Overview
- Organizers expect about 16,000 participants at the four‑day gathering at the Congress Centrum Hamburg, which runs through December 30 under the motto Power Cycles.
- The program features more than 165 talks and workshops in a self‑organized, non‑commercial setting focused on hands‑on security research and public debate.
- The new Di.Day initiative, coordinated by Save Social, begins January 4 and then recurs on the first Sunday each month to encourage switching to alternatives such as Signal, Firefox and Ecosia.
- Author Marc‑Uwe Kling backs the campaign and is scheduled to appear alongside CCC speaker Linus Neumann at an evening session titled Digital Independence Day.
- This year’s agenda scrutinizes AI power concentrations and surveillance tools such as Palantir and the proposed Chatkontrolle, alongside talks on vulnerabilities in Bluetooth chips, electronic patient records and the Deutschlandticket.