Never been to Swiss Cyber Storm? Here is everything you need to know before you buy a ticket, in about two minutes of reading.

Swiss Cyber Storm is a one-day national security conference with international speakers.

Swiss Cyber Storm takes place at the Kursaal Bern, Kornhausstrasse 3 in Bern, the capital of Switzerland. The venue sits just across the river from Bern’s old town, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and its terrace looks out over the city toward the Alps. The conference language is English.

Getting there is easy:

• By train: Bern main station is directly connected to all major Swiss cities and airports (Zurich airport is about 1h15, Geneva airport about 2h).
• From the station: take tram number 9 to the stop Kursaal (about 5 minutes), or walk across the Kornhaus bridge (about 15 minutes).
• By car: the Kursaal has its own parking lot, but public transport is usually the more relaxed option.

The Kursaal also houses a hotel, should you want to arrive and meet the organizers the evening before.

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The next edition takes place on October 26, 2027. Swiss Cyber Storm is a one-day conference held every autumn. Doors open at 08:00 with coffee and registration, the opening keynote starts at 09:00, the closing keynote ends at around 17:30, and the networking apéro and dinner keep going into the evening.

When you arrive at the Kursaal, head to the registration desk in the foyer to pick up your badge. To keep the queues short, the desk is split into two sections by the first letter of your last name:

• A–K – last names starting with A to K
• L–Z – last names starting with L to Z

Look out for the signs above the desks and join the right queue. Registration opens at 08:00, so come a little early, grab a coffee, and you will be in your seat well before the opening keynote at 09:00.

It depends a little on the year, but typically there are between 350 and 450 people on site, counting attendees, speakers, partners and staff.

That is large enough to meet lots of new people and small enough that you will keep running into the same faces at the coffee bar. Many of our visitors come back every year: more than half of the people answering our feedback survey have attended before. If you want to know what they think about the conference, have a look at the feedback reports on our blog.

Swiss Cyber Storm deliberately brings together people who rarely meet at the same event: students, researchers, engineers, pentesters, incident responders, architects, compliance, security officers and CISOs, red team and blue team alike. Most attendees work in Switzerland, in the private sector, in public administration and in academia.

You do not need to be an expert to enjoy the day. The program mixes technical deep dives with strategic and management perspectives, there is a share of cyber policy talks and every talk puts its topic into context and closes with a take-away message.

The day starts and ends together: the opening and closing keynotes take place in front of the whole audience. In between, there are three parallel tracks:

• Arena – the main stage with the bulk of the curated program.
• Scenario – the second curated track, often a bit more technical.
• Panorama – talks by our partners, kept separate from the curated program so that you always know what you are getting.

Talks are 30 minutes long and the tracks are synchronized, so you can switch rooms between talks. You find the full timetable on the schedule page.

Each edition has around 25 speakers: 2 keynotes, about 14 talks in the curated Arena and Scenario tracks, plus about 7 partner talks in the Panorama track.

Swiss Cyber Storm has no call for papers. Our program committee invites every speaker personally and works with them on their talk. The result is a mix of renowned international researchers and practitioners, Swiss experts from industry, government and academia, investigative journalists, and people who rarely speak in Switzerland but deserve a bigger audience.

Every edition has a focus theme: recent ones were Shadow IT, Resilience in a mad, mad world and The AI Revolution. Roughly half of the talks will look at this theme from various angles, the rest of the program is a coverage of other topics we deem important.

The best way to get a feel for it is to browse the past talks: the index of talks lists every presentation since 2013, many of them with slides, video recordings and summaries.

SCS is a very special conference. If you want to learn more about the reasoning and the setup behind many of the concepts, then read this blog post: How to Set Up a Great Conference.

Yes – and plenty of it. Catering is included in your ticket:

• Welcome coffee at registration in the morning
• Coffee breaks in the morning and the afternoon
• Lunch
• Networking apéro and standing dinner after the closing keynote, with drinks

The dinner is one of the highlights of the day: most speakers are still around, and it is the perfect moment to talk to them.

We have vegetarian and vegan options. Furthermore, every dish is listed with gluten and possible allergies, etc.

If you have additional dietary requirements, let us know at contact@swisscyberstorm.com .

A conference ticket costs CHF 399 to 490, depending on when you book. The earlier you buy, the cheaper it gets:

The ticket gives you access to the whole conference day, including all talks, the catering and the evening program. Tickets are sold through our ticket shop.

Coming as a group? Groups of more than 10 people automatically get a 20% discount when booking in our ticket shop. If you have any questions about group bookings, write to us at contact@swisscyberstorm.com .

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