HOPE 26 Schedule

Friday, August 14

10:00 AM

• Get Your Amateur (Ham) Radio License in a Single Weekend (Part 1 of 2) Nicole Adams, BusySignal, Dan Romanchik, Ed Wilson Kips Bay — Workshop, 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM

10:30 AM

• HOPE 26 Opening Ceremonies Grand Ballroom — Talk, 10:30 AM to 11:00 AM

11:00 AM

• Cameras, Cops, and Cell Towers: A Field Guide to Modern Surveillance Michael Raymond Grand Ballroom — Talk, 11:00 AM
• I-Stars: Protocols and Power Mallory Knodel Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 11:00 AM
• Wi-Fi Self Defense and Hacker Hunting for Beginners (Day 1) Kody Kinzie Herald Square / ScriptKitty Village — Workshop, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM

12:00 PM

• Building a Community Arcade Cabinet Frank Chiarulli, Sophie Downward, Rose Hall Grand Ballroom — Talk, 12:00 PM
• Against Tech Oligarchy Clarissa Redwine Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 12:00 PM
• HERMES: Secure, Long Distance Data Communication Over HF Radio Peter Bloom Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 12:00 PM
• Health Sovereignty: Herbal Medicine for Everyday Care Rev. Eon Sutton Place / Workshop B — Workshop, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
• Lockpick Village With Lockpick Extreme (Day 1) Christine Bachman, Daniel Finegold, Bob Hermes Herald Square / Lockpick Village — Village, 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
• Paper Popups (Day 1) Herald Square / Paper Popup Village — Village, 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
• Ham Radio Village (Day 1) Herald Square / Ham Radio Village — Village, 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
• Hackerspace Village (Day 1) Herald Square / Hackerspace Village — Village, 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
• Anarchist Hacker Village (Day 1) Herald Square / Anarchist Hacker Village — Village, 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM

12:30 PM

• The Accountability Toolkit: OCCRP and MuckRock Ezana, Sanjin Sutton Place / Workshop A — Workshop, 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM

1:00 PM

• From Source to Story: Cryptography and Psychosocial Care Protects Public Interest Journalism Jen Helsby, Harlo Holmes Grand Ballroom — Talk, 1:00 PM
• An Open Forum for Legal Research Calliope Youngblood Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 1:00 PM
• Lingua Machina: The Last Humans Who Read Code Anna Nicanorova Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 1:00 PM

1:15 PM

• Build Your Own Meshtastic Node: Off-Grid, Encrypted LoRa Meshnets for Beginners! Kody Kinzie Herald Square / ScriptKitty Village — Workshop, 1:15 PM to 3:15 PM

1:30 PM

• Hacking at the First Five Pages: A Screenwriting Workshop LexIcon Sutton Place / Workshop B — Workshop, 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM

2:00 PM

• Leaking and Investigating the Epstein Files Emma Best, Kyrie, Raphael Satter, Mikael Thalen, Alexander J. Urbelis Grand Ballroom — Talk, 2:00 PM
• Field Notes From a Year of OPSEC for Liberation Movements Daly Barnett Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 2:00 PM
• Stop Being AI's Bitch: Reachability Without Interruption Scarlet Dame Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 2:00 PM

3:00 PM

• Privacy's Defender: My 30 Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance Cindy Cohn Grand Ballroom — Talk, 3:00 PM
• Seeing Inside the Mind of AI: Tracing Agents, Tools, and Weird Decisions Michael Barbine Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 3:00 PM
• Against Chokepoints: Optical, Audio, and Wireless Mesh as a Community Software Bus Matt Hargett Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 3:00 PM
• Introduction to Malware Analysis Sam Bowne, Elizabeth Biddlecome Sutton Place / Workshop A — Workshop, 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM

3:30 PM

• Get On the Fediverse Already Evan Prodromou Sutton Place / Workshop B — Workshop, 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
• Mesh Nets for Hackers: How (And When) to Use Meshtastic, Meshcore, and Reticulum (Day 1) Kody Kinzie Herald Square / ScriptKitty Village — Workshop, 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM

