Europe’s power and energy sector—spanning oil, gas, and rapidly expanding renewables—remains fundamental to all critical infrastructure. In today’s security climate, it faces escalating cyber and hybrid threats targeting IT, OT, and SCADA systems, alongside intensifying climate-driven disruptions. Ensuring resilience means anticipating attacks, reducing the impact of outages, and safeguarding interconnected grids. Strengthening Europe’s energy networks […]

Agahro Ono Chief Executive Officer
ASCANO Integrated Services

Antoine d’Haussy VP OT Security Practice Lead International
Fortinet, Switzerland

Charles Esser Secretary General
E.DSO (The European Association of Distribution System Operators)

Prof Martin Hromada Vice Dean for International Relations / Researcher
Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic

Effective crisis communications are an essential part of organisational resilience and crisis management, as recognised by the Critical Entities Resilience (CER) Directive. In this interactive workshop, the Crisis Communications Network Europe (CCNE) will explore how communications support the response to incidents affecting critical infrastructure, from tactical communications in the field to strategic engagement with stakeholders, […]

Critical infrastructure faces increasingly complex and evolving threats. Cyberattacks are growing more sophisticated, terrorism remains a concern, and climate change is making natural disasters more unpredictable. New dangers such as drone attacks, misuse of artificial intelligence, evolving hybrid threats and state sponsored attacks further complicate the landscape. A key challenge is how to effectively identify, […]

Antonella Calo Data Scientist and Consultant
European Commission the Joint Research Centre

Emerging & Evolving Terrorist Threats against CI

Lina Kolesnikova Director of European & International Affairs/Fellow
ICPEM, Belgium

Co-hosted by the Confederation of European Security Services (CoESS), this workshop will examine the growing role of private security in safeguarding critical infrastructure. The session will explore how security providers are supporting resilience and preparedness objectives across Europe, strengthening public-private partnerships and helping organisations anticipate, prevent, respond to and recover from an increasingly complex threat […]

Moderator

Catherine Piana Director General
CoESS Confederation of European Security Services, Belgium

Modern critical infrastructure is deeply interconnected, making it increasingly vulnerable to cascading failures. Disruptions in one sector—such as energy, transport, or communications—can rapidly propagate across systems, amplifying impacts and complicating response efforts. Understanding these interdependencies is essential for effective protection and resilience. This session explores how to identify systemic risks, model cascading effects, and strengthen […]

Know Your Adversary: Sharing Threat Actor Insights to Secure Telecom Infrastructure

Andrija Visic Senior Community & Programme Manager / ISAC Coordinator
ETIS – European Telecommunications ISAC

Understanding Systemic Risk in Critical Infrastructures: A Semantic Approach to Cross-Sector Resilience

Antonella Calo Data Scientist and Consultant
European Commission the Joint Research Centre

From Compliance to Consequence: Engineering “Even If” Resilience for Europe’s Energy Systems

Ollie Gagnon Chief Homeland Security Advisor & Executive Director INL Resilience Optimization Center
Idaho National Laboratory (INL), USA

Resilient Critical Infrastructure Governance in Climate-Induced Urban Crises: Lessons from Dubai’s Adaptive Model

Prof. Ehab Elhegawy Professor of Security Sciences & Head, Department of Security Crisis Management
Dubai Police Academy, UAE

Cybersecurity for critical infrastructure has shifted from prevention alone to a broader focus on resilience. While strong defenses, threat detection, and response remain essential, today’s threat landscape demands the ability to withstand, adapt to, and rapidly recover from cyber incidents. This session explores the nature of increasingly sophisticated and disruptive cyber threats to proactive strategies […]

Dr Victor Vevera General Director
National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, ICI Bucharest

The Human Factor: Cyber Security Culture in European Critical Infrastructure

Laith Shahin Founder & CEO
Secolve, Australia

Mitigating Cybersecurity Risks in Legacy Healthcare Systems: Policy, Technology, and Response Strategies for Critical Infrastructure

Prof. Angela Wells MBA, Technologist, Chief Warrant Office 1 Cyber Reserve and InfraGard Board Member of Louisiana
City University of Seattle Washington, USA

