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Dates
Apr 3 to Apr 4, 2027
Where
San Francisco, CA
Cost
Paid ticket. Ticket price not stated on the home page.
Type
Conference · Paid ticket
Organizer
BSidesSF
Suits
Changing careers, Student or new grad
Last checked
October 23, 2026 against the event’s own site

Official site and registration

Cheaper ways in: Volunteer crew (organizers page).

Speaking opportunities

Open call for speakers

Call for Participation and Villages linked on the site; deadline not shown.

How to apply to speak

  • Call for speakers

    Call for speakers

    Call for Participation and Villages linked on the site; deadline not shown.

Who goes

Roles and segments the organizer or our research tag this event for.

Segments: Cybersecurity

Roles: security analyst

The field it serves: Technology & Software

Verified open jobs
about 67,766

Source: NextChapter job data, jobs verified live in the last 7 days.

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Typical posted salary
$152,000 a year (middle half $114,000 to $200,000)

Source: NextChapter job data: salary ranges employers posted, midpoint of each range, 1,804 of the newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

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Entry or early-career level
30% of openings

Source: NextChapter job data: level read from the full posting, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

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Employment, year over year
−4.2% in information, the closest BLS sector

Source: BLS Current Employment Statistics, seasonally adjusted payroll employment, October 2026.

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Full Technology & Software snapshot: jobs, pay, layoffs and conferences

Employers at this conference

Exhibitors, sponsors and speakers we have found on the event’s own lists.

  • Aikido Sponsoring 2026
  • AppSentinels Sponsoring 2026
  • Arcjet Sponsoring 2026
  • C|Side Sponsoring 2026
  • Calif Sponsoring 2026
  • Chainguard Sponsoring 2026
  • Clover Sponsoring 2026
  • Code Red Partners Sponsoring 2026
  • ComplianceCow Sponsoring 2026
  • Corgea Sponsoring 2026
  • Corridor Sponsoring 2026
  • Cydarm Sponsoring 2026
  • Datadog Sponsoring 2026
  • DryRun Security Sponsoring 2026
  • Formal Sponsoring 2026
  • Foundr Sponsoring 2026
  • GitGuardian Sponsoring 2026
  • Google Sponsoring 2026
  • Lumos Sponsoring 2026
  • Prophet Security Sponsoring 2026
  • RunReveal Sponsoring 2026
  • Semgrep Sponsoring 2026
  • Socket Sponsoring 2026
  • Spektrum Sponsoring 2026
  • Sublime Security Sponsoring 2026
  • Sysdig Sponsoring 2026
  • Tailscale Sponsoring 2026
  • Torq Sponsoring 2026
  • Truffle Security Sponsoring 2026
  • Wiz Sponsoring 2026

Read from the event’s own pages: bsidessf.org.

Speakers and sessions

Named on the event’s own program. Titles and organizations are as the event lists them.

Speakers

  • Anna Westelius

    Let's Do the Timewarp Again! A Look Back to Move Forward

  • Anshu Gupta

    Securing Space: The Next Frontier for Security Engineers

  • Anshuman Bhartiya

    AI-Powered AppSec: 10x Your Security Team Without Scaling Headcount

  • Anushree Vaidya

    Beyond Buzzword: MITRE ATT&CK in Practice for CTI

  • Arjun Sharma

    Your Load Balancer is Your New Perimeter: Attacks & Defenses at Scale

  • Astha Singhal

    State of (Absolute) AppSec

  • Bianca Ionescu

    Practice Cyber Skills Like a Musician

  • Bobbie Chen

    The Phantoms of the Fraudpera: An Overview of Anti-Detection Tooling

  • Clint Gibler

    State of (Absolute) AppSec

  • Daniel Schwalbe

    The Phaaaaaaaaantom of the Salt Typhoon is there, inside i-SOON

  • Dario Amiri

    Detection at Scale: Abstracting Detection Intent

  • Diego Matos

    From $10 to $30M: Operating in the Data-Extortion Aftermath

  • Div Joshi

    Finding Your Flow: Composing a Perinatal Career That Thrives

  • Dylan Ayrey

    Follow the data to learn the secret

  • Gaurav Singh

    Detection at Scale: Abstracting Detection Intent

  • Ken Johnson

    State of (Absolute) AppSec

  • Kevin McDermott

    State of (Absolute) AppSec

  • Merisa Lee

    Finding Your Flow: Composing a Perinatal Career That Thrives

  • Prachi Jain

    Orchestrating Resilience: Composing a New Score for Netflix Service Reliability

  • Reed Loden

    Opening Remarks (Saturday)

  • Sandhya Narayan

    Orchestrating Resilience: Composing a New Score for Netflix Service Reliability

  • Sandip Dholakia

    Is Q-Day Worse than Y2K? Strategies for Surviving the Quantum Threats

  • Seth Law

    State of (Absolute) AppSec

  • Stas Bojoukha

    How to Be a GRC Hero (Without Heroics)

  • Yotam Meitar

    The Heist: Chasing an Advanced Crypto Attacker Across the Multi-cloud

Read from the event’s own pages: bsidessf2026.sched.com

Industries and functions

Where it is and who it is for

Held in San Francisco, CA. Local jobs, employers, layoffs and other conferences nearby are on the place pages.

Past and planned editions

  • 2027: April 3, 2027 to April 4, 2027, San Francisco, CA

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