Schedule 2025

*All hours are in EST timezone

Trainings (October 13th to 16th 2025)

Start ⏱End ⏱Activity
9am6pmTrainings

⁙ Management Summit (October 16th 2025)

Start ⏱End ⏱Activity
9am6pmPOLAR ⁙ Management Summit Le Théatre Capitole

Opening Cocktail and Hackfest 24H CTF (October 16th 2025 @ 6pm)

Start ⏱End ⏱Activity
6pm10pmJosh Arsenio's Networking Event (Opening cocktail) Hall 2000
HF Registration
6h00pm9pm Registration 2000BCDNo CTF registration possible after this period
7h30pm... 2000BCDCTF Starts and Scoreboards ENABLED

Hackfest Day 1 (October 17th 2025) MAP

General

Start ⏱End ⏱Activity
8am5pmHF Registration Hall 2000
9am9h30amKeynote ⁙ Chris Roberts
...7h30pm 2000BCDScoreboards DISABLED and CTF is over!
9h30am1am (+1 day)Talks and Villages See Schedule and Map
9pm10h30pmHackfest show: ARCADES! 2000A

Talks

Track 1
206B
Track 2
206A
Track 3
205AB
Track 4
2104B
09:00⌛00:30
🌐English
🎬 Keynote Chris Roberts
⌛00:30
🌐English
🎬 Keynote Chris Roberts


10:00⌛00:50
🌐Français
🎬 Entre épée et bouclier : la voie stoïcienne du cyberdéfenseur
👤 Jacques Sauve
⌛00:50
🌐English
🎬 Talk Vooban - Main Sponsor

⌛04:00
🌐English
🎬 Becoming the Godfather of Threat Modeling
👤 Mike van der Bijl
11:00⌛00:50
🌐English
🎬 PANEL : Hunting Bears With Your Friends: How Latvia and Canada Joined Forces in Cyberspace
👤 CAF - Shivom Sharman (Jacob) 👤 CCCS - Ian Gabriel 👤 Bernhards Blumbergs
⌛00:50
🌐English
🎬 Stolen Laptops - A brief overview of modern physical access attacks
👤 Pierre-Nicolas Allard-Coutu


12:00⌛00:50
🌐English
🎬 Tracking Ghosts: A Deep Dive into Nation-State Cyber Threats and Their Relevance to Canada
👤 Amir Ali
⌛00:50
🌐English
🎬 Paradigm Lens: Ready Incident Responder!
👤 Kevin Awad


12:30

⌛00:20
🌐English
🎬 Attacking Home Automation: Consumer-Grade Vulnerabilities
👤 Elysee Franchuk

13:00⌛00:50
🌐English
🎬 Securing the Digital Frontier: Proactive Bias Mitigation Against AI's Unseen Vulnerabilities in Cybersecurity
👤 Mina Movahedi Shakib
⌛00:20
🌐English
🎬 Operationalizing Your Human Risk Management Program - The Artist Formally Known As Yearly Compliance Training
👤 Eric Zyvith
⌛00:50
🌐English
🎬 Hunting the Ghost in the Shell - Case studies of Insider Risk
👤 Don Mallory

13:30
⌛00:20
🌐English
🎬 Electromagnetic Fault Injection: A Low-Cost, Touch-less Method of Manipulating Hardware.
👤 John LeClair


14:00⌛00:50
🌐English
🎬 Secs and the City: Hacking the Perfect Meetup
👤 Johnny Xmas 👤 Dave "Heal" Schwartzberg 👤 Robert Wagner 👤 Chris Carlis
⌛00:50
🌐English
🎬 CrowdStrike 2025 Global Threat Report - Ce que vous devriez savoir pour préparer vos équipes!
⌛00:50
🌐Français
🎬 Zéro à TOP500 en 500$
👤 Didier Cotton

15:00⌛00:50
🌐English
🎬 The Overlooked Playground: An Attacker's Journey Through GCP
👤 Clément Cruchet
⌛00:50
🌐Français
🎬 Unicode comme primitive d'attaque de bas niveau
👤 noraj
⌛04:00
🌐English
🎬 Mastering Bash for Hackers: Extreme Command-Line Power
👤 Kirils Solovjovs
⌛03:00
🌐Français
🎬 Sécurité des APIs : Tactiques défensives
👤 Jonathan Marcil 👤 Mickael Nadeau
16:00⌛00:50
🌐Français
🎬 Plongée au cœur d’un désastre annoncé : pourquoi nos projets gouvernementaux échouent (encore)
👤 Eric Parent
⌛00:50
🌐English
🎬 Backdooring OpenSSH
👤 EvilMog


17:00⌛00:50
🌐Français
🎬 Réponse aux Incidents Cyber : Démystification des Mythes et Réalités
👤 Bruno PHILIPPE 👤 Jordan
⌛00:50
🌐Français
🎬 Nos meilleures erreurs de sécurité
👤 Dominique Derrier 👤 Pierre Le Calvez


