Security fest 2026 - Academic village

Welcome to Security Fest's Academic Village

The Academic village is an event trying to bridge the gap on cybersecurity between academic research (the kind that happens in universities and research institutions and gets published after a peer review) and other non academic circles (what academics usually refer to as "the industry", including companies, public actors, and the rest of the world outside of that).

Are you a CISO curious about what the next risks may be? Are you a pentester curious about what the latest tools can be? Are you a developer looking to build safer code? Are you a network engineer curious about how AI can help you detect new threats? Or maybe you are just interested on how academic research can help our society be more secure? Join us to see how new ideas from academia can translate into real-world security impact.

The academic village is a free (as in gratis) event that invites all academic researchers to share their research and tries to find the most relevant and impactful discoveries so they can be brought to you. The academic village is an event separate from Security Fest arranged by the community and not Security Fest's organizers.