Talk
20 minutes + 10 minutes
Talk
A focused 20-minute presentation followed by 10 minutes of moderated discussion. Share original technical work, useful failures, research, lessons, or a field-tested point of view—not a product pitch.
20–22 January 2027
Call for proposals
Bring the work.
Open the discussion.
We’re looking for original, technically substantive talks grounded in real systems, research, or operating experience.
Submit a proposalOpens 22 Sep at 9:00 AM MT · Closes 15 Nov at 11:59 PM MT
001
The format
Thirty focused minutes
Present your work.
Then open the room.
002
The proposal
What we’ll ask for
Enough detail
to see the talk.
- Title and public abstract
- Private outline for reviewers
- Three attendee takeaways
- What is new, original, or field-tested
- Supporting evidence, results, or demonstration links
- Previous presentations and what has changed
003
The bar
What matters
Focus on a clear question.
Evidence beats theater.
Original
Give the room a finding, method, failure, or perspective it cannot get from the standard conference circuit.
Technical
Show how the work actually functions. We value concrete methods, constraints, results, and lessons.
Participatory
Leave space for questions, disagreement, and experience from elsewhere in the room.
Noncommercial
Products may be part of the story, but sales pitches and product demonstrations presented as research are not.
Examples—not a required topic list
What a focused talk might examine
How a team designed identity, tool permissions, and human approval for a production agent—and what failure testing revealed.
How an LLM changed an authorized offensive or defensive workflow, measured against a human baseline—including where it introduced new errors.
How early customer behavior challenged a security product’s original threat model, and which technical or product decisions changed as a result.
How a growing team shipped an AI-enabled security capability under time and resource constraints while preserving least privilege, observability, and rollback.
We welcome other subjects. These examples show the level of focus and technical detail we hope to see in a proposal.
All accepted talks will be delivered in person in Whitefish. Friday’s discussion workshops and hackathon are organizer-led and are not accepting proposals. Have a working project rather than a talk? Apply to Lift, the Friday demo program.
SkiSides 2027
Have something
worth sharing?
Send us the work, the evidence, and the conversation you want to start.
Submit a proposalInterested in supporting SkiSides? Email sponsor@skisides.com.