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LABScon 2026

September 16-19, 2026


LABScon is an intimate event for the world’s top cybersecurity minds to gather, share cutting-edge research, and push the envelope of threat landscape understanding.
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Program Committee

Perri Adams

Perri Adams

DARPA

Ms. Perri Adams joined DARPA's Information Innovation Office (I2O) as a program manager in June 2022. Her research interests include vulnerability discovery and remediation, secure software development, reverse engineering, program analysis, and automation in cyberspace operations.
Vicente Diaz

Vicente Diaz

Google

Vicente Diaz is a specialist in Threat Intelligence and Threat Hunting, and recently joined the VirusTotal team in Google as Threat Intelligence Strategist. He holds a degree in Computer Science and an MsC in Artificial Intelligence. He was e-crime manager in S21sec for 5 years and deputy director for EU in Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis team for almost 10 years. He was responsible for the APT Intelligence Reporting service.
Juan Andres Guerrero Saade

Juan Andres Guerrero Saade

SentinelOne

Juan Andrés is AVP of Research for SentinelLabs and Distinguished Resident Fellow for Threat Intelligence at the Johns Hopkins SAIS Alperovitch Institute. Before joining SentinelOne, JAGS led multiple threat intelligence teams at Google, Chronicle, was a Principal Security Researcher at GReAT focusing on targeted attacks, and worked as Senior Cybersecurity and National Security Advisor to the Government of Ecuador. In 2023, JAGS was presented with a Presidential Volunteer Service Award for furthering U.S. cyber preparedness. His research work is the subject of two permanent exhibits at the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC.

 


Tom Hegel

Tom Hegel

SentinelOne

Tom Hegel is Research Lead at SentinelLabs and a seasoned threat-intel analyst focused on tracking some of the world’s most sophisticated cyber threats. He leads investigations into advanced nation-state and criminal groups across Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, India, and beyond, exposing mercenary networks, emerging cyber campaigns, and critical insights shaping global conflicts.
Julia Knecht

Julia Knecht

Netflix

Julia Knecht is Application Security Engineering Manager at Netflix - her team takes an engineering-first approach to securing applications and services at scale and speed. Julia has specialized in product and application security; building teams and programs that enable the business via secure paved roads, strong environmental insights and excellent security-developer experience. Julia previously managed Product Security and Privacy Architecture at Adobe.
Chris St. Myers

Chris St. Myers

SentinelOne

Chris St. Myers is Director of SentinelLabs, where he leads threat intelligence production and investigations into advanced nation-state and cybercriminal groups worldwide. He’s an accomplished leader with a focus on turning complex threat research into actionable intelligence.

His career spans more than three decades, with senior roles including Head of Threat Research at Stairwell, Research Team Lead at Chronicle (Google Cloud), Manager of Espionage Intelligence at iDefense, and Lead Researcher at Rackspace.

Costin Raiu

Costin Raiu

TLPBLACK

Costin is CEO at TLPBLACK. He specializes in analyzing advanced persistent threats and high-level malware attacks. He led the team that researched the inner workings of Stuxnet, Duqu, Carbanak, Lazarus, BlueNoroff, Moonlight Maze and the Equation Group. Costin has over 24 years of experience in anti-virus technologies and security research. He is a member of the Virus Bulletin Technical Advisory Board, a member of the Computer AntiVirus Researchers’ Organization (CARO) and a reporter for the Wildlist Organization International. Some of his hobbies include chess, photography and Science Fiction literature.

Fahmida Rashid

Fahmida Rashid

DarkReading

Fahmida Rashid is an award-winning technology journalist with experience covering nearly every aspect of the technology industry with a primary focus on cybersecurity and privacy. Fahmida specializes in data and pattern analysis and the introduction of data science and data journalism opportunities. She is currently a features editor at DarkReading, covering security for an enterprise IT audience.
Thomas Rid

Thomas Rid

Johns Hopkins University

Thomas Rid is Professor of Strategic Studies and founding director of the Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. From April to July 2022 he also is a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress. Rid is the author of the acclaimed Active Measures, a sweeping history of disinformation. His commentary has appeared in The New York Times and the Washington Post, and he has testified in front of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence as well as in the German Bundestag and the UK Parliament.

FAQs

LABScon is an invite-only conference for security researchers. It is an opportunity to showcase cutting-edge research into cyber threat actors, hunting techniques, vulnerabilities and exploits, and new tooling to empower peers in this space. It is also an opportunity to interface with leading researchers and journalists in a jovial atmosphere that rewards research discoveries in our space. The conference is vendor-agnostic; there will be no vendor hall or product pitching of any kind.

LABScon will take place at Omni Scottsdale Resort & Spa at Montelucia in Scottsdale, Arizona from Wednesday, September 16, 2026 to Saturday, September 19, 2026.

R&R Day is an optional paid add-on for attendees, speakers, and sponsors to share in a combination of workshops, collaboration meetings, poolside cabanas, and recovery activities. The add-on includes an additional hotel night (Saturday, September 19, 2026) and will be limited to a smaller group of participants at a first come, first served basis.

If you’d like to request an invite, please complete the form here

LABScon is an immersive experience. Attendance packages include accommodation, meals, and conference events. Packages will be made available to invitees.

We want to encourage attendees to get to know each other and be immersed in the conference. Attendee and speaker packages do not include +1s. Additional seats for meals and nighttime events will be available in limited quantities at an additional cost.

The link to the CFP will be live soon.

LABScon covers hotel accommodation and admission to LABScon events for a primary speaker. Secondary speakers (included in the original CFP submission) will have their attendance covered but are responsible for their own accommodation at the conference rate. Speakers are responsible for their respective travel costs.

The CFP deadline will be in June. Submissions after this deadline may not be considered. Accepted speakers will be notified by July.

All submissions will be carefully considered by our CFP Advisory Board. We are particularly interested in talks about Threat Intelligence and Hunting, Malware Analysis, Threat Actor tracking, Exploits and Vulnerabilities, and Tools that can massively empower researchers. Talks that shill for a specific product or are an attempt at product marketing will be disqualified.

The talks are 20 minutes of content and 5m of Q&A. This may seem short by normal conference standards but given the proficiency of the audience, speakers should feel comfortable diving into the nitty-gritty material of their talk without needing to spend as much time introducing concepts.

If accepted, LABScon will cover accommodation for the primary speaker and conference attendance for both speakers. Accommodation arrangements will be made available at a discounted rate for the second speaker.

LABScon is designed to be an immersive experience. Attendees, speakers, and journalists will share the same hotel, meals, and events.

If you are interested in sponsoring the event, please email to sponsors@labscon.io

No. LABScon is designed to be an in-person event. Recordings of the talks may become available at a later date, contingent on the speaker’s approval.

Talks will be recorded at the discretion of the speakers and shared at a later date. View the talks from previous years here.

Please reach out to organizers@labscon.io, we will consider the needs of speakers on a case-by-case basis.

LABScon is where the world's top cybersecurity researchers gather to share cutting-edge insights, learn, and collaborate to push the envelope of threat research. Submit your best research and join us.

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