Event organised by the Cyber Security Coalition on 22 September 2026 at La Sucrerie in Wavre Grimbergen.
Strengthening Cyber Resilience Through International Collaboration
Angela Dark, Counsellor and Trade Commissioner – Embassy of Canada to Belgium and Luxembourg
Keynote: The Cyber Renaissance – Reclaiming Human Agency in the Age of AI,
David Shipley, CEO & Field CISO, Beauceron Security
Cybersecurity in Belgium 2026 – Every Link Matters
Presentation of the second national cybersecurity survey by Benny Bogaerts, Partner at KPMG Advisory, Head of Cyber & Digital Risk Consulting KPMG Advisory
The Foundations of Trust - Building Sovereign & Trustworthy Digital Infrastructure
- Invisible Lifelines – Trust, Sovereignty, and Control in Maritime Digital Infrastructure
Arvid Van Essche, Cybersecurity Director – The Naval Group Belgium Panel – Sovereignty by Design – How Architectural Choices Determine Who Is In Control
Moderator: Erik Van Zuuren, Founder Trustcore.EU; Panellists: Professor Bart Preneel, KU Leuven; Renan Choyer, responsable de segment technologique, ANSSI; Philippe Merle, Head of Unit, European Commission
- The Transition to Digital Sovereignty, Kevin de Snayer, VP of IT, Cyber, and EMSEC for Calian Defense and Space
The United Shield - Growing Local Cyber Capability Through Trusted Collaboration
- The Road Ahead To A Fully Post-Quantum Internet, Bas Westerbaan, Principal Research Engineer Cloudflare
- Panel – From Innovation to Capability – Scaling Cybersecurity Entrepreneurship
Moderator: Alex Driesen, CEO Toreon & Chair CMiB Panellists: Major General Pierre Ciparisse, Belgian Defence; Simon Bauwens, Co-founder & CEO Outkept; Professor Wouter Joosen, KU Leuven, Roel Caers, CEO Guardsquare; Isabelle Tennstedt, Partner & Pre-seed Investor Seeder Fund - When Coordination Fails – and When It Holds – Collective Resilience Under Long-Term Systemic Pressure, Richard Larose, Cyber Principal for Cyber Partnerships, Strategic Advisor on Bill C-8, Centre de la Sécurité des Télécommunications Canada – Communications Security Establishment Canada – CCCS
Artificial Intelligence, Reimagined - From Innovation To Trust & Control
- When Reality Can Be Forged – AI, Synthetic Identity, and the Collapse of Digital Trust, Jake Moore, Global Cybersecurity Advisor, ESET
Panel: Who Is Allowed To Decide – Redefining Control In The Age Of Autonomous And Agentic AI: Moderator: Saartje Verbeke, Portfolio Director, Guberna; Panellists: Ingrid De Poorter, Professor Ghent University – Managing Partner DGDM Advocaten; Matthias Feys, CTO & Co-founder ML6; Professor Peggy Valcke, KU Leuven, Executive Director BIPT
- Cyber On Steroids, Game Changer, Or Light At The End Of The Tunnel?, Nuno Rodrigues Carvalho, Head of Sector for Incident and Vulnerability Services, European Union Agency For Cybersecurity (ENISA); Pieter Byttebier, Head of International Relations, Policy, and Coordination, Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium
Cyber Humanism - Putting People Back At The Centre Of Security
- The Cyber Attacker – Putting The Attacker Back Into The Human Equation, Wim Hardyns, Professor of Criminology and Security, Ghent University & University Of Antwerp
Panel – The Citizens As Victims – Putting Victims Back At The Centre of Cybercrime Response – Moderator: Ann Mennens, CyberAware Programme Manager European Commission; Panellists: Monika Kopcheva, Head of Security in the Digital Age, European Commission; Caroline Frère, Head of Department a.i., FCCU Federal Police Belgium; Olaf Jonkers, Head of Risk & Compliance, itsme; Mary Ann Borgers, Administrateur Neniu vzw
- The Security Professional – Putting Practitioners Back At The Centre Of Defence; Stephanie Carvin, Associate Professor of International Relations, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs – Carleton University
Lightning talks
- Sovereign Cloud: The Wake-Up Call We’ve Been Announcing For Years
Laurène Kaya-Dorny, Cyber Security Senior Consultant, Wavestone Belgium - The Sleeper In Your Stack
Nathan Pembe, Senior Application Security Consultant, NVISO Security - Breaking Your Agents Before Attackers Do
Joachim Roelants, Co-founder Enoki - Belgium Rewrote The Rules On Private Investigation – And Forgot To Tell IT
Océane Dieu, Associate in Criminal Law and Human Rights, VS Lawyers
