The ECSO CISO Meetup 2026 - Berlin

1 – 2 Oct 2026 | Berlin, Germany

Thursday, 1 October 2026 | 15:00 - 16:00

Exclusive Diamond Sponsor Workshop: Permanently Imminent: How to Read the Evidence on AI-Enabled Attacks

Location:Side Room 1

The market is saturated with AI security messaging, from vendors announcing that everything has changed to researchers arguing that almost nothing has. Both cite evidence. A security leader still has to decide which claims deserve a budget line. Meanwhile, the AI-enabled attack has been permanently imminent for three years - always next quarter, always the next model release.

This is a working session, not a presentation. We poll the room on three real headlines, then build a checklist from what they get wrong: what is the denominator, was the environment defended, was there a control arm, is the number measured or estimated.

Co-presented by a researcher from European academia with two decades in applied AI, who writes the kind of report this session interrogates, and a technical marketing director who publishes that research and briefs the press - and watches accurate findings become inaccurate headlines.

You leave with the checklist, and a method for the next report that lands on your desk. Including ours.

Hosted by

2 speakers

  • Technical Solutions Director

    Bitdefender

  • VP of Threat Research

    Bitdefender