With LayerOne 2026 coming up next weekend, we hope you’re hard at work on your entries for this year’s Demo Party! Categories include ANSI art, L1 Demo Board, and Wildcard for everything else! Full details here https://www.layerone.org/events/demo-party/
For those of you submitting ANSI art entries, especially remote submissions, please make sure to submit before the May 23rd deadline!
Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff
Bricks In The Air is composed of LEGO aircraft with powered propellers and movable control surfaces. Participants attempt to “hack” into the aircraft control systems to take over each LEGO aircraft. This activity is accessible to all skill levels, and we provide a walk through guide for beginners.
Bricks In The Air runs throughout LayerOne and is located in the Hardware Hacking Village!
You can still register for the conference via https://www.layerone.org/registration/! Get your tickets now and join us next weekend!
Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff
LayerOne 2026 is just two short weeks away! If you didn’t get tickets yet, you still can on the Registration page!
There’s a tons of awesome contests and events, including two full days of great presentations, a Lockpicking Village where you can learn the intricacies of how locks work and how they can be opened without the use of a key, a Capture the Flag room which hosts multiple hacking and CTF events suitable for beginners and experts alike, the RaiseMe Career Village which helps you get your resume and interview skills leveled up, a Chillout Room where you can relax to some chill tunes and play some games, and of course the Hardware Hacking Village where you can learn about electronics, hardware hacking, surface mount soldering and many other embedded security topics – like sumo fighting robots.
We hope you’re able to join us for an action packed weekend at LayerOne 2026! Grab those tickets now over at the Registration page!
Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff
Break it or secure it. Your move.
New for 2026! A hands-on cybersecurity event built to give participants experience with both attacking and defending systems through intentionally vulnerable virtual machines. Players can take the red team route by finding weaknesses, exploiting services, and moving through the environment, or take the blue team route by identifying vulnerabilities, securing systems, investigating suspicious activity, and fixing compromises while keeping systems operational. The event is built around practical learning and collaboration between red team, blue team, and infrastructure-focused participants to create a more realistic and engaging cybersecurity experience. Come meet the folks from OSS and participate in Hack My VM in a friends, hands-on environment at LayerOne 2026 on May 23-24 in the Hacking Village!
Hack My VM is kindly hosted by the folks at Cal State Fullerton’s Offensive Security Society (OSS), check them out at https://www.osscsuf.org/
Thanks to everyone who got the Early Bird registration for LayerOne! You can still register for the conference via https://www.layerone.org/registration/! Get your tickets now and join us for an excellent weekend of learning and community in a few weeks!
Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff
Last call for Early Bird registration! Discounts end in under 48 hours on Friday, May 1st @ 23:59 Pacific! Don’t wait, book now!
If you missed it, we announced our speaker list and the speaking schedule for 2026! We’ve posted the majority of events to the site, too! Check out the events page for more info!
Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff
