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237HACKFEST /2026

PROVE IT. From Awareness to Action

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● LIVE EVENT

2026

Douala

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Not a conference where people sit and listen.

A Proving Ground

237HackFest is Central Africa’s flagship cybersecurity festival. A two-part, one-continuous-run experience where the community proves its skills through overnight CTF and a full day of talks, research, and industry engagement. Every programme element produces something demonstrable – no slideware.

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> 24-HOUR RUN

One continuous 24 hours.

18:00 THU

DOORS + REGISTRATION

Registration,
check-in,
opening remarks.

19:00 THU

CTF NIGHT

Phase 1 Blue + Phase 2 Red + HTB Groups.

5:30 FRI

BATTLE GROUND

Invite-only finale. Red vs Blue live.

09:30 FRI

CONFERENCE DAY

Two tracks. Talks, panels, papers, expo.

18:00 FRI

PRIZE + CLOSE

Final standings. Prizes on main stage

> THE CTF

Three tracks. One night

Defensive Track

SOC triage, log analysis, incident response playbooks, hardening exercises, and individual/team defensive challenges.

Offensive Track

Web exploitation, privilege escalation, Active Directory, reverse engineering, and attack simulations. Top teams qualify for the Battle Ground.

HackTheBox Groups

Team-based HackTheBox challenges running alongside the official CTF. Practice, collaborate, and improve your ranking.

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> TRACKS

Eight Themes. Mixed Audience

Offensive Security and Red Teaming

Live exploitation, hands-on tradecraft, adversary emulation.

Defensive Operations & Blue Team

Detection engineering, IR playbooks, threat hunting.

AI Security & AI-Powered Threats

Model attacks, prompt injection, defending AI pipelines.

Fintech & Mobile Money Security

Central Africa’s fastest-growing attack surface.

Cloud & Infrastructure Security

Hardening, IAM, kubernetes, supply chain.

Governance, Risk & Compliance

Frameworks that actually ship – for non-technical decision-makers.

Digital Policy & Regulation

Cameroonian data law, cross-border regulation, sovereignty.

Privacy and Data Protection

GDPR, Cameroonian data law, direct policy relevance.

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