2026 Conference on International Cyber Security | 10-11 November 2026
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Day 1

Tuesday 10 November 2026

9:00 – 9:45 Registration | Coffee & tea

9:45 – 10:00 Welcome

10:00 – 11:00 Keynote 1

Moderators:

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Ayşe Zarakol

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Global Disorder in the Age of AI

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee & tea break

11:30 – 13:00 Parallel Sessions

Panel 1

Digital infrastructures in the fray

Moderator:

Julia Carver

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Charles Falajiki

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Friction in the Stack? Digital Infrastructure Alignment and Cyber Norms Diffusion in Nigeria

Digital infrastructures in the fray

Moderator:

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Mae Chow

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Anarchy Framed: Submarine Cables, Threat Configurations, and the Limits of a Digital State of Nature

Digital infrastructures in the fray

Moderator:

Julia Carver

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Enescan Lorci

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Cracking the Silicon Shield: Semiconductors, Cyber Threats, and Taiwan's Realist Dilemma

Panel 2

Information and perceptions in cyberspace

Moderator:

Rogier Creemers

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Callum Harvey

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Mapping Information Asymmetries in Cyber Threat Intelligence – The Role of AI Firms

Information and perceptions in cyberspace

Moderator:

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Jelena Vicic

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Failing Up in Cyberspace: How Botched Cyber Operations Shape Perceptions of State Power

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30 Parallel Sessions

Panel 3

Platforms, power and control

Moderator:

Dennis Broeders

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Arthur Laudrain

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Infrastructure as Alignment: How AI Platform Lock-In Shapes Middle-Ground Cyber Statecraft in Europe and Beyond

Platforms, power and control

Moderator:

Dennis Broeders

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Inés Llamas Delgado

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Aligned by Default: How Big Tech AI Competition is Quietly Reordering the Sovereign Logic of Cyberspace among European Middle Powers.

Platforms, power and control

Moderator:

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Chenghao Sun

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Who Controls Cyber Power? Frontier AI Firms and the Privatization of Strategic Gatekeeping

Panel 4

Legal perspectives on international cybersecurity challenges

Moderator:

Isabella Brunner

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Jan Hrbek

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Negligence of Allies: Cyber Due Diligence in Alliance Structures

Legal perspectives on international cybersecurity challenges

Moderator:

Isabella Brunner

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Anna Jordan

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Sea-level rise and virtual sovereignty: the cybersecurity implications of climate change for the first digital nations

Legal perspectives on international cybersecurity challenges

Moderator:

Isabella Brunner

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Alice Ternacle

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Alliance over Evidence: How Credibility Replaces Law in Cyber Attribution

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee & tea break

16:00 – 17:00 Keynote 2

Moderators:

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Vili Lehdonvirta

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17:00 – 18:30 Drinks/break

18:30 – 21:00 Conference dinner

Day 2

Wednesday 11 November 2026

9:30 – 10:00 Coffee & tea break

10:00 – 12:00 Parallel Sessions

Panel 5

Dangerous dependencies

Moderator:

Cristina Del Real

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Rogier Creemers

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Weaponized Interdependence with Chinese Characteristics: China’s Evolving Economic Warfare Framework

Dangerous dependencies

Moderator:

Cristina Del Real

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Fateme Dashtroo

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Cybersecurity and Asymmetric Dependency: A Global Political Economy Analysis of UAE-US Cooperation, 2020-2026

Dangerous dependencies

Moderator:

Cristina Del Real

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Sanghyun Han

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The Dependent’s Dilemma: The Strategic Logic in Dependence on US GPS

Dangerous dependencies

Moderator:

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Linda van der Horst

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The Data Mining Effect: Weaponized Interdependence in the Age of AI

Panel 6

Sovereign solutions?

Moderator:

Arindrajit Basu

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Dorcus Phanice Olasya

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Exiting the Digital Hobbesian Trap: Evaluating TechPlomacy Connective as Kenya’s Blueprint for a New Digital Social Contract.

Sovereign solutions?

Moderator:

Arindrajit Basu

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Argyri Panezi

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Navigating Between the US and the EU: Canada’s Construction of a Technological Sovereignty Narrative

Sovereign solutions?

Moderator:

Arindrajit Basu

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Jiwei Qian

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The Localization-Dependency Paradox: How Data Localization Mandates Hollow Out Digital Sovereignty in Southeast Asia

Sovereign solutions?

Moderator:

Arindrajit Basu

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Miloš Vukelić

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Residual "digital sovereignty": the case of the Western Balkans as a European semi-periphery

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 – 14:00 Parallel Sessions

Panel 7

The future of UN cyber diplomacy

Moderator:

Lise Andersen

Moderator:

André Barrinha

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Withering cyber diplomacy? Emerging Technologies and the changing dynamics of multilateral governance

The future of UN cyber diplomacy

Moderator:

Moderator:

Onyendidi Olibamoyo

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From Consensus to Fragmentation: Tracing Institutional Evolution in UN Cyber Diplomacy

Panel 8

United we stand? Alliances in cyberspace

Moderator:

Moderator:

Benjamin Bartlett

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Why do states in alliances seek to build cybersecurity partnerships with non-allies?

United we stand? Alliances in cyberspace

Moderator:

Moderator:

Chi-Hsuan Cheng

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Digital Sovereignty in the State of Nature: A Comparative Evaluation of Cyber Resilience Alliances in the UK and Taiwan

14:00 – 14:30 Coffee & tea break

14:30 – 15:30 Keynote 3

Moderators:

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Jon Lindsay

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15:30 – 15:45 Conference closing & presentation best paper award

15:45 – 17:30 Closing drinks