2025 BASC Call For Papers April 5, 2025

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BASC 2025 is happening on April 5th at 5 Wayside Rd, Burlington, MA. For more information on the conference and sponsorship opportunities, please visit our website https://www.basconf.org/.

Please submit your information using this form. The deadline for submissions is March 1st, and we will get back to you no later than March 9th on whether or not your talk has been accepted. 

We are looking for talks either 20 minutes or 45 minutes long plus time for Q&A. Our focus is on application security, and all the work that goes into securing software. Talks on tooling, security champions, bugs, or even secure language features are all welcomed. 

Both new speakers and experienced presenters are welcome to submit. If you're new to application security, you probably have a new perspective and we encourage first time presenters to submit presentations.

Please note all accepted speakers will have to agree to the OWASP speaker agreement, https://owasp.org/www-policy/legal/speaker-agreement, and as a local conference we do not cover transportation or other exexpensesAll


All speakers have to present in person at the conference location in Burlington,MA

Potential talk topics include the following:

  • Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI, LLM, etc.)
  • Automation/AI Driven Automation Offensive and Defensive
  • Software Bill of Materials (SBoM)
  • Supply Chain Security (devices and applications)
  • Zero Trust
  • Identity-based Security (authentication and authorization, federated access)
  • OWASP Projects
  • OWASP Global Objectives
  • Threat Intelligence
  • Application Security Testing/Pentesting/Exploits
  • Threat Modeling
  • Application Privacy Compliance Requirements
  • Vehicle Security

While choosing a topic keep in mind our target audience 

  • Computer Science/Information Security Students
  • Application Security professionals (junior-architect)
  • Developers (junior-architect/principal)
  • General cybersecurity/information security professionals (engineers/architects)
We use Submittable to accept and review our submissions.