ETSI’s ETSI Security Conference 2026 is a flagship, annual in-person forum for the global security community to meet face to face and exchange with an experts’ audience on cybersecurity standardisation. The 2026 edition is positioned as the 20th edition and is described as featuring an intensive 4-day programme.
The programme is structured around themes including “Build Security in the AI Era”, covering agentic AI, autonomous threats, and next-gen defence strategies. It also includes “Learn to Secure digital infrastructures”, with emphasis on protecting the full stack using Zero Trust, identity-centric security, and modern product-security practices, and “Prepare for the Quantum Frontier”, focusing on crypto-agility in action, PQC-ready architectures, and “harvest-now, decrypt-later” risk mitigation.
Connectivity and security professionals attend to align security engineering with standards work and to compare real-world lessons across technical and organisational dimensions of digital risk. The conference also highlights “From Human Factors to Systemic Risks”, referencing fraud, scams, social engineering, and past protocol exploits (e.g. SS7), with security leaders sharing what worked and what failed.
ETSI notes participation from government organisations, standards bodies, academia and a wide range of industry sectors. The page also includes a call for contributions for presentations, demonstrations and poster proposals, with a stated deadline of 15 May 2026.