Barcelona Cybersecurity Congress 2026

Three days of cybersecurity at Fira Gran Via, Hall 2, running alongside Smart City Expo week and pitched squarely at security leadership rather than at the research community.

The tracks are AI and ML, zero trust, cloud and edge, IoT and 5G, quantum security, supply chain security, governance and policy, resilience and incident response, emerging threats, and privacy and ethics. Speakers announced include Marcos Gomez, CISO and Deputy Director of Corporate Security, Connie McIntosh, Head of Security, Tim Brown, partner and CISO in residence, Sounil Yu, Pekka Jokinen and Arvin Bansal. There are separate planned agendas for CISOs and security leaders, for IT and infrastructure, and for compliance and data protection, plus a C-level programme, ISC2 credits, the CISO Leadership Awards and a startup pavilion.

Why go: the governance and board-facing half of security, which community conferences cover thinly. Best for CISOs, security architects and compliance leads; practitioners may get more out of BSides Barcelona on 30 October.