BSides Atlanta 2026: a day plan, room map and getting around
TL;DR
- Two rooms cover most of the path: Grand Ballroom and Conf E, about 30 seconds apart on the 2nd floor.
- Make it yours: Room grid → "All options (edit)" builds "My Schedule": pick or cross out any of the 57 sessions (talks, villages, workshops). Picks save in your browser only.
- Lunch waves are assigned by ticket: check yours. Wave #2 (12:30) overlaps the 13:00 talks.
Room grid
Your live schedule, built from your picks in All options. ✕ removes a session. Picks save in this browser.
Every session from the official schedule, including villages, workshops and all-day rooms. Click a session to add it to My Schedule; overlapping picks are dropped automatically. Lunch, villages, workshops and other all-day items never displace anything; they show ⚠ when they overlap a pick. ✕ crosses a session out.
My day live
Route map
The path mostly shuttles between two rooms. There's one real room hop (Conf E → Grand Ballroom at 14:30). Dotted edges are the escape hatches.
mermaid source
flowchart TD
subgraph AM["Morning"]
A["08:45 Opening + Keynote\nGrand Ballroom"] --> R1["09:30 RE with AI: Game Cheat\nConf E"]
R1 --> M["10:30 MCP Security\nGrand Ballroom"]
M --> N["11:30 0days w/ LLMs\nConf E"]
end
subgraph MID["Midday"]
L["12:30 Lunch W2\neat fast"] --> P["13:00 PSX DVR RE\n★ must-see\nConf E"]
end
subgraph PM["Afternoon"]
W["14:00 Workload Identity Fed\nConf E"] -->|"room hop"| C["14:30 Context Poisoning\nGrand Ballroom"]
C --> H["15:00 Routers at scale\n15:30 Governance attack\nGrand Ballroom"]
H --> S["16:00 Security Tool\nLeaks Secrets\nGrand Ballroom"]
S --> X["16:30 Closing\n18:00 After party"]
end
N --> L
P --> W
N -.->|"alt C+G"| U["Open-weight safeguards\n12:00 API-key insider"]
H -.->|"if CTF hooks you"| CTF["Conf Six\nDC864 CTF"]
Venue map: Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center, 2nd floor
800 Spring St NW, Midtown. Every talk room is on the 2nd floor. The suggested path is mostly Grand Ballroom ⇄ Conf E, about 30 seconds apart across the prefunction area. The CTF (Conf Six) is in the far north-west corner, about 2 minutes away.
Same floor, redrawn as a graph
mermaid source
flowchart TB
subgraph N["North corridor"]
C3["Conf Three\nbpftrace workshop"]
C4["Conf Four"]
C2["Conf Two / Five / Board"]
end
subgraph MIDROW["Middle row"]
C6["Conf Six\nDC864 CTF"]
C789["Conf Seven / Eight / Nine"]
WC1["Restrooms + elevators"]
end
subgraph CORE["Centre"]
CA["Conf A"]
CB["Conf B"]
CCD["Conf C / D"]
end
subgraph S["South: your day"]
PF["Prefunction\nbreak area"]
GB["Grand Ballroom\n6 picks"]
CE["Conf E\n4 picks incl. PSX"]
WC2["Restrooms"]
end
DIN["Dining room\noff this plan"]
C6 --- C789
C789 --- WC1
C6 -.->|"stair, west hall"| N
WC1 --- CA
CA --- CB
CB --- CCD
CA ---|"break area"| PF
PF --- GB
PF ---|"~30 s walk"| CE
CE --- WC2
PF -.-> DIN
Sources: bsidesatl.info (venue; "floor plan is on the Hacker Tracker app") · GTHCC floor plan PDF (2013) · gatechhotel.com capacity chart.
Getting there: parking, venue, after-party walk
Official parking
On-site at the hotel, $23 with in/out privileges (bsidesatl.info). Easiest option.
MARTA
Midtown station, then walk, or the free Georgia Tech Stinger shuttle on Peachtree near the station entrance. Get off after two stops at Technology Square, then walk back to Spring & 5th.
Other decks
The middle map is Google's "parking near" search. Rates and Saturday hours aren't verified.
Maps load from Google, so they need a network connection; everything else on this page works offline. Open in Google Maps: walking directions · parking search. Sources: bsidesatl.info/venue, hudsongrille.com/midtown.
Suggested path
| Time | Talk | Speakers | Room | Track |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:45 | Organizers Opening Remarks | Scott Stanton, Steve Ripple, Dr. Andy Green | Grand Ballroom | Organizers remarks |
| 09:00 | Cutover: The State of Cybersecurity, AI, and the Humans in the Loop | Liz Morton | Grand Ballroom | Keynote |
| 09:30 | Reverse Engineering with AI: Dissecting a Modern Game Cheat | Steve Guris | Conf E | Offensive Security & Research |
| 10:30 | MCP Security: The Audit You Didn't Know You Were Running | Zach Fey | Grand Ballroom | Emerging Tech & Infrastructure |
| 11:30 | You want some zero days with that netpen? Finding your own way in with LLMs | Phil Brass, Matty McFatty | Conf E | Offensive Security & Research |
| 12:30 | Lunch - Wave #2 | Conf Dining Room | Lunch | |
| 13:00 | ★ Intro to Reverse Engineering with the PSX DVR | Zach C, Spencer B | Conf E | Offensive Security & Research |
| 14:00 | Feds Watching: Abusing Workload Identity Federation for Cloud Persistence and Privilege Escalation | Darrius Robinson | Conf E | Offensive Security & Research |
| 14:30 | Context Poisoning: Breaking and Securing AI Thread Memory | Avinash Attluri | Grand Ballroom | Emerging Tech & Infrastructure |
| 15:00 | Highway to Critical Heaven: Scaling Vulnerability Discovery Across Hundreds of Routers | Vipin B, Stephen G | Grand Ballroom | Emerging Tech & Infrastructure |
| 15:30 | Hacking the Process: Governance as an Attack Surface | Isaac Obune | Grand Ballroom | Emerging Tech & Infrastructure |
| 16:00 | The Security Tool That Could Leak Your Secrets | Pranay Singh Suri, jasmine sethi | Grand Ballroom | Emerging Tech & Infrastructure |
| 16:30 | Organizers Closing Remarks and Giveaways | Steve Ripple, Scott Stanton, Dr. Andy Green | Grand Ballroom | Organizers remarks |
| 18:00 | After Party | Hudson Grille - Midtown | Half-day activity (Villages, Workshops, Contests only) |
Schedule data from pretalx; check there for last-minute changes. Unofficial; not affiliated with BSides Atlanta.