4:00 PM

• Spacesuits, Mars Boots and Vegan Roots in the Desert Regolith: Field Testing the Tardigrade v.1 EMU Scott Beibin, Elizabeth Jane Cole Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 4:00 PM
• Flushing Tech: Three Years of Building Hyper-Local Tech Communities William Hutson Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 4:00 PM

5:00 PM

• Rapid Response Tech - The Role of Tech Infrastructure in the Twin Cities Anti-ICE Resistance Eyes Grand Ballroom — Talk, 5:00 PM
• Nikola Tesla's Time at the New Yorker Hotel Jeffrey Velez Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 5:00 PM
• Huge Antennas: Death Rays to Aliens Steve Bossert Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 5:00 PM

5:30 PM

• Learn Email Self-Defense: Hands-On GPG With GNU/Linux Heshan de Silva-Weeramuni, Greg Farough Sutton Place / Workshop B — Workshop, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

6:00 PM

• Hackers: Journalism Needs Your Help Brandon Roberts Grand Ballroom — Talk, 6:00 PM
• Nobody Owns This: 9P CyberDecks and Community-Owned Mesh Computing Jon Sharp Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 6:00 PM
• Poisoning the Well: How Decoys and Misdirection Protect Privacy When Opting Out Isn't Enough Rachel Vrabec Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 6:00 PM

6:30 PM

• Binary Jiujitsu: White Belt Fundamentals Nyt3jmp Sutton Place / Workshop A — Workshop, 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM

7:00 PM

• Inside North Korea's Underground Tech Resistance Jon Thompson Grand Ballroom — Talk, 7:00 PM
• How to Fight DDoS Attacks From the Command Line Michael McMahon Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 7:00 PM
• Using Fully Homomorphic Encryption to Build Real-World Software Vishakh Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 7:00 PM

8:00 PM

• The New Cold War Has No Borders: Building the Sovereign Stack Daniel Nowak Grand Ballroom — Talk, 8:00 PM
• How Advertising Libraries in Mobile Apps Enable a Massive Location Surveillance Apparatus William Budington, Lena Cohen Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 8:00 PM
• Wardialing IPv4 elixx Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 8:00 PM
• DEZINE for Builders and Hackers ModupeOreoluwa (Mo) Alabi Sutton Place / Workshop B — Workshop, 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM

9:00 PM

• Nation-State Machinery: Inside the Persona Production Line Behind the Stryker Strike Ashley Rose Grand Ballroom — Talk, 9:00 PM
• More Computational Techniques for Making Karaoke Harder Jamie Brew, Jenn Schiffer Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 9:00 PM
• Engineering Waveflower - A Radial Oscilloscope for Visualizing Livecoding Music Ying Chyi Gooi Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 9:00 PM

10:00 PM

• Please Wiggle Responsibly - A Dance Extravaganza Johannes Grenzfurthner Grand Ballroom — Performance, 10:00 PM
• Joybubbles Screening Rachael J. Morrison Crystal Ballroom — Performance, 10:00 PM
• True Crime: A Day in the Life of a Fraud Analyst! Edie Ismene Nicolaou Sutton Place / Workshop B — Workshop, 10:00 PM to 11:30 PM

10:30 PM

• Far-Out Video Feedback With Stuff You Already Have Sam Boling Sutton Place / Workshop A — Workshop, 10:30 PM to 11:30 PM

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Saturday, August 15

10:00 AM

• Communicative Survival Strategies for Security Practitioners Ada Nakama Grand Ballroom — Talk, 10:00 AM
• Source Protection and Digital Security Techniques Under Surveillance Smitha Khorana Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 10:00 AM
• Autonomous Exploitation at Scale Carter Pfaff Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 10:00 AM
• Get Your Amateur (Ham) Radio License in a Single Weekend (Part 2 of 2) Dan Romanchik Kips Bay — Workshop, 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
• Make Your Very Own IoT Cat Lamp With WLED (Day 2) Michael Raymond Herald Square / ScriptKitty Village — Workshop, 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
• Lockpick Village With Lockpick Extreme (Day 2) Christine Bachman, Daniel Finegold, Bob Hermes Herald Square / Lockpick Village — Village, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
• Paper Popups (Day 2) Herald Square / Paper Popup Village — Village, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
• Ham Radio Village (Day 2) Herald Square / Ham Radio Village — Village, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
• Hackerspace Village (Day 2) Herald Square / Hackerspace Village — Village, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
• Anarchist Hacker Village (Day 2) Herald Square / Anarchist Hacker Village — Village, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM

