4:14 am on September 10, 2026 · 2026 (252), hackers (5), hope (8), nyc (130)

VIDEO 11-16 AUG 2026 – Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) 2026

A square orange roadwork-style warning sign dominates the image, rotated into a diamond and outlined with a double black border against a black background. Centered near the top is a small road barricade icon labeled "HOPE." Below it, large black serif lettering reads "HOPE 26," followed by the dates "August 14–16, 2026." Beneath the dates are the venue, "The New Yorker Hotel," and "New York City," all centered in progressively smaller serif text. A white "ISOC.LIVE" watermark appears in the lower-right corner.

A square orange roadwork-style warning sign dominates the image, rotated into a diamond and outlined with a double black border against a black background. Centered near the top is a small road barricade icon labeled "HOPE." Below it, large black serif lettering reads "HOPE 26," followed by the dates "August 14–16, 2026." Beneath the dates are the venue, "The New Yorker Hotel," and "New York City," all centered in progressively smaller serif text. A white "ISOC.LIVE" watermark appears in the lower-right corner.
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On Friday – Sunday, 14–16 August 2026, daily from 10:00–23:00 EDT (14:00–03:00 UTC), the 17th Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE) conference will be held at the New Yorker Hotel in New York City. The entire three day, three track event was webcast by ISOC Live with support from the Chaos Computer Club Video Operation Center

DAY 1 – FRIDAY 14 AUGUST 2026

TRACK 1 – GRAND

TRACK 2 – CRYSTAL


TRACK 3 – GRAMERCY

DAY 2 – SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2026

TRACK 1 – GRAND


TRACK 2 – CRYSTAL

TRACK 3 – GRAMERCY

DAY 3 – SUNDAY 16 AUGUST 2026

TRACK 1 – GRAND

TRACK 2 – CRYSTAL

TRACK 3 – GRAMERCY

#HOPE26 #HackersOnPlanetEarth #2600

6:59 am on August 15, 2025 · hackers (5), hope (8)

ARCHIVE 15-17 AUG 2025 – Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) 16

ISOC LIVE

ISOC LIVEOn August 15-17 2025 the 16th Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference was held at St John’s University in Queens NY. The entire event was webcast by ISOC.LIVE

SCHEDULE https://schedule.hope.net/hope16/schedule/

ARCHIVE https://archive.org/details/hope2025

DAY 1

TRACK 1 – MARILLAC AUDITORIUM

YouTube https://youtu.be/2xuoa3PLMvU

TRACK 2 – LITTLE THEATRE

YouTube https://youtu.be/zxgoACKKH30

TRACK 3 – TOBIN 201/202

YouTube https://youtu.be/JRP0dW_zy_c

DAY 2

TRACK 1 – MARILLAC AUDITORIUM

TRACK 2 – LITTLE THEATRE

TRACK 3 – TOBIN 201/202

DAY 3

TRACK 1 – MARILLAC AUDITORIUM

TRACK 2 – LITTLE THEATRE

TRACK 3 – TOBIN 201/202

 

 

11:27 am on July 11, 2024 · hope (8)

WEBCAST JUL 12-14 – Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) 2024

isoc.live

isoc.liveFrom July 12-14 2024 the 15th HOPE conference will be held at St John’s University in Queens NYC. H.O.P.E. stands for Hackers On Planet Earth, one of the most creative and diverse hacker events in the world. It’s been happening since 1994, and consists of 3 very full days of 3 tracks of highly diverse and interesting presentations and discussions. This year’s event will be streamed live via ISOC.LIVE.

SCHEDULE https://schedule.hope.net/hopexv/schedule/


01 HOPE XV Begins! – Greg Newby – Emmanuel Goldstein VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

02 AI: A Gradient Descent Into Humanity’s Doldrums – Hope Comes From the Hackers – Saul D. Robinson VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

03 Outline Toolkit: VPNs, Serverless Strategies, and Beyond – Build Your Own Defense Against Online Censorship – Junyi Yi, Vinicius Fortuna VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR || INFO

04 Protecting jetBlue Airways From Cyber Threats in the “Clouds” – Randy Naraine, Greg Speranza VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

05 Why Are We Insecure? An Ethical Hacker’s Lonely Road to Cyber Dystopia – David Jacoby VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

06 Robot Invasion! The Rise of Educational Robotics – Lee Hollman VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

07 In the Twilight of Copyright – Ed Ryan VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

08 Group Mesh Messaging for Large-Scale Protests – Tushar Jois VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

09 Pwn Chromebook With Linux – Derek Hobb VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

10 A Preparation Kit for Increasing Irrelevance – Jason Scott VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

11 TLDR: Terms of Service – Privacy, Data Collection, and Coercive Agreements – Marcia K. Wilbur VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

