Gadi Evron

Thank YOU for making this happen, and believing in a first time con.

And thank you to our volunteers, from someone’s SO to a professor to a billionaire, who spent the con working. You deserve your own post.

The videos are available to attendees, and will be shared publicly as soon as possible. Transcripts and slides are already out on Slack.

I don’t know if this will happen again next year, if such a con would even be relevant by then, but I recognize that by hard work and a lot of luck, we were there in a unique warp point in time, where the industry came together to get stuff done, and form a community.

Thank YOU for coming, and I must admit I have true FOMO over not attending the online con. It almost feels like the Zoom attendees had more interaction and content than people there physically.

[un]prompted wouldn’t have happened without sponsors who asked for absolutely nothing: Knostic TachTech AISLE™ Whiterabbit Halcyon Futures Halcyon Ventures. Community sponsorship is a thing. Take a moment to check what they do, and buy them a beer when you meet them.

Try to pick others up along the path, and if even 2% come along for the ride, it changes everything.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a researcher or in finance. You are relevant and all you need is English, … but you need to start now.

Are you using a coding agent right now, is your CEO? Your CISO? Trying it for what it’s not good at? Dumping your scaffolding every 90 days to start over as it’s no longer the same world?

3. It’s about relevance. Many feel outmoded, and those of us deep in the field don’t always know how we’d ever keep up. But all that’s needed is to try.

2. Form a community. This is a new field, with practitioners coming in from any and every direction. Together, people can do bigger things, and in this case help secure the future.

1. Take AI back from the marketers. [un]prompted was about no b/s sharing of real work - no matter what it is. Speakers skipped introductions and explanations and shared what they do. It set a bar for content shared and respected in the industry.

Steve Crocker once shared with me a sentence they wrote in the first arpanet design meeting:
“Networks are for people.”
People are what fuels any technology. It’s there for us. At least for now.

So, how do we go about being a part of this future, and securing it?

In 2025 it was said “AI won’t replace you, a human using AI will.” I don’t know if that is true anymore, even though micro singularities seem to hit different fields unevenly (offense is here, defense isn’t).
But, we all shared a mutual frustrations about limited context windows.

…why we risked moving venues from a 200 seats one two weeks before the con itself.

[un]prompted meant different things to different people, from CISOs to vulnerability researchers to academics, to directors of agencies. 700 people in SF, 850 online. But it also meant one thing for all: community.
It’s the only moat, differentiator, people have in the AI age, …

Access it here:
🔗 notebooklm.google.com/notebook/78e...

Thank you Rob and team for stepping up, and helping make the conference what it becam

It was diligently executed on by Julie Michelle Morris, who sat through endless sessions to make it happen. And, empowered by Emanuel Gawrieh and Dragos Ruiu, who immediately jumped in without a second thought, and helped set up the system.

And yes, as it’s NotebookLM you can always use it to generate a podcast - on any topic 🙂

This is the brainchild of the brilliant Rob T. Lee (which you shouldn’t be surprised about when it comes to Rob). All I had to do was get out of the way.

And there is no reason for a conference to end when you walk out the door. We can engage with the content and attendees beyond transcripts, summaries, and Slack.

We live in the future.

For both conference days, every talk with full transcripts and slides was loaded into a NotebookLM, and [un]prompted became more than just a hybrid online/physical con, with this one of many examples of what an AI-native conference could look like.

Would you like to chat with [un]prompted con about AI security? Follow a thread across every session, brief your team, or just base your research on the knowledge collected?

Hahaha

“I’m in this tweet and I don’t like it.”

And do thank a volunteer when you see them, these are CISOs, researchers, a billionaire or three, a professor, someone’s SO, and all around awesome people who spend their con just helping out.

See you soon!

Vibe code together.

Feel the wonder of being alive in 2026… and I’ll just get off my soap box again.

Logistics:
- Show up at 8:30 am.
- This evening is free-form. Suggest food locations for dinner on Slack, around 4 pm, and gather a group of old and new friends for the experience.

Use the baseball cards to find people relevant to what you do, who can help you, and whom you can help.

Talk about presentations on Slack with physical and online attendees, and make fun of Dragos Ruiu as he debugs the magic of the crazy online setup and forgets to turn off his mic.

The talks are solid, but this con is about community, and relationships. There is something new happening here, and watching CISOs, researchers, and threat hunters mingle and talk context windows is a special thing to behold, indeed.

Pic: [un]prompted meme of the day, looking cool and collected, but paddling like crazy under the surface.

Toward day 2 at [un]prompted, prepare yourself to.. deal with people. I’d prefer dogs, too, but y’know what? These folks aren’t half bad!

A short thread

Gadi Evron addressing the Unprompted conference

Kudos to @gadievron.bsky.social and the Unprompted team for setting up an amazing event that happens at exactly the right time. Check out the livestream (unpromptedcon.org)