AI Village @ BSides Albuquerque 2026

AI Village is at Security BSides Albuquerque 2026, September 25–26 at UNM Continuing Education in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Find us in the Village area, Room 123, just to the right of the Auditorium from the main lobby.

We will be running a small, hands-on AI Village setup throughout the event. Stop by, pick a workshop or lab that looks interesting, and explore at your own pace.

What’s running

Model Lab

Step inside a small language model and follow a real computation from input through representations, attention, prediction, loss, gradients, optimization, and parameter updates.

Model Lab starts with a guided learning path, then lets you dig deeper into the underlying values, math, source, and model behavior.

Tokenization

See what an AI model actually receives when you type text.

Experiment with how text is split into tokens, how small changes can produce surprisingly different representations, and why tokenization matters for model behavior, security, and prompt design.

Email Indirect

Explore how untrusted email content can influence an AI-assisted workflow through indirect prompt injection.

This hands-on lab demonstrates why systems that let models consume external content need strong trust boundaries, careful tool access, and defenses against instructions hidden inside otherwise ordinary data.

RAG Poisoning

See what happens when a retrieval-augmented generation system is given manipulated source material.

The lab explores how poisoned knowledge can steer model output and why provenance, retrieval controls, and data trust matter when AI systems depend on external information.

Tabular ML Evasion

Not every AI attack involves an LLM.

Experiment with black-box adversarial machine learning against a tabular model and see how carefully chosen changes to an input can alter a model’s decision.

How it works

These are walk-up, hands-on experiences, not a scheduled classroom-style workshop track.

Come by Room 123 in the Village area, choose an experience, and start exploring. Some activities are designed to be self-guided, with people around the Village available to help when needed.

Find AI Village

Village area, Room 123
UNM Continuing Education
1634 University Blvd NE
Albuquerque, NM 87131

From the main lobby, head along the right side of the Auditorium. Room 123 is the first Village room on the right.

Conference details

Security BSides Albuquerque 2026
September 25–26, 2026
UNM Continuing Education
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Visit the BSides Albuquerque website for registration, the conference schedule, and other event information.