APWG.EU Tech Summit and Researchers Forum 2025
APWG.EU Tech Summit and Researchers Forum 2025:
Advancing Cybercrime Solutions and Global Collaboration
Tech Summit 2025 will feature groundbreaking research on cybercrime investigations, forensic methodologies, and strategies to protect critical infrastructure from cyberattacks and manipulation. The event will highlight advancements in cryptocurrency cybercrime tools and response strategies, explore the multifaceted aspects of fraud prevention—including technical, legal, political, social, and psychological dimensions—and present case studies on emerging cybercrime techniques. Additionally, the Summit will examine the design and evaluation of user interfaces resilient to fraud.
The conference will address pressing challenges in cybersecurity, focusing on both emerging threats and established risks, alongside scalable incident response strategies. Participants will review evolving paradigms and resources tailored for counter-cybercrime management and forensic professionals across private and public sectors. A recurring theme will be fostering international collaboration and partnerships.
Presenters will share case studies from national and regional economies impacted by cybercrime and highlight successes in transnational forensic investigations. Tech Summit 2025 will also explore potential frameworks for cross-border collaboration and examine available resources to bolster cybercrime response and forensic initiatives.
Tech Summit 2025 is scheduled to take place in Cagliari, Sardinia, on June 17 & 18, offering a global platform for innovation and cooperation.
Call For Papers
The APWG.EU Tech Summit and Researcher Forum is a dynamic two-day event focusing on electronic crime, featuring a multidisciplinary program of keynote speeches, interactive panels, and chalk-talk sessions. Its mission is to unite academic researchers, industry professionals, government officials, and law enforcement to exchange ideas, experiences, and best practices for combating cybercrime from a multifaceted perspective.
This year’s program features “The Researchers’ Forum,” a moderated chalk-talk panel for investigators and innovators to discuss the future of cybercrime research. Key questions include: What critical research is needed? What resources are lacking? This session aims to connect visionary ideas with experts possessing the tools, data, and determination to advance the field.
Focus areas for the Forum include:
- Metrics and categorization frameworks
- Data exchange and logistics challenges
- Emerging behavioral questions in cybercrime research
The Researchers’ Forum discussion encourages interaction, dialogue, and interdisciplinary collaborations to shape the next generation of cybercrime research.
Important Dates:
Papers submission: March, 21 2025.
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: April, 18, 2025.
Authors registration: April,25 2024.
Conference data: June 17-18, 2025.
Articles’ topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Electronic crime research and innovation
- Emerging Tools for Cybercrime Detection: AI-driven tools, threat intelligence platforms, and advanced analytics for fighting cybercrime.
- Cryptocurrency and related cybercrime, tools, and responses
- Artificial Intelligence in Cybercrime and its prevention
- Case studies of current attack methods, including phishing, malware, rogue antivirus programs, pharming, crimeware, botnets, and other emerging techniques.
- Privacy and Data Protection: Innovations and challenges in safeguarding personal data in a cybercrime-prone landscape.
- Forensic Analysis and Incident Response: Advances in digital forensics tools and techniques for investigating cybercrime incidents.
- Technical, legal, political, social and psychological aspects of electronic crime and its prevention.
- Malware, botnets, cybercriminal/phishing gangs, or money laundering.
- Cybersecurity in specific markets: financial services, e-commerce, health, energy & supplies.
- Techniques to avoid detection, tracking and take-down; proactive ways to counteract such techniques.
- Designing and evaluating user interfaces with fraud and network security in mind.
- Behavioral aspects of cybercrime resilience and susceptibility in ICT users.
- Best practices for detecting and preventing damage to critical internet infrastructure.
- The economics of online crime.
Submission Types
- Regular papers: max 12 pages of practical and/or theoretical content describing advances in the fight against Electronic Crime and any of the topics listed in the CFP.
- Position papers/Session and Panel proposals: max 6 pages with content where authors discuss their opinions on Electronic Crime related fields. Discussion on regulations, policies, draft standards, and similar topics to foster discussion are welcome.
- Short papers/Posters: max 6 pages of practical and/or theoretical content describing unfinished, ongoing research with preliminary (not yet conclusive) results.
- Chalk-talk papers: max 4 pages with research ideas for principal investigators and motivated researchers willing to explore collaborations and looking for synergies in Electronic Crime related fields. Interdisciplinary proposals are particularly welcome. These papers are aimed at fostering collaboration, discussing groundbreaking ideas, and forging lasting research collaborations amongst the attendees.
Authors’ Guidance
- Tech Summit has adopted the CEUR publication format. Submissions should be in English, in PDF format with all fonts embedded, formatted using the CEUR template, found here: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip
- Papers should be prepared in two-column format
- Submissions should be anonymized, excluding author names, affiliations and acknowledgements. Authors’ own work should be referred to in the third person.
- Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and papers should be intelligible without them.
- Authors of accepted papers, sessions, panels or chalk-talks must present them and register at the event.
- Papers will be published on the CEUR-WP
To submit your work use the Tech 2025 HotCRP at https://apwg-tech2025.hotcrp.com/
Program Committee
Co-chairs: Carlos Fragoso (APWG.EU/Maltego) & Marc Rivero (La Salle BCN/Kaspersky)
- Alexandros Zacharis, ENISA
- Brad Wardman, Coinbase / APWG
- Yuejun Guo, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
- University of Cagliari – Davide Maiorca
- University of Cagliari – Giorgio Giacinto
- CNR (National Council of Research) – Luca Caviglione
- Davy Preuveneers – Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven
- Christina Thorpe, Technical University Dublin
- Manel Medina, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
- Francisco Fernández, INCIBE
- Rubén Calleja, INCIBE
- Davide Ariu – Pluribus One
- Daria Catalui, Allianz
- Andrew Van Der Stock – OWASP NL
- Sam Stepanyan – OWASP UK
Venue
Manifattura Tabacchi
viale Regina Margherita 33
09124 Cagliari
Accommodations
Hotel Regina Margherita
Viale Regina Margherita, 44 – 09124 Cagliari (CA) – Sardinia / Italy
Tel. +39 070 670342 – Fax. +39 070 668325
booking@hotelreginamargherita.com
https://www.hotelreginamargherita.com/en
Receive a 10% discount with code APWG
Palazzo Doglio
Vico Logudoro, 09127 Cagliari CA
tel. +39 070 64640
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Via Sardegna, 31 – 09124 Cagliari
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F +39 070 650240
Hotel Villa Fanny
via Don Bosco, 8 & Viale Merello, 43, Cagliari
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