Thank you for attending #PancakesCon this year. I know the schedule change was rough, and we had an incredibly crew of volunteers, speakers, and village organizers who put up with that. Our talks will be posted over the next few weeks, and we really hope you had an amazing time and learned a lot.
Already needing a fix after ComfyConAU and @pancakescon.com? Our recording is up, with chapter markings!
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Check it out, and all the talks you might have missed. Transcription also on.
@pancakescon.com is live! Check them out at pancakescon.com/2025-confere...
T Minus 22 minutes till we swap to @pancakescon.com!
Australian Cyber in one Image
Okay. I have beer and Tim Tams. I can totally run this con for 14 more hours
Aside from two tracks of talks today, you can join:
-Hardware Hacking Village
-Lockpick Village
-SANS CTF
-CTF Education Village
-Live Networking - Jobs Board, Resume Reviews, Mentorship
All free, virtual, volunteer-operated, and welcoming~!
Again, Conference-Palooza is ON! @comfyconau.bsky.social is streaming now and cross streamed to our channel as well! Get your snacks and a LOT of caffeine and tune in for the next -17- hours of free cybersecurity learning!
Presentation nervs never really go away... especially when sharing the stage with so many amazing speakers kindly sharing their knowledge!
But, super excited for @comfyconau.bsky.social and @pancakescon.com today!
WRONG
Our annual sacrifice to the demo gods is also complete.
It wouldn't be a conference without conference bingo! Come watch us today, fill in the squares, then announce BINGO in our discord!
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PancakesCon & @comfyconau.bsky.social are THIS SUNDAY, September 21st. Here are some final notes on how to make the most of virtual conferences and where to find useful information! pancakescon.com/2025/09/17/f...
6 days to go, and our schedule is up!
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Cin Brennan will be talking about their experiences with cyber security and rockets.
hoodiePony will be pondering the fragility of life with technology
AND FINALLY, for those out there, a second homelab talk! Shreyans Jain will be talking about the arduous task of making sure DNS works at home.
We are like a fine cheese. We smell a bit, but the longer you wait, the better we are.
Announcements!
Kirushan is going to be the superhero we all needed and talk about Managed Apple Accounts
Jim Cheetham will talk about the Veilid framework and it's use for anonymous comms.
James Cooper will encourage us all to be less primitive and embrace more complex objects in programming.
It's a quiet day at ComfyCon HQ... he says as someone dares walk past the front door and my doorbells go off. The photo depicts the peace beforehand.
Ben Menzies is presenting on how modern technology is a double edged sword, an enabler, and a tool for an attacher
Corch Ξ© is going to give the first public presentation on new SMB Framework, OpenCASE
Amanda-Jane T will lead us to understand the field of criminology and it's applicability with cyber
Announcements Day 2! You wanted a heavy hitting conference? You got it.
Semi announcement - because we had so many great submissions we will be extending our run on the 21st September to 1200 UTC+10 to 2100 UTC+10. 2 hours of extra talks before handing over to PancakesCon!
Simon Carabetta and Deany Jaghdour are going to be talking about how they became professional cyber people without swearing
George Ferres is going to be talking about homelabs, and some of their experiences in making it accessible
Finally dgl is going to be talking about the *naughtiest* character π
Brain, are you thinking what I'm thinking?
That its time to take over the world?
No Brain, narf, it's time to announce some speakers!
(You had the voices in your head don't lie!)
ONE MORE DAY. GET THEM IN
@comfyconau.bsky.social CFP (Australian Time) and @pancakescon.com CFP (US Time) close in 5 days! Get your submission in ASAP!
And over at @pancakescon.com we are still looking for NA / EU time submissions! Get your CFP in in the next two weeks before we both close!!!
Or, going our discord, we have an amazing group of people who can help you there too! discord.gg/FCcbX866CN
If you want any help in submitting, please reach out to @wan0.net who can help you work through. There are no silly submissions, and we are really keen to hear from you today!
CFP is here: forms.gle/bRS7CVVWyB1q...
Will we take you if you want to talk mental health strategies? Absolutely.
What about deep forensics experience? Damn straight
Your personal journey into cyber from your unique experience? Hell yes.
How to hack into sex toys? Tell us more!
