
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

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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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
- Talk: macOS Internals for Threat Detection Engineers: Logs, ESF, and Automation Utility Risks
- Watch on YouTube · Slides · Talk listing
- Objective by the Sea is the Apple security conference run by the Objective-See Foundation.
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 →

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
- Lightning talk.
- Talk page
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.

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
- Easy EASM, with Jason Haddix and Gunnar Andrews.
- Watch on YouTube · GitHub
- Recon Village is the reconnaissance and open-source intelligence village at DEF CON.
12 August: DEF CON Recon Village – Red Team Panel
- Panel: Bugs, Bounties, and Breaches
- With Jason Haddix, Ben Sadeghipour, Wesley Thurner, Sam Curry, and Arian E.
- Watch on YouTube
10 August: Black Hat Arsenal – Tooling Demonstration
- Easy EASM: the zero-dollar attack surface management tool, with Jason Haddix and Gunnar Andrews.
- Black Hat listing · GitHub
- Arsenal is where researchers demo open-source tools live at Black Hat USA.
2 March: RIT Career Services – Panel
- Student panelist on finding a first co-op and what the job is like.

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.

21 January: RITSEC – Analyzing Tactics and Developmental Trends of Open Source Malware
- 30-minute talk.
- Project information
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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
- 30-minute talk.
- Watch a very similar presentation on YouTube · Project information
- RITLUG is the RIT Linux Users Group.
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
- 30-minute talk.
- Watch on YouTube · Project information
- RITSEC is the RIT security club.
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.

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
- I presented my Honors research project to around thirty students.
- This research became a Fire Talk at the Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) International Conference in Denver, Colorado. I won a full conference scholarship to present it.
- Watch a very similar presentation on YouTube
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
- Co-presented with Bradley Harker, Lukas Harris, and Michael Moore.
- Covers the Rubber Ducky Mentorship Group’s research projects.
- Lukas Harris wrote a blog post about his research: Blocking USB Rubber Ducky Attacks: and other badusb mitigation with udev rules and Group Policy.
- Watch on YouTube

2020
11 September: RITSEC – Mandiant Attack Life Cycle
- Co-presented with Shannon McHale.
- Covers stages of the attack life cycle.
- Watch on YouTube

Resources for Speakers
CFP tips: selected tips from the Diana Initiative
Selected tips from the Diana Initiative.
- Collection of CFP Tips rounded up and shared by CircuitSwan.
- Conference Submissions for the Faint of Heart from Amelie Koran and Nicole Schwartz.
- Blog post by Kat Sweet on the building blocks of an InfoSec conference CFP.
- The CFPs 101 Panel from BSidesLV 2016.
- The DEFCON Speaker’s Corner post by Nikita titled How do I Make my CFP Stand Out?
- Blog post by Cheryl Biswas about giving a talk in Infosec.
- Presentation Tips for Technical Talks by Tanya Janca.
- CFP Submission Guideline (CFP Workshop) LinkedIn Post found by Meghan Jacquot.
- CFP WiCyS MAA Workshop shared by Maghan Jacquot.
CFP tips: others
- How to Write a CFP That Actually Gets Read by Britt Kemp at Bishop Fox
- Confessions of a Public Speaker – Tips for Security Practitioners by Phil Venables
- Slide hosting at Speaker Deck if you do not have a domain


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