PasswordsCon will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, on December 1-3.
The conference is kindly sponsored and arranged by CZ.NIC, the Czech domain registry.
Venue information & registration, including early bird prices, can be found here.
Important: read ALL the information below before submitting your talk proposals!
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Conference Date: December 1-3, 2025
Location: Masarykova kolej (Masaryk Dormitory), Prague.
Day 1 & 2: onsite and livestreamed on YouTube; All talks are recorded.
Day 3: Chatham House Rule. EU/NATO/FVEY/EFTA citizens only. Valid passport required at entrance. No livestream, no recordings.
Talk Lengths:
– 40-45 minutes (Long)
– 20-25 minutes (Short)
– Lightning talks (5-10 minutes)
CFP submission deadline: End of September 7, whatever your timezone.
We will do another submission deadline after this to the extent necessary.
Meetups will be held in the evening(s) with additional opportunities for lightning talks, 5-10 minutes in length. We encourage active Q&A sessions, and will do longer breaks to facilitate discussions among all attendees.
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Talk types:
We are not publishing proceedings or similar academic work, but we warmly welcome academic researchers to present work in progress, past papers and other ideas of interest.
Remember: PasswordsCon is not an end-user conference!
PasswordsCon brings together experts, practitioners, regulators, researchers, and others from around the world who work in the areas of digital identity, authentication, biometrics, all types of MFA, FIDO/WebAuth/Passkeys, access management, pins & passwords. You can expect well above average expertise in different areas among the audience. We have no limitations on how deep or wide you can go into any subject!
Contributions are solicited on topics including, but not limited to:
Passwords & PINs
Multifactor Authentication
Password Cracking
FIDO, WebAuthn, and Passkeys
OAuth and OIDC
Digital ID and IAM
Identity Federation
Authentication Frameworks
ID Standardization and Regulation
EU Digital ID and Digital Wallet
NIST SP 800-63 Digital Identity
Password Managers
Phishing for ID and Credentials
Usability of Authentication
Password Security Awareness
ID Enrollment
Remote Identity Verification
Verifiable Credentials
Social, Cultural & Economical Challenges for Secure Authentication
AI, Machine Learning, Pattern Analysis (Code Breaking)
eID Providers
eID Tokens
eID Business Models
Biometric Authentication
Authentication Assurance Levels
Authentication Risk
Cryptographic Credentials
We also appreciate talks based on real-world experiences, like implementing, maintaining & changing large scale authentication solutions and of course: “war stories”
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Talk submissions must include the following information:
– Talk Title
– Length of Talk (Long, short, lightning)
– Submitting for day 1-2 or day 3 (chatham house rule talks)
– Short Abstract (A few sentences for publishing online)
– Long Abstract (Longer explanation of your proposal)
– Your Full Name + Any secret superhero alias you may have or prefer
– (Job/Academic) Title & Affiliation (Optional)
– Social Media Links (Linkedin, Mastodon, Bluesky, Youtube etc.)
We don’t mind talks that have been presented elsewhere, but please do let us know about it, and if it is publicly available online.
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Submit your talk proposal:
Long & short talks, plus ideas for lightning talks, please email your proposal to cfp@passwordscon.org. You will get a manual confirmation email once we have received it.
CFP submission deadline: End of September 7, whatever your timezone.
We will do another submission deadline after this to the extent necessary.
If you have any questions in regard to this CFP or the conference, please email questions AT passwordscon.org, or contact the main organizer Per Thorsheim on Signal. (username: thorsheim.31)