Hands-on, technical, by hackers for hackersLocally, in Wrocław. Red teaming, blue teaming, threat hunting. Just the substance: hands-on practice, knowledge sharing, networking.
// boot it, find what was stolen from node STAR, where it went, who did it
Technical, concrete, valuable and inspiring talks. In-depth conversations, panel discussions, protips, and a dash of retro.
Trade experience with people from right inside red team, blue team and threat hunting work.
We get together to learn from each other — from our wins and our f**kups.
Let's meet in Wrocław, the heart of Lower Silesia, and swap experiences in a good atmosphere about what a proper offensive can and should look like, and how to get ready for one. Together, let's build a trusted environment that raises the security level of the institutions, companies and community around us.
Let's do this together.
Tentative — order and timing may still shift. The "Hack it yourself" block depends on you.
The programme starts at 17:30 sharp, so come with time to spare.
Welcome, plan for the evening, guest announcements.
Hard-core red team in practice, rounded out by a hard-nosed blue team view
speakers: Karol Celiński, Mateusz Nalewajski
Red teaming and APT simulations
hosted by: Paweł Maziarz, Irek Tarnowski
panelists: Mateusz Nalewajski, Karol Celiński, Borys Łącki
How hacking was done before you were born
speaker: Adam Haertle
Short (2, 5, max 10 minutes) talks from volunteers — what cool thing they built, what tool they learned, what neat things you can pull off.
A text adventure, a hack-me, prizes up for grabs. A phone is enough, though a laptop or your own VT100 makes it comfier. Wraps up with an official close and an invite to the unofficial part.
The triangle is Alphacon's logo cut from laminate. Inside sits an ESP32-C6, so Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Zigbee all at once, with a 128×64 OLED on the front and six buttons. The userport is broken out on top — plug in your own module and the badge does whatever you tell it. ALPHAbadge is the younger sibling of CONFibadge — the badge of Kraków's CONFidence came from the same hands.
A provisional line-up — blocks and topics are agreed with all of them. The running order and who does what on the panel may still shift.
Immunity Systems
Hack the planetMan in the middle
A security, programming, electronics and machine learning enthusiast. He has been in the cybersecurity industry for 18 years — starting as a pentester, and for nearly a decade running his own company, Immunity Systems, specializing in offensive security. In quieter times he designs systems built by his second company, tinkers with hardware hacking, dives into mathematics, and eagerly talks about drones and SDR technologies.
PepsiCo · Threat Defense PL
Hack the planetMan in the middle
Mateusz started his security journey at PwC, conducting application security testing and attack simulations. He currently leads the Polish Threat Defense team at PepsiCo, focusing on blue team operations and incident response automation. Outside of work, he's passionate about radio, DIY electronics, embedded systems and Linux.
Alphasec · Immunity Systems
Man in the middle
Over 25 years in IT: Unix/Linux admin, then developer, then pentester and architect. One of the key people building the red team at a Big Four firm, co-founder of Immunity Systems, founder of the Alphasec brand and creator of the APT Masterclass training series. Has run advanced APT-class attack simulations for companies in seven countries. Also specializes in social engineering and physical security.
Cyber Threat Intelligence
Man in the middle
A threat analyst with a long track record and a vast imagination. For years he has worked in tactical and operational Cyber Threat Intelligence: analyzing attack tactics and techniques, assessing the offensive capability of criminal groups and drafting response plans. For many years an incident coordinator, digging in technically on the hardest cases. He connects the dots into a bigger picture and shows how to share what he finds.
LogicalTrust · bothunters.pl
Man in the middle
By day, a white hat — a security expert specializing in penetration testing at LogicalTrust. When night falls, the white hat lands in the closet and a black ninja mask takes its place: in that outfit he hunts down cyberthreats and publishes warnings on bothunters.pl. An IT security expert for more than a decade, author of a few dozen conference talks — SECURE, SecureCON, SEConference and Open Source Security among them.
Zaufana Trzecia Strona
Back to the future
A security expert with twenty years of experience — speaker, trainer and lecturer. Founder and editor-in-chief of ZaufanaTrzeciaStrona.pl and organizer of the Oh My H@ck conference. Named a Digital Shaper 2021 by Forbes and Business Insider. Previously a security consultant at Deloitte, then CISO at UPC for 12 years. Gives over 150 talks a year — plain language, real examples.
// who, when and about what — in the agenda
Sooner or later every one of these names will show up on Alphacon's stage. We've talked to each of them, and each has officially said they'd be glad to share their experience with our audience. Six of them are on stage already on 8 October — who, and in which block, is in the speakers section; the rest you'll hear at the editions to come.
// want to join this list? submit a talk
A café-bar in the Four Denominations District, a few minutes' walk from the Market Square. See you Thursday, 8 October 2026 — sign-ups are open.
// we don't load the map without asking — only once you request it
Admission is free and it's staying that way — thanks to the partners who back this with us, and the people who chip in privately.
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Wrocław is a beautiful city that's home to a lot of great cybersecurity specialists. So why not meet up here, trade knowledge, inspire and get inspired?
Yes, there's more. For a few years now, a big, two-day, deeply technical IT security conference has been in the works for Wrocław. Yes, it's called Alphacon. If everything goes to plan, the first edition lands in 2027, and satellite events like Alphacon nano are a pretty solid warm-up.
Two days, full scale, deeply technical. The conference Wrocław has been missing.
// we sit on the program committees of CONFidence and Oh My Hack — we know how these conferences get made from the inside
