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AI for defense. Show your work.
November 10, 2026 · Online only · A CanSecWest extension
8 a.m.–6 p.m. main program · Overflow until 8 p.m. · Pacific Time — Seattle / US West Coast (PST, UTC−8)
Vancouver: 9 a.m.–7 p.m. main program · Overflow until 9 p.m. (UTC−7)
Lunch: 1–1:30 p.m. Pacific / 2–2:30 p.m. Vancouver. No presentations; optional themed virtual lunch mingles for tracks B, C and D. Track A’s virtual social room remains open throughout the event. Hosts and room links to be announced.
Defenders have been making steady progress with AI. We’re bringing together the people doing that work to show what holds up, explain what fails, and compare notes with the people who have to use it.
Track A is the all-day virtual Zoom social room, open 8 a.m.–8 p.m. Pacific / 9 a.m.–9 p.m. Vancouver, including lunch and overflow. Presentation tracks B, C and D cover agent authority and containment; detection, verification and secure code; and defensive operations and human judgment. Additional tracks can be added as needed. Technical talks, working methods, and time to ask the second question.
Included in digital access for all CanSecWest attendees. Online-only passes are on sale now: Standard US$40; Student US$10.
The defenders get the floor
The “vulnpocalypse” forecasts have had plenty of airtime. Defenders have been making steady gains too, often through the less theatrical work of testing, verification and putting limits around things.
realigned.online extends CanSecWest with an online program focused on that work.
We’re interested in detection that gives someone time to act. Code analysis that helps a developer fix the right problem. Agents whose authority can be limited and whose actions can be checked. Incident-response tools that reduce the work without quietly discarding the evidence.
The standard is practical: show the method, explain the comparison, and tell us where it breaks. A good result is welcome. A well-understood failure can be just as useful.
What belongs here
The program will bring together work on:
Detection and threat intelligence: recognising malicious behaviour, testing alerts against attacks, and turning observations into something defenders can use.
Application and supply-chain security: finding and validating flaws, checking generated code, and establishing what evidence supports trust in a dependency.
Agent security: identity, delegated authority, least privilege, isolation, and records that remain useful when something goes wrong.
Incident response and malware analysis: investigation, triage, reverse engineering, and keeping conclusions tied to evidence.
Evaluation and operator practice: realistic tests, false-positive costs, reproducible results, and the skills needed to judge the output.
Work does not need an AI label to belong here. Established defensive methods give us something to test new tools against. We want the people building AI systems in the same discussion as the people who understand the systems being defended.
Talks, with room for a conversation
We’re starting with Track A for all-day social mingling, plus presentation tracks B, C and D.
The presentation tracks give researchers and practitioners room to explain their work in detail. The Zoom sessions let speakers, defenders and attendees question assumptions, compare experience, and work through the parts that do not fit neatly on a slide.
Bring the awkward question about the dataset. Ask what happened when the model was wrong. That is part of the program.
View the provisional agenda. The main program runs 8 a.m.–6 p.m. Pacific Time (Seattle/PST), with overflow until 8 p.m.; Vancouver is 9 a.m.–7 p.m., with overflow until 9 p.m.
Join us on November 10
realigned is online only. Choose the ticket or included-access option that applies to you. All presentations and social mingles take place online in virtual Zoom sessions.
Already attending CanSecWest? CanSecWest pass holders receive online access to realigned at no additional charge. You do not need a separate online-event pass.
Need a standalone realigned pass? Standalone passes for realigned are on sale now: Standard US$40; Student US$10. You do not need a CanSecWest conference pass to attend the November 10 online event.
Come with a problem you are trying to solve, a result worth examining, or a tool you have learned not to trust quite so much. We’ll make room for a useful discussion.