11:00 AM

• The Onion Shell: Zero-Install Tor From the Browser Erica Windisch Grand Ballroom — Talk, 11:00 AM
• Speculative Solidarities: Sanctuary Cell Division - A Call to Action Camille Acey, Rev. Elae Moss Benedetto, Rev. Eon, Jorge Luis Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 11:00 AM
• The Deceptive Web of Scam Compounds Laura Sang Hee Scherling EdD Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 11:00 AM
• Resist Internet Censorship by Running Your Site Over the Radio Dan Tennery-Spalding Sutton Place / Workshop A — Workshop, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
• Soldering 101 Bianca "BiaSciLab" Lewis Sutton Place / Workshop B — Workshop, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

11:45 AM

• Wi-Fi Self Defense and Hacker Hunting for Beginners (Day 2) Kody Kinzie Herald Square / ScriptKitty Village — Workshop, 11:45 AM to 1:45 PM

12:00 PM

• Ask EFF, 2026 Edition Daly Barnett, William Budington, Lena Cohen, Cara Gagliano, Rory Mir Grand Ballroom — Talk, 12:00 PM
• To Kill the Telephone System's Ghost Phillip Hallam-Baker Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 12:00 PM
• The Server Knows Nothing: Designing Emergency Apps With Nothing to Subpoena Jason Long Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 12:00 PM

12:30 PM

• Lockpicking 101: A Puzzle in the Dark Bianca "BiaSciLab" Lewis Sutton Place / Workshop A — Workshop, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
• Sensing the Hidden World of EMF Darcy Neal Sutton Place / Workshop B — Workshop, 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM

1:00 PM

• Remembering Hackers 31 Years Later Renoly Santiago, Emmanuel Goldstein Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 1:00 PM
• Can It Ham? Hackers, Hams, and the Signal Between Them Andrew "livitup" Ohnstad, Terry "shoot3r" Schanno Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 1:00 PM

2:00 PM

• Cybersecurity for Space Systems: Integrating Offensive Methods, Defending System Vulnerabilities, and Space Law Tiffany Strauchs Rad Grand Ballroom — Talk, 2:00 PM
• A Practical Guide to Facial Recognition Evasion Rambo Anderson-You, Prowex Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 2:00 PM
• Riding the Pipe: Hack Wi-Fi and Meshtastic via Browser With Cheap Microcontrollers Kody Kinzie Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 2:00 PM
• Grokking the Agentic Loop: From Chatbots to Autonomous Agents Kwame Wright, Jarone Wright Sutton Place / Workshop A — Workshop, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
• Learn BadUSB Hacking With the USB Nugget Michael Raymond Herald Square / ScriptKitty Village — Workshop, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

3:00 PM

• Stop "Thinking Of" the Children. Start Listening to Them. Evan Greer Grand Ballroom — Talk, 3:00 PM
• Government Transparency in a Time of Shadows Kel McClanahan Esq. Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 3:00 PM
• The Enshittified Internet and How We Can All Rewild the Internet! LambdaCalculus Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 3:00 PM
• Re-imagining Digital Security Training Izebel Sutton Place / Workshop B — Workshop, 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM

4:00 PM

• How to De-Google Your Org: Practical Advice From People Who've Done It Meredith Laverty, Jibran Ludwig, Sarah E. Philips Grand Ballroom — Talk, 4:00 PM
• The Art and Science of Metawar Winn Schwartau Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 4:00 PM
• Tell Stories, Save the World: How Hackers Are Basically Shakespeare Kestral Gaian Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 4:00 PM
• Plicykling - Make the World a Better Place Craig Topham Sutton Place / Workshop A — Workshop, 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

