- When: August 6-9, 2026, at DEF CON 34
- Website: https://nix.vegas
- CFP: Nix Vegas @ DEF CON 34 :: pretalx
- Last year’s retrospective and photos: Nix Vegas - The road to rebuilding the world
- Sponsor us
: sponsor@nix.vegas - CFP closes: 2026-06-15 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Hey Nix community! The second Nix DEF CON Community is in the works, and we need your help!
The theme of DEF CON 34 is Agency this year, take a second to read about it here. We have two kinds of CFP this year, a normal Call for Presentations and a new Call for Projects!
From the CfP:
Don’t like speaking? No problem. We have some space for people to show off their projects instead of giving presentations. If you have a cool Nix related thing you want to demo at con, we have the space (and, perhaps, the infrastructure) for you. Our NOC will connect with you beforehand to see how we can tie your project in.
While we are still hard at work on our art and theme this year, we would like to challenge you to submit talks and projects that answer to our take on the DEF CON theme:
- Starve the beast: How can you use Nix and NixOS to reclaim your digital agency?
- Feed your community: How can we support others doing the same by rolling our own tools and build infrastructure?
- Resources, time, and energy: How can we use Nix to connect ordinary users with the developers who made all the software they depend on?
We’ll try to reimburse badges for speakers again depending on sponsorship, so if you’re out in Vegas this August, consider stopping by at DEF CON.
<3,
The Nix Vegas crew
