Central Arkansas Hackers (CAH)
Tue, Dec 1, 2026 · 6:00 p.m.
Little Rock Technology Park, 417 Main St, Little Rock
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
Arkansas
Little Rock, AR cybersecurity events & groups
Central Arkansas Hackers is the city's regular open meetup, with a talk on the first Tuesday evening of the month at the Little Rock Technology Park. ISACA Central Arkansas holds monthly lunch meetings, some in person with a Zoom option, and InfraGard Arkansas holds members' meetings. The Forge Institute runs an annual summit in North Little Rock each fall (October 13 and 14 in 2026), and The Venture Center runs the JOLT Cyber Challenge each spring.
Start here
- Central Arkansas Hackers (CAH): Free, open monthly meetup for all skill levels, with a talk followed by social time.
- ISACA Central Arkansas Chapter: Monthly lunch meeting with a Zoom option, useful for audit, risk and security professionals.
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Datebook
December 2026
January 2027
Central Arkansas Hackers (CAH)
Tue, Jan 5, 2027 · 6:00 p.m.
Little Rock Technology Park, 417 Main St, Little Rock
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
February 2027
Central Arkansas Hackers (CAH)
Tue, Feb 2, 2027 · 6:00 p.m.
Little Rock Technology Park, 417 Main St, Little Rock
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
March 2027
Central Arkansas Hackers (CAH)
Tue, Mar 2, 2027 · 6:00 p.m.
Little Rock Technology Park, 417 Main St, Little Rock
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
April 2027
Central Arkansas Hackers (CAH)
Tue, Apr 6, 2027 · 6:00 p.m.
Little Rock Technology Park, 417 Main St, Little Rock
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
May 2027
Central Arkansas Hackers (CAH)
Tue, May 4, 2027 · 6:00 p.m.
Little Rock Technology Park, 417 Main St, Little Rock
Per published schedule; confirm with organizer.
MeetingFree
On the radar
Announced without a date, or expected from past editions. Not confirmed.
JOLT Cyber Challenge 2027
Announced by the organizer; date not yet published.
Little Rock (the 2026 edition was at UA Little Rock's Reynolds Business Building)
Date TBACTFPaid
AI + Cybersecurity Conference (AICC) 2027
Usually held in late August (August 27 in 2026); 2027 dates not yet announced
FedEx Institute of Technology, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN · Regional
ExpectedConferencePaid
Arkansas Digital Government Summit 2027
Annual; the 17th edition was held on October 13, 2026 and 2027 dates are not yet announced
Little Rock (the 2026 edition was at the Little Rock Marriott, 3 Statehouse Plaza)
ExpectedSummitFreeVendor-hosted
Forge Summit 2027
Held in the fall in central Arkansas (September 17 and 18 in 2025, October 13 and 14 in 2026); 2027 dates not yet announced
North Little Rock (the 2026 edition was in downtown North Little Rock) · Metro area
ExpectedSummitPaidVetting required
Groups & associations
Professional associations
ISACA Central Arkansas Chapter
Little Rock (venue varies) and Zoom · In the city
Monthly lunch meeting, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; posted meetings have fallen on second Tuesdays
The most recent meeting page is the July 14, 2026 meeting (11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Zoom link only); the page is a meeting notice, so attendance is not shown. The June 9, 2026 meeting was held at The Croissanterie, 14502 Cantrell Rd, with a Zoom link; the December 9, 2025 meeting was at Oceans at Arthur's on Chenal Parkway. Several 2025 meetings were Zoom only. Admission is listed as free for members; the pages do not say whether non-members may attend or what membership costs. The chapter calendar page loads by script and showed no meetings when read on 2026-11-03; searches found no meeting page for August through December 2026.
Members only
engage.isaca.org/centralarkansaschapter/home [S9] [S10] [S11]
Hacker and grassroots groups
Central Arkansas Hackers (CAH)
Little Rock Technology Park, 417 Main St, Little Rock · In the city
First Tuesday of the month, 6:00 p.m.; about an hour of talks at the Tech Park, then social time at Fassler Hall
Meetup group inspired by the Dallas Hackers Association, open to students and professionals of any skill level. Recent talks covered homelabs (July 7, 2026), app hacking (September 1, 2026) and running local AI coding agents (October 6, 2026); earlier ones covered mobile hacking and detection as code. No meeting was posted for August 2026, and the Meetup page read on 2026-11-03 lists the November 3, 2026 meeting as the only scheduled one. Recruiters are welcome; the group also uses Discord.
Free
Public-private and government
InfraGard Arkansas Members Alliance (IAMA)
Little Rock (statewide chapter) · In the city
Periodic members' meetings announced on Eventbrite
FBI-affiliated public-private partnership; membership requires FBI vetting. The most recent meeting found was an in-person joint members' meeting with UA Little Rock's CORE Center on May 15, 2026 at UA Little Rock. The chapter website's events page has not been updated since 2025, so check Eventbrite or LinkedIn for meetings. Searches on 2026-11-03 found no later meeting.
