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SecurityWeek’s ICS Cyber Security Conference is the conference where ICS users, ICS vendors, system security providers and government representatives meet to discuss the latest cyber-incidents, analyze their causes and cooperate on solutions.

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The 2026 agenda is currently being finalized and is subject to change. Additional sessions, speakers, workshops, and activities are being added as we build a packed program. Please check back regularly for the latest updates. Session times and details may be adjusted as the agenda is finalized.

Monday, October 5, 2026

Focus Track (Strategy Room)

11:45 AM

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Focus Track (Strategy Room)

Industrial Cybersecurity Launchpad (12PM - 5PM)

12:00 PM

12:00 PM - 12:35 PM
Focus Track (Strategy Room)

Target Rich, Cyber Poor: Raising the OT Security Baseline As Attacks Get Cheaper

12:35 PM

12:35 PM - 1:10 PM
Focus Track (Strategy Room)

Beyond the Buzzwords: A Practical, Risk-Based Approach to What Actually Matters in OT Cybersecurity

1:10 PM

1:10 PM - 1:45 PM
Focus Track (Strategy Room)

From Pumps to PLCs: A Reliability-Centered Approach to Cyber Risk Management

1:45 PM

1:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Focus Track (Strategy Room)

Launchpad Afternoon Break

2:00 PM

2:00 PM - 2:35 PM
Focus Track (Strategy Room)

Cybersecurity Commissioning: The OT Discipline Nobody Owns

2:35 PM

2:35 PM - 3:10 PM
Focus Track (Strategy Room)

Why ICS Cybersecurity Investments Fail in Critical Infrastructure

3:10 PM

3:10 PM - 3:45 PM
Focus Track (Strategy Room)

The Session You Didn't Know Was Open: Remote Access Blind Spots in Critical Infrastructure

3:45 PM

3:45 PM - 3:55 PM
Focus Track (Strategy Room)

Launchpad Afternoon Break

3:55 PM

3:55 PM - 4:30 PM
Focus Track (Strategy Room)

Espionage vs. Sabotage

4:30 PM

4:30 PM - 5:05 PM
Focus Track (Strategy Room)

ICS / OT Stands the Cybersecurity CIA Triad on Its Head

6:00 PM

6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Welcome Reception: Roof Deck at the W Nashville

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Main Stage (Great Room 1-3) Tech Track (Great Room 1) Strategy Track (Great Room 3) Focus Track (Strategy Room) Training Room 1 (Studio 1) Training Room 2 (Studio 2)

8:45 AM

8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
Main Stage (Great Room 1-3)

Welcome Remarks

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 9:35 AM
Main Stage (Great Room 1-3)

25 Years of Warning Signals: From OT to AI

9:35 AM

9:35 AM - 10:10 AM
Main Stage (Great Room 1-3)

OT in the Crosshairs: Protecting Critical Infrastructure in the Age of Frontier AI-Powered Attacks

10:10 AM

10:10 AM - 10:45 AM
Main Stage (Great Room 1-3)

What Mythos Could Mean for OT

10:10 AM - 5:10 PM
Training Room 1 (Studio 1)

Cyber Attack Methods for Cyber-Physical Systems (3-Day Course)

10:10 AM - 5:10 PM
Training Room 2 (Studio 2)

Building AI Agents for ICS/OT Security: From Zero to Orchestrator

10:45 AM

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Main Stage (Great Room 1-3)

Coffee Break

11:00 AM

11:00 AM - 11:35 AM
Main Stage (Great Room 1-3)

CISA Threat Briefing: Lessons From Recent Critical Infrastructure Incidents

11:00 AM - 11:35 AM
Focus Track (Strategy Room)

AI Found It & We Stopped It: Live OT Virtual Patching Demo

11:35 AM

11:35 AM - 12:15 PM
Main Stage (Great Room 1-3)

OT Resilience Under Cyber-Kinetic Attack: Lessons from a Wartime Capital

11:40 AM

11:40 AM - 12:10 PM
Focus Track (Strategy Room)

Solutions Theater (Demo): Secure Remote Access for Operational Technology

12:15 PM

12:15 PM - 1:25 PM
Main Stage (Great Room 1-3)

