Program

Cutting Edge Technical Talks... and more!

#BlackAlps25 program has been prepared by an independent, neutral committee of internationally recognized experts. The program committee reviewed many proposals and selected the most appropriate and interesting talks for the conference (except the keynotes and rumps). Learn more about the Call For Proposal and committee.

All sub-events are at La Marive, except the Networking dinner (Nov 20th 2025).

Thursday November 20th, 2025

08:30 - 09:00	Welcome and coffee
09:00 - 09:15	Opening words, Nov 20th Sylvain Pasini (HEIG-VD, president of Black Alps)
09:15 - 09:45	To be announced
09:50 - 10:20	Building an ISAC for the Railway Sector Alexandre Herzog Reto Inversini
10:20 - 10:45	Coffee break
10:45 - 11:15	No App? No Problem: Fuzzing Libraries with Automatic Driver Generation Flavio Toffalini Nicolas Badoux
11:20 - 11:50	SIEMply Irresistible: When Attackers Love Your SIEM More Than You Do Melina Phillips (GCI)
11:55 - 12:25	HTTP/3 on the RaceTrack - Introducing QuicDraw Maor Abutbul (CyberArk)
12:25 - 14:10	Lunch
14:10 - 14:40	Investigating an in-the-wild campaign using RCE in CraftCMS Nicolas Bourras
14:45 - 15:15	Speculative-Execution Attacks and Implications for Confidential Computing Kaya Ercihan (Switch)
15:20 - 15:50	All You Can Leak: Real Tales of Publicly Leaked Kubernetes Secrets Guillaume Valadon (GitGuardian)
15:50 - 16:15	Coffee break
16:15 - 16:45	Goodbye Purple Team, Hello Purple Bots Ralph El Khoury Patrick Mkhael
16:50 - 17:20	Guess Who’s Coming to Room 305: Hacking Hotel Doors with Just a Name and a Date Fabrice Caralinda
17:45 - 18:15	Travel (17:50, bus departure from La Marive to Salle des Quais)
from 18:00	Networking dinner Salle des quais (Grandson) Mandatory registration Aperitif at 18:00 Dinner at 19:30
23:30 - 00:00	Travel (Bus departure from Salle des Quais to Yverdon train station, La Marive, and Grand Hotel des Bains)

Friday November 21st, 2025

	(Bus departure from Grand Hotel des Bains to La Marive)
08:30 - 09:00	Welcome and coffee
09:00 - 09:10	Opening words, Nov 21st Sylvain Pasini (HEIG-VD, president of Black Alps)
09:10 - 09:40	To be announced
09:45 - 10:15	Project Brainfog: Beyond the facade - Exposing smart giants Gjoko Krstic (Zero Science Lab)
10:15 - 10:40	Coffee break
10:40 - 11:10	CLFS Uncontained: Exploiting CLFS Without Touching the Log Marco Ortisi
11:15 - 11:45	Plugins Gone Rogue: Attacking Developer Environments Raphael Silva (Checkmarx)
11:50 - 12:20	Who watches the watchmen? Reversing video surveillance equipment… Antonio Vázquez Blanco
12:20 - 14:05	Lunch
14:05 - 14:35	Project Headend and the ST16CF54 Travis Goodspeed
14:40 - 14:55	BACteria: Attacking BACnet in Modern Building Automation Systems AdriNels
14:55 - 15:10	Level Up Your Malware: A Practical Journey into EDR Evasion Baptiste Copros
15:15 - 15:45	Trust Me, I’m a Shortcut: New LNK Abuse Methods Wietze Beukema
15:45 - 16:10	Coffee break
15:50 - 16:20	Unicode as low-level attack primitive Alexandre Zanni (Synacktiv)
16:45 - 17:45	Rump session (fr/en) Several speakers
17:45 - 19:00	Closing aperitif
from 19:00	Black dinner (La Marive) Free for all Black Alps participants	CTF (La Marive) Mandatory registration Welcome at 18:45 Start at 19:15 End at 23:30 Awards at 23:45

Legend

Conference

Keynote

Talk in the track "lessons learned"

Side event

Evening