General Information

Elbsides 2026 will be held on Friday, June 5th, 2026 in Hamburg, Germany.

Location

The conference will be held at the Hotel Hafen Hamburg in the Elbkuppel, a unique event location in the heart of Hamburg overlooking the harbor. The Elbkuppel has been recently renovated and offers a modern and comfortable setting for our conference.

Use the hashtag #elbsides2026 to follow the conversation on social media or to post about the conference.

Program

start time	speaker	title
09:00		Conference Opening
09:15
09:45
10:15
10:45		morning break
11:15
11:45
12:15
12:45		lunch break
13:45
14:15
14:45
15:15		afternoon break
15:45
16:15
16:45
17:15
17:45		Conference Closing
18:00		Networking Hour

Speakers

Talks

Conference Opening

Start time: 09:00

Duration: 00:15

Abstract: Welcome and housekeeping statements

Σ Π Δ

Conference Closing

Start time: 17:45

Duration: 00:15

Abstract: It’s a wrap! See you at the networking hour and next year.

Σ Π Δ

Networking Hour

Start time: 18:00

Duration: 01:00

Abstract: Join us for a networking hour with drinks and snacks after the conference to unwind and connect with fellow attendees, speakers, and sponsors. This is a great opportunity to discuss the day’s talks, share insights, and build relationships within the cybersecurity community. We look forward to seeing you there!

Team

Morton

Morton is a researcher in the Forward-Looking Threat Research (FTR) team at Trend Micro, Inc. where he peers into the future of computers and society to identify the risks and vulnerabilities of the future. His past in computer security stretches back 30 years, and he has been involved in most of the innovations in security, first at the University of Hamburg, Germany, then IBM Research and now Trend Micro. While originally active in malware analysis and computer forensics, recently his team has been focussing on massive threat data analysis for spotting new types of attacks quantitatively and also on modelling future threats to society that will accompany its inevitable march towards tighter integration in smart cities, intelligent transportation, supply chains and manufacturing. Morton, a native of New York City, has a Computer Science PhD degree from the University of Hamburg, and resides in the Hamburg, Germany area.

Dagmar

Coming from a non-technical background, Dagmar brings her knowledge of event organization to Elbsides. Through previous experiences in professional stage management / production for theatre in the UK and US, as well as Sci-Fi conventions in Germany, she teamed up with her husband Morton to organize events for the computer security industry, BSides Munich being among them. Having lived and worked in a variety of countries, she enjoys traveling the globe and seeing theatre productions, especially in London.

Stefan

For all his professional business life (even years before that) Stefan has been involved in information security. In 1993 he was the first student to be hired by the freshly launched DFN-CERT Services GmbH, the first Computer Emergency Response Team in Germany and also one of the first within Europe. After having spent a number of years in the PKI universe he worked as an IT security consultant for the next 15 years before re-joining the awesome crew at DFN-CERT Services GmbH in 2016. He likes IT forensics, Cyber Threat Intelligence, and malware analysis and loves helping people.

Florian

A past interest in archaeology brought Florian to the field of security. To him, both share a similar approach: recognizing the ideas of the past via its artifacts and the application of these lessons to form a better future. As a security engineer he tries to adopt this philosophy to the various aspects of the field, may it be user awareness, OS and network security or how to cloud securely. He also enjoys hot food, fast bikes and open source.

Jonas

Jonas’ day job is in incident response and forensics at BlackBerry. During engagements, he specializes in disk forensics and fast triage, relying heavily on automation to aid in fast recovery of customers affected by data breaches or malware incidents. In his spare screen time he engages in various open source efforts and likes researching new forensics related topics. Reverse engineering proprietary APIs, file formats and protocols is one of his main interests. In the great outdoors he enjoys geocaching and paddling. He also added aerial photography and semi-autonomous to fully manual flight with home-built UAVs and FPV drones to his outdoor activities.

David

David is an independent software developer, penetration tester and IT consultant. He likes to build software, analyze systems and troubleshoot weird computer problems. When not in front of a screen he enjoys a good physical challenge, doing various kinds of sports.

Fabian

Fabian currently works as an embedded software engineer for a small company in Northern Germany. He was working as a financial consultant when his fascination for technology led him back to school to study electrical engineering and digital systems. During his bachelors and master’s thesis he was able to get deep into the weeds of reverse engineering and secure code as part of the vulnerability analysis department at NXP. Whenever he isn’t sitting in front of a keyboard, he enjoys playing music and sports outdoors.

Matthias

Matthias has more than 25 years of experience in various industries, disciplines and roles in the world of IT. He now uses this experience as a freelance cybersecurity culture evangelist to support organizations on their way to becoming secure and resilient organisms. This has a lot to do with the agile mindset, where people take center stage - processes ensure smooth interaction and technology is seen as a tool, not an end in itself!

Apart from that, he likes to spend his time outdoors, preferably exploring new holiday destinations or cycling in the surrounding area.

Peddy

Peddy has been working with Unix systems since the early 1990s and set up and operated one of the first web servers in Germany. He was the first to introduce Hamburg teachers to the Internet and installed the first Linux servers in Hamburg schools. He did the same in a software company for private health insurance. Security during implementation, as well as training, was always an issue. At his current employer, a media company, security in the cloud environment is a top priority.

Garlef

Garlefs dayjob has been fixing all kinds of IT-problems for over a decade in various roles, companies and industries. His current day job includes looking at log files and asking unpleasant questions for money and coffee. He enjoys simple and reliable Systems and has been loosely involved in various IT-Sec related events in Germany for a number of years.

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