Update: Given the considerable interest from across the globe, the Octopus Conference Secretariat has extended the deadline to register for in-person participation and submit entries for the Youth and Cybercrime Competition to 10 May 2025, 23h59 CEST, Strasbourg time.
Registration is now open for this year’s Octopus Conference, which will take place between 4-6 June, in Strasbourg, France!
- Registration form to attend the Octopus Conference 2025
The conference will provide an opportunity to interface for cybercrime experts from public and private sectors as well as international and non-governmental organisations from all over the world. High-level interventions are envisaged.
The conference will also include an area where projects, partners and other initiatives will have the possibility to showcase their work. Should you wish to do so, please reach out to the Conference secretariat.
Main sessions will address artificial intelligence, cybercrime and e-evidence, cyber-interference with democracy, online fraud such as pig-butchering/romance scams, and implementing the Second Additional Protocol on enhanced cooperation and disclosure of e-evidence.
Workshops will focus on crypto-investigations, sharing e-evidence across borders under the Convention on Cybercrime and its Second Protocol, cybercrime as war crime and lessons from Ukraine, cyberviolence (online child sexual exploitation and abuse and the non-consensual dissemination of intimate images), youth and cybercrime, regional workshops for countries in Africa, Americas, Asia and Pacific.
Registration is open until 30 April 2025.
More information on this year’s Octopus Conference
Octopus Conference 2025: Workshop 2 – Cyberviolence: non-consensual dissemination of intimate images (NCDII)
Octopus Conference 2025: Workshop 8 – Cyberviolence: Child sexual exploitation and abuse materials (CSAM) in the era of artificial intelligence
More information on previous editions of the Octopus Conference