BRIDGEFEST
BRIDGEFEST is Greenbridge's annual geek culture festival, on the last Saturday of May every year. Over the past three years, we have explored many topics: from practical security and privacy tools, social engineering, and hands-on hardware hacking like lockpicking and the Flipper Zero, to more reflective sessions such as hacker culture and history, existential tech risk, sci-fi writing workshops, and the realities of building a career in corporate IT.
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BRIDGEFEST IV · Saturday 29.05.27
OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Bridgefest IV will take place on Sat 29.05.27 and will focus on Artificial Intelligence. We are very interested in exploring how AI is radically changing things, digital or analogue, that matter to us: from security research, software engineering and cryptanalysis, to privacy, anonymity and digital rights, all the way to broader topics such as how AI is transforming power, democracy and even time itself. If you have spent time deeply thinking about these matters and would like to share your conclusions with us, we would love to hear from you!
As a small, volunteer-run, independent operation without external funding, we are, unfortunately, unable to cover transportation costs or pay fees to the participants. We will, however, provide food and hospitality to all guests, do our best to make you feel welcome, and treat you like friends.
BRIDGEFEST III · Saturday 23.05.26
- 13.00 - 13.40 Giotis Dimotikalis: Paranoid's Toolkit
Privacy and security tools worth carrying, for the healthily paranoid.
Slides (PDF, 2.9 MB) - 14.00 - 14.40 Dimitris Georgakopoulos: SecOps as a Force for Good
How security operations can protect people and communities, not just companies.
Slides (PDF, 819 KB) - 15.00 - 15.40 Jeremiah Onyema: Life & Lessons as an African Immigrant in EU Corporate IT
A personal account of building a career in European corporate IT.
Slides (PDF, 162 KB) - 16.00 - 16.40 Evgenios Anastasiadis: The Privacy Delusion
Why so much of what we do for privacy doesn't actually deliver it.
Slides (PDF, 2.6 MB) - 17.00 - 17.40 Panos Agoros: Hack Thyself II
The sequel to last year's session on turning a hacker's mindset on yourself.
Slides (PDF, 2.2 MB) - 18.00 - 18.40 Eszter Hasur: Hare Krishna Social Engineering
Social engineering lessons from an unexpected place.
Slides (PDF, 3.9 MB) - 19.00 - 19.40 Stelios Tigkas: Bridgemaking 101
How Greenbridge got built, and how to build your own bridges.
Slides (PDF, 2.8 MB)
BRIDGEFEST II · Saturday 31.05.25
- 13.00 - 13.40 Giotis Dimotikalis: Visionaries and Oddballs
A tour of the eccentric characters who shaped hacker and tech culture.
Slides (PDF, 911 KB) - 14.00 - 15.20 Tina Barbatsalou: SciFi Writing Workshop
A hands-on workshop on writing science fiction.
Slides (PDF, 12 MB) - 15.40 - 16.20 Arthur Chamberlain: How do we measure Existential Technological Risk?
On putting numbers on the risks technology poses to humanity's future.
Slides (PDF, 6.7 MB) - 16.40 - 17.20 Evgenios Anastasiadis: Hackers' Toolbox: Exploring the Gadgets of the Trade
A show-and-tell of the hardware hackers actually carry.
Slides (PDF, 2.7 MB) - 17.40 - 19.00 Panos Agoros: Hack Thyself
A long session on applying a hacker's mindset to yourself.
Slides (PDF, 1.3 MB) - 19.20 - 20.00 Sylvia Kouveli: Tell to Show
A talk on AI-generated images, and their evolution.
Slides (PDF, 4.9 MB)
BRIDGEFEST · Saturday 25.05.24
- 10.30 - 11.30 Sunshine Pop DJ Set (Stelios Tigkas)
- 12.00 - 13.30 Lockpicking (Fotis Dilaris & Evgenios Anastasiadis)
A hands-on session on opening locks without keys.
Slides (PDF, 2.2 MB) - 15.30 - 17.00 Flipper (Stefanos Polychronidis & George Ziakas)
A hands-on session on the Flipper Zero Device.
Slides (PDF, 1.3 MB) - 17.30 - 18.30 Post Punk + Synthwave DJ Set (Aggeliki Piligkou)
- 19.00 - 20.30 ChatGPT Hacks (Charoula Tsoutsia & Giotis Dimotikalis)
Tricks for getting more out of ChatGPT.
Slides (PDF, 5.7 MB)
