# Call for Failures @ hack.lu 2025 — Because We All Break Things

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## 💥 Call for Failures @ hack.lu 2025 — Because We All Break Things

At **hack.lu** , we love stories of brilliance — new tools, cutting-edge exploits, and clever defenses.

But let’s be honest: **the best lessons often come from things that went spectacularly wrong.**

That’s why we’re bringing back the **Call for Failures (CFF)** — a **mini-conference inside hack.lu** dedicated entirely to sharing the things that _didn’t_ go as planned.

🗓 **When:** Wednesday, 22 October 2025  
🕖 **Time:** 19:00 – 21:00  
📍 **Where:** At hack.lu, Luxembourg

### What is the Call for Failures?

CFF is your chance to take the stage for **10 minutes** and talk about a failure — yours or someone else’s — that taught you something meaningful in cybersecurity.  
No buzzwords, no corporate slides, no blame games — just **honest stories, good humor, and lessons learned**.

Maybe you:

- Deployed a “quick” fix that took down your entire network.
- Spent months building a tool that no one used.
- Misconfigured a system in a way that taught you more than any training ever could.
- Tried to improve security… and made it worse.

If it broke, crashed, backfired, or blew up (figuratively, please), **we want to hear about it.**

### Why share your failure?

Because every broken system, every bad idea, and every facepalm moment makes our community stronger.  
At hack.lu, we believe in **learning by doing — and sometimes by failing spectacularly**.  
Your story could help someone else avoid the same mistake, or maybe even inspire a better way forward.

### Format

- **10-minute talk** (short, raw, and real)
- No slides required — but they’re welcome
- Can be **technical, organizational, or personal**
- Anonymous submissions are possible (we know how it is…)

### Submit your story

Head to 👉 [https://2025.hack.lu/cff/](https://2025.hack.lu/cff/)

[Submissions are open](https://pretalx.com/hack-lu-2025/cfp?access_code=QWZ8QYN9T7BWQGRVGPTHV8SZXLS3DP7W) — we’re looking for honest, funny, painful, and insightful talks from across the security spectrum or related.

**Remember:** failure isn’t the opposite of success — it’s the path that leads to it.  
So come share yours. Let’s laugh, cringe, and learn together at **hack.lu 2025**.

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