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Presentations

Olivia Gallucci in blue princess dress early October. Used in medical disclaimer, and collaboration section.
Portrait of Olivia Gallucci in a blue dress. Used on Presentations page, security conference talks.

I’ve given around 60+ independent security talks, from main stages of DEF CON, Black Hat, and Objective by the Sea to BSides all over the world. Mostly, I talk about macOS internals, reverse engineering, and open source security.

60+

talks given

7

years of speaking

6

countries spoken in


Conference Talks


Manhattan skyline at sunset seen across the river. Used on Presentations page, security conference talks.

2026

5 October: Objective by the Sea (speaker mentorship program)
  • Speaker mentorship program.
  • Objective by the Sea is the Apple security conference run by the Objective-See Foundation.
5-6 August: Black Hat USA
  • Talk: When Queues Become Vulnerabilities: Reverse Engineering GCD, XPC Races, and macOS Detection Engineering
  • Watch on YouTube · Slides · Talk listing
  • Black Hat USA, in Las Vegas, is one of the largest security conferences in the world.
25-26 June: MacDevOps YUL
  • Keynote: Between the Lines: Exploring macOS Internals through Apple’s Open Source Software
  • Watch on YouTube · Speaker list
  • MacDevOps is a conference for Mac admins and engineers; the 2026 edition was in Montréal.
18 June: NYC Systems
  • Talk: AI-Assisted Vulnerability Research on Apple’s Operating Systems
  • Watch on YouTube · Event page
  • NYC Systems is an independent, community-run talk series about systems programming.
4-5 June: SecretCon
  • Talk: Just-In-Time Compilation and JIT Memory Regions on macOS
  • Talk listing
  • SecretCon is a hacker conference in St. Paul, Minnesota.
21-22 May: Ekoparty Miami
  • Talk: macOS Vulnerability Research: Augmenting Apple’s Source Code and OS Logs with AI Agents
  • Conference website
  • The first U.S. edition of Ekoparty, the hacker conference founded in Buenos Aires.
16 May: BSides Tampa
  • Talk: Weaponizing Vtables: Detection Engineering for Kernel-Space Exploits in macOS
  • Watch on YouTube · Schedule
  • BSides Tampa is a community-run security conference in Tampa, Florida.
28-30 April: DEF CON Singapore
  • Talk: macOS Vulnerability Research: Augmenting Apple’s Source Code and OS Logs with AI Agents
  • Watch on YouTube · Slides · Talk listing
  • DEF CON’s first conference in Southeast Asia, held at Marina Bay Sands.
29-30 April: OOTB Indonesia (postponed)
  • The conference was postponed.
  • OOTB (Out Of The Box) is a security conference in Jakarta from the team behind Hack In The Box.
1-2 April: CypherCon
  • Talk: Asynchronous Flaws: Exploiting and Detecting Dispatch Queue Misuse on macOS
  • Watch on YouTube · Talk listing
  • CypherCon is Wisconsin’s hacker conference, held in Milwaukee.
21-22 March: BSidesSF and The Diana Initiative
  • Talk: Detecting Race Conditions on macOS
  • Watch on YouTube · Talk listing
  • BSidesSF is a community-run security conference in San Francisco.
9-10 March: Red Team Summit
  • Talk: Just-In-Time Compilation and JIT Memory Regions on macOS
3-4 March: [un]prompted
  • Talk: macOS Vulnerability Research: Augmenting Apple’s Source Code and OS Logs with AI Agents
  • Watch on YouTube
  • [un]prompted is a conference for AI security practitioners.
6 February: Women’s Society of Cyberjutsu
  • Career panelist for red team and offensive security engineering.
  • The Women’s Society of Cyberjutsu is a nonprofit that helps women advance in cybersecurity.

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The Bosphorus from the Galataport promenade in Istanbul, Turkey. Used on Presentations page, security conference talks.

