MRE 2026

Malware and Reverse Engineering Conference 2026

Reverse engineers and malware researchers enjoyed high-quality speakers and networking at MRE 2024, and we are now preparing MRE 2026, which will be held on Thursday and Friday, the 26th and 27th of February, 2026 as a part of our BSides Ballarat event.

MRE-2026 is a bridge between industry, government and academia, with a strong focus on practical results from research and development projects in reverse engineering and malware research.

The conference aims to cover:

AI security,
Automated cyber operations,
Reverse engineering and compiled program analysis,
Behavioral and attribution analysis of malware,
Incident response,
Impacts into critical infrastructure,
Threat intelligence.

Venue

Emerging Technologies Hub (ETH),
SMB Technology Park
107 Lydiard St South,
Central Ballarat.

Registration

Tickets for MRE 2026 are available from Eventbrite.

Keynote Speakers

Name	Organisation	Topic
Richa Arora	IBM	AI Security & Autonomous Threat Operations

Speakers

Some of the presentation titles shown below are works in progress and will change slightly as the presentation is developed.

Name	Organisation	Topic
Riyaz Ahamed	University of Malaya	When Malware Crashes the DevOps Party
Raashid Bhat	Independent Security Professional	Malware Binary Detection: From Trace to Similarity
Muhammad Ikram	Macquarie University	Deception Meets Diagnostics: Deception-Based Real-Time Threat Detection for Critical Infrastructure
Smita Jhajharia Ajat Sharma	RMIT Check Point, Australia	Cybersecurity & the Offensive Misuse of AI
Stefan Avgoustakis Yazan Mughrabi	Google
Jonathan Oliver	Carbon Black / Broadcom
Sam Tseitkin	ExeQuantum	Quantum Computers are Coming, are you Ready?
Rue Maharaj	Melbourne Water	Cybersecurity Defence Management
Martijn van Praag	Microsoft / ICSL	Automatic Deobfuscation of a Complex Malware
Abhay Vaish	Palo Alto Networks	Mapping Your Threat Landscape using AI & Python