Catalyst Lab
The Biohacking Village Catalyst Lab — accelerating healthcare security innovation through collaboration between researchers, clinicians, and industry.
Led by Jay Radcliffe"The Catalyst Lab is dedicated to not just repairing what's broken, but to innovating and enhancing our raw abilities, specific skills, and overall health and well-being. We are committed to ushering in a new era where we elevate both our world and ourselves to new heights of excellence."
Who We Are
At The Catalyst Lab, we bring together thought leaders, hacktivists, citizen scientists, and manufacturers from the biomedical industry to collaborate on cutting-edge solutions. Our efforts are focused on addressing the healthcare challenges that emerge within the Biohacking Village and beyond.
What We Do
We offer an interactive platform where you can engage with experts from the medical device, citizen science, and cybersecurity communities. Through comprehensive training, hands-on workshops, and innovative solutions design, we cover the full spectrum of the biomedical device and security ecosystem.
2026 Sessions
Embedded & Shredded: Advanced Embedded System Hacking
Instructors: Matt Domanic & Nathan Smith · By SolaSec
Come learn to hack the tech used on your devices. If you build medical devices, this hands-on course shows you how an attacker actually approaches your hardware — so you can find and fix the weaknesses first. Across a few sessions in the Biohacking Village, you'll work through the same techniques used to compromise embedded systems in the wild: firmware extraction and analysis, hardware debugging, and PCB reverse engineering.
What you'll do
- •Visually inspect and document a device to map components, debug interfaces, and attack surfaces
- •Decode board communication protocols with logic analyzers
- •Exfiltrate live data over SPI, JTAG, and SWD, and use chip-off / deadbugging to reach embedded storage
- •Reverse-engineer bare-metal firmware in Ghidra with advanced plugins
- •Probe embedded defenses — encryption, disabled debug interfaces, glitching, and fault injection
- •Chain hardware-level access into higher-level exploits — from physical interfaces all the way up to network-exposed services
Everything's provided — all the gear, a demo target board, and an interactive Jupyter notebook to guide you through each exercise. Just bring yourself and your curiosity; no need to source your own hardware.
Why it matters for manufacturers: Understanding these attack paths firsthand is the fastest way to harden your products, shift security left in your development life cycle, and ship devices that hold up against real-world threats.
Who should attend: Intermediate to experienced engineers, developers, and security professionals working on embedded or connected medical devices. Not suited for those with little to no hacking or development experience.
We Hack Health — Live Podcast
We Hack Health will be on-site hosting their podcast — discussing health, wellness, the gym, and things of that nature.