Artificial intelligence will dominate conversations throughout Black Hat, DEF CON and BSides Las Vegas this week, but one of the most practitioner-focused AI security programs will happen inside BSidesLV itself.
For the first time, BSides Las Vegas is hosting a dedicated [un]prompted track, a one-day lineup curated by the organizers behind the new AI security practitioner conference launched earlier this year by Gadi Evron and other well-known security leaders. The track debuts Monday as part of BSidesLV's expanded three-day conference schedule.
"We're running an [un]prompted track at Security BSides Las Vegas! This Monday. One day only," Evron wrote on LinkedIn ahead of the event, describing it as an opportunity to bring the conference's practitioner-first philosophy to one of cybersecurity's largest community gatherings.
The move reflects a broader trend visible across Hacker Summer Camp: AI security has rapidly evolved from a niche topic into a standalone discipline, with researchers, defenders and offensive practitioners now focused less on theoretical risks and more on securing agentic AI systems already finding their way into enterprise environments.
A schedule focused on practical AI security
Rather than offering introductory AI sessions, the [un]prompted track leans heavily into current research, attack techniques and defensive engineering.
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Taken together, the agenda reflects how quickly AI security conversations have matured. Instead of asking whether prompt injection exists or whether AI agents introduce new risks, presenters assume those questions have already been answered and instead focus on exploitation, architecture, software supply chains, platform engineering and defensive strategy.
A different tone from mainstream AI discussions
That emphasis mirrors the philosophy behind the standalone [un]prompted conference, which launched this year with an explicit goal of cutting through AI marketing to focus on what practitioners are actually building, breaking and defending. Organizers have consistently described the event as a venue for "no fluff" discussions centered on real-world AI security challenges rather than product messaging.
Bringing that approach to BSidesLV also complements what has become one of the defining themes of the 2026 conference season. Across Black Hat, DEF CON and BSides, AI is no longer confined to isolated research tracks. It now intersects with application security, cloud security, software supply chains, identity, vulnerability management and enterprise architecture.
The [un]prompted sessions illustrate that shift particularly well. Nearly every presentation assumes AI systems now possess meaningful autonomy, credentials or operational responsibilities — and asks what happens when attackers inevitably begin exploiting those capabilities.
