BSidesSF
A community-run security conference with newcomer-friendly culture and a volunteer crew.
- 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.
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 106,550
- Typical posted salary
- $163,000 a year (middle half $124,000 to $214,000)
- Entry or early-career level
- 31% of openings
- Employment, year over year
- −4.2% in information, the closest BLS sector
Source: NextChapter job data, jobs verified live in the last 7 days.
Source: NextChapter job data: salary ranges employers posted, midpoint of each range, 1,717 of the newest 5,000 verified open jobs.
Source: NextChapter job data: level read from the full posting, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.
Source: BLS Current Employment Statistics, seasonally adjusted payroll employment, September 2026.
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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