SCORED 2026 (scope specifically includes reproducible builds)

[David A. Wheeler]

All: The conference on "Software Supply Chain Offensive Research and Ecosystem Defenses" (SCORED '26) will be held on October 6, 2026 (Co-Located with OpenSSF Community Day Europe) in Prague, Czechia.

The submission deadline is *JULY 12, 2026*. We would LOVE to get great submissions!!

This is an academic conference, but one where we hope to connect academia & non-academia. From the call for papers (CFP): "The SCORED conference invites academia, industry, and governmental entities to submit original research papers or security-in-practice talks concerning the security of software supply chains from both technical and policy perspectives. Particular focus areas of interest to the committee in 2026:
* AI supply chain
* Reproducible builds
* Privacy-enhancing technologies in the context of supply chain security
* Datasets and benchmarking (e.g., SBOM datasets, datasets for ML models)"

You'll notice reproducible builds is bullet point #2. We'd love to hear interesting work in that space.

More info here: https://scored.dev/

Full disclosure: I'm one of the organizing chairs, but hopefully people will submit proposals anyway :-).

--- David A. Wheeler