The global conference on digital data forensics and Incident Response DFRWS will take place at FIT BUT in April. Discounted registration is available until 24 February

From 1st to 4th April 2025, the prestigious international conference Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRWS) will be held at the Faculty of Information Technology Brno University of Technology - the event with the longest tradition in the field of global research on digital data forensics and Incident Response. This year, for the first time, it is being held in the Czech Republic and the patronage of the current edition of DFRWS EU 2025 has been taken over by the Rector of the Brno University of Technology Ladislav Janíček, Dean of FIT BUT Petr Hanáček, the Police of the Czech Republic, the Mayor of Brno Markéta Vaňková and the Ministry of Justice. The DFRWS conference annually brings together top experts in the field from academia, state administration, security forces and industry.

The event will begin on Monday, March 31 with the associated Women in Forensics Computing workshop, which brings together women in the field of forensics and participation is free for registrants. The DFRWS EU 2025 conference itself will take place from Tuesday 1 April to Friday 4 April 2025. Speakers include cryptography expert Dr Iwen Coisel from EUROPOL and Colonel Jiří Štochl from the Criminalistics Institute of the Police of the Czech Republic. The rich programme also includes the first ever PhD symposium. Researchers and PhD students of our faculty are involved in the organization of the conference. The main organizers are Ondřej Ryšavý and Radek Hranický.

More information and a detailed programme can be found on the conference website. Until 24 February, it is also possible to redeem the code EarlyBird25, which provides a discount of 100 EUR on registration. Want to present your own research at the conference? It is still possible to participate in the form of a poster, or a short presentation or demo - more here.