20th-22nd OCTOBER 2026
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM

Sebastian Serwiak

Sebastian Serwiak

  • Policy Officer, Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs
  • European Commission

    Policy Officer at the Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs specialising in the area of Fighting Crime and Terrorism, and Critical Infrastructure Resilience. He holds responsibilities in the innovation and strategic autonomy policy developments. Mr. Serwiak has a long-lasting experience in security research at both national and European dimensions. With a background of almost 20 years of police service, he was involved in the EU Framework Programmes since 2004 and co-shaped the national security research system as Director of the Department of Public Security of the Polish Ministry of Interior, and later as Deputy Director of the National Contact Point for Research Programmes of the EU.

    Sessions

    • Panel Discussion – Systemic Risk and Uneven Resilience: Confronting Europe’s Next Critical Infrastructure Shock

      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 operators are succeeding and falling short, and what must change to influence future frameworks such as NIS3 and CER2, ensuring more consistent, cross-border, and operationally effective resilience across Europe.