Members onlyVetting required
Directory checklist
4 of 19 national directories list a local chapter
| Directory | Result |
|---|---|
| 2600 Meetings | Nearest: Memphis 2600 (Memphis Cybersecurity Community) |
| CISA Regional Offices | Nearest: CISA Region 6; no public Little Rock events posted |
| Cloud Security Alliance | Nearest: CSA Arkansas Chapter (statewide; no dated events found) |
| Cyversity (formerly ICMCP) Chapters | Nearest: Cyversity North Texas Chapter |
| DEF CON Groups | Nearest: DC901 (Memphis); DC501 (Little Rock) is listed by DEF CON but no dated meeting was found |
| HTCIA | No chapter found |
| IAPP KnowledgeNet | Nearest: IAPP KnowledgeNet Memphis |
| InfraGard Members Alliances | Local chapter: InfraGard Arkansas Members Alliance (IAMA) |
| ISACA | Local chapter: ISACA Central Arkansas Chapter |
| ISC2 | Local chapter: ISC2 Arkansas Chapter |
| ISSA | Nearest: ISSA Oklahoma Chapter (Tulsa) |
| NSA National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C) | Local chapter: UA Little Rock Cybersecurity Club (CyberTrojans) |
| OWASP | Nearest: OWASP Memphis |
| SANS Institute | Nearest: SANS Dallas |
| SecureWorld | Nearest: SecureWorld Dallas |
| Security BSides | Nearest: BSides Memphis (BSides Little Rock is listed as inactive) |
| TOOOL (The Open Organisation Of Lockpickers) | No chapter found |
| WiCyS (Women in CyberSecurity) Professional Affiliates | Nearest: WiCyS Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) |
| Women's Society of Cyberjutsu (WSC) Chapters | Nearest: Women's Society of Cyberjutsu Dallas |
Dormant groups
2 groups with no public activity for 18 months or more
- ISC2 Arkansas Chapter: last public activity Oct 2024 [S14] [S15]
- UA Little Rock Cybersecurity Club (CyberTrojans): last public activity Feb 2025 [S16] [S17]
Field notes
- Central Arkansas Hackers meets for about an hour at the Little Rock Technology Park and then moves to Fassler Hall; register on Meetup so the organizers can plan. No August 2026 meeting was posted. The November 3, 2026 talk is on a home-lab media stack, so topics range beyond security.
- Forge Summit has been limited to pre-registered U.S. citizens, and the exact venue is emailed only to approved registrants. No 2027 dates are posted.
- ISACA Central Arkansas meetings alternate between Zoom-only sessions and lunch venues in west Little Rock; check each meeting page for the location. No meeting page for August through December 2026 had been posted on 2026-11-03.
- The ISC2 Arkansas site describes monthly online meetings on second Fridays, but no dated meeting after October 2024 could be found publicly; ask through its LinkedIn group before relying on it.
- The Arkansas Digital Government Summit is open only to public-sector employees. No 2027 dates are posted.
- The Little Rock Cyber Security for Control Systems Meetup group hosts only online (CS)2AI events, so it is not listed.
- No OWASP, ISSA, 2600 or WiCyS group meets in the Little Rock area. The nearest OWASP chapter, 2600 meeting, DEF CON group and BSides are in Memphis; bsides.org lists BSides Little Rock as inactive.
- The DEF CON groups forum lists DC501 for Little Rock as active, but no dated meeting or active account was found, so it is not listed as a group.
Sources
Numbered references for the listings on this page.
- S1https://www.meetup.com/central-arkansas-hackers/
- S2https://www.meetup.com/central-arkansas-hackers/events/317163904/
- S3https://www.venturecenter.co/programs/jolt/
- S4https://www.memphis.edu/fedex/events/aicc/index.php
- S5https://www.memphis.edu/research/impact/newsletter2026/aug/aicc26.php
- S6https://events.govtech.com/arkansas-digital-government-summit
- S7https://www.forge.institute/summit
- S8https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-forge-arkansas-cyber-summit-tickets-1030209232547
- S9https://engage.isaca.org/centralarkansaschapter/events/eventdescription?CalendarEventKey=96338512-97cb-443c-bfa4-019f60788f83&CommunityKey=906eda3b-d8f5-4a26-bf7a-55453f678e0a
- S10https://engage.isaca.org/centralarkansaschapter/events/eventdescription?CalendarEventKey=aed1bd67-d740-49f0-aa76-019e759bf267&CommunityKey=906eda3b-d8f5-4a26-bf7a-55453f678e0a&hlmlt=ED
- S11https://engage.isaca.org/centralarkansaschapter/events/eventdescription?CalendarEventKey=1f6a77b8-3635-451e-a5b0-019adabc4df0&CommunityKey=906eda3b-d8f5-4a26-bf7a-55453f678e0a&hlmlt=ED
- S12https://www.eventbrite.com/e/infragard-arkansas-members-alliance-joint-members-meeting-with-ualr-core-tickets-1988854807267
- S13https://www.infragardarkansas.org/
- S14https://isc2arkansas.org/
- S15https://www.eventbrite.com/e/isc2-arkansas-chapter-networking-event-tickets-1030063195747
- S16https://sites.google.com/a/ualr.edu/csc/activities
- S17https://ualr.edu/news/2025/03/10/cybersecurity-club/