12 Ham Radio for Hackers – Dan Romanchik VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

13 The History of Leaks – Emma Best, Emily Crose VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

14 A Discussion of a Past, Present, and (Possible) Future of Bioweapons – Lucas Potter, Meow-Ludo, Xavier Palmer VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

15 Flights of Fancy: Celebrating the Dead Ends of the Jet Engine Revolution – Davide Semenzin VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | INFO

16 Ask the EFF – Bill Budington, Cara Gagliano, Beryl Lipton, Hannah Zhao VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

17 DIY Geoengineering – Luke Iseman VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

18 Explosive Overflow: Lessons From Rocket Science – Mark El-Khoury VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

19 Protecting the Network Traffic of One Billion People: Reverse-Engineering Chinese Cryptography – Mona Wang, Jeffrey Knockel, Zoë Reichert VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

20 Flying Signals: What to Do With Them – Steve Bossert VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

21 Incubated Machine Learning Exploits: Backdooring ML Pipelines Using Input-Handling Bugs – Suha Sabi Hussain VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

22 Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations: The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked Data – Micah Lee VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

23 They’re Still Using Balloons… – Disseminating Information Into North Korea in 2024 – Amon Poston VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

24 Our Defensive Security Blind Spot – Wesley Hales VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

25 Ransomware Gone Kinetic – James Taliento, Guillermo Christensen, Matthew Leidlein, Ashley Rose VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

26 An Account on Cybersecurity Outside of Traditional Spaces – Allen Walker IV VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

27 Strength in Unity: Sharing Is Caring – Fae Carlisle VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

28 Survey and Scrutiny of Election Security – Douglas Lucas VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

29 Musings of a Mechatronic Mistress: The Peculiar Purpose of Tiffany the Sex Robot – (Discussion only) – Jason Scott, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Jasmin Hagendorfer VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

30 Right to Repair in California (SB 244) – Using New Legislation for DIY Wheelchair Repair – CriptasticHacker VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

31 AI, Solarpunk, and an Uncertain Future in Computing – rolltime VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

32 iWar 2024: The Evolution of Information Warfare in the Digital Age a.k.a What Happens When You Run the Internet Through CRISPR? – Alexander Urbelis, Daniel Nowak, Roel Schouwenberg VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

33 Get High Like Planes: Combining Psychology, Social Engineering, and AI to Compel Real World Actions – SecuritySean, XaiL VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

34 Hacking Is a Mindset, Not a Skillset: A Non-Technical Guide to Building Solidarity Infrastructures With Friends – moshfet VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

35 Live Show Technology: Past, Present, and Future – Have We Reached a Maturity Point? – John Huntington VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

36 Social Justice and Prompt Engineering: What We Know So Far – Tilde Thurium VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

37 Teaching With Microcontrollers: Hope for Ethical Hacking Education on a Budget – Kody Kinzie VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

38 Climate Hacking to Save the Planet – Greg Newby VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

39 Choose Your Own Dystopia: How Our Decisions on AI Can Lead Us to Different Futures – Laura Upegui VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

40 Net Who-trality: Revisiting the FCC Fake Comment Scandal – Jason Prechtel VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

41 Love, Hackers, and Robots: A Reflection of My First Year in the Biohacking Community – Karen Ng VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

42 What’s Happening With Appin: Fighting Redacted Reporting and the Censorship of Threat Intelligence – Cooper Quintin, Emma Best, Lorax Horne, Alexander Urbelis VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

43 From Hackerspace to Hackerhome – Chris Meyer VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

44 Past, Present, Predictions – A Look Into AI, Deep Fakes, Social Media PsyOps, and Their Effect on the Upcoming Election Cycle – BiaSciLab VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

45 Hacktivism for Organizers: Social Change From the Keyboards – Danacea Vo, Matt Mitchell VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

46 Popping S(h)ells – Hunting for Vulns in the Stock Market – Eric Bryce VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

47 Automating Transparency: A New Era for FOIA Requests – Florin Badita VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

48 The Fundamentals of Veilid: cDc Breaks the Internet, and You Can Too! – Katelyn “medus4” Bowden, Paul “The_Gibson” Miller VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

49 AI Made a 0-Day: Noah Get the Boat – Erica Burgess VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

50 Star Monitor: Updates on Standards and Internet Governance – Mallory Knodel VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

