce that Sainsbury’s are a returning sponsor for BSides Leeds
Sainsbury’s are a great community supporter, from food banks to free school meals to cyber community. Go and check them out and show them some love at BSides…
Watch this space for our call for papers and ticket drops soon!
The date for your diaries is Sat 13th June 2026!
We looks forward to welcoming you all back to Leeds again, for what we’re hoping to make our Best BSides Leeds Ever !
We’re releasing the first block of tickets today as an Easter treat.
We’re lowering the price this year to £10 + Eventbrite fees (£1.55) as we continually strive to make the event as accessible as possible for everyone.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsides-leeds-2025-tickets-1323906332479
Don’t worry if you miss this drop, we will have a couple more drops and we’ll try to space/time them to allow everyone to get one.
Call for Speakers is still open for a few days more.
Call for Sponsors will open any day now (but please get in touch if you wish to sponsor and we’ll hold a slot for you)
Call for Volunteers will follow after Call for Speakers closes.
It is time!
BSides Leeds is back on Saturday 21st June 2025 and our Call for Speakers is now open – we want you to come to us with your tools, tales and talks.
We invite talks from the whole spectrum of cyber – red team, blue team, intelligence, behaviour, management or careers focussed.
If you have a story to tell, research to present or tools to demonstrate we would love to hear from you!
The Google forms link is here
https://lnkd.in/enihgQK7
Help us to make BSides Leeds the most informative, friendly, diverse cyber community around.
Please contact us with any questions, comments etc – we particularly welcome first time speakers and we’ll be running our 101 track again along with the main 2 tracks – whilst it’s not exclusively for first time speakers, it’s a great track to start on – give an introduction to something you’re passionate about – share your enthusiasm with a supportive audience.
We’re Back for 2024!
You didn’t forget about us, did you….?
We have some pretty exciting announcements over the next few weeks for you.
The first is our Call for Papers is now open! This year we have a theme of Past, Present, and Future. (one track for each)
We want to hear about your hacker history, retro computing or your war stories, as well as insights into today’s security landscape, plus your thoughts and forecasts for the future of security.
We will have a 101 Track – a role reversal of a rookie track. We would like you to submit your 101 talks – sharing the basics of your security passion for a rookie audience. This can be a talk or a 30-minute hands-on workshop, aimed at teaching the next generation the basics.
We will also have our careers session as a virtual afternoon on Friday 14th June and invite careers discussions for this virtual session.
So plenty to think about – don’t forget you don’t need to have a fully formed idea – Just an abstract of 500 words or less for us to assess.
We will also have the fabulous 🐗 James Bore running his Speaker workshop, so if you have an idea for a talk, and would benefit from James’ expert coaching, he will be running a speaker workshop in the morning, for talks in the afternoon sessions.
The CFP will run until the end of March, so get those talks submitted here – https://forms.gle/4fSsdaH1etPzKTt57
If you have questions or want to speak to any of the team, we’d love to hear from you
Did you know that we are having a VIRTUAL CAREERS DAY on Friday 23rd June?
If you are hiring anywhere in the UK for information security / cyber security professionals, then this could be for you!
Are you looking to hire talented individuals to join your team?
Do you want to connect with job seekers who are passionate about information security at all levels of their career?
As part of our upcoming conference, as well as hosting an in-person day on Saturday 24th June, we will be hosting a virtual careers day on Friday 23rd June.
This is a UK-wide event that will be hosted online via Gather Town, providing an opportunity for businesses across the country to connect with talented industry professionals from the comfort of their own homes. We are currently seeking sponsors for the event, and we believe that this would be a great opportunity for businesses who are looking to hire to showcase their brand and connect with job seekers.
If you sponsor the in-person day, you will get a free virtual careers room for our Careers event.
Sponsor packages for the careers day start at £500 for your own branded room.
So, if you’re interested in sponsoring our virtual careers day, please get in touch with either Rosie Anderson or Lee Gilbank
Do you want to volunteer to help at BSides Leeds?
There are many great reasons to volunteer – being part of the community, networking, and seeing the inner workings of a conference. However it isn’t an easy role, and you won’t generally see much of the conference!
If you want to offer to help, we have a volunteer sign up form here
