It’s that time of year again! We’re going to be holding the next BSides Buffalo event on June 7, 2025 and we’ve updated our sponsorship packet – you can download a copy at the link at the bottom of this post.
A few things that are coming in 2025:
- Last year, in order to drive more traffic to the Gold Sponsor tables, we issued “stamp cards” to all attendees – collecting all the stamps would enter the attendee into a prize raffle at the end of the day. This was very successful, with our return sponsors all reporting much higher engagement than in the past, and we’ll be doing it again.
- In addition to the Gold Sponsor tables, we’ll also have space set aside for local technology non-profit groups so they can introduce themselves to attendees and make those vital connections that strengthen our local tech community.
- Once again, we’ll have two tracks of speakers, one of which is a cybersecurity fundamentals track called “Introsec” with valuable information aimed at students, career switchers, and other people new to the field. The other is the more advanced technical content that experienced security practitioners and BSides attendees would expect.
- As always, our friends from TOOOL Rochester will be running a lockpicking clinic all day, and we’ll be bringing back the Capture The Flag contest and the soldering workshop.
- We’re making a concentrated effort to reach out to the cybersecurity students at colleges and universities in the area, issuing free tickets in exchange for their resumes, which we will distribute to the sponsors. This is an excellent chance for the students to network and make connections, and for the sponsors to meet the next generation of Western New York cyber talent.
Last year, we sold out of our full allotment of 250 tickets; this year, we’re expecting to sell 300. This is the largest information security event in the Buffalo/Niagara region, and a unique opportunity for our sponsors to reach a population of analysts, engineers, and architects who make the technical decisions for their organizations.
We hope you can join us!