5:00 PM

• What's Your Age Again? The Future of Online Age Assurance Cindy Cohn, Denise G. Tayloe Grand Ballroom — Talk, 5:00 PM
• Ham Radio Isn't Magic: Preppers, Sad Hams, and Practical Off-Grid Communications Andrew "livitup" Ohnstad Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 5:00 PM
• Zines Against the Machine: Analog Communication for a Digital Dystopia Jack Gangi Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 5:00 PM
• Exploring Security in the Bio-Digital Stack Xavier Palmer Sutton Place / Workshop B — Workshop, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

6:00 PM

• You Are John Connor... The Rise of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems Peter Haas Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 6:00 PM
• Hacking the Layers, Hackers, Open Source and the 3D Printing World - And Why You Should Care About It Jim Griffin Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 6:00 PM
• Build and Secure AI Systems Sam Bowne, Elizabeth Biddlecome Sutton Place / Workshop A — Workshop, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

7:00 PM

• How to Be a Whistleblower Emma Best, Jeremy Hammond, John Williams Grand Ballroom — Talk, 7:00 PM
• Not Your Boy Genius: Feminist and Queer Hackers in Film and Pop Culture Jasmin Hagendorfer Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 7:00 PM
• It's 10 PM. Do You Know What Your AI Agents Are Doing? Alexander Rodriguez Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 7:00 PM

7:30 PM

• Evaluating a Program's Free Software Licensing Craig Topham Sutton Place / Workshop B — Workshop, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM

8:00 PM

• No Laptop or Wi-Fi? No Problem: Democratizing Coding for the Mobile-Only World Hal Eisen, Elissa Miller, David Schachter Grand Ballroom — Talk, 8:00 PM
• Studying the Quotidian Web Ryan McGrady Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 8:00 PM
• Take This Job and Pwn It `Lex Pendragon Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 8:00 PM

9:00 PM

• Does Self-Sovereign Identity Imply Decentralized Identity? Wes Kussmaul Grand Ballroom — Talk, 9:00 PM
• Feeling the Signal: Hacking Music Into Touch Yi Wang Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 9:00 PM
• What It's Like in a Worker-Owned Creative Technology Cooperative Gwendolyn Pasquarello Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 9:00 PM

9:30 PM

• Build and Use a Still-Air Box for Aseptic Handling of (Bacterial) Sample Danny Chan Sutton Place / Workshop A — Workshop, 9:30 PM to 11:30 PM
• Breaking Walled Gardens: An iOS Jailbreaking Workshop Sam Heckle Sutton Place / Workshop B — Workshop, 9:30 PM to 11:30 PM

10:00 PM

• Maxx Klaxon Show Maxx Klaxon Grand Ballroom — Performance, 10:00 PM
• Hackers Got Talent Rob T Firefly, Gila Crystal Ballroom — Performance, 10:00 PM

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Sunday, August 16

10:00 AM

• The Ethical Fork in the Road Facing Gen Z: How Can We Inspire Gen Z to Become Ethical Hackers in Modern Workplaces? Will McKeen Grand Ballroom — Talk, 10:00 AM
• No, I'd Rather Stay Manipulated: How the Apps in Our Lives Hijack Our Behavioral Programming Nasir Barday Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 10:00 AM
• Harvest Now, Decrypt Later redshiftzero Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 10:00 AM
• Certified Vibe Hacker Jaime Urteaga, Robert Wagner Sutton Place / Workshop A — Workshop, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
• Community Scale Cloud Infrastructure: Deploying and Managing Autonomous Services With Co-op Cloud Brooke, Marlon Kautz, Silk Sutton Place / Workshop B — Workshop, 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
• Lockpick Village With Lockpick Extreme (Day 3) Christine Bachman, Daniel Finegold, Bob Hermes Herald Square / Lockpick Village — Village, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
• Paper Popups (Day 3) Herald Square / Paper Popup Village — Village, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
• Ham Radio Village (Day 3) Herald Square / Ham Radio Village — Village, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
• Hackerspace Village (Day 3) Herald Square / Hackerspace Village — Village, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
• Anarchist Hacker Village (Day 3) Herald Square / Anarchist Hacker Village — Village, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

