Infosecurity Europe has set an expansive tone for its 2026 conference, with organisers using the first keynote announcement to position the June event around leadership, cybercrime intelligence, cloud risk, startup innovation, and cryptographic transition rather than a narrower stream of product-led security talks.
The show returns to ExCeL London from 2 to 4 June, and the initial line-up suggests a programme built around both boardroom pressure and technical change. Cyber entrepreneur Shlomo Kramer is scheduled for the opening day, bringing a founder-and-investor perspective shaped by decades of influence across network security, cloud security, and cyber infrastructure. That appearance also ties neatly into the event’s newer startup focus, with Kramer due to judge the live startup competition as organisers push earlier-stage companies more firmly into the conference mix.
Cynthia Kaiser adds a different edge. Her session on ransomware tactics and the cyber criminal economy points to one of the industry’s most persistent operational problems: attacks are no longer isolated technical incidents, but organised business models with specialist roles, affiliate structures, and increasingly mature extortion playbooks. A conference programme that puts that reality on the main stage is acknowledging how closely security strategy now sits to operational resilience and crisis management.
There is also a stronger technical thread running through the schedule than the headline names alone might suggest. Ron Leizrowice of Wiz is set to tackle the effect of AI on cloud exposure, a subject that has become more urgent as automation compresses the gap between misconfiguration and exploitation. Rik Ferguson’s planned session on post-quantum cryptography points in the same direction, but over a longer horizon: procurement and replacement cycles are now part of the security debate, particularly where cryptography sits deep inside long-lived infrastructure, industrial systems, and regulated environments.
Jason Fox and Maggie Alphonsi bring leadership and performance into the programme, but their inclusion also reflects how cyber events are changing. Skills shortages, burnout, faster incident response demands, and closer board oversight have pushed questions of judgement, culture, and team resilience higher up the agenda. In that sense, the 2026 line-up looks less like an add-on to the exhibition floor and more like an attempt to broaden what a major cyber conference is expected to cover.
Alongside the main conference, Infosecurity Europe is pushing SANS workshops and a dedicated Cyber Startup Programme, with separate access routes for founders, investors, and startup enablers. Registration is already open, and the organisers are clearly trying to make the June show a meeting point for practitioners, buyers, founders, and investors in one place.
Registration for Infosecurity Europe is open and is free until 5th May. After this date, the entry cost to attend will be £49. This includes access to the exhibition show floor and the many theatres where visitors can hear from some of the biggest names in the industry.
