0x03 Speakers
Not announced. Not chosen yet.
The speaker lineup for Security BSides Dehradun 0x03 comes out of the call for papers, and the call for papers has not closed. Nobody has been accepted, nobody has been promised a slot, and there is no invited headliner waiting to be revealed. This page fills in after 14 February 2027, when the people who submitted find out first.
- Lineup
- Not announced Zero speakers confirmed. The CFP decides all of them.
- Announced
- 14 February 2027 Speakers are told before the site is updated. Nobody reads about their own acceptance on a web page.
- Chosen by
- The review board Not the organising team, and not sponsors. Who reviews.
- Submissions
- 1 October 2026 – 25 December 2026 On cfp.directory.
01 Timeline
Four dates between here and a lineup.
Nothing on this page changes before the third one. The highlighted step is where we are today. It is computed from the dates, not typed in by hand.
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1 October 2026
Submissions open
The queue starts empty on cfp.directory. Until it closes there is genuinely nothing to announce.
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25 December 2026
Submissions close
End of the day, IST. The queue is frozen so that every proposal is read against the same field.
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10 to 14 February 2027
Everyone hears back
Accepted or not, inside that window. The site is updated after it, never before, nobody finds out they are speaking by refreshing a web page.
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3–4 April 2027
They are on stage
The main track runs on day two, Sunday 4 April, at UPES Bidholi Campus, Dehradun, in front of 400+ people.
02 Speaking here
What a slot is, and what it is not.
Said now, while it can still change whether you submit, rather than after an acceptance email, when it would be a surprise.
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Nobody is paid, on either side
There is no speaker fee and no honorarium. The conference is volunteer-run and the organising team is not paid either. It is in the CFP for the same reason it is here: better a line in a FAQ than a discovery after acceptance.
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Travel and accommodation are not promised
Depends on the budget
0x03 is funded by sponsorship and the budget is not settled, so any figure today would be a guess. If cost is what would stop you submitting, say so early at cfp@bsidesdehradun.com, knowing who needs help is what lets us try to arrange any. -
Recording is not decided
To be confirmed
We will settle it before submissions close, so nobody commits blind. Whatever is decided: nothing of your talk is published without your agreement, and declining to be recorded will never affect whether a talk is accepted. -
Slot lengths and tracks are not fixed
TBA
How long a talk runs, how many run at once, and what the room can do are all set once we know what has been accepted. Write the proposal for the idea, not for a slot length we have not published. -
A first talk is a normal talk
First-time speakers are read by the same five people on the same terms, and "never spoken before" is not a mark against a proposal. It is one of the things a community conference is for.
Who decides
A review board of five volunteers, not the organising team and not sponsors. A sponsorship cannot buy a talk slot at any tier, and what happens when a reviewer has a stake in a proposal is written down rather than assumed.
The review boardThe audience you are writing for
400+ people across 2 days, and the room is mixed on purpose: students who have never been to a security conference sitting next to people who do this for a living. Pitch at the idea, not at the credential.
Running a workshop instead
Longer, hands-on, capped by the room rather than the hall. It goes through the same CFP with the submission marked as a workshop.
See the workshops page
03 The lineup
This is where the talks will be.
No speakers announced
Not a placeholder for a lineup we are keeping quiet. There is genuinely nothing to publish. Submissions open 1 October 2026, close 25 December 2026, and everyone who submitted hears back by 14 February 2027. The talks appear here after that, and the schedule fills in alongside them.
Why not a "past speakers" wall
Two editions have happened, with 180+ people at 0x01 and 250+ at 0x02, and reprinting those names here would dress this page up as something it is not. The numbers are on the home page, where they belong.
Past editionsWant to know the moment it changes
There is no mailing list to join. The announcement goes out on the four accounts in the footer and onto this page at the same time, and if you submitted, your own answer arrives before either.
04 Questions
Asked before people submit.
Who is speaking at 0x03?
Nobody yet. Zero speakers are confirmed, nobody has been promised a slot, and this page is not holding a lineup back. The talks come out of the call for papers, which opens 1 October 2026 and closes 25 December 2026.
Is there a keynote or an invited speaker?
No. There is no invited headliner waiting to be revealed and no reserved slot for one. Every talk on the programme arrives through the call for papers and is read on the same terms as every other submission.
When is the lineup announced?
Everyone who submitted hears back between 10 to 14 February 2027, and the site is updated after that window rather than during it. Nobody finds out they are speaking by refreshing a web page.
Who chooses the talks?
A review board of Five volunteers, not the organising team and not sponsors. Every submission is read by all 5 of them and scored against the same five criteria. A sponsorship cannot buy a talk slot at any tier.
Why is there no list of past speakers?
Two editions have happened, and reprinting those names here would dress this page up as something it is not. The attendance numbers for 0x01 and 0x02 are on the home page, where they belong.
How will I know when the lineup is published?
There is no mailing list to join. The announcement goes out on the four accounts in the footer and onto this page at the same time. If you submitted, your own answer arrives before either of those.
Who is in the audience I would be speaking to?
400+ people across 2 days, and the room is mixed on purpose: students who have never been to a security conference sitting next to people who do this for a living. Pitch at the idea rather than at the credential.
How do I get onto this page?
Put something in the queue. The call for papers is the only route, it runs on cfp.directory, and a clear idea in three lines beats a polished abstract that says nothing.
Speak at 0x03
The fastest way onto this page is to put something in the queue.
The call for papers has the whole of what we ask for, and it is shorter than most. A clear idea in three lines beats a polished abstract that says nothing.