Invitation-only salons, executive dinners, and conference-week rooms, run city by city across the country. Off the record, peer-only, no vendors pitching from the front of the room. Everything on this page renders straight from the live calendar: the dates, the venues, the seat counts, the sold-out signs.
Black Hat week, off the floor.
Spago's patio sits at the water's edge of the Bellagio fountains. The listing promises what the conference floor cannot: no panels, no pitches, forty security leaders trading real stories over wood-fired plates and hand-built cocktails.
The soonest room on the calendar, rendered live. Date, venue, and the seat chip come straight from the listing; when it fills, the sold-out sign is real.
Every forward listing, in order. Rows are live: the seat chips, the near-capacity warnings, and the sold-out signs update from the calendar itself.
Invitation only. Approval required.
A Black Hat week institution, sixteen years running, hosted inside the 1923 Prohibition Bar. Alchemy Cyber co-hosts alongside the Soiree's own team. Live piano, close-up magic, guest authors signing books, passed hors d'oeuvres, and a room small enough that approval is required. Twenties attire welcomed, never required. One seat remained when this page last pulled the calendar.
Invitation only. Approval required.
The flagship format, East Bay edition, co-hosted with Keshav Murthy. Cocktails and introductions at 5:30. A guided roundtable on the moment's hardest security questions at 7:00. Dinner and open conversation at 8:00. Chatham House Rule all night: share freely, attribution stays in the room. Built for sitting and aspiring CISOs, deputy CISOs, and senior security and risk leaders across GRC, IAM, CSIRT, and engineering.
Invitation only. Approval required.
The flagship format in the South Bay, co-hosted with Neelima Rustagi. Same spine as every salon: introductions over cocktails, one guided roundtable, dinner with people who hold the same job you do. No sales pitches, no product demos, no forty-slide decks. Bring the problem you cannot post about.
Invitation only. Approval required.
The salon moves to a rooftop. A longer, lighter evening on President's Terrace: same ground rules, open air, a light meal instead of a seated dinner. Sponsored by Sola Security. Chatham House Rule applies, and no vendor deck makes it past the door.
Invitation only. Approval required.
Four stretches of the calendar, exactly as they ran.
Counted from the live calendar, not written by a marketing team. These numbers recompute from the ledger every time the page loads.
July alone ran seven salons in one month across San Jose, Palo Alto, San Francisco twice, Dallas, Austin, and Houston.
The most recent twenty, straight from the calendar, grouped by month. Search it, filter it by city, open any row.
Three formats, one discipline. Every room is invitation-only, approval-gated, and governed by the same rule: the conversation belongs to the people in it.
The flagship. One city, one evening, one table of security leaders. Cocktails, introductions, and icebreakers from 5:30 to 7:00. A guided roundtable on the most pressing security questions of the moment from 7:00 to 8:00. Dinner and open conversation from 8:00 to 9:00.
The ground rules: discussion follows Chatham House Rule, so insights travel and attribution stays in the room. No sales pitches, no product demos, no forty-slide decks. Bring real challenges, war stories, and questions; the more candid, the better the night.
Who sits down: sitting and aspiring CISOs, deputy CISOs, and senior security and risk leaders in GRC, IAM, CSIRT, and engineering. Practitioners who want to learn from peers rather than sit through another webinar.
When the industry gathers, the circuit sets up where the conversations actually happen: off the floor. RSA week ran a sold-out CISO luncheon off Union Square. Identiverse ran a sold-out salon at Hakkasan. Black Hat week put one evening above the Bellagio fountains at Spago and a co-hosted seat at the 16th Annual Black Hat CISO Soiree. Same rules as every room: no booth, no badge scanners, no pitch from the front.
Bring your name to a conference weekCo-hosted dinners and open-air receptions round out the calendar. A Phoenix leadership dinner on navigating the 2026 risk landscape ran co-hosted with Opsin and Fable Security, and sold out. The rooftop format brings the salon outdoors, most recently booked for Palo Alto's President's Terrace. The earliest rooms on the ledger, Cyber Leaders Meetups in Austin and Amsterdam, are where the series started before the salon format took over.
Salon sponsorships run on a simple trade: you bring the expertise, Alchemy brings the audience that signs security budgets. You just scrolled the receipts. Thirteen of the last twenty rooms sold out. Sponsors are named on the listing itself: Sola Security carries the Palo Alto rooftop. The room is real, and it fills without you having to beg for attendance.
More ways into the roomAlchemy curates every seat to the persona you sell to: sitting CISOs, deputies, and the senior leaders who hold budget. You name the target; the invitations go through a network you cannot rent.
Venue, staffing, and hospitality are run for you. Your team shows up to the same door the guests do.
Not a booth at the back. Your leadership joins the conversation for the full evening, under the same rules as everyone else.
Full attendee contact details after the event, for your follow-up, not a badge-scan lottery.
On the event page, in the room, and in promotion across Alchemy's channels before and after the night.
Place your material with the post-event follow-up so the conversation continues in your voice.
Seats are approved, not sold, and the approval is what keeps every room peer-only. If you hold a security seat, request an invitation and the host takes it from there. If you sell to the people in these rooms, the door is sponsorship, and it starts with a conversation, not a contract.
Request a seat at the next salon in your city. Approval keeps the table honest: no pitches, no decks, Chatham House Rule.
Request a seatBring your name to the room. A short call scopes the city, the persona, and the night.
Talk through a sponsorshipThe circuit gets recorded. Watch the conversations on the Alchemy Series.
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