Lead the Next Wave in Digital Forensics & Cybersecurity
IDFC 2026 invites researchers, practitioners, and innovators to propose workshops that spark new ideas at the frontier of digital forensics, cybersecurity, and AI-driven security. Bring together your community in Trento, Italy, on September 1-4, 2026 for focused discussions, demos, and collaboration.
Keynotes / Panels
Breakout Discussion
Demos
Paper Sessions
Evaluation criteria
- Potential to generate new results and collaborations
- Interactive format and community interest
- Timeliness and research significance
- Organizer track record & ability to deliver
Half-day or full-day formats are supported. Indicate your preference and expected audience size.
Suggested Workshop Topics
Workshop proposals addressing (but not limited to) the following areas are welcome.
Advanced Digital Forensics
- Memory, firmware, and hardware-assisted forensics
- Live forensics and real-time evidence acquisition
- Cross-platform and cross-device forensic correlation
- Timeline reconstruction and event attribution at scale
- Forensics for encrypted, ephemeral, and volatile data
- Automated triage and prioritization of digital evidence
- Multimedia forensics (image, video, audio, and sensor data)
- Forensics for cyber-physical systems and smart infrastructures
Next-Generation Cybersecurity and Cyber Defense
- AI-driven cyber defense and autonomous response systems
- Adversarial attacks against security systems and AI models
- Post-quantum cryptography and forensic readiness
- Cyber deception, honeypots, and active defense strategies
- Supply-chain attacks and software integrity verification
- Detection and mitigation of insider threats
- Security for 5G/6G networks and edge computing
- Cyber resilience and recovery modeling
AI and Machine Learning for Security and Forensics
- Foundation models for security analytics
- Multimodal AI for forensic reasoning and correlation
- Continual, online, and adaptive learning in forensic systems
- Robust ML against poisoning and evasion attacks
- Human-in-the-loop AI for investigative decision support
- Causal AI for cyber incident attribution
- Trust, fairness, and bias analysis in forensic AI
- Benchmarking datasets and evaluation metrics for forensic AI
Generative AI and Synthetic Media Forensics
- Detection, attribution, and provenance of AI-generated content
- Deepfake forensics for images, video, voice, and text
- Watermarking, fingerprinting, and content authenticity verification
- Generative AI for attack simulation and red teaming
- Generative models for reconstructing missing or damaged evidence
- Prompt forensics and analysis of LLM misuse
- Adversarial generative models and forensic countermeasures
- Forensics of AI agents and autonomous systems
Privacy-Preserving, Distributed, and Trustworthy Forensics
- Federated and decentralized forensic learning
- Secure multi-party computation for investigations
- Homomorphic encryption in forensic analytics
- Confidential computing and trusted execution environments
- Privacy-preserving evidence sharing across organizations
- Secure data collaboration between law enforcement and industry
- Transparency, auditability, and reproducibility in forensic systems
Blockchain, Web3, and Financial Crime Forensics
- Smart contract analysis and vulnerability forensics
- Cryptocurrency tracing and transaction graph analysis
- DeFi fraud, rug pulls, and NFT-related crimes
- Forensics for decentralized identity (DID) systems
- Tokenomics manipulation and market abuse detection
- Cross-chain forensic analysis and interoperability challenges
IoT, Edge, and Cyber-Physical System Forensics
- Forensics for smart homes, vehicles, drones, and wearables
- Industrial IoT (IIoT) and critical infrastructure forensics
- Edge AI security and forensic challenges
- Digital twins for forensic reconstruction
- Sensor data integrity and provenance verification
Human, Social, and Cognitive Dimensions of Cybercrime
- Social engineering and phishing analysis using AI
- Behavioral analytics for insider threat detection
- Cognitive forensics and decision-making under uncertainty
- Misinformation, disinformation, and influence operations
- Online radicalization and coordinated inauthentic behavior
Legal, Ethical, and Policy Perspectives
- Legal implications of AI-generated evidence
- Explainability requirements for AI in court proceedings
- Standards and certification for forensic AI tools
- Accountability and liability in automated investigations
- Cross-border evidence sharing and digital sovereignty
- Ethics-by-design for intelligent forensic systems
- Policy frameworks for regulating generative AI misuse
Applied Systems, Tools, and Case Studies
- End-to-end forensic platforms and real-world deployments
- National and international cybercrime case studies
- Public-private collaboration models in cyber investigations
- Evaluation of forensic tools in operational environments
- Lessons learned from large-scale cyber incidents
Visionary and Emerging Topics
- Self-healing and self-forensic cyber systems
- Autonomous cyber investigators and AI agents
- Forensics for metaverse and extended reality (XR) environments
- Digital trust ecosystems and evidence provenance at scale
- The future of cyber forensics in an AI-native world
Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning
- Federated learning for collaborative forensic analysis
- Differential privacy in distributed cyber investigations
- Secure multi-party computation for evidence sharing
- Privacy-aware threat intelligence aggregation
- Homomorphic encryption for forensic data processing
Proposal Requirements
Submit a single PDF (up to 3 pages) including:
- Workshop title
- Organizers: names, affiliations, and short bios
- Scope, topics, and planned activities
- Format: half-/full-day, expected attendance
- Tentative CFP with timeline (submissions, notifications)
- Prior editions (if applicable): venue, URLs, attendance
How to Submit
Email your PDF proposal with the subject line:
Workshop Proposal — [Your Title]
You'll receive confirmation and next-step guidance from the workshop chairs.
Organizer Responsibilities
- Community outreach & advertising (beyond the main IDFC channels)
- Workshop website creation & maintenance
- Submission collection and peer review coordination
- Camera-ready and copyright coordination
- On-site moderation and schedule management
Important Dates (Workshops)
All deadlines are AoE unless noted otherwise.
| # | Event | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Workshop Proposal Submission | June 10th, 2026 |
| 2 | Workshop Notification | June 15th, 2026 |
| 3 | Workshop Paper Submission | July 15th, 2026 |
| 4 | Paper Notification | July 20th, 2026 |
| 5 | Camera-Ready Submission | August 10th, 2026 |
Early submissions receive priority for room assignments and schedule placement.