Crystal Ballroom

10:30 – 11:00  in  Grand Ballroom

HOPE 26 Opening Ceremonies

11:00 – 11:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Cameras, Cops, and Cell Towers: A Field Guide to Modern Surveillance

by Michael Raymond

12:00 – 12:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Building a Community Arcade Cabinet

by Frank Chiarulli, Rose Hall, Sophie Downward

13:00 – 13:50  in  Grand Ballroom

From Source to Story: Cryptography and Psychosocial Care Protects Public Interest Journalism

by Jen Helsby, Harlo Holmes

14:00 – 14:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Leaking and Investigating the Epstein Files

by Emma Best, Mikael Thalen, Alexander J. Urbelis, Raphael Satter, Kyrie

15:00 – 16:30  in  Grand Ballroom

Privacy’s Defender: My 30 Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance

by Cindy Cohn

17:00 – 17:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Rapid Response Tech – The Role of Tech Infrastructure in the Twin Cities Anti-ICE Resistance

by Eyes

18:00 – 18:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Hackers: Journalism Needs Your Help

by Brandon Roberts

19:00 – 19:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Inside North Korea’s Underground Tech Resistance: How Smugglers, Defectors, and Technologists Are Outmaneuvering the World’s Most Locked-Down Information System

by Jon Thompson

20:00 – 20:50  in  Grand Ballroom

The New Cold War Has No Borders: Building the Sovereign Stack

by Daniel Nowak

21:00 – 21:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Nation-State Machinery: Inside the Persona Production Line Behind the Stryker Strike

by Ashley Rose

22:00 – 22:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Please Wiggle Responsibly - A Dance Extravaganza

by Johannes Grenzfurthner

11:00 – 11:50  in  Grand Ballroom

The Onion Shell: Zero-Install Tor From the Browser

by Erica Windisch

12:00 – 13:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Ask EFF, 2026 Edition

by Daly Barnett, William Budington, Lena Cohen, Cara Gagliano, Rory Mir

14:00 – 14:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Cybersecurity for Space Systems: Integrating Offensive Methods, Defending System Vulnerabilities, and Space Law

by Tiffany Strauchs Rad

15:00 – 15:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Stop “Thinking Of” the Children. Start Listening to Them.

by Evan Greer

16:00 – 16:50  in  Grand Ballroom

How to De-Google Your Org: Practical Advice From People Who’ve Done It

by Meredith Laverty, Jibran Ludwig, Sarah E. Philips

17:00 – 18:50  in  Grand Ballroom

What’s Your Age Again? The Future of Online Age Assurance

by Cindy Cohn, Denise G. Tayloe

19:00 – 19:50  in  Grand Ballroom

How to Be a Whistleblower

by Emma Best, John Williams, Jeremy Hammond

20:00 – 20:50  in  Grand Ballroom

No Laptop or Wi-Fi? No Problem: Democratizing Coding for the Mobile-Only World

by David Schachter, Hal Eisen, Elissa Miller

21:00 – 21:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Does Self-Sovereign Identity Imply Decentralized Identity?

by Wes Kussmaul

22:00 – 23:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Hackers Got Talent

by Rob T Firefly, Gila

10:00 – 10:50  in  Grand Ballroom

The Ethical Fork in the Road Facing Gen Z: How Can We Inspire Gen Z to Become Ethical Hackers in Modern Workplaces?

by Will McKeen

11:00 – 11:50  in  Grand Ballroom

The Adversary in Your Bed: Stalkerware, Domestic Violence, and the Hacker Defense

by Efrat Sternberg, Sarah E. Ross-Benjamin, Sara Kurtzberg

12:00 – 12:50  in  Grand Ballroom

BlueLeaks 2.0

by Emma Best, maia arson crimew, Mikael Thalen, Alexander J. Urbelis

13:00 – 13:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Against the Edgelord International

by Johannes Grenzfurthner

14:00 – 14:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Show Network Security – A Time of Major Transition