Africa–Europe Cooperation for Critical Infrastructure Resilience Nigeria at the Forefront: Emerging Voices, Rising Together Youth Powering Regional Infrastructure Protection Hosted by: African Young People Support Centre (AYPSC) & African Smart Cities Innovation Foundation. For further details click here >>

Aigbe Osagie Daniel Systems Security Engineer
Major Solar

How aviation, immigration, and tourism infrastructure across Africa intersect with critical infrastructure protection

Omotola James Travel, Tourism & Immigration Advisory Specialist

Paul Igbinere Executive Director
African Young People Support Centre

Lessons learned from Ukraine – the most advanced real-world laboratory for modern critical infrastructure resilience under sustained attack – where the country is witnessing constant coordinated attacks. Listen to Ukraine’s experts tasked with keeping the lights on and goods moving. It’s the only large-scale, prolonged test of critical infrastructure under continuous cyberattacks, physical strikes (from […]

Dr Oleksandr Sukhodolia Head of Critical Infrastructure Protection, Energy and Ecological Security Department
National Institute for Strategic Studies, Ukraine

The transport (road, rail, air) and logistics sector is a cornerstone of critical infrastructure, enabling the movement of people, goods, and essential services. Increasing interconnectivity, digitalisation, and reliance on complex supply chains expose it to cyber, physical and hybrid threats. This session examines strategies to enhance resilience, protect key assets, and ensure continuity, focusing on […]

Developing Governance To Manage Security In Infrastructure Design Projects At Airports

Sarah Prew CSyP, AVSEC PM, MSYi, MRAeS Senior Aviation Security Consultant
Arup UK

How Information Sharing can act as a Multiplier in Resilience Planning Information sharing acts as a force multiplier in resilience planning by enabling organisations to identify emerging threats, learn from real-world incidents, and coordinate effective responses. In workshops run by Information Sharing & Analysis Centres (ISACs), participants exchange trusted intelligence, best practices, vulnerabilities, and lessons […]

Critical infrastructure resilience is increasingly constrained by workforce shortages and fragmented capabilities across sectors and borders. This session explores how skills gaps in cybersecurity, OT, and crisis management limit preparedness, and siloed operations hinder effective response. It will examine the urgent need for cross-sector coordination, improved information sharing, and aligned capability development. Attendees will gain […]

A Strategic Framework for National and Critical Infrastructure Resilience in the Hybrid Threats Era

Avi Bacher CEO
IsraTeam 98 Ltd

Pressuring the chain: tabletop exercises for stress-testing the Gold–Silver–Bronze command

Kim Covent Police Advisor
Ghent Local Police, Belgium

Transforming Landscapes: How UK Counter Terrorism Policing is Supporting Aviation Security

Will Hunt National Aviation Security Lead
National Aviation & Maritime Security Unit - NaCTSO, UK

Maritime and subsea infrastructure now face an intensified threat landscape, from hybrid and cyber attacks on ports, vessels, and undersea cables to rising geopolitical tensions and sabotage risks. As digitalisation expands vulnerabilities, protecting this sector requires integrated resilience strategies, including integrating physical security, cybersecurity, and operational continuity, alongside stronger international collaboration to protect global trade […]

Resilience of the Maritime Critical Infrastructure in Belgium

Eric Rummens Advisor
Service Public Federal Mobilité et transport (DG Navigation), Belgium

SIDMETICS: The Mediterranean Hub for the Protection of Submarine Critical Infrastructures

Francisco De Andres Perez CEO
CISO.es, Spain

Underwater Threats – CIP Water Frontier Expansion

Simon Goldsworthy Global Business Development Manager – Intruder Detection Systems
Forcys, UK

The latest technologies for detecting and predicting threats to critical national infrastructure span ground, land, underwater, space-based, and cyber domains, supported by advanced sensors and access control systems. Artificial intelligence increasingly enhances these capabilities by improving speed, accuracy, and cross-domain analysis of threat signals. New, developing systems and solutions enable earlier detection, better prediction, and […]

