DEF CON 33/Community Stage across years
Las Vegas Convention Center · 8–10 August 2025 · 15 talks
DEF CON 33 Community Stage features presentations on mentorship, digital privacy, grassroots movements, and community-driven security defense. Sessions cover declarative dependency management with Nix, agentic AI security, game hacking parallels to offensive red teaming, and counter-surveillance strategies.
1–15 of 15 talks
Community Stage·53 min
Tom Berek · Farid Zakaria · D Baker
Explores how Nix and NixOS provide reproducible software builds, declarative dependency management, and SBOM traceability across homelabs and enterprise environments.
Community Stage·17 min
Giovanni Forero
Giovanni Forero shares stories of adaptation, community resilience, and grassroots innovation among cybersecurity defenders across Latin America.
Community Stage·38 min
Andrew Cockburn
Explores the future of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack vectors, dynamic amplification techniques, and emerging mitigation architectures.
Community Stage·26 min
Pratik Lotia · Spencer Koch
Explores Reddit's defense architecture and custom in-house resiliency engineering designed to handle massive traffic spikes and sophisticated platform abuse.
Community Stage·40 min
Julian 'Julez' Dunning
Julian Dunning introduces core video game security principles, memory inspection concepts, and reverse engineering fundamentals for aspiring game hackers.
Community Stage·36 min
N Case · J McCoy
Analyzes real-world breaches in research laboratories and manufacturing facilities to examine how nation-state actors exploit human error and misconfigurations.
Community Stage·22 min
Desiree Wilson
Cybersecurity architect Desiree Wilson outlines proactive counter-surveillance strategies and OSINT methodologies to protect personal privacy in daily life.
Community Stage·55 min
Navaar Johnson · Sam Comini
Educators share practical strategies for building student helpdesk programs, cybersecurity clubs, and mentorship pipelines to inspire the next generation of hackers.
Community Stage·30 min
Meghan Jacquot
Demonstrates practical OSINT techniques to audit personal digital footprints and hands-on obfuscation methods to minimize public data exposure.
Community Stage·25 min
Janet Vertesi · Andy Hull
Tech Reclaimers founders introduce a grassroots community movement promoting digital sovereignty, peer-to-peer alternatives, and ethical technology adoption.
Community Stage·53 min
Tom Berek · Farid Zakaria
Tom Berek and Farid Zakaria dive into reproducible builds, Nixpkgs dependency isolation, and SBOM verification using Nix and NixOS.
Community Stage·34 min
Andra Lezza · Jeremiah Edwards
Presents threat modeling and defensive guardrails for autonomous multi-agent AI workflows, covering persistent memory, tool execution, and prompt injection.
Community Stage·34 min
Jeff Geisperger
Security engineer Jeff Geisperger introduces the fundamentals of electronic conference badge design, PCB fabrication, and badgelife hardware hacking.
Community Stage·28 min
Rich Compton
Rich Compton explores a critical network routing and IP spoofing vulnerability that enables global DDoS amplification attacks across tunneling protocols.
Community Stage·30 min
Joe 'Juno' Aurelio
Joe Aurelio draws parallels between video game cheat loaders and enterprise malware, exploring how anti-cheat countermeasures mirror modern EDR evasion tradecraft.
