All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4). Times shown are start times; sessions marked (2 hours) run for two hours.
Friday, August 14, 2026
| Time | Grand Ballroom | Crystal Ballroom | Gramercy Park Suite |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:30 AM | HOPE 26 Opening Ceremonies | ||
| 11:00 AM | Cameras, Cops, and Cell Towers: A Field Guide to Modern Surveillance Michael Raymond | I-Stars: Protocols and Power Mallory Knodel | |
| 12:00 PM | Building a Community Arcade Cabinet Frank Chiarulli (KD2UIW), Rose Hall, Sophie Downward | Against Tech Oligarchy Clarissa Redwine | HERMES: Secure, Long Distance Data Communication Over HF Radio Peter Bloom |
| 1:00 PM | From Source to Story: Cryptography and Psychosocial Care Protects Public Interest Journalism Jen Helsby, Harlo Holmes | An Open Forum for Legal Research Calliope Youngblood | Lingua Machina: The Last Humans Who Read Code Anna Nicanorova |
| 2:00 PM | Leaking and Investigating the Epstein Files Emma Best (Distributed Denial of Secrets), Mikael Thalen (Straight Arrow News), Raphael Satter (Reuters), Kyrie (hacker/leaker), Alexander J. Urbelis (moderator) | Field Notes From a Year of OPSEC for Liberation Movements Daly Barnett | |
| 3:00 PM | Privacy’s Defender: My 30 Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance Cindy Cohn | Seeing Inside the Mind of AI: Tracing Agents, Tools, and Weird Decisions Michael Barbine | Against Chokepoints: Optical, Audio, and Wireless Mesh as a Community Software Bus Matt Hargett |
| 4:00 PM | Spacesuits, Mars Boots and Vegan Roots in the Desert Regolith: Field Testing the Tardigrade v.1 EMU Under Pressure in the Badlands Scott Beibin, Elizabeth Jane Cole | Flushing Tech: Three Years of Building Hyper-Local Tech Communities William Hutson | |
| 5:00 PM | Rapid Response Tech – The Role of Tech Infrastructure in the Twin Cities Anti-ICE Resistance Eyes | Nikola Tesla’s Time at the New Yorker Hotel Jeffrey Velez | Huge Antennas: Death Rays to Aliens Steve Bossert |
| 6:00 PM | Hackers: Journalism Needs Your Help Brandon Roberts | Nobody Owns This: 9P CyberDecks and Community-Owned Mesh Computing Jon Sharp | Poisoning the Well: How Decoys and Misdirection Protect Privacy When Opting Out Isn’t Enough Rachel Vrabec |
| 7:00 PM | Inside North Korea’s Underground Tech Resistance: How Smugglers, Defectors, and Technologists Are Outmaneuvering the World’s Most Locked-Down Information System Jon Thompson | How to Fight DDoS Attacks From the Command Line Michael McMahon | Using Fully Homomorphic Encryption to Build Real-World Software Vishakh |
| 8:00 PM | The New Cold War Has No Borders: Building the Sovereign Stack Daniel Nowak | How Advertising Libraries in Mobile Apps Enable a Massive Location Surveillance Apparatus William Budington, Lena Cohen | Wardialing IPv4 elixx |
| 9:00 PM | Nation-State Machinery: Inside the Persona Production Line Behind the Stryker Strike Ashley Rose | More Computational Techniques for Making Karaoke Harder Jamie Brew, Jenn Schiffer | Engineering Waveflower – A Radial Oscilloscope for Visualizing Livecoding Music Ying Chyi Gooi |
| 10:00 PM | Please Wiggle Responsibly – A Dance Extravaganza Johannes Grenzfurthner | Joybubbles Screening Q&A Rachael J. Morrison |
Saturday, August 15, 2026
| Time | Grand Ballroom | Crystal Ballroom | Gramercy Park Suite |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 AM | Source Protection and Digital Security Techniques Under Surveillance Smitha Khorana | Autonomous Exploitation at Scale Carter Pfaff | |
| 11:00 AM | The Onion Shell: Zero-Install Tor From the Browser Erica Windisch | Speculative Solidarities: Sanctuary Cell Division – A Call to Action Rev. Elæ Moss Benedetto, Jorge Luis, Rev. Eon, Camille Acey | The Deceptive Web of Scam Compounds Laura Sang Hee Scherling, EdD |
| 12:00 PM | Ask EFF, 2026 Edition2 hours Daly Barnett, William Budington, Lena Cohen, Cara Gagliano, Rory Mir | To Kill the Telephone System’s Ghost Phillip Hallam-Baker | The Server Knows Nothing: Designing Emergency Apps With Nothing to Subpoena Jason Long |
| 1:00 PM | Remembering Hackers 31 Years Later Renoly Santiago (Phantom Phreak), Emmanuel Goldstein, Winn Schwartau | Can It Ham? Hackers, Hams, and the Signal Between Them Terry “shoot3r” Schanno (NV0O), Andrew “livitup” Ohnstad (N3OCQ) | |
