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Schedule 2025

Schedule 2025

*All hours are in EST timezone

Trainings (October 13th to 16th 2025)

Start ⏱	End ⏱	Activity
9am	6pm	Trainings

⁙ Management Summit (October 16th 2025)

Start ⏱	End ⏱	Activity
9am	6pm	POLAR ⁙ Management Summit Le Théatre Capitole

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

Start ⏱	End ⏱	Activity
6pm	10pm	Josh Arsenio's Networking Event (Opening cocktail) Hall 2000 HF Registration
6h00pm	9pm	Registration 2000BCD ⁙ No CTF registration possible after this period
7h30pm	...	2000BCD ⁙ CTF Starts and Scoreboards ENABLED

Villages with Talks

Hackfest Day 1 (October 17th 2025) MAP

General

Start ⏱	End ⏱	Activity
8am	5pm	HF Registration Hall 2000
8am	6pm	HF Shop 2102A
9am	9h30am	Keynote ⁙ Chris Roberts
...	7h30pm	2000BCD ⁙ Scoreboards DISABLED and CTF is over!
9h30am	1am (+1 day)	Talks and Villages See Schedule and Map
9pm	10h30pm	Hackfest 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
21:00	Hackfest 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
8am	5pm	HF Registration Hall 2000
8am	6pm	HF Shop 2102A
9am	5pm	Talks and Villages See Schedule and Map
5h30pm	6h30pm	Closing ceremony 206AB
7pm	2am (+1 day)	Hackfest After Dark! Foyer 206
7pm	10pm	Corelight 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
19:00	Hackfest 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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Full two-day grid, room by room. Detailed schedule

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