Program Overview

VulnOptiCON 2026

This year, we’re introducing an additional day to cover All Things Vulns! This one-day mini event will take place on Day 0 of VulnOptiCON. It will provide a hub for the European vulnerability community to network and share information broadly relating to the vulnerabilities and exploits ecosystem. Whether it's about the future of vulnerability management, the anticipated AI vulnpocalypse, the realities of building a VDP, researcher legal consideration, challenges of being a CNA or any other security vulnerabilities topic, we want to hear from you!

All times are listed in Central European Summer Time - Luxembourg, LU (GMT+2)

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    Signal and Noise: What A Decade In Forecasting Science Has Taught Me

    Before the results of an Intelligence Advanced Research Projects and Activity (IARPA) experiment that ran from 2011-2015 testing human forecasting ability, few believed that consistent and replicable accuracy was possible. Since the celebrated findings of that experiment, e.g. the discovery of superforecasters as well as the identification of technical systems, processes and behaviors correlated with better foresight, a pipeline of forecasting experiments (and their consequences) has revealed the complexity of what it takes to build a solid forecasting community. This research also exposed the unique challenges in applying the technologies of prediction in critical decision-making environments. As both a researcher and superforecaster veteran of IARPA’s multiple experiments in anticipatory intelligence —as well as her own forecasting research programs with European and US federal entities and private sector organizations— Regina Joseph will share apocryphal stories from the superforecaster frontlines, as well as insights on how to construct a high quality forecasting cohort.

    With a distinguished 30-year career spanning technology, media, national security and the science of decision-making and human-machine interaction, Regina Joseph has been hailed as an uncommon visionary. She is a top-ranked Superforecaster with a vetted track record of predictive accuracy. A technologist and analyst, she demonstrated prescience early in her career by revolutionizing the media industry in 1994 when she created Blender, the world’s first digital magazine, as well as the first forms of digital advertising.

    In 2014, she founded Sibylink, an EU-based consultancy in The Hague, and in 2016, cofounded Pytho, both of which specialize in applied decision-making and behavioral data science. Since 2011, Joseph’s research has been at the forefront of quantified prediction, decision-making and hybrid analytic systems. She has won 3 consecutive Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) research programs and received 2 National Science Foundation (NSF) awards. More about Regina Joseph.