Name: Black Alps 2025
Start: 2025-11-20
End: 2025-11-21
Location: La Marive, Yverdon-les-Bains

Cutting Edge Technical Talks... and more!

#BlackAlps25 program has been prepared by an independent, neutral committee of internationally recognized experts. The program committee reviewed many proposals and selected the most appropriate and interesting talks for the conference (except the keynotes and rumps).

Learn more about the Call For Proposal and committee.

Most of the program is at La Marive, Yverdon-les-Bains, except specific side events like the Networking dinner.

Thursday November 20th, 2025

08:30 - 09:00	LIVE Welcome and coffee
09:00 - 09:15	LIVE Opening Words, Day 1 (en) Sylvain Pasini (HEIG-VD, president of Black Alps )
09:15 - 09:45	LIVE [Keynote] Ransomware Up Close : Exploring A Crisis From Inside (en) Stefan Dydak (Adnovum)
09:50 - 10:20	LIVE Building An ISAC For The Railway Sector (en) Reto Inversini Alexandre Herzog
10:20 - 10:45	LIVE Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15	LIVE No App? No Problem: Fuzzing Librairies With Automatic Driver Generation (en) Flavio Toffalini Nicolas Badoux
11:20 - 11:50	LIVE Siemply Irresistible: When Attackers Love Your SIEM More Than You Do (en) Melina Philips (GCI)
11:55 - 12:25	LIVE HTTP/3 On The Racetrack – Introducing Quickdraw (en) Maor Abutbul (CyberArk )
12:25 - 14:10	LIVE Lunch
14:10 - 14:40	LIVE Investigating An In-The-Wild Campaign Using RCE In CraftCMS (en) Nicolas Bourras
14:45 - 15:15	LIVE Speculative-Execution Attacks And Implications For Confidential Computing (en) Kaya Ercihan (Switch)
15:20 - 15:50	LIVE All You Can Leak: Real Tales Of Publicly Leaked Kubernetes Secrets (en) Guillaume Valadon (GitGuardian)
15:50 - 16:15	LIVE Coffee Break
16:15 - 16:45	LIVE Goodbye Purple Team, Hello Purple Bots (en) Ralph El Khoury Patrick Mkhael
16:50 - 17:20	LIVE Guess Who’s Coming To Room 305: Hacking Hotel Doors With Just A Name And a Date (en) Fabrice Caralinda
17:45 - 18:15	LIVE Travel
18:00 - 23:00	LIVE Networking dinner Salle des quais (Grandson) Salle des quais (Grandson) Mandatory registration Aperitif at 18:00 Dinner at 19:30
23:30 - 00:00	LIVE Travel

Friday November 21st, 2025

08:30 - 09:00	LIVE Welcome and coffee
09:00 - 09:10	LIVE Opening Words, Day 2 (en) Sylvain Pasini (HEIG-VD, president of Black Alps )
09:10 - 09:40	LIVE [Keynote] AI: Emerging Risks And New Threats (en) Dr. Raphael Reischuk (Swiss National Test Institute for Cybersecurity NTC )
09:45 - 10:15	LIVE Project Brainfog: Beyond The Facade – Exposing Smart Giants (en) Gjoko Krstic (Zero Science Lab )
10:15 - 10:40	LIVE Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:10	LIVE CLFS Uncontained: Exploiting CLFS Without Touching The Log (en) Marco Ortisi
11:15 - 11:45	LIVE Plugins Gone Rogue: Attacking Developer Environments (en) Raphael Silva (Checkmarx)
11:50 - 12:20	LIVE Who Watches The Watchmen ? Reversing Video Surveillance Equipment … (en) Antonio Vázquez Blanco
12:20 - 14:05	LIVE Lunch
14:05 - 14:35	LIVE Project Headend And Then ST16CF54 (en) Travis Goodspeed
14:40 - 14:55	LIVE Bacteria : Attacking Bacnet In Modern Building Automation Systems (en) AdriNels
14:55 - 15:10	LIVE Level Up Your Malware: A Practical Journey Into EDR Evasion (en) Baptiste Copros (EPFL)
15:15 - 15:45	LIVE Trust Me, I’m A ShortCut: New Link Abuse Methods (en) Wietze Beukema
15:45 - 16:10	LIVE Coffee Break
16:10 - 16:40	LIVE Unicode As Low-level Attack Primitive (en) Alexandre Zanni (Synacktiv )
16:45 - 17:45	LIVE Rump Session (fr-en) Several speakers
17:45 - 19:00	LIVE Aperitif
19:00 - 00:00	LIVE Black Dinner (La Marive) Free for all Black Alps participants

Legend

Conference

Keynote

Lightning Talks

Evening

Talk selection process

A call for proposal (CFP) was organized. The program committee was in charge to select the talks (except the keynotes and rumps). The submission process is now closed (it was open until July 31, 2025.).

Program committee

The program committee is composed of international renowned experts in the field.

Nicolas Oberli , Blackalps (chair)
Ange Albertini , Corkami
Axelle Apvrille , Fortinet
Gynvael Coldwind , HexArcana
Michał Kowalczyk
Sylvain Pelissier , SICPA
Christophe Tafani-Dereeper
Candid Wüest , xorlab

Proposal topics

Application security
Vulnerability research and exploits development
Penetration testing and red teaming
Cloud security
Security automation
Network security
Intrusion detection and monitoring
Cryptography

Conference 2025

Program