PROTECTING WHAT SOCIETY CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE
Critical Infrastructure 2027 brings together leaders from critical infrastructure, industry, technology and security to address one of the most pressing challenges of our time: how to keep essential services running when disruption strikes.
As geopolitical tensions intensify and hybrid threats evolve, operational readiness, strategic dependencies and recovery capabilities have become critical leadership priorities. From cyber-physical threats and interconnected infrastructure to supply chain vulnerabilities and crisis recovery, the agenda examines how organisations can prepare for disruption, protect vital systems and strengthen resilience.
Join your peers to challenge assumptions, strengthen strategic readiness and shape the future of critical infrastructure security..
Three Pillars of Critical Infrastructure Resilience
Readiness Under Pressure
How critical organisations operate through disruption, ambiguity and hybrid interference.
The Infrastructure Behind the Infrastructure
Understanding the dependencies between energy, telecom, data, space, logistics and supply chains.
Recovery & Strategic Resilience
How essential services are restored, prioritised and rebuilt when prevention fails.
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Thursday 13.5.
We open the doors – Welcome!
Opening Remarks by Our Moderators
Jesse Kamras Journalist, News Anchor, MTVadd_2 closeOPENING KEYNOTESecurity 2027: The World We Are Operating In
- How geopolitics, hybrid threats and technology are reshaping the security environment
- Why economic security and infrastructure resilience have become national security issues
- How strategic dependencies are changing the risk landscape
- What leaders need to understand about the convergence of civilian and military security
- The assumptions about stability and continuity that need to be reconsidered for 2028
add_2 closeWhen Cyber Becomes Physical: Protecting the Systems That Keep Society Running
- Where cyber and physical infrastructure risks now converge
- OT, IoT and connected operational environments as one attack surface
- What happens when digital disruption becomes operational disruption
- Detecting anomalous behaviour before essential services are affected
- What infrastructure executives should demand from security technology
Networking Break
add_2 closeKEYNOTE72 Hours Without Normal Operations: Are We Actually Ready?
- What the first hours of a major disruption actually demand from leadership
- Operating when information is incomplete and the cause remains unclear
- Which dependencies become critical faster than expected
- How authority, prioritisation and decision-making need to work under pressure
- The difference between having continuity plans and having operational readiness
add_2 closeThe Infrastructure Behind the Infrastructure
- Mapping dependencies that sit outside organisational control
- Energy, telecom, cloud, data centres, logistics and satellite services as one system
- Where efficiency and concentration have quietly created fragility
- Identifying single points of systemic failure
- Building redundancy without trying to duplicate everything
Lunch & Networking
add_2 closeKEYNOTEWhen Position Can No Longer Be Trusted: Operating in a GNSS-Denied World
- What GNSS interference means for maritime operations, aviation, logistics and critical infrastructure
- Why positioning, navigation and timing are strategic dependencies
- How organisations operate when satellite-based information becomes unreliable
- Alternative technologies, redundancy and situational awareness
- Why space resilience is no longer only a defence issue
add_2 closeThe Things We Cannot Replace: Securing Critical Supply Chains
- Identifying genuinely irreplaceable technologies and components
- Supplier concentration and geopolitical dependencies
- Spare parts, electronics, telecom equipment and specialised industrial systems
- How much redundancy is economically realistic
- Turning supply-chain visibility into operational preparedness
Networking Break
add_2 closeKEYNOTEAfter the Shock: How Do We Actually Recover?
- Moving from emergency response to restoration
- Who and what gets restored first?
- Managing scarcity when not every service can be recovered simultaneously
- Coordination between infrastructure operators, authorities and government
- What real incidents teach us about recovery speed
add_2 closeCLOSING KEYNOTE2030: The Security Architecture We Need to Build Now
- What Europe must be able to protect, produce and operate independently
- Building readiness across defence, industry and critical infrastructure
- Which strategic dependencies need to be reduced
- How technology, industrial capacity and public-private cooperation come together
- The leadership decisions that cannot wait until the next crisis
Closing Summary by Our Moderators
Jesse Kamras Journalist, News Anchor, MTV
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