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Conferences we hosted, stages we joined, rooms we filled. Open any event for the full agenda, the speakers and the takeaways.

Past events

Every IRC event since 2017.

IR19 · September 2019
Full archive

IR19 · Arlington, Virginia

Five hundred practitioners, two cyber ranges and a former House Intelligence Chair on the keynote stage. IR19 closed the original conference era on a high: eleven of its sessions are preserved as downloadable decks, from Eliminating Alert Fatigue to Anatomy of a BEC, alongside the full two-day agenda and speaker roster.

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IR18 · September 2018
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IR18 · Arlington, Virginia

The year IRC brought wargaming to the community: two SimSpace cyber ranges ran an individual combat skills contest across both days, with keynotes from Capital One’s CISO and Palo Alto Networks’ CSO and sixteen vendor training sessions in between. The full agenda and speaker roster are in the archive.

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IR17 · September 2017
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IR17 · Arlington, Virginia

Where it all started: the first operational, community-driven incident response conference. Two days at the Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City with Governor Terry McAuliffe and FBI spy-catcher Eric O’Neill on the bill, 36 breakout sessions across three role-based tracks, and the community rules that IRC still runs on today.

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Black Hat USA · August 2018
Appearance

Black Hat USA · Las Vegas

IRC took the community to the biggest stage in security, meeting practitioners from around the world on the Black Hat floor in the run-up to IR18. Photos and materials from the appearance are coming to this page.

Cyber Security Week · The Hague
Appearance

Cyber Security Week · The Hague

IRC was proud to join Europe’s cyber community at Cyber Security Week in The Hague, flying the flag for community-driven incident response beyond the US. Photos and materials from the appearance are coming to this page.

RSA Conference · April 2015
Appearance

RSA Conference · San Francisco

The community’s earliest outing: the founding team on the RSA expo floor, telling anyone who would listen that incident response deserved its own community. The story from the floor is on the blog.

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Were you in the room at any of these? We are collecting photos, decks and memories for the event pages: hello@incidentresponse.com.

The 2026 era

Different format, same intent.

The relaunched IRC runs smaller-format events: monthly community calls, regional breakfasts, occasional offsites. The community-of-practice model fits better than the conference model.

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