NOPcon

SCHEDULE / 2026

Daily program

Session times, room changes, and speaker details are organized by day as the program is finalized.

15 sessions

September 17

Conference Day

Thursday Main Stage Published
Morning Registration & Welcome

Registration, welcome and networking

Morning Opening 01 NOPcon Crew

Opening speech

Morning Opening 02 Ahmet Akan / PeakCyber Technologies

Opening speech

Morning Learnings From Two Decades of Zero-Days: From Manual Exploits to Autonomous Discovery Brian Gorenc / Vice President of Research and Development at TrendAI

Keynote on zero-day research and the evolution from manual exploitation to autonomous discovery

Morning Morning Coffee Break
Morning Breaking Memory Tagging Extension (MTE): Internals, Limitations, and a Practical Bypass Meysam Firouzi / Software Security Researcher at Mercedes-Benz

MTE internals, limitations, and a practical bypass

Midday Every Ride You Take: Hacking a City's Public Transportation Ignacio Navarro / Independent Security Researcher

Security research into a city's public transportation systems

Midday A History of PAC Bypasses Alperen Şirin / Independent Security Researcher

A look at the history and techniques of PAC bypasses

Midday 1 Hour Break -
Midday Optimize, Desync, Exploit: A Luau Codegen Bug Story Ibrahim Seker / Independent Security Researcher

A Luau code generation bug and its exploitation

Midday Two Nations, One Bridge: A Reverse-Engineering Teardown of Türkiye's and Korea's National Tax Signers Sangsoo Jeong

Reverse engineering Türkiye's and Korea's national tax signing systems

Afternoon Afternoon Coffee Break -
Afternoon Low Hanging Apples: Red Teaming macOS Waleed Barakat / Vulnerability Researcher at TikTok USDS JV - Paul Montgomery / Red Team Operator at Anthropic

Red teaming and attack surface research on macOS

Afternoon Root From Kilometers Away: Ubiquiti AirMax RCE Dan Borgogno / Security Researcher at Faraday Security - Gaston Aznarez / Security Researcher at Faraday Security

Remote code execution research targeting Ubiquiti AirMax

Afternoon Closing & Announcements