Save the date! PancakesCon 4: Stack Overflow will occur (virtually and free as always!) on March 19.2023! CFP, Call for Volunteer, and Call for Workshops details will be posted here and on our Slack (which is linked in the menu above!) as always! We’re so excited to see what you all teach us about this year.

Thank you for attending PancakesCon 3. We had a marvelous time with all of you and enjoyed the wonderful talks our speakers developed. Congratulations to our CTF winners, with catJAM in first place, and SpaceCows tied with MSP for second place. You will be receiving your awards soon. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to our amazing team of volunteers in logistics, AV, CFP review, and villages.

In total, we had over 450 unique viewers, over 150 people who participated in villages, and well over 100 CTF participants. These are highly successful numbers for a free, community-run conference, and motivate us to continue running this conference.

Thank you to our raffle prize sponsors! In no particular order: Phillp Wylie, Mxshift, Louis Nyffenegger, Daria Korothkykh, kluthulu, CircleCityCon, and Blenster.

Thank you to our villages! Incredible work by Erick Galinkin (AI village), MintyNet (car hacking village), Blenster (hardware hacking village), lil_lost (resume village), and their entire teams!

With regards to our talks, they will be post-processed, captioned, and posted to our YouTube channel within one month. Thank you to all of our amazing speakers!

To participate in PancakesCon 4, subscribe to updates from this site or to our Twitter. That and our Slack are the best ways to learn about goings-on with the conference.

Thank you again, this conference cannot succeed without your interaction and support!

Hi all,

Super excited to announce that the 2022 schedule is live! We have goats to LEGOs, NMAP to SOC2. See our 2022 schedule here!

Thanks to everyone who submitted to the CFP. We got way more great submissions than we had slots for, and we want you to know how very grateful we are for everyone who submitted and also our hordes of volunteers in AV, logistics, moderation, and Villages who are making this possible.

Thank you for 130 great submissions. Our review board will be hard at work for the next few days deciding on 24 scheduled talks and 4 backup presentations. Notifications to accepted and backup speakers will be sent by the provided emails by Sunday night, US Central Time (Chicago).

Tabitha Sable and Ryan Castellucci will be offering a jeopardy-style CTF with networks to enumerate, boxes to root, and other surprises. The game will run from 9:45AM to 6:00PM US Central Time, and teamwork is highly encouraged. Details about how to register and participate will be shared closer to the conference, so start collecting your teammates now. Many thanks to Equinix Metal for the associated hosting services. Join the #ctf2022 Slack channel to participate!

Hi friends! I am honored, grateful, and privileged to introduce our 2022 keynote speaker, Elle Armageddon (@ellearmageddon)!

Elle Armageddon (they/them) is a former detection, response, and threat hunt engineer. They are currently the director of security engineering at a late-stage startup where they strive to foster an environment of mutual accountability, freely admit to not knowing everything, and trust the expertise of the engineers on their team. Their day-to-day involves a lot of having concerns and asking to see everyone’s dogs. When Elle isn’t working, they enjoy painting, singing, feeding their loved ones, and pointing out animals and medicinal herbs to whoever they can sucker into going on hikes with them. They also delight in playing games with their friends, and exercising their hugging muscles. While they pass convincingly for human, rumor suggests that Elle may actually be a pile of raccoons in a trench coat.

Hi all, we’re rolling. Some exciting announcements:

Volunteer slots are filled! Thank you so much to the many people who submitted an application. You should be hearing from our volunteer coordinator soon if you were assigned.

Resume Village and Hardware Hacking village are confirmed. See villages for more information. Resume village sign up closes soon!

Yes! A CTF is in development and we will post details as soon as we have them.

We have had a fantastic keynote graciously accept our invitation and we will post details about them, and their talk very soon.

The CFP closes Thursday, as does Call for Villages. Speak now, etc, etc. Thanks for the amazing submissions so far – our review board is in for hard decisions. We do have an active CFP mentorship channel in slack and are ready to assist!

We absolutely record our talks. Our YouTube is linked in the menu above. However, to participate actively in the con chat, raffles, and Q&A, you must join our Slack, linked above.

For those reserving their schedule, our hours will be 8:45AM – 7PM, US Central (Chicago) time.

Thank you to our organizers, volunteers, village coordinators, and speakers.

Thank you to the 500+ people who watched our live streams and the 1800+ people who participated in Slack, villages, and the CTF. We couldn’t have made this a successful year without you.

Thank you to INE, SecurityInnovations, and PancakeBot for sponsoring us.

We are working hard to retrieve and prepare videos for posting on our YouTube channel.

We hope to see you all for PancakesCon 3.

Exciting news!!!! @PancakeBot is generously sponsoring a raffle for one PancakeBot 2.0 and two PancakeBot 1.0’s. Open to con attendees in Slack on the day of the conference, only! Winners will be drawn at the end of the conference.