> anchorage, ak · verified sep 25, 2026
Alaska
Anchorage's security calendar is built around a few conferences rather than monthly meetups: ArcticCon on October 14 to 15, 2026, the one-day INTERFACE Anchorage each spring, and the Alaska Cyber Group Annual Conference held at UAA on June 2, 2026. InfraGard Alaska holds members meetings, the ISACA Anchorage Chapter has met mostly on Zoom, and ArcticShield, a volunteer cyber defense nonprofit, runs monthly developer meetups downtown. DC907, the city's DEF CON Group, posts meetups on the DEF CON forums, and a one-day military cyber and IT forum is held on JBER each June.
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Thu, Oct 8, 2026 · 8:00 a.m. registration; sessions until a 4:45 p.m. reception
Marriott Anchorage Downtown, 820 W 7th Ave, Anchorage
Run by GovTech's Center for Digital Government with paying vendor partners. Open to public-sector employees only; registration is free. Cybersecurity is one of several tracks alongside AI, data and digital services.
ConfirmedSummitFreeVetting requiredVendor-hosted
Wed, Oct 14 to Thu, Oct 15, 2026 · 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. each day
The Lakefront Anchorage, 4800 Spenard Rd, Anchorage
Held since 2017. Tickets are sold with a refund policy; partner redemption codes also give entry. The call for papers was open with no closing date posted. The site does not name the organizing entity.
ConfirmedConferencePaid
Thu, Nov 19, 2026 · 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
911 W 8th Ave, Anchorage
Adjacent: a developer meetup (projects and techniques), not a security talk night. RSVP on the ArcticShield events page.
ConfirmedMeetupFree
Thu, Jun 3, 2027
Arctic Warrior Events Center (AWEC), 9387 Kuter Ave, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (Elmendorf side), Anchorage · Metro area
One-day military cyber and IT forum with an exhibit hall, run by Secret Sauce Events (SSE) with paying sponsors. The 3rd edition, held June 4, 2026 as the AFCEA Alaska Chapter Cyber and IT Forum, drew more than 200 attendees; the 2027 page names the Signal Corps Regimental Association Denali Chapter as supporter and does not mention AFCEA. The audience is JBER military and civilian personnel. JBER is a military installation: attendees without a DoD ID card need a visitor pass, which requires an identity and background check at the base visitor center, so arrange access well before the event. GovEvents lists it as complimentary, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.; the organizer page shows the date but no times. The AFCEA Alaska Chapter site lists no events.
ConfirmedConferenceFreeVetting requiredVendor-hosted
secretsauceevent.com/4th-annual-jber-forum [S5] [S6] [S7] [S8]
Announced without a date, or expected from past editions. Not confirmed.
Announced by the organizer; date not yet published.
Anchorage (2026 edition at the Dena'ina Convention Center, 600 W 7th Ave)
Date TBAConferenceFreeVendor-hosted
Annual; the 2026 edition was held June 2, 2026 at the UAA Student Union; 2027 dates not yet announced
UAA Student Union, 2921 Spirit Drive, Anchorage (2026 edition)
ExpectedConferenceFree
Anchorage; 2024 and 2025 meetings mostly on Zoom · In the city
Irregular noon meetings; the chapter calendar listed no future events on September 24, 2026
Serves Anchorage and the Mat-Su area. Its most recent listed meeting was the annual chapter meeting on Zoom on May 21, 2025; its most recent in-person session was a talk at INTERFACE Anchorage on April 17, 2025. The chapter pages do not say whether non-members may attend. Listed as an association partner of INTERFACE Anchorage 2026.
Quiet: last activity May 2025Members only
Anchorage (no regular venue published; the group page names the Anchorage Makerspace as its preferred venue) · In the city
No regular schedule published; meetups are announced on the group's DEF CON forums page
Anchorage's DEF CON Group, started in 2019. No dated DC907 meeting was found on any channel; last_activity is the most recent dated evidence of activity instead: a September 20, 2025 post in the group's forum channel from Alaska's first BSides at the Egan Center, inviting members to join a hands-on binary reverse engineering session hosted by ArcticShield. On August 29, 2025 an organizer posted there that a meetup was being planned. The group announced monthly meetups from November 2022. No Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, Mastodon, Meetup or public Discord page with meeting dates was found.
Free
Anchorage (meeting venue not published) · In the city
Members meetings posted on the chapter events page; the most recent was April 8, 2026, 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Partnership between the FBI and the private sector; membership requires an application and FBI vetting. The chapter also listed INTERFACE Anchorage (April 22, 2026) on its events page as an association partner.
Vetting required
911 W 8th Ave, Anchorage (AKDev meetups) · In the city
Monthly AKDev developer meetup, usually on a Thursday evening; dates posted on the events page
Adjacent: a volunteer cyber defense 501(c)(3) whose public events in 2026 are mostly developer meetups (its Alaska Developer's Alliance), game and esports events and outreach booths rather than security talks. It held planning meetings for a BSides Alaska conference in 2025 (February 7, 2025 online and August 21, 2025 in Anchorage); no BSides Alaska conference date has been published.
Free
| Directory | Result |
|---|---|
| 2600 Meetings | No chapter found |
| CISA Regional Offices | Nearest: CISA Region 10 office (Seattle), which covers Alaska; no public events posted |
| Cloud Security Alliance | No chapter found |
| Cyversity (formerly ICMCP) Chapters | No chapter found |
| DEF CON Groups | Local chapter: DC907 (DEF CON Group Anchorage) |
| HTCIA | No chapter found |
| IAPP KnowledgeNet | No chapter found |
| InfraGard Members Alliances | Local chapter: InfraGard Alaska Members Alliance |
| ISACA | Local chapter: ISACA Anchorage Chapter |
| ISC2 | No chapter found |
| ISSA | No chapter found |
| NSA National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C) | No chapter found |
| OWASP | No chapter found |
| SANS Institute | No chapter found |
| SecureWorld | No chapter found |
| Security BSides | Nearest: BSides Alaska (planning meetings held by ArcticShield in 2025; no conference date published) |
| TOOOL (The Open Organisation Of Lockpickers) | No chapter found |
| WiCyS (Women in CyberSecurity) Professional Affiliates | No chapter found |
| Women's Society of Cyberjutsu (WSC) Chapters | No chapter found |
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