- 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
Critical Infrastructure 2027
Program
Thursday 13.5.
We open the doors – Welcome!
Opening Remarks by Our Moderators
Jesse Kamras
Journalist, News Anchor, MTV
OPENING KEYNOTE
Security 2027: The World We Are Operating In
When 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
KEYNOTE
72 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
The 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
KEYNOTE
When 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
The 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
KEYNOTE
After 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
CLOSING KEYNOTE
2030: 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