Welcome to the Red Team Summit 2026 CFP. RTS will be held March 10 and 11 in McLean, Virginia. RTS is unlike any other conference, made for and by a community of internal Red Teams.

When submitting a proposal, please keep this in mind. This con is for content that you cannot submit or find to other conferences. This covers program discussions of the operation of Red Teams as well as technical tradecraft and war stories you could never tell in another forum. We are here to learn from each other's experiences and I assure you that you have something we could benefit from knowing.

We have 20m and 45m talk formats, as well as panel discussions. When submitting your proposal, please include sufficient detail to ensure that the Review Board has a good sense of the content and depth of your presentation to help us curate the content.

Please note that nothing you submit about your talk, except the title, will be made public or available to other attendees under any circumstance. Pretalx will tell you things will be available publicly, but we do not use the features that would make it public.

• In the Description field, please provide a detailed talk outline.
• In the Notes field please give any additional information you want the CFP reviewers or organizers to know.
• If you are submitting a panel, please have a list of people that you wish to put on it. Sometimes we get several talks that fit within a theme. When this happens, the Review Board will often contact the submitters and ask them to form a panel discussion.
• If you are a member of a red team at a larger organization that has multiple red teams, please make sure you distinguish which team you're submitting on behalf of. And please, if many people from your team submit, use the same name for your team. This will help significantly when it comes time to extend invitations.

Talk submissions that are not sufficiently detailed may be summarily rejected and result in not being extended an invitation to the conference. Examples of poor submissions include, but are not limited to:

• Submissions that are a single paragraph or less in length
• Submissions that are just a link to some previously published work
• Submissions from red team / pentest consulting firms. We appreciate the work you do, but Red Team Summit is designed specifically for internal red teams and the challenges that are more unique to internal red teams.
• Submitting under an alias. Organizers must be able to identify your name and employer, either directly through your submission, or indirectly through Cabal.
• Submissions about “What is red teaming”

Examples of things that make a good submission include, but are not limited to:

• Clearly conveying what kind of talk it is – is it meant to convey information (e.g. “How my team hacked 1507 systems in one day”), is it meant to entertain (e.g. war stories)
• An outline of the content
• What the audience will take away

With all this in mind, please submit your content! You are what makes Red Team Summit the best conference for Red Teamers in the world.

You can enter proposals until 2026-01-07 23:59 (UTC), 1 month, 4 weeks from now.