BSides Leeds 2026

Sat 13th June 2026 – Cloth Hall Court Leeds

Tag: Speakers

  • 2025 Call For Papers

    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.

  • Our Speakers

    Our Speakers

    Meet the Speakers of BSides Leeds 2023!

  • Red Note

    Red Note

    We are pleased to announce the amazing Holly-Grace Williams Founder of Akimbo Core will be our Red Note and will kick off the talks for our Red Team Track at BSides Leeds.

    Holly Grace has sixteen years of experience working within cybersecurity, with a focus on penetration testing and cybersecurity consultancy. Holly Grace has been a CREST Certified Application Tester since 2015 and has professional software development experience in Python and Rust, including taking software products to market. She has strong experience in building and securing cloud environments, with a focus on AWS and Azure. She has performed a significant number of penetration testing engagements for a wide range of companies from innovative start-ups to multinational corporations, in fields ranging from e-commerce to banking.

    We can’t wait to have you with us at BSides Leeds on the 24th June.

    The call for papers is still live until the end of March, so get those talks submitted

  • Blue Note

    Blue Note

    We are pleased to announce the amazing Lisa Forte Co-Founder of Red Goat Cyber Security LLP will be our BlueNote and will kick off the talks for our Blue Team Track at BSides Leeds.

    Lisa is an expert in running cyber crisis simulations and training higher risk staff on insider threats and social engineering. The Blue Note will cover preparing for a Cyber Incident, in Lisa’s unmistakeable style.

    We can’t wait to have you with us at BSides Leeds on the 24th June.

    The call for papers is still live until the end of March, so get those talks submitted.