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It is our pleasure to announce that the 2026 NSF Cybersecurity Summit
(Oct 27-29, Irvine) Call for Proposals is now open! The Summit
Program Committee seeks proposals for:
- Plenary presentations and Panel talks
- Workshops and Trainings
- Birds of a Feather (BoFs) and Project-specific meetings
- Poster session
- TLP:AMBER or RED talks
We welcome your proposals relevant to a broad range of topics related to the operational cybersecurity of NSF cyberinfrastructure and programs. We encourage proposals that address topics impacting the NSF CI Community. These include, but are not limited to:
- Cybersecurity aspects of Research Security (Ex: The 14 NSF Critical Controls)
- Security of AI use in research environments
- Procurement, commercial tools, impacts on Controls, leverage in cybersecurity operations, etc.
- Regulatory compliance
- Securing cloud-based technologies
- Network security and defense
- HPC security
- Digital forensics and incident response
- Case studies and lessons learned
- Zero-trust architecture implementation
More detail and guidance on submitting proposals can be found here:
https://www.trustedci.org/2026-cfp
The deadline for plenary, workshop, training, BoF, and project meeting submissions is Tuesday, June 30th.
Poster and TLP:AMBER or RED submissions are due Monday, October 5th.
Thank you on behalf of the Program and Organizing Committees. We look forward to receiving your proposals and hope to see you in October in Boulder!
