IACIPP Celebrates Successful CIP Week in Europe - 20th-22nd October 2026

The 3rd CIP Week in Europe, organised by the International Association of CIP Professionals, with the 11th Critical Infrastructure Protection & Resilience Europe (CIPRE) conference has successfully concluded in Brussels, bringing together 250 delegates from 36 countries across Europe and beyond for three days of high-level discussions, knowledge sharing and international collaboration on the protection and resilience of critical infrastructure. With over 70 expert speakers, the conference delivered an extensive programme of keynote presentations, panel discussions and specialist sessions and workshops addressing the increasingly complex challenges facing critical infrastructure operators, policymakers, government agencies and security professionals, the conference reinforced its position as a leading European forum for critical infrastructure security, protection and resilience professionals.

Discussions covered a broad range of pressing issues, including the implementation of Europe's Critical Entities Resilience (CER) and NIS2 Directives, cyber-physical security, cross-sector interdependencies, emerging threats, climate-related risks, crisis management and the growing importance of international cooperation in strengthening infrastructure resilience.

A central theme throughout the conference was the need to move beyond individual infrastructure protection towards a more integrated, collaborative approach to resilience, recognising the cascading consequences of disruptions across interconnected essential services and national borders.

Why Attend

Are you up to date on the CER and NIS2 Directives and what they mean to you and your organisation?Attacks on critical infrastructure sites are now a fact of life not simply a potential threat. Power stations, chemical plants, nuclear facilities are routinely targeted by cyber-attacks, the most successful so far being the Ukraine power outage that caused 225,000 customers to lose electricity. Last year an activist landed a UAV carrying small traces of radiation on the roof of the Japanese Premier’s office and this year a UAV collided with a aircraft at London’s Heathrow airport. And of course the terrible attacks on the metro and airport in Brussels. This is just the start of what we can expect to be the repeated targeting of our critical infrastructure. The potential effects not only in terms of loss of life but also in terms of damage to infrastructure, economic disruption and costs, can be enormous.