Conference date and location

The 2025 edition of Pass the SALT will be held on July 1 to 3, 2025, at Université Catholique de Lille in Lille, France (Openstreetmap | Google Maps).

Your proposal

Requirements:

• Your proposal has to speak about Security and Free Software/Hardware (or Open Standard/Protocol),
• By submitting a proposal, you accept video recording and publication of your slides+video recording under Creative Common licence.

Topics

We definitely want to have submissions from multiple security fields because we wish this conference to ease and improve interactions between various Security and Free Software communities. All usual security topics are of course welcome, including:

• privacy software and issues,
• offensive software and usages,
• hacking tools/software,
• defensive and threat intel tools and research.

To illustrate, the 2024 edition hosted 21 talks dispatched in 10 different sessions (+ 9 workshops!) covering a large part of the security landscape.

And, obviously, if you have a brilliant and/or “strange” idea, just SUBMIT and we will speak together!

Not sure to submit? NEW: we provide support!

• You do not recognize yourself into the different speakers description below?
• You are concerned about being too shy?
• You have doubts about yourself, your idea, the audience or anything else?

We support you with a dedicated support team:

• drop any question, your doubts etc you may have (e.g. "I have this talk idea but I am not sure ...") to our dedicated support team at:

speaker-support@pass-the-salt.org

• and you will receive assistance all along the CFP process.

And even after CFP results: according to your needs, this assistance is still available during all the stages of the preparation of talk until its delivery on stage!

You and your questions are definitely welcome!

Proposal Formats

You can propose:

• a long talk (35 min - questions and answers included),
• a short talk (20 min - questions and answers included),
• Workshops (3 hours max - detail the duration you foresee for your workshop in the description field).

The language: all the talks will be given in English in order to share the conference with non-French-speaking speakers in the most comfortable manner.

Timeline

The important dates are:

• Submission deadline: March 30, 2025, at 23:59 CEST
• Speakers notification: second half of April 2025
• Program publication : May 1, 2025

Speakers

Typical people submitting to our CFP are:

• contributors to Free Software/Hardware Security Projects,
• researchers who found vulnerabilities in a Free Software/Hardware project,
• hackers who have studied the security model of a Free Software/Hardware project or of an open protocol,
• people who have used a Security Free Software in their company or at home, and share with us their experience.

See our last editions list of the speakers.

Speakers package

Our goal is to make it possible for all lecturers to come in confidence, get rid of most of your practical questions, and be able to take advantage of the event in the most open way.

Communication: on this side, we provide:

• A dedicated private mailing list on which we provide complete information (how to come, to find accommodations, to do your talk, to contact us, to be reimbursed, etc.),
• A contact list and a fast feedback loop: in order to be able to get in touch and have answers quickly from the org team.

Financial support:

• First : as a free access event, we ask companies behind speakers to provide them support for the trip to the conference.
• Then: Then, for non-company-supported speakers, we might provide reimbursement for travel expenses, of course within the limits of our budget.

Questions?

Just send your questions to cfp@pass-the-salt.org.

You can enter proposals until 2025-03-30 23:59 (Europe/Paris), 2 months, 1 week from now.