11:00 AM

• The Adversary in Your Bed: Stalkerware, Domestic Violence, and the Hacker Defense Sara Kurtzberg, Sarah E. Ross-Benjamin, Efrat Sternberg Grand Ballroom — Talk, 11:00 AM
• Building Sovereign AI for Amateur Radio Joe Cupano Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 11:00 AM
• Modern OSINT Tradecraft: Attribution, Analysis, and OPSEC Lex Tungkasiri Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 11:00 AM
• Mesh Nets for Hackers: How (And When) to Use Meshtastic, Meshcore, and Reticulum (Day 3) Kody Kinzie Herald Square / ScriptKitty Village — Workshop, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM

12:00 PM

• BlueLeaks 2.0 Emma Best, maia arson crimew, Mikael Thalen, Alexander J. Urbelis Grand Ballroom — Talk, 12:00 PM
• Organizing in Layer 8 - Building Tech in Democratic Socialists of America Colin Mahns Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 12:00 PM
• Non-Human Identity - The Gaping Security Hole That Agents Are Making Worse! Michael Morgenstern Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 12:00 PM

12:30 PM

• Pegasus Detection and Analysis Stephen Boriotti, Matthew Hopard, Gabriel Ruiz Sutton Place / Workshop A — Workshop, 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM

1:00 PM

• Against the Edgelord International Johannes Grenzfurthner Grand Ballroom — Talk, 1:00 PM
• Nobody Meant to Build a Surveillance Machine: The Modern Corporate Panopticon Steven Irurueta Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 1:00 PM
• Non-Stop BioDigital Attack Surfaces: Reviewing AI-Augmented Biocybersecurity and Cyberbiosecurity bueller, Xavier Palmer Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 1:00 PM

1:15 PM

• Make Your Very Own IoT Cat Lamp With WLED (Day 3) Michael Raymond Herald Square / ScriptKitty Village — Workshop, 1:15 PM to 2:45 PM

1:30 PM

• Security Without Silos: Bridging Physical and Cyber Defense for Civil Society Davis Erin Anderson, Kristin Antin, Tara Arthur Sutton Place / Workshop B — Workshop, 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM

2:00 PM

• Show Network Security - A Time of Major Transition John Huntington Grand Ballroom — Talk, 2:00 PM
• I Hacked a Gay Foot Fetish App (And You Can, Too!) Altair Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 2:00 PM
• LIMA - No Vendor, No Cloud, No Trust: Open Source Tamper Attestation for Critical Infrastructure Hardware Justin T. Knox Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 2:00 PM

3:00 PM

• We Need to Talk About Signal: Security Assumptions, Threat Models, and Activist Community Risk HelpMeRob Grand Ballroom — Talk, 3:00 PM
• Agshittification: Big Meat, Misinformation, and the Fight for the Future of Food P.K. Newby Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 3:00 PM
• Honeypotting AI Agents Abdel Fane Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 3:00 PM

4:00 PM

• Doxing: The Politics, Panics, and Economies of Online Safety Jamie Theophilos Grand Ballroom — Talk, 4:00 PM
• Can We Route Around the App Stores? Mikalai Birukou, Sean O'Brien Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 4:00 PM
• They're Already Knocking: High-Interaction Honeypots for the Rest of Us Aaron Levitt Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 4:00 PM

5:00 PM

• Decentralized Networking Is a Social Problem John Burwell Grand Ballroom — Talk, 5:00 PM
• The Watchers You Fed: Feds, Extractors, Data-Brokers Tony Spencer Crystal Ballroom — Talk, 5:00 PM
• Real-Time Ad Blocking via HDMI Man-in-the-Middle Cyril Engmann Gramercy Park Suite — Talk, 5:00 PM

6:00 PM

• HOPE 26 Closing Ceremonies Grand Ballroom — Talk, 6:00 PM

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List of rooms

Three main talk tracks run all weekend:

• Grand Ballroom
• Crystal Ballroom
• Gramercy Park Suite

Workshops and villages use these spaces:

• Sutton Place, split into Workshop A and Workshop B
• Kips Bay, used for the two-part ham radio licensing class
• Herald Square, which holds the villages: Lockpick Village, ScriptKitty Village, Paper Popup Village, Ham Radio Village, Hackerspace Village, and Anarchist Hacker Village

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