Tor Project events

DW Global Media Forum (GMF) 2026

2026-06-23T00:00:00Z

The Global Media Forum is an annual gathering of journalists and media experts from around the world. DW has hosted the event in Bonn since 2007. This year's theme is "Journalism out loud"

The Tor Project's Executive Director, Isabela Fernandes, will co-host the workshop "Tools to outsmart censorship: A journalist’s guide"

For more info, visit: https://gmf-event.com/

W3PN Neo-Cypherpunk Summit

2026-06-14T00:00:00Z

Gathering at Berlin's historic Funkhaus, the Neocypherpunk Summit brings together a global network of hacktivists, researchers, technologists, whistleblowers, philosophers, lawyers & policy-makers.

From defending resistance networks under political duress to scaling cryptography as civic infrastructure, the summit explores how open protocols and privacy tools become a resilient, shared foundation for digital autonomy, free assembly, and accountability.

The Tor Project's Executive Director, Isabela Fernandes, be in attendance and host a session.

For more info, visit: https://s26ber.web3privacy.info/

RightsCon 26, Lusaka, Zambia

2026-05-05T00:00:00Z

RightsCon is the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age.

Members of the Tor Project will be in attendance, hosting sessions and workshops. Stop by our booth to say hi!

Tor sessions:

The Great Firewall Export - tactics, lessons and whats next (Amnesty Tech, InterSecLab, The Tor Project)
Digital Security in communities facing political turmoil instabilities, and surveillance (The Tor Project)
Election Ready: Digital resilience strategies to navigate online political violence in public life (The Tor Project)
Tech Demo: Tor VPN beta

This is a hybrid event, registrations are still open, visit: https://www.rightscon.org/program/

FOSSASIA Summit 2026

2026-03-08T00:00:00Z

FOSSASIA Summit 2026 returns to Bangkok on 8–10 March 2026 at True Digital Park, bringing together 200+ international speakers across key tracks including AI & Data, PostgreSQL (PGDay), Cloud & DevOps, Cybersecurity & Privacy, Web & Mobile Development, Operating Systems, and Open Hardware. Participants will gain practical, production-ready insights into building real-world AI applications, running PostgreSQL at scale, modern DevOps and observability with Kubernetes, and safeguarding security and privacy in the age of AI.

Roger Dingledine, Co-Founder of The Tor Project, will speak at the event, host an AMA session and Snowflake demo:

Talk: Why Privacy Infrastructure Still Matters in the Age of AI
AMA: Insights from the Tor Project
Workshop: Running Snowflakes to help censored people

For the full program and speaker list, please visit the event website: https://eventyay.com/e/88882f3e/schedule

Parallel Society (Lisbon)

2026-03-06T00:00:00Z

A two-day festival of sound, art, and ideas exploring independent culture and creative autonomy. Day 1 is an unconference to advance civic technology. Day 2 celebrates music, arts, and countercultures. Expect a high-energy convergence of hacktivism, practical tech, and parallel-society building. Make, break, prototype, and world-build with the people shaping what comes next.

Pawel Zoneff, Director, Strategic Comms, the Tor Project will host a workshop on Press Freedom, Privacy & Digital Rights. The session is designed to open a collaborative dialogue between media professionals and open-source technologists. Participants will share insights from their lived experience of newsrooms, explore barriers to adoption, and discuss how these challenges inform future tool design and usability improvements. The session also investigates how media, platforms, and FOSS communities can work together to address the growing narrative war. This session is designed to be accessible to all, regardless of technical background.

For more information, please visit: https://ps.logos.co/

NearCon

2026-02-23T00:00:00Z

NEARCON is where intelligence, privacy, and the open web converge shaping an AI economy built on trust, transparency, and user ownership. Join founders, researchers, and builders redefining how intelligent systems run - private, open, and on your terms.

Mike Perry, Technical Product Manager, the Tor Project will join a panel on "Standards, Policy, and Safeguards for AI Systems".

For more information, please visit the event website: https://nearcon.org/agenda/

FOSDEM'26 (Brussels)

2026-01-31T00:00:00Z

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. The Tor Project will have a booth (so, be sure to stop by and say 'hi') and host a Relay Operator Meetup: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/DRMMAB-tor_relay_operator_meetup/

State of the Onion 2025

2025-12-10T00:00:00Z

The State of the Onion is the Tor Project's annual virtual event where we share updates from Tor Project’s teams and community, highlighting Tor's work and the impact it has made across the globe during the year.

December 10th, 2025 - Updates from the Tor Community, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZVk0kb7lhw

Live streams start at 1700 UTC on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTorProject

DEF CON 33, Las Vegas

2025-08-07T00:00:00Z

DEF CON is one of the oldest continuously running hacker conventions around, and also one of the largest.

Join us at DEF CON 33! Come by our booth and check out new Tor merch.

For more info, visit: https://defcon.org/

BornHack 2025

2025-07-16T00:00:00Z

BornHack is a 7 day outdoor tent camp where hackers, makers and people with an interest in technology or security come together to celebrate technology, socialise, learn and have fun. BornHack 2025 will be the tenth BornHack. It will take place from Wednesday the 16th of July to Wednesday the 23rd of July 2025 at our venue on the Danish island of Funen.

For more info, visit: https://bornhack.dk/bornhack-2025/