Name
Mind Hacking Live: How Social Engineers Use Tech to Exploit Your Humanity
Date & Time
Thursday, May 21, 2026, 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Lin Clark
Description

This isn’t your typical cybersecurity talk—it’s a full-sensory performance that feels more like a Las Vegas show than a keynote. Mind Hacking Live blends psychological manipulation, social engineering, and stagecraft into a high-voltage demonstration of how your trust can be hacked in real time. It’s psychological illusion meets cyber intrusion. Imagine if performers like David Blaine and Derren Brown teamed up with Edward Snowden and Kevin Mitnick—then turned it into a hands-on experience about hacking your brain. Expect to be tricked, persuaded, and manipulated—in real time. Using technological sleight of hand, Lin Clark will demonstrate how modern attackers don’t just hack machines—they hack humans. They hack you. Your mind. Your habits. Your assumptions. Your fears. Your desires. Everything. What looks like telepathy is really telemetry. What feels like precognition is just data. Every “magic” moment is based on a real-world tactic used in cybercrime, fraud, or nation-state disinformation. By the time the lights come up, you’ll see the world differently—and trust (everything you believe) a whole lot less.

Location Name
General Session Room Hall 2
Full Address
Palmer Events Center
900 Barton Springs Rd
Austin, TX 78704
United States
Session Type
Breakout