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Schedule @ DEFCON 33

Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas (🇺🇸 USA)

🗓️ 8th, 9th and 10th August 2025

Recon Village Talks
8th (Friday) and 9th August 2025, (Saturday)

Dive into the shadows with Recon Village Talks, where the deepest secrets of the cyber realm are unveiled. Join us as elite hackers share cutting-edge techniques and jaw-dropping exploits. Get ready to upgrade your toolkit and outsmart the adversary.

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GE(O)SINT Contest

Join the Recon Village GEOSINT Challenge, where your geospatial intelligence skills will be put to the ultimate test. Navigate through complex scenarios, uncover hidden clues, and outsmart your competition. Sharpen your analytical prowess and prove your mastery in this thrilling contest of wits and strategy.

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Contest

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GEOSINT PlayOffs

8th Aug

10:00 - 18:00

GEOSINT PlayOffs

9th Aug

10:00 - 14:00

GEOSINT Semi Finals

9th Aug

14:00 - 15:30

GEOSINT Final

9th Aug

15:30 - 16:30

Live Recon

Experience Live Recon at Recon Village, where real-time hacking meets high-stakes excitement. Watch as experts demonstrate advanced reconnaissance techniques on live targets, uncovering vulnerabilities and revealing hidden threats. This is your chance to learn from the pros, enhance your skills, and see cutting-edge recon in action.

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Contest

Prizes to be Announced Soon

Live Recon in Progress

8th Aug

10:00 - 11:59

Live Recon in Progress

9th Aug

00:00 - 13:00

Live Recon Finalist Selection Process

9th Aug

13:00 - 16:00

Live Recon Finalist Presentations

9th Aug

16:00 - 18:00

Recon Mindmap

Want to earn a Recon Village badge at DEFCON? Here’s your chance. Submit a useful resource related to any topic from our mind map - OSINT, Cybercrime, Security, Threat Intelligence, Attack Surface, Tools, or Social Media. This could be a blog, GitHub project, technique, or anything original and valuable for the recon community.

 

Only unique submissions will be accepted—no duplicates. If your submission makes the cut, you’ll be rewarded with an official Recon Village badge. Show us what you’ve got.

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Contest

Do Your Own Recon

Curious what the internet knows about you? This year at Recon Village, Do Your Own Recon is back - a hands-on walk-in experience where you become the target.

Use open-source tools to uncover your public digital footprint. Run recon on yourself. Learn how attackers think.
From radio recon to OSINT basics, it's all there.


No signup. No limits. Just show up and dig in.

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Hands-On Activity

Recon Dashboards

Got an internet-wide OSINT, recon, or visibility dashboard that offers meaningful insights? Share it with the community! We’re inviting creators, researchers, and tinkerers to donate their dashboards to Recon Village this year. We'll showcase them at the village for everyone to explore. Whether it’s passive DNS visualizations, threat feeds, cloud exposure trends, or something experimental—we’re all in. Just make sure it tells a story or sparks a conversation.

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Showcase

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