BSides Edmonton May Newsletter
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Nicole Schwartz
May 16, 2025, 1:09:35 AMMay 16
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We are excited to announce our keynotes for this year!
Joshua Reynolds, Founder, Invoke RE
and
Michael Spaling, Principal Security Architect, University of Alberta
We look forward to seeing you Monday Sept 22 and Tuesday Sept 23 2025
Location: NAIT Productivity and Innovation Centre
Theme “Cyber Defenders Rising: The good guys are pushing back!”
Location: NAIT Productivity and Innovation Centre
Theme “Cyber Defenders Rising: The good guys are pushing back!”
Tickets for sale
Our tickets are still available at early bird prices. We sold out last year so don't wait until last moment. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/bsides-edmonton-2025-tickets-1024543716837?aff=oddtdtcreator
Calling all Speakers
There is still time to submit a presentation idea - our call for speakers is open https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfyEUeBsWKfU7ZBDg8bonQ8G8SV_qLkbMv6PC64eriBvbAi5Q/viewform
We want to hear from you, even if you have never spoken before, share your latest research, ways you have optimized a task at work, lessons you have learned, we want to hear it!
Poll
Could you take a moment to answer our poll on LinkedIn? It will help us while we are considering the content for this year's event. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7328781225702109185/
Why do you love BSides? We want to share your thoughts with everyone
We at BSides Edmonton are passionate about putting together an enjoyable event for you each year. We wanted to give YOU the opportunity to share YOUR excitement with us, and the rest of the world!
We hope to use videos to encourage others to experience BSides Edmonton this year and by adding them in our materials (teasers, social media posts, event day flash presentations etc).
The ask:
Record a video of yourself on your phone, or doing a video chat with yourself on your webcam, and answer one of the following questions in 1 minute or less;
Why you (the person listening to this) should come to BSides Edmonton.
or
What was your favorite experience at a BSides Edmonton event?
or
If you have given a talk, your encouragement to others to submit as a speaker.
Please email the videos to in...@bsidesedmonton.org
We hope to use videos to encourage others to experience BSides Edmonton this year and by adding them in our materials (teasers, social media posts, event day flash presentations etc).
The ask:
Record a video of yourself on your phone, or doing a video chat with yourself on your webcam, and answer one of the following questions in 1 minute or less;
Why you (the person listening to this) should come to BSides Edmonton.
or
What was your favorite experience at a BSides Edmonton event?
or
If you have given a talk, your encouragement to others to submit as a speaker.
Please email the videos to in...@bsidesedmonton.org
Thank you in advance and by you sending us videos means you give us the consent to use, edit and post them. Let us know too if you wish to be tagged on Linkedin (and provide your LinkedI url).
Know a company that would make a great sponsor?
Would your employer, or another company you work with make a great BSides Edmonton sponsor? Please consider sending them our way! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdUfs6IwE9tujt4jDYhxXuvn10SDYEsfuoLaRGICiTOgOYqfQ/viewform
See you in September!
Thank you to our sponsors; Tantus, CIPS Alberta, Object First and InfoSecMap
Nicole Schwartz (She/Her)
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (Mountain time zone)
Event Volunteer Staff
We appreciate your patience as we are all unpaid volunteers doing this around our day jobs.
BSides Edmonton
Date: Monday Sept 22 and Tuesday Sept 23, 2025
Location: NAIT Productivity and Innovation Centre
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