The Cognitive Security Conference is the premier event for human risk management, AI security, and cognitive warfare professionals.
Hosted by the Cognitive Security Institute, this event has become the most highly anticipated conference in the cognitive domain. It brings together a unique blend of security practitioners, researchers, neuroscientists, mentalists, psychologists, con artists, policymakers, and many others who operate in and study cognitive hacking.​
Featured Speakers
Len Noe
Human Cyborg
Perry Carpenter
Deceptionologist
Winn Schwartau
Cognitive Pearl Harbor
Planning Your Attendance
Attending CSC 2026 may require advance coordination with your organization. To support your travel request, we've prepared two ready-to-use HR travel justification briefs — written for different professional contexts but equally useful for making the case internally.
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Travel Brief: Human Risk & Security Professionals
For those coming from cybersecurity, insider threat, behavioral risk, security awareness, or organizational security backgrounds.
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Travel Brief: Information Operations & Cognitive Warfare Professionals
For those coming from information operations, PSYOP, strategic communications, influence operations, cognitive warfare, or related national security fields.
“You can find two people who come together who would not normally meet, and they are going to go create a paper or a project from the connections made here. That is the most important thing as everything becomes more robotic and the human element goes away.”
Web Begole (Co-Founder & CTO, MarketReader)
Previous Event Sponsors
Aug 6-7, 2026 in Las Vegas, NV
​The Cognitive Security Conference is the event our industry always wanted but never had!
By bringing together the best in the industry across multiple disciplines to talk about cutting-edge issues in the emerging field of cognitive security, this conference provides the highest ROI per square inch of any similar conference in the past 20 years.
Call for Sponsors
Interested in more details? Reach out to us for the Exhibitor & Sponsorship Prospectus: info@cognitivesecurityinstitute.org
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