A history of talks presented at NoCo Hackers meetups.

Thursday, June 18, 2026#

SLOP FEST

Speaker: NoCo Hackers Community (Ryan and Brandon + any additional interested folks)

We’ve all been vibe coding, sometimes at work, but often at home. Show off your vibecoded utilities and discuss lessons learned while building them.

Thursday, May 21, 2026#

Certificate Distribution and Key Management

Speaker: Brandon James

Building on the “Intro to Modern Cryptography” talk from last August we will 1) briefly review x509 certificates, cert chaining and public key cryptography (5 minutes) 2) discuss hardware backed key storage mechanisms (5 minutes) 3) discuss ACME, SCEP and EST (10 minutes) 4) discuss CRLs, OCSP and certificate lifetime best practices (10 minutes)

Thursday, April 16, 2026#

Securing Agentic AI: what still works, what breaks, what’s next

Speaker: Mike and Agent Smith

This talk argues that agentic AI security begins with the fact that a brief human prompt can trigger powerful reasoning, memory access, and real-world actions. It uses concrete examples to show how memory, tool-calling, and output delivery create new attack surfaces, and why those pathways need explicit security controls.

Thursday, March 19, 2026#

#CodeHedgehogs

Speaker: Penelope Rozhkova

The take-aways for this talk will be ideas on how to engage developers in shifting the security posture of their organizations through secure coding with a simple analogy, concrete steps at each phase of the SDLC, and fun ways to learn how to do it.

Thursday, February 19, 2026#

Career/ Job Hunting

Speaker: Ryan Thompson

This event is setup to be more of an open form to help anyone interested in breaking into the field or move into a different role and is typically an open conversation. These sessions typically focus on resume review, interview tips, and general job hunting strategies. Even if you are not interested in finding that new role today, your input may be useful to someone else who is on the hunt!

Thursday, January 15, 2026#

Silence of the Logs

Speaker: Ryan Thompson

This talk will walk through real-world defense impairment techniques across AWS and Azure. We’ll dig into what it looks like when attackers suppress their own IPs in GuardDuty, redirect CloudTrail logs to buckets they control, tamper with Azure diagnostic settings, or disable Defender entirely.