Call for Papers
Unlock exists thanks to your contributions! This year, for our 10th anniversary, we want to encourage you to submit your conference and workshop proposals.
Context
The goal of the Unlock Your Brain Harden Your System conference is to provide an open and free space for people to discuss the implications of new technologies in society.
Unlock aims to be a balanced conference where technical and non-technical people can meet and freely share all kinds of information.
- Friday, November 8, 2025 will be dedicated to workshops
- Saturday, November 9, 2025 will be dedicated to conferences and the social event.
All proposals and speakers must adhere to our Code of conduct.
The conference languages are French and English.
You can submit your proposals until June 1, 2025 00:00 (Europe/Paris) !
Submission Procedure
It’s simple! Just go to the Pretalx platform: Platform link
The organizing committee will be pleased to review your ideas and will inform you after the selection process if you have been selected!!
Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Software engineering and security
- Social engineering
- Honeypots/honeynets
- Spyware, phishing, and botnets (distributed attacks)
- Recently discovered vulnerabilities in software and hardware
- Electronic/digital privacy
- Wireless networks and security
- Attacks on information systems and/or digital information storage
- Electronic voting
- Free software and security
- Evaluation of computers, electronic devices, and information systems
- Information security standards
- Legal and social aspects of information security
- Software engineering and security
- Security in information research
- Network security
- Malware analysis and reverse engineering
- Forensic and anti-forensic analysis
- Offensive (and counter-offensive) information technologies
- Mobile communication security and vulnerabilities
- CSIRT, incident analysis, and response
- Information security and data mining
- Threat sharing and exchange
Speaker Privileges
- For selected presentations/workshops, authors will receive free access to the conference
- One speaker per conference/workshop
- Travel expenses will be covered
- Accommodation will be covered (up to 3 nights during the conference)
- Lunch, drinks, and more throughout the conference days
Publication and Rights
Authors retain full rights to their publications/papers but grant an unlimited right of redistribution of their documents for the Unlock conference and related electronic publications/papers.
Acknowledgments
We would like to express our deep gratitude to the hack.lu Conference, whose values we share, and who allowed us to draw inspiration from their call for contributions.