MinuteCon 2027: Boston's Independent Hacker Conference, First Edition
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Event
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Event | MinuteCon[0], "The PoC Year" |
| Tagline | 0ne If By LAN, Zero If By C2 |
| Dates | Friday 30 April to Saturday 1 May 2027 |
| Venue | Boston Marriott Cambridge, 50 Broadway, Cambridge MA 02142 |
| Format | Two tracks, two days, around 500 attendees |
| Organizer | NEISA, the New England Information Security Alliance |
| Founder | Ori Zigindere |
| Keynote | Chris Wysopal (L0pht), announced 2026-07-13 |
| CFP | Opens 1 October 2026; 20-minute lightning and 45-minute full; speakers comped |
| Tickets | Round 1 early bird 245 USD, sold out 2026-08-31; round 2 to come |
| Site | https://minutecon.org/ |
Tracks: OffSec, Defense and Detection, AppSec, Hardware and Embedded, AI Security, and National Security and Policy.
On the venue, and how the note got it wrong
The recollection on the night was that MinuteCon would be "across the street from the Prudential". It will not: it is at the Boston Marriott Cambridge in Kendall Square.
The error is worth recording because it is a clean instance of a common one. The Boston Security Meetup at which MinuteCon was announced was itself held at FHL Bank Boston, 800 Boylston Street, which is the Prudential Center. The room got attached to the event announced in it. "Boston Marriott Cambridge" starting with "Boston Marriott" will not have helped.
The conference brands itself Boston and holds itself in Cambridge; its own sponsors page says "Boston, MA, Spring 2027" above a Cambridge address, so the slide's "Boston" was the organizers' framing rather than a mistake.
Why it is on this list
It is the same people
NEISA runs the Boston Security Meetup and the Boston Hackers Meetup, and MinuteCon is its newest event. Ori Zigindere founded MinuteCon and has been the Boston Security Meetup's super organizer since 2018; he is the "Ori" already recorded in the 2026-09-17 meetup note. Nivedita Murthy runs speaker operations for MinuteCon and is plausibly the "Nivi" in that note's organizers row, though that identification is inference, not something either page states.
So the announcement was not a neighbouring group's notice on a community slide. It was the organizers advertising their own conference.
The AI Security track, and the CFP
One of six tracks is AI Security, and the CFP opens 2026-10-01 with 20-minute lightning and 45-minute full slots, speakers comped. That is the first concrete submission target for any of the local agent-security work: the calibration findings, the uncalibrated-gate argument, or the browser-harness properties would each fit a lightning slot.
Worth deciding by October whether any of it is ready to submit rather than merely true.
Not verified
- Whether the 2026-09-17 announcement is published anywhere; no public write-up was found, so this note and the photograph of the calendar slide may be the only record outside the organizers' own log.
- Round 2 ticket price and release date.
- The name's etymology. Minutemen is the obvious reading, reinforced by the Paul Revere riff in the tagline and by "The PoC Year" landing on the United States' 250th, but the site does not say so and neither will this note.
After the event
To be written if attended. Everything above is announcement and programme.