Lunch

1:30 PM

1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

Panel: Building a SOC That Can Defend Both IT and OT

1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
Strategy Track (Great Room 3)

Panel: From Warning to Action - Defending Critical Infrastructure in Real Time

2:20 PM

2:20 PM - 2:50 PM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

The Cyber-Physical Balance Sheet: Managing OT Cyber Risk, Insurance, and Resilience

2:20 PM - 2:50 PM
Strategy Track (Great Room 3)

The Need for OSINT in OT Security

2:55 PM

2:55 PM - 3:25 PM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

Zero Trust Remote Access for OT: Connecting Vendors and Operators Without Expanding Risk

2:55 PM - 3:25 PM
Strategy Track (Great Room 3)

Cyber Risk Quantification for Critical Infrastructure: Moving Beyond ROI to Risk-Informed Decisions

3:30 PM

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

From Crash to Code Execution: Inside an AI-Assisted PLC Exploit Port

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Strategy Track (Great Room 3)

East - West Detection Engineering in OT Environments

4:00 PM

4:00 PM - 4:35 PM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

Breaking Threat Intel Silo: Cryptographic Threat Hunting in OT Environments

5:00 PM

5:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Main Stage (Great Room 1-3)

Sponsor Hall Happy Hour

5:45 PM

5:45 PM - 8:00 PM
Main Stage (Great Room 1-3)

Critical Impact Awards & Poolside Dinner Reception

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Tech Track (Great Room 1) Strategy Track (Great Room 3) Focus Track (Strategy Room)

8:10 AM

8:10 AM - 8:55 AM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

Breakfast Panel Session: Evolutionary Resilience

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 9:35 AM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

Can This Happen to Us? Using Free Resources to Turn OT Threat Awareness Into Action

9:00 AM - 9:35 AM
Strategy Track (Great Room 3)

Securing Connected OT Across Cloud, Vendors, Robotics, and AI

9:00 AM - 9:35 AM
Focus Track (Strategy Room)

Secure Remote Maintenance for OT: Balancing Uptime, Access, and Protection

9:40 AM

9:40 AM - 10:10 AM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

Testing Your DERs Before an Attacker Does: Fuzzing DNP3, SunSpec, and IEEE 2030.5

9:40 AM - 10:10 AM
Strategy Track (Great Room 3)

Quantifying OT Cyber Risk: Translating Threats Into Financial Exposure for the Board

9:40 AM - 10:10 AM
Focus Track (Strategy Room)

Securing the Connected OT Ecosystem

10:15 AM

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

Your Control Network Is Already Exposed, and Attackers Are Just Waiting

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Strategy Track (Great Room 3)

OT/IOT in CMMC

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Focus Track (Strategy Room)

Solutions Theater(Demo): Seeing Clearly Through Segmentation: Strengthening Industrial Cybersecurity

10:45 AM

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

Morning Break

11:00 AM

11:00 AM - 11:35 AM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

Closing the Control-Layer Visibility Gap

11:00 AM - 11:35 AM
Strategy Track (Great Room 3)

Engineering Out the Adversary: Applying Consequence-Driven Cyber-Informed Engineering (CCE)

11:00 AM - 11:35 AM
Focus Track (Strategy Room)

From Secure Remote Access to Autonomous OT Security: How One Global Manufacturer Got It Right

11:40 AM

11:40 AM - 12:15 PM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

Faster Than You Can Watch: Why Agentic AI Breaks the OT Visibility Model

11:40 AM - 12:15 PM
Strategy Track (Great Room 3)

Why the “C” of AIC for OT/ICS is becoming more critical in the age of industrial modernization

11:40 AM - 12:15 PM
Focus Track (Strategy Room)

Seeing the Unseen: Asset Visibility and Exposure Management Across Cyber-Physical Systems

12:15 PM

12:15 PM - 1:25 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

AI-Accelerated Exploits and the Case for Pre-Disclosure Virtual Patching in OT

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Strategy Track (Great Room 3)

Applying Network Detection and Response in OT without Breaking Operations

2:05 PM

2:05 PM - 2:35 PM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

Frontier vs. Local LLMs for OT Security - Considerations & Use Cases

2:05 PM - 2:35 PM
Strategy Track (Great Room 3)

