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Forge Con

Schedule

Filter by track. Competition sessions link to their live event pages.

09:00–09:45

Opening keynote: the practice gap

Keynote

Why teams that rehearse incidents outperform teams that only read about them.

Main hall · Mara Okafor

10:00–10:45

Living off the land in 2026: what actually still works

Red team

A tour of the built-in tooling attackers reach for first, and the telemetry that catches it.

Main hall · Dmitri Volkov

10:00–10:45

Cloud posture management without the spreadsheet

Blue team

Guardrails as code: finding drift before the auditor does.

Room B · Sam Delacroix

11:00–11:45

Running a SOC through a ransomware weekend: a postmortem

Blue team

The first 72 hours of a real response, told hour by hour.

Main hall · Lena Hartwig

11:00–11:45

Hands-on workshop: build your first detection

Workshop

Bring a laptop — leave with a working detection and the logs to prove it.

Lab room

13:00–13:45

Tracking initial access brokers

Red team

From forum post to fingerprint: following the sellers who open the door.

Main hall · Priya Nair

14:00–14:45

How we won three majors in a row

Competition

Practice routines, team roles and the meta of competitive capture-the-flag.

Main hall · Tom Ikeda

15:00–18:00

Live capture-the-flag final

Competition

The conference final, played live on the big screens. Follow the leaderboard from your phone.

Main hall