CypherCon

Wisconsin’s largest technology conference, an event with over 100 cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and privacy discussions.

CypherCon is the largest technology conference in the state of Wisconsin with over 1750 attendees. We are an annual hacker conference that acts more like a cybersecurity summit. We have our event every year downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Baird Center.

Everyone is welcome to attend! We are a diverse group of attendees that enjoy puzzles, mystery, and discovery. We pride ourselves with a unique culture that focuses heavily on retro-futuristic 70s,80s,90s,00s hacker culture blending the art of dancing between fantasy and reality. Our core event consists of several tracks of speakers about computer- and hacking-related subjects, as well as cyber-security challenges and competitions. In addition we publish puzzles made by the community in unique story worlds. Lastly, we offer a blank canvas for hacker specializations ran by volunteers called wards.

Presentations topics include Cyphers, Hacking, Information Security, Cryptography, Forensics, and other hacker, cypherpunk, and cyberpunk oriented topics.  We also offer presentations for career development, security leadership, AI, IoT, ICS, risk and compliance, and more!

Our 2024 event had 1950 attendees, 88 Speakers, 35 Specialty wards,  9 Sponsors, and a really cool Casino Heist afterparty 🙂 2025 is going to be amazing with over 2500 attendees, 40+ wards, 40+ sponsors and Casino Glitch!