Open Tech Calendar

Venue Location: Keynote Theatre, Olympia London, Hammersith Road, London, W14 8UX

Nearest Tubes: Kensington (Olympia) Overground (2-minute walk), Barons Court (11 minute walk), West Kensington (10 minute walk) and High Street Kensington (18 minutes walk)

Doors Open at 5:30pm for registration, food, drinks and networking. The talks start at 6:00pm (we start on time- note earlier time than usual due to venue restirctions).

TALKS:

OWASP Introduction, Welcome and News - Sam Stepanyan

Welcome and a brief update on OWASP Projects & Conferences


"Semantic OWASP: Leveraging GenAI and Graphs to Customise and Scale Security Knowledge" - Dinis Cruz

This talk advocates for a shift to a semantic knowledge graph ecosystem for OWASP content – an approach that would make OWASP knowledge more accessible, customizable, and interconnected. By leveraging semantic web technologies and large language models (LLMs), OWASP can transform its guides and standards into a machinereadable, linked knowledge base that community members and tools can query, adapt, and build upon in a context-aware manner.



"Securing Apps and APIs in Production: A Practical Approach to Runtime Application Security" - John Wood & Aurélien Svevi

Application security often stops at the pipeline—relying on scanners, simulations, and assumptions. But most real-world attacks happen in production, not during testing. This talk explores how observing applications and APIs at runtime can uncover vulnerabilities and detect actual exploit attempts that pre-production tools miss. John Wood and Aurélien Svevi will share practical lessons learned from working with engineering teams, focusing on what telemetry reveals in live environments, how to separate signals from noise, and how runtime data can support faster, more informed security decisions—without disrupting development.


TICKETS/BADGES:

This event is free to attend for both members and non-members of OWASP and is open to anyone interested in web application and cyber security. Please note that you MUST book your place to be admitted to the event by the building security - there will be pre-printed badges available for the OWASP London Chapter Meetup registered attendees - please look out for the OWASP Logo at the registration desk!

Code of Conduct:
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