> sacramento, ca · verified oct 8, 2026
California
Sacramento has a monthly ISSA lunch meeting, an ISC2 chapter, an ISACA chapter with an annual flagship conference, a DEF CON group that meets on second Wednesdays, and a small IT and cybersecurity roundtable. State-government security gatherings add to the calendar, including the California Cybersecurity Education Summit on October 8, 2026 and the InfraGard symposium on October 14, 2026. UC Davis and Cosumnes River College run student and youth programs.
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Tue, Oct 27 to Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · Evening sessions on October 27, 28, 29 and November 4, starting 6:00 p.m. Pacific
Online
Certification prep run by the ISACA Sacramento chapter; the chapter listing page links to the registration details.
ConfirmedTrainingPaid
Mon, Nov 2 to Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · Six-day course event, in person and online
Hilton San Francisco Financial District, San Francisco · Regional
Vendor-run training. Roughly 90 miles from Sacramento.
ConfirmedTrainingPaidVendor-hosted
Thu, Nov 5 to Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · Training November 2 to 4; conference November 5 and 6
Hyatt Regency San Francisco, San Francisco · Regional
Run by the OWASP Foundation.
ConfirmedConferencePaid
Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 5:10 p.m.
Kemper Hall 1131, UC Davis, Davis · Metro area
Student club event; the page does not say whether non-students may attend.
ConfirmedMeetupFree
Fri, Nov 13, 2026 · 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; registration and breakfast from 7:30 a.m.
McKay's Beer Garden, Pleasanton · Regional
Run by the ISC2 East Bay chapter. Roughly 100 miles from Sacramento.
ConfirmedConferencePaid
Fri, Nov 20, 2026 · 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Not stated on the event page; recent meetings were at Capsity, 3808 Broadway, Sacramento
Speaker Nelly Spieler of Frank, Rimerman + Co. on running SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audits together. Confirm the venue on the event page before attending.
ConfirmedChapter meetingFree
Announced without a date, or expected from past editions. Not confirmed.
The 2026 edition was held March 21 and 22; 2027 dates are not yet announced
San Francisco · Regional
ExpectedConferencePaid
The 21st edition is on October 14, 2026; 2027 dates are not yet announced
Sacramento metro area · Metro area
ExpectedSummitVetting required
The 2026 edition was held September 17 and 18; 2027 dates are not yet announced
Sacramento
ExpectedConferencePaid
Sacramento (Wyndham Sacramento, 5321 Date Avenue, for the flagship) · In the city
Chapter events and an annual flagship conference; no regular meeting rule is published
Serves Sacramento and Stockton per the ISACA directory. Held the Flagship Conference September 17 and 18, 2026.
Paid
Sacramento and nearby venues (for example Topgolf Roseville) · In the city
Roughly monthly evening events; no regular rule is published
The chapter website's events page stops at June 25 2025; other dates (June 30, August 27 and September 23 2026) come from the chapter's LinkedIn posts. The September 23 event was described as open to all, including students.
Free
Capsity, 3808 Broadway, Sacramento, plus Zoom · In the city
Usually the third Friday of the month, 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., hybrid with lunch for in-person attendees; the chapter does not publish this as a rule
Open to non-members; registration is required. Past meetings on the organizer site fell on the third Friday (September 19 2025 through September 18 2026), with one Zoom-only meeting on February 20 2026. No fee is shown on the event pages.
Free
La Venadita, 3501 3rd Ave, Sacramento · In the city
6:00 p.m.; the 2600 list gives no weekday (2600 meetings are conventionally the first Friday)
The 2600 list shows the current venue; a legacy list page still shows an old pizza restaurant venue. The September 4 2026 date is inferred from a first-Friday listing, not from a posted meeting report.
Free
Made Studio (Sacramento Hacker Lab), 3519 Broadway, Sacramento, plus Discord · In the city
Second Wednesday of the month, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., hybrid
The site's home page still names a May meeting. The April 8 2026 meeting date comes from a repository commit and a Reddit post; later meetings may have happened on Discord, Instagram or Bluesky. Per the owner's rule for DEF CON groups, the site's age is not treated as inactivity. Members are working with former BSides Sacramento organizers on a revival (Projects page); no date is announced.
