The S4x26 Call For Presentations Is Closed

Sorry you missed the CFP and the chance to share your Big Idea or Great Work with 1100 of th world’s best on the S4 stage. We do reserve a couple of spots for late breaking content. It’s a very high bar. If you think you have something we can’t say no to send a short description to info@s4xevents.com.

There are a few other ways to get on stage if you attend S4x26:

  • If you are attending and have a finished presentation you can apply to be a back-up talk.
  • 12 attendees can give 5 minute Unsolicited Responses to close out Stage 2.
  • We will be looking for contestents for My Favorite Metric.
  • And there is a karaoke stage.

If you submitted and weren’t selected, know that it was extremely competitive this year, and we hope we will see you on a S4 stage in the near future.

The Stages

The Main Stage

The place for Big Ideas for all attendees. You will be asked to submit your Big Idea in one or two sentences, and then you can provide additional detail. The Big Idea doesn’t have to be completely new. It could be a spin or different way of looking at something. We also put related field sessions on the big stage such as insurance, economics, international relations, reputation management, etc.

This stage seats 1,100 and has a 5-camera shoot. It will be full for the keynote blocks in the morning. After that it competes with Stage 2 and Stage 3 for attendees.

Stage 2 – Technical Deep Dives

Stage 2 is S4’s heritage. Very detailed, highly technical sessions. You can’t get too technical for the Stage 2 audience. This is the reason they come to S4. The key here is to focus on what is new and important about your technical session. What new exploit, testing method, post exploit technique, protection or detection approach, … do you want to share with the audience?

Stage 2 seats 400+ people and is a 4-camera shoot.

Stage 3

Stage 3 is for sessions that will appeal to a subsection of the S4 attendees, a niche. It could be a specific industrial sector. It could be for a specific asset owner role. Or it could be something that you feel isn’t big enough for the Main Stage or technical enough for Stage 2. Stage 3 seats 200 people and is a 3-camera shoot. Stage 3 has had some standing room only sessions at recent S4 events.