Call For papers and workshops
Adversary Village
at DEF CON 32

Submit Talks Submit Workshops DC32 CFP review board


Adversary Village is a community initiative which purely focuses on Adversary simulation, adversary emulation, threat/APT/ransomware emulation, breach and attack simulation, threat actors, adversary groups, supply chain security, adversary tactics, life, adversary philosophy, urban survival skills and purple teaming.
The goal of the Adversary Village is to build an open Security community for the researchers and organizations, who are putting together new means, methodologies towards the simulation and emulation of adversary tactics and purple teaming.

Please submit your awesome research to Adversary Village at DEF CON 32, this year.

Call for talks timeline

  • CFP Open: 01st May, 2024
  • CFP closes on: 31st May, 2024

Call for workshops timeline

  • CFW Open: 1st May, 2024
  • CFW closes on: 20th June, 2024

Presentation categories

  • Talks [30 to 60 minutes | Technical research talks | Only 3 to 4 talks will be accepted]
  • Workshops [1 to 2 hours | Hands-on deep technical workshops]

What kind of content we want?

Note: We only accept submissions strictly focused on below mentioned topics. If you have talks outside the mentioned topics, please refer other DEF CON Village CFPs.
The talks have to be vendor neutral and the submissions should not be a sales pitch of products/services, or marketing campaigns.
If you would like to recognize your organization as a sponsor, please review our Sponsorship opportunities.

  • Adversary simulation
  • Adversary emulation
  • Latest adversary tactics and tradecraft
  • Adversary intelligence, Nation state sponsored threat actors, incident response
  • New tactics, techniques and procedures for simulation or emulation
  • Purple teaming
  • Breach and adversarial attack simulation
  • Simulation plans, platform and infrastructure
  • Threat / APT / Ransomware / Threat actors research, emulation and defense
  • Hacker survival tactics and culture
  • Adversary philosophy and adversarial mindset

Speaker benefits

  • This is a community event and we will not be able to sponsor the expenses of the speakers OR the DEF CON tickets.
  • We may have a limited number of DEF CON passes, which will be given first come, first served basis
  • Tons of love and respect from the community!
  • Finally, the Adversary Village speaker goodie bag and village badges!

Adversary Village at DEF CON 32 timeline

  • August 08th to 11th 2024, Las Vegas Convention Center - West Hall in Las Vegas