51 Librarians Are Radicalizing Their Communities About Why the Internet Is Broken – Alison Macrina, Tess Wilson, Reanna Esmail, Eliza Bettinger, Kimberly Springer VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

52 Using the J Language to Streamline Hacking – Devon H. McCormick VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

53 Tobias on Locks and Insecurity Engineering – Marc Weber Tobias VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

54 BADBOX: Behind the Scenes of an Android Supply-Chain Attack – Bill Budington VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

55 Hacking Your Health: Adventures in Building a Glucose Monitor – Michael Dierkes VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

56 EOL… RLY? Ending The Epidemic of Bricked and Abandoned Stuff – Paul Roberts, Lodrina Cherne, John Bumstead, Lucas Gutterman VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

57 Telecom in an Exclave – TProphet VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

58 Modern Day Automobile Safety: Rescue Ops Using CanBus – John C. Checco VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

59 Tales From the Crypt… Analyst: The Afterlife – Jeff Man VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

60 Less Power to Porn Tech Giants, More Love in the Cyberspace – Spring Cooper, Alessandro Polidoro VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

61 PortableSecret – Carry and Share Your Most Critical Secrets Without Special Software – M’ VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

62 Our Communities, Resiliency, Our Future – Mitch Altman VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

63 Thee Real Danger From AI Is Not the Technology – Tom Kranz VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

64 Strengthening Security Culture Through Compassion and Understanding – Davis VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

65 Chaos and Undetectable Communications – Lucas Rooyakkers VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

66 Congress’s Privacy Wars in 2024 – Alex Marthews, Stephen Perez VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

67 Making Surveillance Policy Change in Canada: Slow Burns and Sudden Actions – Evan Light VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

68 Addressing Online Threats: AI’s Role in Countering Harmful Social Media Content and Its Real-World Impact – Welton Chang VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

69 Hacking at Leaves: A film by Johannes Grenzfurthner (post-screening discussion) – https://schedule.hope.net/hopexv/talk/WZYUDQ/ VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

70 Hackers Got Talent – Jason Scott VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

71 There’s Always HOPE for Privacy: Policy Wins and Needs – Mean Gene, Ben Wiseman VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

72 Demoscene 2024: Just When You Thought There Wasn’t Any More! – Inverse Phase VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

76 Bait and Switching Costs – How Big Tech Took the Web and How to Take It Back – Phillip Hallam-Baker VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

77 What Wi-Fi Devices Are Nearby? Any Cameras Watching Me? – Caleb Madrigal VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

78 Animism and Artificial Intelligence: A Practical Guide – Aisling Fae VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

79 The Future of Leaks: What’s Next for the Online Library of Hacked Data? – Emma Best, Lorax Horne VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

80 Psychoactive Drugs: How They Hack the Brain and What It Means for Our Minds – Dr. Jen, PharmD VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

81 Navigating Geopolitical Nuances in Cyberattacks With Advanced IP Address Analysis – Andréanne Bergeron, Constance Prevot VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

82 Circumventing Prison Tech Censorship – Cooper Quintin, Jeremy Hammond VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

83 Woking Towards a Sneakernet for Libre Biotech Wetware – Danny Chan VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

84 Harvest: The Most Interesting Computer You Never Heard Of – Peter Capek VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

85 In the End, We Will All Become Stories – The Importance of Hacking Contexts and Narratives – Johannes Grenzfurthner VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

86 Hack the Violin: A Hacker’s Approach to Learning, Playing, and Teaching the Violin – Andrew Morican VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

87 Safeguarding Secrets: Homomorphic Encryption for the Curious Mind – Vikram Saraph VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

88 Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It – Cory Doctorow VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

89 Cap2r: Rescuing the Forgotten Texts Hidden in Analog Video – Adam Tannir VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

90 The Arduboy Story – Kevin Bates VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

91 Nikola Tesla: The Futurist of Yesterday – Douglas Borge VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

92 A Revolution in Representation: Computation Comes to Democracy’s Aid – Elizabeth Barry VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

93 Privacy-Focused Computing Curriculum for Teens – Gaelen Hadlett VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

94 Hack (To Heal) the Planet – Unixjazz VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

95 Innovating for Impact: Building Technology in Resource-Constrained Environments – Jason A. Long, Alexander Urbelis VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

96 News From the 2600net IRC Network and Facebook Group – Andrew Strutt, dclaw, Daniel Baldor, Tim Benish VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

97 CLOSING CEREMONIES – HOPE Team VID | AUD | TXT | DE | EN | ES | FR | INFO

ARCHIVE https://archive.org/details/hope2024

TWITTER #hopeconf

MASTODON #hopeconf

10:44 am on July 25, 2020 · hope (8)

WEBCAST JUL 25 – AUG 2 – 13th Hackers on Planet Earth Conference 2020 #hopeconf

livestream

livestreamThe 13th HOPE conference will be held entirely online from July 25th to August 2nd, 2020. H.O.P.E. stands for Hackers On Planet Earth, one of the most creative and diverse hacker events in the world. It’s been happening since 1994. In contrast to the usual 3 days of 3 tracks, this year’s virtual event lasts 9 days with all talks presented on a single track, which will be streamed live the Internet Society livestream Channel.

LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety3/hope2020 (talks)

LIVESTREAM 2 https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/hope2020 (infobeamer + workshops)

PARTICIPATE https://hope.net

SCHEDULE https://scheduler.hope.net/hope2020/schedule/

REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/hopetext

TWITTER #hopeconf

SIMULCASTS
https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/
https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive
https://www.youtube.com/user/Channel2600

ARCHIVE
https://archive.org/details/hopeconf2020

2:31 pm on July 20, 2018 · 2600 (1), hope (8)

WEBCAST FRI/SAT/SUN: The Circle of Hope aka HOPE XII #hopeconf

HOPEFrom Friday July 20 to Sunday July 21 2018 2600 Magazine presents the 12th Hackers on Planet Earth Conference – The Circle of Hope – at the Hotel Pennsylvania in NYC. H.O.P.E. comprises three full days and nights of activities, including more of the provocative and enlightening speakers that the HOPE conferences are known for. The three main speaker tracks will be webcast on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.

Program: https://hope.net/master_grid.html
Webcast: https://hope.net/stream.html
Twitter: #hopeconf http://bit.ly/2A2Vzjs

7:28 am on July 22, 2016 · hope (8)

WEBCAST FRI/SAT/SUN – 11th Hackers on Planet Earth Conference in NYC #hopexi @hopeconf

HOPE 11
The Eleventh HOPE will take place on July 22, 23, and 24, 2016 at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City. H.O.P.E. stands for Hackers On Planet Earth, one of the most creative and diverse hacker events in the world. It’s been happening since 1994.

The entire conference was streamed live via the Internet Society’s Livestream Channels. See below for three full days of the provocative and enlightening speakers that the HOPE conferences are known for.

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ISOC-NY TV Show 2pm today – A Conversation with Edward #Snowden at #hopex @MNNprogramming

isoc ny tv

isoc ny tvToday, Wednesday July 30 2014, the ISOC-NY TV show will present a truncated version of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden‘s appearance at the Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE X) Conference on July 19 2014. Via Google hangout (and 7 proxies) Snowden, exiled in Russia, talked with Daniel Ellsberg, who himself released the Pentagon Papers in 1971, plus answered questions from the Internet community as moderated by Trevor Timm, executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. The show, which airs from 2-3pm, may be viewed via Manhattan Cable or online via the MNN website. The full original webcast can be found at http://bit.ly/hopexsnowden

What: ISOC-NY TV Show – A Conversation with Edward Snowden at HOPE X
Where: Manhattan Neighborhood Network
When: Wednesday July 30 2014 2pm-3pm EDT | 1800-1900 UTC
Manhattan Cable: TWC 56 / 1996 | RCN 83 | FiOS 34
Webcast: http://www.mnn.org/live/2-lifestyle-channel

7:41 am on July 18, 2014 · hack (3), hackers (5), hope (8), hope x (2), webcast (110)

WEBCAST FRIDAY-SUNDAY: Hackers on Planet Earth Conference in NYC #hopex

Hope X livestream

Hope X livestreamHOPE X will take place on July 18, 19, and 20, 2014 at the Hotel Pennsylvania, NYC. H.O.P.E. stands for Hackers On Planet Earth, one of the most creative and diverse hacker events in the world, happening since 1994. Three session tracks running late into the night present provocative and enlightening speakers such as Edward Snowden and Daniel Ellsberg. The event will webcast live via the Internet Society’s livestream channels.

What: Hackers on Planet Earth – HOPE X
Where: Hotel Pennsylvania NYC
When: July 18, 19, and 20, 2014
Agenda: http://www.hope.net/grid.html
Webcast 1 (Manning): https://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/hopex1
Webcast 2 (Serpico): https://new.livestream.com/internetsociety2/hopex2
Webcast 3 (Olson): https://new.livestream.com/internetsociety3/hopex3
Twitter: #hopex