Call For Paper

                        Toulouse Hacking Convention
                          5/6th May, 2026
                   Université Toulouse III (Paul Sabatier)
                            Amphi Marthe Condat 
                          https://thcon.party


Created in 2017, Toulouse Hacking Convention is an annual French
cybersecurity conference. It usually takes place in Toulouse, France, with an
audience of about 300 attendees (engineers, academics and students). THCon
is supported by a non-profit organization gathering students and alumni
of TLS-SEC information security training.

The Call for Papers gives everyone an opportunity to submit their works and be a
speaker at the 2026 edition in April. If you have carried out original
research related to cybersecurity and want to showcase it to the community,
please submit your research paper and/or presentation to this CFP. Let us
note that we **DO** accept papers that have already been presented to other
conferences.

Topics

    We accept any submission that may be relevant to a conference on IT
    Security. The talk will be given in English.

    With this in mind, here is a non-exhaustive list of potential topics:

      Exploitation and mitigation techniques
      Reverse engineering (hardware, software, protocols...)
      Vulnerability research (operating systems, smartphones, hypervisors...)
      Malware analysis (sandboxes, reverse engineering...)
      Cryptographic attacks and/or analysis (including protocols)
      Attacks on distributed networks and/or protocols (including proof-of-work
          algorithms)
      Techniques seen "in the field" (blue teams, field engineers...)
      Technical feedback on well-known incidents and/or notable stories
          of "#FAIL"
      Your last hack and/or system tampering involving any of the techniques
          listed above
      Your favorite buzzword and/or upcoming threat (machine learning / big
          data, cloud, IoT, APT...)
      Any research that brings something to the world of IT security

    Both academic and non-academic speakers are welcome.

Important Dates

    Toulouse Hacking Convention 2026 edition Timeline:

      November 2025 - CFP opens.
      January 12th 2026 AOE - Submission deadline 
      February 13th 2026 - Notification to authors 
      May 5/6 2026 - Conference

Submissions

    The conference invites submissions in the following categories:

    1. Regular papers solicited on theory, techniques, systems, and tools for
      designing, validating, operating, and evaluating secure systems,
      covering malicious fault model, hardware, software or human interactions.
      Short or long papers may be submitted. The submission format must be
      either:
       - a PDF overview of 2 pages min for a short submission or a 3 pages min
         for a long submission (of course, full papers are welcome)
       - a presentation of at least 10 hearty slides for a short presentation
         or 15 hearty slides for a long presentation.

    2. Industry papers directly related to industrial use cases, applicability
      and scalability issues of recent techniques, novel technological
      challenges, and novel applications of practical aspects of
      cybersecurity. Most of the authors must be affiliated with the
      industry. Papers will undergo the regular review process, but with a
      high emphasis on their practical aspects and insights into industrial
      applications.
      Short or long papers may be submitted. The submission format must be
      either:
      - a PDF overview of 2 pages min for a short submission or a 3 pages min
        for a long submission (of course, full papers are welcome).
        A more "Blog Post" format is accepted for submission.
      - a presentation of at least 10 hearty slides for a short presentation
        or 15 hearty slides for a long presentation.

    3. Student papers describing preliminary research work (position papers) or
      a description outlining the design or implementation of a tool or the
      prototyping of an operational system. The submission format must be
      either:
       - a PDF overview of 2 pages min
       - a presentation of at least 10 hearty slides

    Authors are invited to submit either **original or already presented
    papers**.
    The submission format for already presented talks or papers is simply the
    slides of the talk or the full paper that was presented.

    Short paper: 20min (15mn presentation, 5 mins Q/A).
    Long paper : 30min (25mn presentation, 5 mins Q/A).

    Submissions that will not comply with the minimum requirements will not be
    considered.

    Papers will be submitted on
    https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thcon2026

    The submissions will go through a review process. The program committee
    will be published very soon on the Web site of the conference.
    Submissions accepted by the organizers will be presented at THCon2026.
    For accepted works, at least one of the authors must present the paper
    during the conference.

Content-related information

    Talks must be submitted as yourself and/or on your work.
    We do not accept submissions for Marketing or public relations purposes.
    Similarly, we are not interested in product or vendor pitches
    Although we favour F/LOSS (Free/Libre and Open-Source Software)
    and reproducible works, any academic and non-academic speakers are welcome.

Logistics-related information

    We may need to change the schedule at the last minute (but we will try to
    avoid any inconvenience of this kind).

Streaming-related information

    THCon 2026 will be broadcast online. The recording will also be
    uploaded to our Youtube channel. By speaking at the event, you grant us the
    permission to do so.

A few extra points

    We will do our best to accommodate your needs, please feel free to ask
    any questions or give us your feedback: we will be happy to help!

If any of these points seem unclear or inappropriate to you, please mention it
in your submission or contact us.