A one-day cyber & tech convention to brainstorm, build, learn, and network — with live builds, security challenges, civics and ethics labs, and a supervised Juniors Room.
Skills, judgment, and civic footing — junior to pro, ethics first. Come for one lab or move between all three.
Build and use technology responsibly. Provenance, consent, and child-safety by design — the module every learner touches before anything else.
White-hat fundamentals taught the right way, on sanctioned, isolated ranges.
How civic institutions work — and how to tell what's real in a noisy feed.
A sample flow — final times posted closer to the event. The Juniors Room runs in parallel, fully supervised.
Anyone who wants to trade wasted screen time for real skills.
Safe devices, family digital safety, and a supervised room for kids.
Junior-to-pro tracks, CTFs, scholarships, and mentors.
Media-literacy tools and curriculum you can take back to class.
Full computing systems that run our apps and connect locally.
Inventors, defenders, scholars, and ethicists — people who built the thing, defended the thing, or spent a career thinking hard about whether we should have built it at all.
Keynote. Made something that's now in everyone's hands — and will tell you how it really happened.
Senior cyber practitioner who has run real incident response. Anchors the Cyber Lab.
Scholar who teaches how institutions work — method, never conclusions.
Has made an actual call with actual stakes. Chairs the Ethics Lab.
No faculty are confirmed yet — and we won't print a name until they've signed. Every open seat, what it asks, and what it pays is published. See the open seats & nominate someone →
Three bands running across one day. Families and students are always welcome — that never changes. Above that sits a working professional day and a closed-door executive evening, plus experiences you can add to any pass.
All day. Expo floor, main stage, the supervised Juniors Room, media-literacy materials.
Hands-on workshops, sanctioned CTF range, the runway, roundtable seats, faculty Q&A.
Closed-door briefings, boardroom tables, written assessments, year-round advisory.
Add on autograph sessions, photo ops, runway front row, roundtable observer seats, small-group meet & greets, and faculty dinner seats — from $40. Full pricing →
Sponsorship pays the faculty honoraria and underwrites the community seats. That's the trade — you fund the people on stage and the families in the room.
Underwrites ~50 family seats. Logo, program listing, shared expo table.
Underwrites a full faculty seat outright. Premium placement, named in the annual report.
Funds the entire supervised room — mentors, screening, and take-home device packages.
Named alongside the event across every surface. Capped at one.
Or take a single activation — runway, CTF range, scholarship fund, badge & lanyard, quiet lounge. Tiers, comparison table & activations →
Venue and city to be announced — check back soon, or register and we'll email you the details.
Open in Maps →Seats and Juniors Room spaces fill fast. Registration includes a waiver + (for minors) parent/guardian consent.
Register now + Add to calendarRegistering a minor? A parent/guardian completes consent at sign-up. Open to families and students.
Yes. The Juniors Room is fully supervised with screened, background-checked mentors and a two-adult rule. All lab activity runs on isolated, sanctioned infrastructure — never anyone else's networks.
No. Every lab has a beginner track. Come curious.
No. The Civics Lab teaches how to evaluate claims and sources — not what to conclude. It hands you the tools and lets you navigate for yourself.
Not yet — and we won't print a name until they've signed. No "invited," no "in talks with," no "past attendees have included." The faculty page lists the open seats, what each one is asked to do, and what it pays. If a name appears there, that person said yes in writing.
Because that money is what makes the sponsored seats possible. Sustained, closed-door time with faculty is the scarce thing, so it's priced like it — and the proceeds fund the honoraria, the Juniors Room, and every underwritten family and student pass. Full breakdown on the passes page.
Ethical, authorized security work only — on systems you own or have written permission to test. The ethics-and-law module comes first, always.
The expo floor, the main stage, the supervised Juniors Room, and the media-literacy materials — all day. Hands-on workshops and the sanctioned CTF range are part of the Pro Day pass. See the passes page.
Yes. Every page here can be read aloud, and the venue and materials are planned for wheelchair access, captioning on main-stage sessions, and quiet space. Tell us what you need when you register and we'll make it work.
Sponsored passes can be released anytime so the seat opens for someone else. Paid passes are transferable to another person; refund terms are shown at checkout. Questions: kristen@bornbetween2generals.com.