Free
Sacramento (Bike Dog East for the last meeting) · In the city
Irregular; no meeting announced
Meetup group with 264 members; the last event on its page was September 16 2025 and none is scheduled.
Quiet: last activity Sep 2025Free
Sacramento region (Davis, Sacramento) and online · In the city
Monthly CyberSYPS social plus occasional virtual lunch-and-learns; the posted day varies, so check the event page
Meetings: CyberSYPS at Volt Coffee in Davis on September 19 2026, a virtual lunch and learn on August 19 2026 and a June 4 2026 meetup. An older Eventbrite series page says third Thursday and third Saturday and is marked cancelled; no October date is posted. SYPS stands for Sacramento, Yolo, Placer, Solano.
Free
Sacramento region (meetings also at Cal OES in Mather and in Sonoma) · In the city
Quarterly meetings plus an annual cybersecurity symposium
InfraGard membership is vetted; the events page says non-members who want to attend should contact the chapter. The July 21 2026 date is the quarterly meeting listed on the events page (Sonoma, joint with the San Francisco chapter).
Vetting required
Cosumnes River College, 8401 Center Pkwy, Sacramento · In the city
Annual no-cost summer cyber camps for middle and high school students; other programming not dated
NSA/DHS CAE school. The page lists the 2026 CyberPatriot-based camps (June 15 to 19 and June 22 to 26); it does not report that they ran. The Brown-Bag Cyber Chats page was empty. No public student club page with dated meetings was found.
Free
Kemper Hall 1131, UC Davis, Davis · Metro area
Weekly meetings on Mondays at 5:10 p.m. and competition-team (cowsay) meetings on Wednesdays at 6:00 p.m. during the quarter
Student organization; the site does not say whether non-students may attend. The October 5 2026 date is inferred: Infra Workshop #1 was on the October 3 listing and gone from the October 8 listing. Event rows show no year, only the Fall 2026 term and matching weekdays.
Free
Sacramento and Roseville · In the city
Bimonthly TechConnect meetups plus an annual AWS Community Day
Adjacent: an AWS, AI and startup community, not security-focused; included as the area's cloud user group. Run by the HUMANBULB nonprofit. The last event on the Meetup page was AWS Community Day on August 22 2026. No fee is shown.
Free
Chicago Pizza with a Twist, 7431 W Stockton Blvd, Sacramento · In the city
Roughly monthly evening roundtables on Meetup; no regular rule is published
Small Meetup group (103 members) for MSP owners, sysadmins and security people; food and drinks are bought on site. The next roundtable moved from October 22 to October 29 2026 between the two times the organizer pages were read.
Free
| Directory | Result |
|---|---|
| 2600 Meetings | Local chapter: 2600 Sacramento |
| CISA Regional Offices | Nearest: CISA Region 9; no public Sacramento events posted |
| Cloud Security Alliance | Nearest: CSA San Francisco Chapter |
| Cyversity (formerly ICMCP) Chapters | Nearest: Cyversity Bay Area Chapter |
| DEF CON Groups | Local chapter: Cybersecurity Sacramento (DC916) |
| HTCIA | Nearest: HTCIA Northern California Chapter |
| IAPP KnowledgeNet | Local chapter: IAPP KnowledgeNet Sacramento |
| InfraGard Members Alliances | Local chapter: InfraGard Sacramento Members Alliance |
| ISACA | Local chapter: ISACA Sacramento Chapter |
| ISC2 | Local chapter: ISC2 Sacramento Chapter |
| ISSA | Local chapter: ISSA Sacramento Valley Chapter |
| NSA National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C) | Local chapter: Cosumnes River College Cybersecurity Center |
| OWASP | Local chapter: OWASP Sacramento |
| SANS Institute | Nearest: SANS San Francisco 2026 (November 2 to 7, 2026) |
| SecureWorld | No chapter found |
| Security BSides | Nearest: BSidesSF (BSides Sacramento has no dated event on its record; a revival is in discussion) |
| TOOOL (The Open Organisation Of Lockpickers) | No chapter found |
| WiCyS (Women in CyberSecurity) Professional Affiliates | Local chapter: WiCyS Sacramento Affiliate |
| Women's Society of Cyberjutsu (WSC) Chapters | No chapter found |
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