United beyond debate to build European resilience now.

23 September | Full Day Summit | Hilton Berlin

"We tend to think and act within national, sectoral and institutional bubbles, while the challenges we face are fundamentally European and global." 

6

Countries

1000+

Attendees

50+

Sessions

100+

Speakers

AUDIENCE

The European Resilience Summit convenes an invite-only ecosystem of senior practitioners and leaders directly responsible for Europe’s digital, institutional, and industrial future.

18.5%

Public Sector

48.5%

Tech Builders & AI

62.8%

Executive Leadership

11.0%

Critical Infrastructure

Executive Leadership & Strategic Decision-Makers

  • Representation: 62.8% Average Board & C-Level Presence (reaching up to 92% in select summits)

  • Profile: Comprising CEOs, Managing Directors, Group CTOs, CISOs, CROs, and Partners from multinational enterprises and high-growth European scale-ups.

  • Impact: These participants hold direct P&L responsibility, organisational authority, and cross-border strategic vision. They attend ERS to move past theoretical roadmaps, aligning capital, corporate policy, and technology investments with immediate operational execution.

Technology Builders & AI Innovators

  • Representation: 48.5% Average Delegation

  • Profile: Founders, Chief AI Architects, Group CTOs, and Heads of Digital Transformation from major end-user organisations across Europe - including Roku,  Volkswagen, Allianz, Raiffeisenbank International, Airbus, and REWE Group.

  • Impact: They provide the foundational architectures, sovereign cloud capabilities, cybersecurity tools, and AI infrastructure driving Europe’s technological independence. At ERS, they interface directly with security officers and regulators to deploy practical solutions at speed and scale.

Government & Public Sector Leaders

  • Representation: 18.5% Average Delegation

  • Profile: State Secretaries, Federal CDOs, Ambassadors, National Cyber Directors, and Defence Policy Advisors from institutions like Europol, ENISA, the European Parliament, and Ministries of Defence and Interior across European capitals.

  • Impact: They shape the regulatory frameworks, defence postures, and public procurement models required for regional resilience. Their presence ensures that ERS discussions reconcile legislative intent with frontline operational realities, turning policy goals into near-term industrial capacity.


Critical Infrastructure Operators & Risk Leaders

  • Representation: 11.0% Average Delegation

  • Profile: Heads of IT Resilience, Directors of Strategic Anticipation, OT Cybersecurity Consultants, and CISOs from essential service operators across energy grids, financial institutions (such as Rabobank and ABN AMRO), logistics networks (such as Maersk and Schiphol Group), and telecommunications.

  • Impact: Representing the frontline of European operational readiness, these leaders manage the day-to-day exposure of Europe's core infrastructure. They participate to benchmark operational best practices, stress-test dependency models, and build trusted, cross-border response networks that can rely on each other in times of crisis.

A Community Built for
Resilience.

The European Resilience Summit brings together the people shaping the future of Europe's critical infrastructure, digital systems, and cybersecurity. Engineers, policymakers, and business leaders, working side by side across sectors and borders to tackle the challenges facing a fragmented continent. From data centres to defence, from AI infrastructure to public policy, our community exists to connect the people building a stronger, more resilient Europe, together.

Sovereignty Partner

Resilient Leader

Venue and travel

Where and when

Hilton Berlin
Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße 30, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Wed, Sept. 23, 2026
Begin:09:00
End:17:00
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