The LayerOne 2026 Information Security Conference will take place on May 23-24, 2026 at the Pasadena Hilton Hotel!

Registration for the event is OPEN on our registration page. We do not offer discounts on early bird pricing, so get in while the discounts last! Prices go up as we get closer to the conference.

The Call for Papers is online! Speakers at LayerOne get free entry to the conference, a $200 honorarium, and the praise and acclaim of their peers. Submit a presentation now!

Are you interested in sponsoring this year’s event, hosting a vendor booth in our main hall, or contributing an awesome contest or event to this year’s conference? Reach out to us now at contact@layerone.org and tell us what you’re interested in!

And finally, come hang out with us on Discord! Make some new friends at https://discord.gg/layeroneconference.

More announcements to come over the following days and weeks! Hope to see you all in May!

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff

Mark your calendars! LayerOne 2026 takes place on May 23-24, 2026 and will be back at the Pasadena Hilton Hotel.

The Call for Papers is NOW OPEN! Full details at: https://www.layerone.org/call-for-papers/. Submission form is at https://forms.gle/9Auwv3umRqo8D4BC9 if you already know what to do.

More details on registration, hotel discounts, contests, and events coming soon! If you’d like to sponsor the event, host a contest, please get in touch here or via contact@layerone.org or join our Discord server and shoot us a message!

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff

https://github.com/charlie-x/LayerOne_2025

Get your badge hack on, help and support available in the HHV!

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff

Hey folks, really excited to see you all this weekend! Folks will be mingling at the bar to the left of the lobby around 5pm, so come say hi and make friends! Registration will open at 0900 tomorrow morning! Check out the conference Schedule, program, and floorplan!

If you need help during the conference, there’s a few ways to get in touch, find someone in a purple LayerOne shirt and ask for help! Join our Discord! https://discord.com/invite/layeroneconference Or message us on our various socials (admittedly probably the slowest way to contact us during the conference):

• BlueSky
• Mastodon
• X/Twitter
• Facebook

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff

LayerOne 2025 is coming up on May 24-25 at the Pasadena Hilton hotel! If you or your friends haven’t registered yet, do so before May 24 to save on admission! Register now on the Registration Page

LayerOne 2025
May 24-25, 2025
https://www.layerone.org

Our focus is on learning, fun, and friends. LayerOne offers some of the most unique and interesting hands-on areas you’ll ever see at a conference. Come learn about hacking, technology, security, and more without the high price tag or long lines.

Interested in learning more about these areas? Interested in networking with other like-minded folks? Interested in meeting some of the best and brightest in the information security world? Then LayerOne is for you!

Head over to registration page to get yourself pre-registered for the event. Registration is available on-site but costs more – register online now to save some money! Registration includes access to both days of the event, an electronic badge, breakfast on both days, and a banquet dinner & game night on Saturday night.

• b0t – We’ll Do It Live: Experiments in Self-Modifying Code
• cesi0 – Revenge of the Sol Stealers
• Daryll Strauss – Covert Regional Communication with Meshtastic
• Jack Baker – WINE for Video Game Hackers
• Joe Rozner – Introduction to Fault Injection
• Josh “savant” Brashars – Reverse Engineering Toys into Robots
• m0zy – Microarchitectural Side Channel Attacks
• machinist – Boo Boo Runs Wild: Guerilla Open-Source Manufacturing
• Bronwen “Corvus” Aker – Keeping Things Local – Making Your Own Private LLM
• Sam Bowne – Securing AI Systems
• Vincent Benzoni – Quantum Conundrums: Conquering Quomputing Challenges
• wasabi – Amped up for (Learning) Radio

You can read full details of each talk by clicking the links above or by visiting the Speaker page!

LayerOne is known for being the most hands-on conference around. We want you to learn and socialize by doing! Full details for each event on Events page!

Hands-on villages:

• Lockpicking Village
• Hardware Hacking Village
• Hacking & CTF Village
• Chillout / Gaming Area
• RaiseMe Career Village

Contests & Events:

• Capture the Flag (CTF)
• The Intercept (Hardware CTF)
• Hebocon Robot Battles
• Tamper-Evident Contest
• Demo Party
• Ham Certification Testing

Thank you for your support, we look forward to seeing you soon!

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff