Event: ISACA Europe Conference 2026
Dates: 7-9 October 2026
Location: Munich, Germany (in person and virtual)
Host: ISACA
Registration: Open now; early-bird pricing until 28 August 2026
ISACA brings more than 50 international speakers to Munich this October for a three-day programme built around a single problem: enterprises are deploying artificial intelligence faster than they can govern it. The conference targets audit, risk, security, privacy and compliance professionals who are now expected to answer for AI systems their organisations adopted without a policy framework in place.
Why This Year
The timing tracks a wave of European regulation landing more or less simultaneously. Organisations are preparing for the EU AI Act while also absorbing NIS2, DORA and the Cyber Resilience Act, each of which pushes on governance, operational resilience and reporting obligations from a different direction.
Germany makes the scale concrete. Official government estimates tied to the country’s NIS2 implementation put roughly 29,500 entities inside the expanded cybersecurity perimeter — a large step up in the number of German organisations facing stricter security, reporting and oversight duties.
The governance gap is equally measurable. ISACA’s 2026 AI Pulse Poll found 92% of organisations already using AI somewhere in the business, but only 42% with a formal, comprehensive AI policy. Chris Dimitriadis, ISACA’s Chief Global Strategy Officer, frames the question facing enterprises as no longer whether to adopt AI but how to govern it — a shift that puts practical frameworks and shared experience ahead of adoption evangelism.
Keynotes
Henry Ajder opens the conference. Ajder works on generative AI, deepfakes and synthetic media, and advises the World Economic Forum, Meta, Adobe, the European Commission, the UK Government and the OECD. His session covers preparing organisations for the next wave of AI capability without losing trust and control.
Monica Verma, a former CISO and founder of Cyber Foyer and Monica Talks Cyber, delivers the second keynote on cyber resilience, security leadership, talent development and building trusted organisations in AI-driven environments.
Programme
More than 40 sessions cover AI governance and agentic AI, AI-driven cyber threats, cloud security assurance, digital sovereignty, privacy, GRC, operational resilience, and cyber risk across an AI- and quantum-enabled threat landscape. Named sessions include “AI Governance Grows Up: Regulation, Risk and Agentic AI,” “AI-Driven Cloud Security Assurance,” “How to Build a People-Centric Defense for AI-Driven Attacks,” and “Understanding Cyber Risk in an AI- and Quantum-Saturated Threat Landscape.”
Two pre-conference workshops run ahead of the main programme: exam preparation for the Advanced in AI Risk (AAIR) certification, and a practical workshop on building an enterprise privacy programme aimed at security, risk, governance and audit leaders.
ISACA will also showcase its three advanced AI credentials — Advanced in AI Audit (AAIA), Advanced in AI Risk (AAIR) and Advanced in AI Security Management (AAISM) — all aimed at practitioners who need to audit, risk-assess or secure AI systems rather than build them.
Attendance and Credits
Attendees can earn up to 32 continuing professional education credits. The event runs in person in Munich with a virtual general session package for remote participants. Full agenda and registration are at isaca.org.
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