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MTEM 2026

Jul 14-16, 2026 • Fort Meade, MD

MTEM 2026

The Malware Technical Exchange Meeting (MTEM) is an annual classified meeting that brings together practitioners and researchers from government, FFRDCs, academia, and industry. Now in its 17th year, MTEM 2026 - which will be hosted by the Software Engineering Institute and the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland will again include discussions on important problems in malware analysis, reverse engineering, incident response, trends analysis, and research. MTEM will feature highly relevant keynote speakers and presentations on new and novel work, and it will offer opportunities for networking and idea sharing.

Call for Presentation Dates

Abstracts Due: April 10, 2026
Notification of Acceptance: April 27, 2026
Presentation Materials Due: June 15, 2026

Please note: A TS/SCI security clearance will be required to attend MTEM in person and presentations can be classified up to the TS/SCI level.

Submission Details

Submit an abstract of no more than 1,000 words describing your proposed presentation or poster. While a TS/SCI security clearance will be required to attend MTEM in person and presentations can be classified up to the TS/SCI level, if possible, please keep the abstract at or below CUI or U//FOUO, even if the overall presentation or discussion might be classified. If submitting any controlled information (CUI, FOUO, or similar), please send an initial UNCLASSIFIED email to mtem-2026@sei.cmu.edu to request our email encryption certificate or send via an approved mechanism, such as DoD SAFE. Do not send controlled information plaintext.

If you have a classified abstract, please contact us at mtem-2026@sei.cmu.edu for submission instructions. Please specify which network you would use to deliver the abstract (e.g., JWICS). Do not transmit classified information to this email address.

Submissions should include the following information:

  1. Category (30-minute presentation or poster)
  2. Title (please portion mark)
  3. Presenter name(s), organization(s), clearance level(s)
  4. Classification of presentation materials (slides or poster), including SCI compartments (if appliable)
  5. Classification of briefing and discussion
  6. Most applicable topic areas (see “Invited Topics” for specifics; include no more than two)
  7. Abstract (1,000-word maximum, please portion mark)
NOTE: All submissions should be properly portion marked. Presenters are responsible for ensuring that all submissions are cleared for presentation to their respective audiences.

Topic Areas

Reverse Engineering
  • Tools and techniques
  • Malware family analysis or longitudinal studies
  • Analysis of AI systems
  • Obfuscation and evasion techniques

  • Large-scale analysis
  • Novel exploitation and attack techniques
  • Analysis of emerging architecture
Threat Intelligence
  • Threat actor profiles and tradecraft
  • Indicator analytics

  • Case studies and investigations
  • Adversary trends or notable developments
Research and Development
  • Automated malware and software analysis tools
  • Use of AI to aid malware analysis and reverse engineering
  • Security and assurance of automated analysis tools
  • Malware collection and decision support tools