| 2:00 PM | Cybersecurity for Space Systems: Integrating Offensive Methods, Defending System Vulnerabilities, and Space Law Tiffany Strauchs Rad | A Practical Guide to Facial Recognition Evasion Prowex, Rambo Anderson-You | Riding the Pipe: Hack Wi-Fi and Meshtastic via Browser With Cheap Microcontrollers Kody Kinzie |
| 3:00 PM | Stop “Thinking Of” the Children. Start Listening to Them. Evan Greer | Government Transparency in a Time of Shadows Kel McClanahan, Esq. | The Enshittified Internet and How We Can All Rewild the Internet! LambdaCalculus |
| 4:00 PM | How to De-Google Your Org: Practical Advice From People Who’ve Done It Meredith Laverty, Jibran Ludwig | The Art and Science of Metawar Winn Schwartau | Tell Stories, Save the World: How Hackers Are Basically Shakespeare Kestral Gaian |
| 5:00 PM | What’s Your Age Again? The Future of Online Age Assurance2 hours Cindy Cohn, Denise G. Tayloe, Alexander J. Urbelis (moderator) | Ham Radio Isn’t Magic: Preppers, Sad Hams, and Practical Off-Grid Communications Andrew “livitup” Ohnstad (N3OCQ) | Zines Against the Machine: Analog Communication for a Digital Dystopia Jack Gangi |
| 6:00 PM | You Are John Connor… The Rise of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems Peter Haas | Hacking the Layers, Hackers, Open Source and the 3D Printing World – And Why You Should Care About It Jim Griffin | |
| 7:00 PM | How to Be a Whistleblower Emma Best, John Williams, Jeremy Hammond | Not Your Boy Genius: Feminist and Queer Hackers in Film and Pop Culture Jasmin Hagendorfer | It’s 10 PM. Do You Know What Your AI Agents Are Doing? Alexander Rodriguez |
| 8:00 PM | No Laptop or Wi-Fi? No Problem: Democratizing Coding for the Mobile-Only World David Schachter, Hal Eisen, Elissa Miller | Studying the Quotidian Web Ryan McGrady | Take This Job and Pwn It `Lex Pendragon |
| 9:00 PM | Does Self-Sovereign Identity Imply Decentralized Identity? Wes Kussmaul | Feeling the Signal: Hacking Music Into Touch Yi Wang | What It’s Like in a Worker-Owned Creative Technology Cooperative Gwendolyn Pasquarello |
| 10:00 PM | Hackers Got Talent | Maxx Klaxon Show Maxx Klaxon |
Sunday, August 16, 2026
| Time | Grand Ballroom | Crystal Ballroom | Gramercy Park Suite |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 AM | The Ethical Fork in the Road Facing Gen Z: How Can We Inspire Gen Z to Become Ethical Hackers in Modern Workplaces? Will McKeen | No, I’d Rather Stay Manipulated: How the Apps in Our Lives Hijack Our Behavioral Programming Nasir Barday | Harvest Now, Decrypt Later redshiftzero |
| 11:00 AM | The Adversary in Your Bed: Stalkerware, Domestic Violence, and the Hacker Defense Efrat Sternberg, Sarah E. Ross-Benjamin, Sara Kurtzberg | Building Sovereign AI for Amateur Radio Joe Cupano | Modern OSINT Tradecraft: Attribution, Analysis, and OPSEC Lex Tungkasiri |
| 12:00 PM | BlueLeaks 2.0 Mikael Thalen, Alexander J. Urbelis | Organizing in Layer 8 – Building Tech in Democratic Socialists of America Colin Mahns | Non-Human Identity – The Gaping Security Hole That Agents Are Making Worse! Michael Morgenstern |
| 1:00 PM | Against the Edgelord International Johannes Grenzfurthner | Nobody Meant to Build a Surveillance Machine: The Modern Corporate Panopticon Steven Irurueta | Non-Stop BioDigital Attack Surfaces: Reviewing AI-Augmented Biocybersecurity and Cyberbiosecurity bueller, Xavier Palmer |
| 2:00 PM | Show Network Security – A Time of Major Transition John Huntington | I Hacked a Gay Foot Fetish App (And You Can, Too!) Altair | Honeypotting AI Agents Abdel Fane |
| 3:00 PM | We Need to Talk About Signal: Security Assumptions, Threat Models, and Activist Community Risk HelpMeRob | Agshittification: Big Meat, Misinformation, and the Fight for the Future of Food P.K. Newby | LIMA – No Vendor, No Cloud, No Trust: Open Source Tamper Attestation for Critical Infrastructure Hardware Justin T. Knox |
| 4:00 PM | Doxing: The Politics, Panics, and Economies of Online Safety Jamie Theophilos | Can We Route Around the App Stores? Mikalai Birukou, Sean O’Brien | They’re Already Knocking: High-Interaction Honeypots for the Rest of Us Aaron Levitt |
| 5:00 PM | Decentralized Networking Is a Social Problem John Burwell | The Watchers You Fed: Feds, Extractors, Data-Brokers Tony Spencer (denzuko) | Real-Time Ad Blocking via HDMI Man-in-the-Middle Cyril Engmann |
| 6:00 PM | HOPE 26 Closing Ceremonies |