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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

Training Room 1 (Studio 1)

11:45 AM

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Training Room 1 (Studio 1)

Industrial Cybersecurity Launchpad (12PM - 5PM)

12:00 PM

12:00 PM - 12:35 PM
Training Room 1 (Studio 1)

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

12:35 PM

12:35 PM - 1:10 PM
Training Room 1 (Studio 1)

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

1:10 PM

1:10 PM - 1:45 PM
Training Room 1 (Studio 1)

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

1:45 PM

1:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Training Room 1 (Studio 1)

Launchpad Afternoon Break

2:00 PM

2:00 PM - 2:35 PM
Training Room 1 (Studio 1)

Cybersecurity Commissioning: The OT Discipline Nobody Owns

2:35 PM

2:35 PM - 3:10 PM
Training Room 1 (Studio 1)

Why ICS Cybersecurity Investments Fail in Critical Infrastructure

3:10 PM

3:10 PM - 3:45 PM
Training Room 1 (Studio 1)

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

3:45 PM

3:45 PM - 3:55 PM
Training Room 1 (Studio 1)

Launchpad Afternoon Break

3:55 PM

3:55 PM - 4:30 PM
Training Room 1 (Studio 1)

Espionage vs. Sabotage

4:30 PM

4:30 PM - 5:05 PM
Training Room 1 (Studio 1)

ICS / OT Stands the Cybersecurity CIA Triad on Its Head

6:00 PM

6:00 PM - 8:35 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)

Breaking Threat Intel Silo: Cryptographic Threat Hunting in OT Environments

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

East - West Detection Engineering 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