2025

10 December: Datadog Security Summit
  • Talk: macOS Internals for Threat Detection Engineers: Logs, ESF, and Automation Utility Risks
5 December: Datadog Security Monthly
  • Talk: Porting Linux Exploits to macOS
20-21 November: BSides Ottawa
  • Talk: Syscalls and Stacks: A Guide to Cross-Platform Exploitation on macOS and Linux
  • Slides · Conference website
  • BSides Ottawa is a community-run security conference in Ottawa, Canada.
11-19 October: Objective by the Sea
1st week of October: Sprawl.nyc (surprise event)
  • Secret!
17-19 September: BSides Cayman Islands (next year maybe!)
  • Talk was accepted, but I was unable to attend as the conference fell within the first three months of starting a new job, and I didn’t have prior approval for time off. Next year! :)
5 September: BSidesNEPA
  • Talk: The Anatomy of a Mach-O: A Structured Guide to macOS Internals
  • Schedule
  • BSidesNEPA is a community-run security conference in northeastern Pennsylvania.
4 August: The Diana Initiative (next year maybe!)
  • Talk was accepted, but I was unable to attend as the conference fell within the first three months of starting a new job, and I didn’t have prior approval for time off. Next year! :)
25-26 July: BSides Albuquerque (next year maybe!)
  • Talk was accepted, but I was unable to attend as the conference fell within the first three months of starting a new job, and I didn’t have prior approval for time off. Next year! :)
18 July: BSides CDMX (next year maybe!)
  • Both talks were accepted, but I was unable to attend as the conference fell within the first three months of starting a new job, and I didn’t have prior approval for time off. Next year! :)
11 July: BSides PGH (next year maybe!)
  • Talk was accepted, but I was unable to attend as the conference fell within the first three months of starting a new job, and I didn’t have prior approval for time off. Next year! :)
10 June: GRASSr00tz (next year maybe!)
  • Talk was accepted, but I was unable to attend as the conference fell within the first three months of starting a new job, and I didn’t have prior approval for time off. Next year! :)
7 June: BSides Buffalo
  • Talk: Unlocking macOS Internals: A Beginner’s Guide to Apple’s Open Source Code
  • Watch on YouTube · Talk listing
  • BSides Buffalo is a community-run security conference in Buffalo, New York.
3-5 June: RVAsec
  • Talk: Unlocking macOS Internals: A Beginner’s Guide to Apple’s Open Source Code
  • Watch on YouTube · Talk listing
  • RVAsec is a security conference in Richmond, Virginia.
1 June: BSides312
  • Talk: Unlocking macOS Internals: A Beginner’s Guide to Apple’s Open Source Code
  • Watch on YouTube · Schedule
  • BSides312 is a community-run security conference in Chicago.
30 May: THOTCON
  • Talk: Elements of Cross-Platform Exploitation: A Guide
  • Schedule
  • THOTCON is Chicago’s hacking conference.
26 May: BSides Vancouver
  • Talk: Unlocking macOS Internals: A Beginner’s Guide to Apple’s Open Source Code
  • Talk listing
  • BSides Vancouver is a community-run security conference in Vancouver, Canada.
27 February: RIT Career Services panel
  • Student panelist on finding a first co-op and what the job is like.
25 February: RIT Career Services panel
  • Student panelist on finding a first co-op and what the job is like.

The College Years


Where it started: campus clubs, career panels, and my first conferences while I was a student at RIT. More from college →

RIT free and open source software alumni at a 2023 meetup. Used on Presentations page, security conference talks.

2024

13 September: BSides Zadar – Cross-Platform Exploitation: How OS Architecture Shapes Binary Exploits
  • I was the first speaker at the first BSides Zadar conference! :D
  • This was talk No. 1 on the list.
  • Not recorded.
  • BSides Zadar is a community-run security conference in Zadar, Croatia.
13 September: BSides Zadar – How Open Source SW Lifecycles, Vulnerabilities, and Community Dynamics affect Security
  • This was talk No. 2 on the list :)
  • Not recorded.
4 May: LibrePlanet – GNU@NU: Building a Community in Education – Panel
  • Panelists: Michael Brodskiy, Amit Shenoy, and Olivia Gallucci
  • Schedule
  • LibrePlanet is the Free Software Foundation’s annual conference.
4 May: LibrePlanet – Ethical and Economic Dimensions of Free Software Security
23 March: BSides Rochester – Exploit and Malicious Tool Development Utilizing Open Source Software
  • 50-minute technical talk.
  • Watch on YouTube · Speaker list
  • BSides Rochester is a community-run security conference in Rochester, New York.
29 February: RIT Career Services – Panel
  • Panelists: Alex Beaver, Joe Abbate, and Olivia Gallucci
  • Student panelist on finding a first co-op and what the job is like.
27 February: RIT Career Services – Panel
  • Student panelist on finding a first co-op and what the job is like.
Olivia Gallucci with three friends on the Hudson River waterfront. Used on Presentations page, security conference talks.

2023

31 October: RIT Career Services – Panel
  • Student panelist on finding a first co-op and what the job is like.
12 August: DEF CON Recon Village – Tooling Presentation
12 August: DEF CON Recon Village – Red Team Panel
10 August: Black Hat Arsenal – Tooling Demonstration
2 March: RIT Career Services – Panel
  • Student panelist on finding a first co-op and what the job is like.
Olivia Gallucci with four friends on a beach deck at sunset. Used on Presentations page, security conference talks.