18:00⌛00:50
🌐Français
🎬 Zandoli : cartographier un réseau d’entreprise sans alerter personne (Red Team, furtivité et réalité terrain)
👤 Nomed Jonathan
⌛00:50
🌐English
🎬 Beyond Red vs. Blue: Elevating Your Security with Practical Purple Teaming
👤 Will Summerhill


19:00⌛02:00
🌐Français
🎬 La French Connection – Retour explosif sur 2025
👤 Patrick



21:00Hackfest Show: ARCADES! (2000A)
Hackfest Show: ARCADES! (2000A)
Hackfest Show: ARCADES! (2000A)
Hackfest Show: ARCADES! (2000A)
22:30⌛02:00
🌐English
🎬 Hacker Family Feud (La Guerre Des Clans des Hackers)



Hackfest Day 2 (October 18th 2025) MAP

General

Start ⏱End ⏱Activity
8am5pmHF Registration Hall 2000
9am5pmTalks and Villages See Schedule and Map
5h30pm6h30pmClosing ceremony 206AB
7pm2am
(+1 day)
Hackfest After Dark! Foyer 206
7pm10pmCorelight Blue Team CTF 205AB

Talks

Track 1
206B
Track 2
206A
Track 3
205AB
Track 4
2104B
09:00⌛00:50
🌐Français
🎬 Comment rédiger une BONNE politique sur l'IA?
👤 Jean-François Nadeau
⌛00:50
🌐Français
🎬 La sécurité physique et logique, une ressemblante dichotomie
👤 Philippe Hamel
⌛02:00
🌐Français
🎬 Initiation à ZEEK pour le CTF avec Corelight à 19h
👤 Sébastien Ruel

10:00⌛00:50
🌐English
🎬 BlackSheepWall: Contextually Expanded Intelligence Collection
👤 Bernhards Blumbergs
⌛00:50
🌐English
🎬 Breaking both wires: Reverse engineering builiding access control system for MITM attacks and spoofing
👤 Kirils Solovjovs

⌛00:50
🌐English
🎬 Table Ronde - Femmes en sécurité de l'information / Round Table - Women in cybersecurity
👤 Kendra Cooley
11:00⌛00:50
🌐Français
🎬 Fine Tuning de petits LLM spécialisés en cybersécurité avec Unsloth & LoRA… sans expertise IA! ou presque.
👤 David Girard
⌛00:50
🌐English
🎬 Meshtastic Attacktastic
👤 Dave "Heal" Schwartzberg
⌛02:00
🌐Français
🎬 DFIR à la vitesse d’un Velociraptor
👤 Aurélien Cuvelier 👤 Anthony Hannouille 👤 Anthony Hannouille

12:00⌛00:50
🌐English
🎬 Building Penetration Testing Dropboxes
👤 Chris Carlis
⌛00:50
🌐English
🎬 The Rise and Impact of DNS Firewall in Latvia - from idea to mandatory measure
👤 Dana Ludviga


13:00⌛00:50
🌐Français
🎬 Hackers Dropping Mid-Heist Selfies: LLM Identifies Information Stealer Infection Vector and Extracts IoCs
👤 Olivier Bilodeau
⌛00:20
🌐English
🎬 Harnessing DistilDIRE and Apple's Metal Performance Shaders (MPS) for Real-Time Browser Based Deepfake Detection.
👤 Ishaan Rehmani 👤 Colton Nguyen
⌛02:00
🌐English
🎬 Baremetal emulation
👤 Marc-andre Labonte

13:30
⌛00:20
🌐English
🎬 Navigating AI Risks : The Critical Role of NIST's AI Risk Management Framework
👤 Jean-François Labonté


14:00⌛00:50
🌐English
🎬 Do You Want to Play a Game? How About Disabling Civilization?
👤 Aileen Cheryl Biswas
⌛00:50
🌐Français
🎬 Oui, mais je LLM !
👤 François Pelletier


15:00⌛00:50
🌐Français
🎬 4 000 ans de hacks stupéfiants pour votre sandbox: Les meilleurs hack des Egyptiens, Grecs, Romains, Moyen age et qui inspireront votre VM
👤 Philippe Chevalier
⌛00:50
🌐English
🎬 Smithy, the Open-Source SOAR You’d Actually Use
👤 spyros gasteratos
⌛02:00
🌐English
🎬 Efficient Web Hacking with Caido
👤 Emile Fugulin 👤 Christopher Guay

16:00⌛00:50
🌐English
🎬 The Importance of Being in Third Place
👤 Robert Wagner
⌛00:50
🌐English
🎬 AIkido: Unleashed power in your Command & Control
👤 Joel Gámez Molina


17:15⌛00:50
🌐English
🎬 Cérémonie de Clôture / Closing Ceremony
👤 Patrick



19:00Hackfest After Dark! (Foyer 206)
Hackfest After Dark! (Foyer 206)
⌛02:45
🌐English
🎬 Corelight CTF - With ZEEK
👤 Sébastien Ruel
Hackfest After Dark! (Foyer 206)
19:30⌛01:30
🌐English
🎬 Hacker Charlatan
👤 Hacker Family Feud



22:30⌛02:00
🌐English
🎬 Surprise Activity - Do not miss!
👤 Hacker Family Feud



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