by John Huntington

15:00 – 15:50  in  Grand Ballroom

We Need to Talk About Signal: Security Assumptions, Threat Models, and Activist Community Risk

by HelpMeRob

16:00 – 16:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Doxing: The Politics, Panics, and Economies of Online Safety

by Jamie Theophilos

17:00 – 17:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Decentralized Networking Is a Social Problem

by John Burwell

18:00 – 18:50  in  Grand Ballroom

HOPE 26 Closing Ceremonies

12:00 – 12:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

HERMES: Secure, Long Distance Data Communication Over HF Radio

by Peter Bloom

13:00 – 13:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Lingua Machina: The Last Humans Who Read Code

by Anna Nicanorova

15:00 – 15:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Against Chokepoints: Optical, Audio, and Wireless Mesh as a Community Software Bus

by Matt Hargett

16:00 – 16:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Flushing Tech: Three Years of Building Hyper-Local Tech Communities

by William Hutson

17:00 – 17:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Huge Antennas: Death Rays to Aliens

by Steve Bossert

18:00 – 18:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Poisoning the Well: How Decoys and Misdirection Protect Privacy When Opting Out Isn’t Enough

by Rachel Vrabec

19:00 – 19:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Using Fully Homomorphic Encryption to Build Real-World Software

by Vishakh

20:00 – 20:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Wardialing IPv4

by elixx

21:00 – 21:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Engineering Waveflower - A Radial Oscilloscope for Visualizing Livecoding Music

by Ying Chyi Gooi

10:00 – 10:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Autonomous Exploitation at Scale

by Carter Pfaff

11:00 – 11:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

The Deceptive Web of Scam Compounds

by Laura Sang Hee Scherling EdD

12:00 – 12:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

The Server Knows Nothing: Designing Emergency Apps With Nothing to Subpoena

by Jason Long

13:00 – 13:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Can It Ham? Hackers, Hams, and the Signal Between Them

by Terry "shoot3r" Schanno, Andrew "livitup" Ohnstad

14:00 – 14:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Riding the Pipe: Hack Wi-Fi and Meshtastic via Browser With Cheap Microcontrollers

by Kody Kinzie

15:00 – 15:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

The Enshittified Internet and How We Can All Rewild the Internet!

by LambdaCalculus

16:00 – 16:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Tell Stories, Save the World: How Hackers Are Basically Shakespeare

by Kestral Gaian

17:00 – 17:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Zines Against the Machine: Analog Communication for a Digital Dystopia

by Jack Gangi

18:00 – 18:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Hacking the Layers, Hackers, Open Source and the 3D Printing World – And Why You Should Care About It

by Jim Griffin

19:00 – 19:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

It’s 10 PM. Do You Know What Your AI Agents Are Doing?

by Alexander Rodriguez

20:00 – 20:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Take This Job and Pwn It

by `Lex Pendragon

21:00 – 21:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

What It’s Like in a Worker-Owned Creative Technology Cooperative

by Gwendolyn Pasquarello

10:00 – 10:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Harvest Now, Decrypt Later

by redshiftzero

11:00 – 11:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Modern OSINT Tradecraft: Attribution, Analysis, and OPSEC

by Lex Tungkasiri

12:00 – 12:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Non-Human Identity – The Gaping Security Hole That Agents Are Making Worse!

by Michael Morgenstern

13:00 – 13:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Non-Stop BioDigital Attack Surfaces: Reviewing AI-Augmented Biocybersecurity and Cyberbiosecurity

by bueller, Xavier Palmer

14:00 – 14:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Honeypotting AI Agents

by Abdel Fane

15:00 – 15:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

LIMA – No Vendor, No Cloud, No Trust: Open Source Tamper Attestation for Critical Infrastructure Hardware

by Justin T. Knox

16:00 – 16:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

They’re Already Knocking: High-Interaction Honeypots for the Rest of Us

by Aaron Levitt

17:00 – 17:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Real-Time Ad Blocking via HDMI Man-in-the-Middle

by Cyril Engmann