WHERE EUROPE'S SECURITY LEADERS SET THE AGENDA
BCC26 brings together C-level cybersecurity leaders from across Europe and beyond. Three days of peer exchange on the topics that matter to the boardroom: NIS2, DORA, AI risk, supply chain resilience and the future of digital trust.
Built for leaders who answer to the board
Your peers are here
30% C-level attendees, 77% decision-makers. On stage: CISOs from Fundació “la Caixa”, GB Foods, INCIBE and C&S Wholesale Grocers, plus NATO, EY and Europe’s national cyber agencies.
AI, identity & supply chain
The three risks on every CISO’s list. Addressed by the people managing them.
The regulatory agenda, live
NIS2, DORA, AI Act. Sessions built for leaders who answer to the board.
CORE THEMES OF CYBERSECURITY 2026
Cybersecurity as a strategic business risk
- Cyber risk management
- Reputational risk & trust
- Executive cyber decision-making
- Cyber crisis governance
AI, identity & trust in the digital era
- Digital identity & trust frameworks
- LLM security & governance
- AI-driven fraud & impersonation
Systematic, cyber-physical & supply chain resilience
- Critical infrastructure
- Cyber-physical systems
- Supply chain resilience
SESSIONS BUILT FOR THE BOARDROOM
Supply chain, AI risk & the defence of Europe
- 10:00 · Side event: Cyber resilience in the industrial supply chain — Oscar López, Global CISO, GB Foods, and José Valiente, Director General, Centro de Ciberseguridad Industrial
- 11:20 · Defending against hidden risks of AI tools in the workplace — Seamus Lennon, VP Operations EMEA, ThreatLocker
- 11:55 · Roundtable: Defending Europe in 2026 — national cybersecurity strategies, collaboration & emerging threats
- 15:10 · Stop managing remote access. Start governing vendors — Michael Ferdinandsen, CEO & President, Secomea
- 15:45 · Assume breach, prepare for recovery: why data resilience is mandatory for business survival — Object First
Governing AI, NIS2 & DORA, and digital sovereignty
- 10:05 · Sovereign Cyber AI: Beyond the obvious — Kirti Kumar, Partner & Global CTO Cyber AI Products, EY
- 10:45 · No one is above the line: how NIS2 and DORA made the cybersecurity poverty line everyone’s problem — Rob Harrison, VP, Sophos
- 11:55 · New operating models for governing AI and cybersecurity — Sounil Yu, creator of the Cyber Defense Matrix and the DIE Triad
- 11:55 · Your AI agents can act without you: can you see them, control them and stop them? — Arvin Bansal, CISO, C&S Wholesale Grocers
- 13:05 · Roundtable: Europe’s cyber resilience & sovereignty — leaders of the national cyber agencies of Portugal, Spain (INCIBE), Finland and Austria
- 14:35 · Agentic AI in production: what works and what doesn’t in a real SOC — Erik Alejos, CISO, Fundació “la Caixa”
Decision ownership & what comes next
- 10:45 · Who governs the agents? Identity governance in the age of agentic AI — One Identity
- 11:55 · Beyond cybersecurity: who owns the decision? — Holger Spohn, Principal Engineer (Advanced Cyber Defence Principles), NATO
- 11:55 · Securing the intelligent network: cyber resilience for AI, 5G and 6G — Connie McIntosh, Head of Security, Ericsson
- 15:10 · Quantum cryptography: past, present, future — NTT Data
- 15:45 · Okay… so, what next? Lessons for the AI inflection point — Chris Hosking, Principal AI & Cloud Security Evangelist, SentinelOne
CISO Global Leadership Awards
The jury: Leading names
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President, Women4Cyber
Foundation & CEO, CyEx.hAnnet Mádi-Nátor
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Chief Information Security Officer, die Mobiliar
Daniel Walther
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Chief Information Security Officer
Holger Spohn
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Chief Information Security Officer, ISC2
Jon France
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Director, CCI
José Valiente
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Executive Director of Cybersecurity Architecture , JP Morgan
Katy Anton
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Chief Information Security Officer, Altermaind
Luca Dozio
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Chief Information Security Officer, INCIBE
Marcos Gomez
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Chief Information Security Officer, SV Group
Sascha Maier
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Member of the Board of Directors, ECSO
Krzysztof Szubert
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