Boot Security Mastery Conference 2026

About

Vision

From the homelab of a privacy-focused admin to the high assurance of hyperscaler core infrastructure, we want to discuss the foundation of trustworthy, owner‑controlled, confidential, and verifiable computing.

Our focus is the boot chain: from owner‑controlled roots and chains of trust and decentralized reproducible builds with bootstrappable toolchains, through key boot-chain components for x86, ARM, POWER, and RISC‑V, ending with the handoff to OS-maintained bootloaders or the OS itself. We believe boot-chain components are foundational blocks of sovereign digital infrastructure.

This cannot be established without a diverse spectrum of contributors, and that's why we welcome sponsors, speakers, and attendees at all levels of contribution from the community, SMEs, OEMs/ODMs, IBVs, researchers, hyperscalers, and the public sector. We want to build a community that will consider multi‑stakeholder perspectives on boot‑chain security.

Before the main conference, we will host dedicated pre‑conference training days focused purely on education for practitioners. These hands‑on trainings are aimed at developers, platform and firmware engineers, and security engineers who implement security measures in the boot chain, provision and manage roots of trust, evaluate and harden boot flows, and manage chains of trust at the boot‑chain level. Participants will work with real tooling and platforms to learn how to design, deploy, and verify secure, owner‑controlled boot‑chain architectures in practice.

Date & Place

Planned for mid-2026, location: major European city (TBA).

Survey announcement

The survey was closed on December 27, 2025. Thank you for all your responses and engagement! Based on the results, we are currently preparing the details for the conference, including the sponsor prospectus.

Upcoming updates section

After the survey results are collected, we'll publish more details including:

• Exact date and venue

• Sponsorship prospectus

• Call for Papers (CfP)

• Registration details

Stay informed

If you have any questions regarding the event, please contact us at events@3mdeb.com