Call for Community Trainings

The German OWASP Day is an application security conference with presentations on secure development, operation, security testing and infosec topics in the environment of web-based applications. Interdisciplinary, non-technical topics are also presented.
Please read the following terms carefully for a successful application.

At OWASP conferences all presentations are vendor-neutral and without marketing. We offer vendors and service providers a suitable marketing platform as part of our sponsorship.

Important Dates

CfT opens: March 28th, 2026

CfT closes: April 12th, 2026

Notification to submitters by April 30th , 2026

Trainings: September 23rd, 2026

Networking -Event: September 23rd, 2026

Conference: September 24th, 2026

Submission

Submissions exclusively online via Easychair.
To formalize your proposal and we would need from you:

  • A catchy title
  • A bio for each trainer
  • Language in which the training will be held (choose the language in which you're completely fluent)
  • One or two pager (e.g. PDF, RST, MD) with a table of content to outline your agenda. This should be bullet points and it will also be displayed on the website Optional: if you have an idea how much time you spend on major points you're welcome to add that.
  • Mininum number of participants to hold the training
  • Maximum number of participants up which it makes sense
  • Requirements from the participant or from the location (likely our location doesn't provide free Internet access)

You can submit up to two proposals. Submitting more disqualifies all submissions. Also: Please submit your proposal personally otherwise you'll be disqualified.

Submissions are open

General Information

At this year's German OWASP day we'd again like to offer a few half day workshops (3-4 hours) for the community.

All topics related to application security are welcome, in particular:

  • “Hot topics” such as (L)LM, AI and, their (in/)security or their use in information security
  • Security awareness / programs for developers, testers, architects and project managers
  • CISO topics, security management and organizational aspects
  • Secure development lifecycle (SDLC), Threat Modeling, Secure Architectures
  • Client application security: browser security and mobile applications
  • Application Security Testing

Slides from the community trainings are usaually not published and there will be no recording for the workshops. If you wish however, the slides may be published under an Open Source License of your choice on our website.
As it is a community and not a commercial training , please don't use a company slide deck but either one from OWASP or a neutral (non-commercial) one. Of course you can introduce yourself and your company on one slide. But avoid marketing pitches; neither on the slides nor verbally. It is important for OWASP's mission to educate users and not to sell products or services.

Please note that we cannot pass data of the trainees to you. First, because this would be against what OWASP stands for. Second, it's legally not allowed (GDPR), unless we ask the trainees which we won't. If it is required e.g. to send before the workshop information to the trainees please get in touch with us and preferably put a comment in the proposal.

Travel and accommodation assistance

For community trainings we unfortunately cannot pay the trainers a compensation but we offer to reimburse one night in a hotel (max. 150 Euros) and travel assistance upon request. The total amount should not be more than 250 Euros per trainer and 500 Euros in total.
Also you'd be cordially invited to the networking event on the 23rd of September and you'll get a free conference pass for the next day (the 24th), for a maximum of two tickets.