Cryptographic Keys in Access Control Systems for Critical Infrastructure

Harish Rasiah Business Development Manager
LEGIC Identsystems, Switzerland

Developing effective resilience strategies across the critical infrastructure community requires disciplined information sharing, strong preparedness, and robust risk mitigation and management. This session explores how organisations can identify, assess, and prioritise risks in a structured way, while reducing vulnerabilities and strengthening overall system resilience. It also examines how to embed continuity planning for potential disruptions […]

Insider Risk Management in Critical Infrastructure: A Path to Resilience and Compliance

Dennis Bijker CEO
Signpost Six, Netherlands

Get the risk wrong, get the response wrong

Dr Chris Needham-Bennett MD Needhams1834 Ltd and Visiting Professor University College London
Needhams 1834 Ltd, UK

The development of an effective PNT test framework to measure resilience in critical infrastructure

Eleftherios Drosinos Technical Solutions Architect
Spirent (now part of Keysight)

Insider Risk Management in Critical Infrastructure: A Path to Resilience and Compliance

Isa Steijn Senior Adviser & Thought Leadership Lead
Signpost Six, Netherlands

How Europe’s consulting engineering community supports infrastructure reduce risk across the infrastructure lifecycle

Sue Arundale Director General
EFCA

Resilience Stress Testing as a Critical Element of Implementation of the European Directive on Critical Entity Resilience (CER Directive) The European Directive on Critical Entity Resilience (CER Directive), has entered into force in 2023, became mandatory in the EU in 2024, and, by now, widely adopted as national law and included in national strategies for […]

Aleksandar Jovanovic CEO
Steinbeis EU-VRi (European Risk & Resilience Institute)

Dr Igor Linkov President
International Association for Resilience Analysis (IARA)

Habtamu Abie Chief Research Scientist
Norwegian Computing Center

Drones present a growing threat to critical infrastructure due to their accessibility, manoeuvrability, and payload capabilities, enabling surveillance, disruption, or delivery of explosives. However, they can also support infrastructure protection through monitoring and response applications. This session examines the evolving drone threat landscape, available countermeasures, and the dual-use role of drones in both challenging and […]

The Convergence of Physical and Aerial Threats: Protecting Critical Infrastructure from Drone-Delivered Attacks

Hollice Stone President
Stone Security Engineering, USA

Beyond the Drone: Practical Requirements for Persistent UAS Operations in Critical Infrastructure Protection

Ievgen Romanov Founder & CEO
SkyDock, Denmark

Adapting to Drone Threats: Scalable Non-Disruptive, Non-Kinetic Counter-UAS Strategies for Critical Infrastructure Protection

Marco Harder Sales Director, Benelux & the Nordics
D-Fend Solutions, Netherlands

Clogged Skies, Clogged Feeds: Drone Sightings and the Weaponisation of Information Disorder

Natasia Kalajdziovski Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst
SecAlliance, UK

AI plays a dual role in critical infrastructure cybersecurity, acting as both a defensive tool and a potential threat. It strengthens protection by improving threat detection, automating responses, and predicting attacks through advanced data analysis and anomaly detection. However, malicious actors can also exploit AI to develop more sophisticated attacks. We investigate how effective defence […]

Alexandru Georgescu Scientific Researcher
National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, ICI Bucharest

Safety by Design: AI-Assisted Threat Detection That Protects Industrial Operations

Ali Mohammed Senior OT Cybersecurity Engineer
Resilience, Saudi Arabia

Isolated AI Systems and Secure Orchestration Strategies for Strengthening Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience

Dr Roger Sanz Gonzalez R&D International Projects Manager
UI1.ES University, Spain

In this panel discussion, we will examine Europe’s current preparedness for systemic infrastructure disruption, exploring the persistent resilience gaps across Member States and critical entities, and its fragmented capabilities against the evolving hybrid threat landscape. In this engaging discussion, we will assess how current NIS2 and CER implementation is addressing these challenges, where governments and […]

Final Thoughts and Conference Closing Remarks

John Donlon QPM, FSyI Chairman
International Association of CIP Professionals