Call for papers
KEY DATES
Conference: 28 May 2025
Workshops: 27 May 2025
SUBMISSION DEADLINES
Submissions open: now
Submissions close: 13 December 2024
PRESENTATION DEADLINES
Presentation draft deadline: 10 May 2025
Presentation deadline: 24 May 2025
Who can submit
Anyone who is an expert in cyber security, has practical and relevant experience to share about mitigating the risks of cyber security, or has a product-independent case study to showcase. Please also read the guidelines below before submitting your proposal.
What should your submission look like:
- Talk title
- Short synopsis
- Two to three take-away benefits for delegates attending
- Short bio of the presenter
- Hi-res colour head-and-shoulders photo (min 300 DPI)
Please send your submission to Ros Hinchcliffe, ros@itweb.co.za on or before 13 December 2024.
For our 2025 event, we are looking for presenters and panelists on the following topics:
- Advanced persistent threat (APTs)
- AI-enabled cyber threats
- Application security
- Cloud security management
- (Critical) infrastructure security
- Cyber leadership
- Cyber resilience
- Cyber risk management
- Cybersecurity as a service
- Cyber security compliance frameworks
- Cyber security for SMEs
- Cyber security professional health and wellness
- Cyber warfare
- Data security/privacy
- Data retention/destruction
- Deep fakes and misinformation
- DevSecOps
- Generative AI for security
- Human-centric cybersecurity
- Identity and access management
- Mobile/5G security
- OT/IoT security
- Quantum computing/post-quantum encryption
- Ransomware defence and recovery strategies
- Secure-by-design
- Security awareness training programmes
- Security platformisation
- The business of security
- The CISO/Board relationship
- The evolving roles in the cyber security team
- The security skills shortage
- Third party/supply chain security
- Vulnerability management
- Zero Trust architectures
Guidelines
Please be advised that if you wish to submit a paper for the plenary or the track sessions, sales pitches will not be considered. You are kindly requested to submit a paper that focuses on your chosen topic without referencing your company’s products or solutions (if you are a solution provider).
Where possible, we would request that you put forward a senior representative who is an industry expert and not a sales or marketing executive.
End-user speakers are encouraged to focus on case studies and the practical application of the subject rather than the theory. If you are a solution provider, we recommend that you invite a client to give a joint presentation with you, as these presentations are popular and will be given preference in terms of position on the programme.
Presentations should be content-rich and content should be up-to-date and relevant to the target audience. A breakdown of expected job titles and industry sectors can be provided on request.