Practical Implementation of IEC 62443 in Cyber-Physical Systems: Bridging Compliance and Real-World

2:05 PM - 2:35 PM
Focus Track (Strategy Room)

Quantifying OT Cyber Risk in Financial Terms: Executive Action in Critical Energy Infrastructure

2:40 PM

2:40 PM - 3:10 PM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

Photonics for Resilient OT Security

2:40 PM - 3:10 PM
Strategy Track (Great Room 3)

AI-Augmented Attacks on Industrial Control Systems and the Road Ahead

3:15 PM

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

Reconnaissance Denial in OT: Using the Host Identity Protocol to Deny Asset Discovery

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Strategy Track (Great Room 3)

Cyber Attack and Process Safety

3:50 PM

3:50 PM - 4:20 PM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

Ghost in the Grid: Hijacking AI Agents Through Hidden Channels in OT/ICS Networks

3:50 PM - 4:20 PM
Strategy Track (Great Room 3)

Fortifying the Front Lines: Public-Private Readiness for an OT Crisis

4:20 PM

4:20 PM - 4:55 PM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

Turning Industrial Threat Intelligence Into Action

4:20 PM - 4:55 PM
Strategy Track (Great Room 3)

Closing the OT Recovery Gap: Backup and Source Control for Industrial Code

6:00 PM

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

Offsite Party: Friends in Low Places Bar

Thursday, October 8, 2026

Tech Track (Great Room 1) Strategy Track (Great Room 3) Focus Track (Strategy Room)

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

Actioning Threat Intelligence: Tuning Intrusion Detection Systems for Nation State Attacks

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Strategy Track (Great Room 3)

Agentic AI in Critical Infrastructure: Redefining OT Cybersecurity in ICS Environments

9:35 AM

9:35 AM - 10:05 AM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

Why Securing the OT Value Chain Is the Next Critical Challenge for Global Manufacturers

9:35 AM - 10:05 AM
Strategy Track (Great Room 3)

From Presidential Protection to Digital Executive Protection: Convergence of Physical and Digital

9:35 AM - 10:05 AM
Focus Track (Strategy Room)

Solutions Theater (Demo): Using the Right Signals to Protect and Manage OT Network Traffic

10:10 AM

10:10 AM - 10:40 AM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

23 Attacks. 3 Controls. A Decade of OT Breaches and the Pattern Nobody Talks About

10:10 AM - 10:40 AM
Strategy Track (Great Room 3)

Dual-Scope Defense: A Six-Year Municipal IT + OT Engagement and What It Became

10:10 AM - 10:40 AM
Focus Track (Strategy Room)

Building Cyber Resilient OT Networks with 5G

10:40 AM

10:40 AM - 10:55 AM

Morning Break

10:55 AM

10:55 AM - 11:25 AM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

Using AI to Automate Exposure Assessment in OT sites

10:55 AM - 11:25 AM
Strategy Track (Great Room 3)

The Cyber Resilience Act as a Catalyst for OT Cybersecurity Modernization

11:30 AM

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

Designing Zero-Trust Cross-Domain Identity Architectures for Converged IT/OT Active Directory

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Strategy Track (Great Room 3)

AI-Powered Attacks on ICS SBOMs

12:00 PM

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

When Vulnerability Discovery Outpaces Patching: AI-Assisted Research in ICS Protocol Libraries

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Strategy Track (Great Room 3)

From Dwell Time to Dollars: Quantifying the Financial Value of Faster OT Incident Recovery

12:30 PM

12:30 PM - 1:40 PM

Lunch

1:45 PM

1:45 PM - 2:15 PM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

Preparing Your ICS Forensic Toolkit

1:45 PM - 2:15 PM
Strategy Track (Great Room 3)

Joint Industry Project - OT Cybersecurity for Offshore Wind

2:20 PM

2:20 PM - 2:50 PM
Strategy Track (Great Room 3)

Operational Data Meshing for Critical Infrastructure: Advancing OT Detection and Response in ICS Env

2:55 PM

2:55 PM - 3:25 PM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

How Cloud Expansion and AI‑Driven Threats Are Reshaping Cyber Risk in the U.S. Energy Sector

3:25 PM

3:25 PM - 4:10 PM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

Closing Panel: The Final Word - An Open Forum for ICS Defenders