Submitting a Presentation

Before submitting a presentation, please review the ‘Guidance for Speakers’ below.

Then, download the submission form by clicking the ‘CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS SUBMISSION FORM’ button above, and follow the instructions.

Once you have successfully returned the form to the email address provided, we will acknowledge receipt.
Submissions will then be subject to review at regular intervals – assessed on merit, content and relevance to the conference.
Once the review has concluded, applicants will be notified.

We look forward to receiving your submission – good luck!

Guidance for Speakers

Abstracts must clearly detail the nature, scope, content, key points and significance of the proposed presentation to aid the assessment process.

The audience has come to hear a talk about a subject that is of interest to them. Direct or overt sales presentations are unwelcome at this event and will not be accepted. It is acceptable to position where the talk is coming from – i.e. the company / individual and the area of interest you have, generally one slide at the beginning usually suffices.

Presentations are to be made in English.

Regular speaking slots are nominally 20 minutes in duration (inclusive of Q&A) however if you prefer a ‘lightening talk’ slot, these are nominally allocated as 10 minutes. Slot duration will be confirmed as part of the acceptance process.

So What?

It’s great that you have something to say however be clear about your message to the audience – your talk may be good but if the audience is left with a feeling of “so what?” then we’ve collectively failed. When making a submission make sure you spell out the key takeaways that you intend to leave with the audience and what will make it worth their while listening to you. This also helps our talk assessors when selecting talks for the conference hence we encourage you to consider this carefully.

It is standard practice to record talks at the IoTSF conference and, at our discretion, publish on our website and/or YouTube channel after the event. If you would not like your talk to be published you must inform us with written instruction (email) before or on the conference day.

If you have any queries regarding the submissions process, please contact us – contact@iotsecurityfoundation.org

Talk Themes

Conference attendees will be interested in business, technical, operational, educational and policy related themes. We invite you to submit proposals that include (but are not limited to):

• • Zero trust environments
  • Automation and continuous assurance
  • Updates on the latest threat landscape, attacks and how to avoid them
  • Best practice for building/engineering ‘secure by design’ and/or ‘secure by default’ products and/or systems
  • Testing IoT products (hardware and software) – against common and emerging attacks
  • How to’ specify fit for purpose security when purchasing
  • Securing the Supply Chain – the cyber bill of materials
  • Software bill of materials and open source
  • Maintaining security and/or achieving resilience throughout the lifecycle
  • Emerging research or intelligence
  • Ethical hacking of IoT systems
  • Ethical design for security and privacy
  • Industry specific examples of cyber security best practice in context/application use cases e.g.:
    • Automotive
    • Critical Infrastructure
    • Healthcare
    • Industrial/Industry 4.0/Manufacturing
    • Smart Buildings / Smart Cities / Connected Places
  • Practical “How To’s” (or how not to…) – e.g.
    • How to manage secure updates
    • How to build a secure and agile development culture
    • Respond to a security breach
    • Build an effective vulnerability and/or bug-bounty program
    • Assess your liability and risk
    • Threat modelling
  • Real life experiences/war stories/lessons learned
  • Global policy and standards