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

Villages with Talks

Hackfest Day 1 (October 17th 2025) MAP

General

Start ⏱End ⏱Activity
8am5pmHF Registration Hall 2000
8am6pmHF Shop 2102A
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
🎬 Agents IA en Cyber: Pourquoi les déploiements échouent et comment réussir le vôtre (Vooban)
⌛02:00
🌐English
🎬 Proofpoint Discovery Lab: Strengthen Identity Security
👤 Jonathan Molina
⌛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
⌛00:50
🌐English
🎬 The Overlooked Playground: An Attacker's Journey Through GCP
👤 Clément Cruchet
15:00⌛00:50
🌐Français
🎬 Présentation du plan de rehaussement en cybersécurité du Gouvernement du Québec
👤 Yvan Fournier
⌛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
8am6pmHF Shop 2102A
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
⌛00:50
🌐English
🎬 OT (Operational technology) challenge and best practice
👤 Dominick Labelle
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
⌛00:50
🌐Français
🎬 Mon Ghost est-il un imposteur ?
👤 Danny Boivin - Narcomed
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?
👤 Cheryl Biswas 👤 James Troutman
⌛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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