BSides Vancouver Island 2025

Welcome to BSides Vancouver Island 2025! Join us for a day filled with engaging talks and networking opportunities with cybersecurity professionals. The event will occur on Friday, October 2025, at the Victoria Conference Centre in beautiful Victoria. Come learn from industry experts, share your knowledge, and connect with like-minded individuals. Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to expand your skills and grow your network. See you there!

What is a Security BSides Event?

Each BSides is a community-driven framework for building events for and by information security community members. The goal is to expand the spectrum of conversation beyond the traditional confines of space and time. It creates opportunities for individuals to both present and participate in an intimate atmosphere that encourages collaboration. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. It is where conversations for the next-big-thing are happening.

History of Security BSides

BSides was born in 2009 when a number of quality speakers were rejected from a mainstream conference, not due to lack of quality but rather lack of space and time. Our mission is to provide people with options by removing common conference barriers and by providing more options for speakers, topics, and events.

• 2009: Launched in the United States.
• 2010: BSides breaks into the global space with the first European event.
• 2011: More than 30 events worldwide in the US, Europe, India, Hong Kong, & Australia.
• 2019: First BSides Vancouver Island event held at the University of Victoria
• 2023: Second BSides Vancouver Island event held at the Vic Theatre
• 2024: Third BSides Vancouver Island event held at the Victoria Conference Center

Thousands of people have attended and written about their experience at BSides events.

Read more at: https://www.securitybsides.org/Media.

While every BSides event is unique, here are some things that don’t change:

• Community organized, volunteer-driven, and corporate-funded
• Provide a forum for expanding the spectrum of conversation
• Focused on giving a voice to the “next big thing”

Hotel Partners

We’ve secured special room rates for BSidesVI 2025 attendees at the following hotels. To see the rates and book your room, please use the links below. Please make sure you book by September 2, 2025.

728 Humboldt St, Victoria, BC

Double Tree by Hilton Hotel & Suites Victoria

777 Douglas St, Victoria, BC

Stay up to date!

BSidesVI mailing lists, online forums, slide share, social media activity, archived photos, and videos, as well as streaming video, are accessible through the BSidesVI website: https://www.bsidesvi.com

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Victoria Conference Centre, 720 Douglas Street, Victoria, Canada