2022

20 October: RIT Career Services – Panel
  • Student panelist on finding a first co-op and what the job is like.
18 October: RIT Career Services – Panel
  • Student panelist on finding a first co-op and what the job is like.
14 September: RIT’s Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) Student Chapter – How to Navigate the Career Fair and Job Postings
  • A presentation for RIT’s WiCyS student chapter.
2 September: RITSEC – Navigating Scholarships
  • An unrecorded presentation about my scholarship story and how to apply for scholarships strategically.
  • RITSEC is the RIT security club.
17-19 March: WiCyS International Conference – Economics and Ethics Behind Successful Free & Open Source Security Projects
  • Fire talk about research I did at Open@RIT (not Apple).
  • Project information
  • WiCyS is the annual Women in CyberSecurity conference.
WiCyS 2022 Lightning Talk - Economics and Ethics Behind Successful Free and Open Source Security Projects by Olivia Gallucci. Used on Presentations page, security conference talks.
21 January: RITSEC – Analyzing Tactics and Developmental Trends of Open Source Malware

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Olivia Gallucci and a friend sitting on a stone wall in front of a monument. Used on Presentations page, security conference talks.

2021

3 December: RIT – Analyzing Tactics and Developmental Trends of Open Source Malware
  • Honors Independent Research Presentation.
  • I presented my research to around twenty students.
  • Project information
27 October: WiCyS@RIT – Bash Basics
  • Fifteen-minute presentation with three activities involving grep, awk, and find.
8 October: RITLUG – Free and Open Source Security: Global Culture, Development, and Economics
28 September: RIT Career Services Advisory Board – Panel
  • Panelists: Ann Byerley, Matt Eggert, and Olivia Gallucci
  • We shared our experiences working remotely and in person during COVID.
24 September: RITSEC – Effectiveness of Threat Mitigation in Layers of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Model
9 September: WiCyS International Conference – Effectiveness of Threat Mitigation in Layers of the OSI Model
  • My research was a Fire Talk at the WiCyS international conference in Denver, Colorado.
  • I won a full conference scholarship to present my research.
  • Watch on YouTube · Project information
  • WiCyS is the annual Women in CyberSecurity conference.
WiCyS 2021 lightning talk card: Effectiveness of Threat Mitigation in Layers of the OSI Model, by Olivia A. Gallucci. Used on Presentations page, security conference talks.
3 September: RITSEC – Free and Open Source Security: Global Culture, Development, and Economics
30 July: GenCyber – Panel
  • I was a student panelist on New York City’s GenCyber Student and Professional Panel.
  • GenCyber runs cybersecurity camps for students and teachers.
22 July: RITSEC – Club Overview and Student Q&A
  • Presented with the RITSEC President and Head of Research.
  • Hour-long meeting discussing club activities, student life, and Q&A.
  • Around fifteen attendees.
14 July: RIT GCCIS Club Exploration for Incoming Freshmen – RITSEC
  • Presented with the RITSEC President and Head of Research.
  • Covered a ten-minute segment on RITSEC.
  • Around thirty attendees.
5 May: RIT – Effectiveness of Threat Mitigation in Layers of the Open Systems Interconnection Model
14 April: RIT – Summaries and Annotated Bibliographies of Successful Free & Open Source Projects
  • Honors Independent Research Presentation.
  • I presented my research to seventeen faculty members.
  • I was able to onboard two faculty contributors after my presentation.
  • After this presentation, I was paid by Open@RIT to continue this project.
  • All of the work I analyzed is in this Zotero collection.
  • Project information
7 April: RIT’s Open House for Prospective Computing Security Students – Panel
  • I was one of two freshman student panelists at RIT’s open house for prospective Computing Security students.
  • I covered various topics surrounding RIT, such as student life, academics, RITSEC, WiCyS@RIT, academic opportunities in Free and Open Source Software, and sailing.
24 March: RIT’s Accepted Computing Security Student Open House – Panel
  • I was one of two freshman student panelists at RIT’s open house for accepted Computing Security students.
  • Topics I covered included student life, academics, RITSEC, RIT’s WiCyS Chapter, RIT’s Free and Open Source Software program, and sailing.
16 March: WiCyS@RIT – Career Fair
  • Covers what the WiCyS career fair is, how it works, and why freshmen and sophomores should attend the fair.
  • Not recorded.
29 January: RITSEC – Hak5 Rubber Ducky Research
Olivia Gallucci with two friends at the beach. Used on Presentations page, security conference talks.

2020

11 September: RITSEC – Mandiant Attack Life Cycle
Olivia Gallucci with the RIT Women in Cybersecurity group in front of a mural. Used on Presentations page, security conference talks.

Resources for Speakers


CFP tips: selected tips from the Diana Initiative

Selected tips from the Diana Initiative.

CFP tips: others

Portrait of Olivia Gallucci in garden, used in LNP article.

Written by Olivia Gallucci

Olivia is senior security engineer, certified personal trainer, and freedom software advocate. She writes about offensive security, open source software, and professional development.

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