The The Twentieth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2024) will take place on August 11–13, 2024 and will be co-located with 33rd USENIX Security Symposium in Philadelphia, PA, USA.
In cooperation with USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association
Important Dates
All dates are at 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time.
- Priority Submission Deadline: Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- Notification of Early Acceptance: Wednesday, May 15, 2024
- Regular Submission Deadline: Thursday, May 23, 2024
- Notification of Lightning Talks Acceptance: Thursday, June 6, 2024
Submissions received after May 23, 2024, will be considered until the program is full.
Accepted lightning talks will be presented during the conference. More details will be provided as they are finalized.
Lightning Talks Co-Chairs
Taslima Akter, University of California, Irvine
Alexandru Bardas, University of Kansas
Lightning Talks Junior Co-Chair
Eva Gerlitz, Fraunhofer FKIE
Overview
A continuing feature of SOUPS is a session of strictly timed 5-minute lightning talks. These talks provide an opportunity to interact with the SOUPS community on a range of usable privacy and security topics. Examples of acceptable topics include:
- Discussion of your research vision, potentially including preliminary research results
- Describing a challenge in research, industry, or government that could benefit from community feedback, attention, and new collaborations
- Recounting lessons learned from conducting user studies in academia, industry, or government labs
- Introducing an open-source tool or community project to encourage attendees to use or contribute to it
- Presenting an exciting visualization, new user interface, or interaction paradigm related to security and privacy
We particularly encourage students and practitioners in the industry who have never before presented at SOUPS, especially first-time attendees to submit a lightning talk proposal. This is a great opportunity to present your research interests and vision to the community, generate hallway conversation, and receive helpful feedback. Lighting talk abstracts will be made publicly available through the conference program. We also invite advisors to encourage their students to present ongoing work.
Submit Your Proposal
If you would like to give a lightning talk, please complete the submission form or email us at soups24-lightning@usenix.org with your name, affiliation, title of the talk, and a brief abstract (up to 200 words). Your abstract should include how your talk is relevant to SOUPS and how it will benefit the SOUPS community.