PUBLIC EVENT
Timings: Conference - 8.00am to 5.30pm, Dinner - 5.30pm to 9.30pm
The Royal Academy of Engineering and the Irish Academy of Engineering will be jointly hosting the 2026 Euro-CASE conference.
The conference's theme, “Engineering resilience: Securing Europe’s critical infrastructure in a changing world”, will stimulate conversations about how engineering thinking can shape Europe’s response to growing risks facing critical infrastructure, considering key challenges, geopolitical tensions and system interdependencies.
The event will be followed by a reception for all attendees and an optional conference dinner. A public exhibition will accompany the conference showcasing examples of regional engineering innovation will be open throughout the day.
Whether you are leading discussions on protecting UK, Irish and European infrastructure, or are interested in embedding cutting edge thinking on resilience into your engineering practice, or just want to deepen your knowledge of how the digital and physical infrastructure that underpins our society can be made more robust and more secure, this conference is for you.
Programme*
A programme overview can be found on the 'More details' tab. A more detailed programme with session breakdowns can be found on our dedicated Euro-CASE 2026 conference pages.
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Venue and accessibility
It is very important to the Royal Academy of Engineering that our events are accessible to all. If you have any accessibility requirements, please contact the Events team more than one week in advance of this event so that necessary arrangements can be made.
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Cancellations
All cancellation requests must be received in writing via email to the events team at [email protected]. A request for cancellation (and refund) will be accepted up to the deadline 5 November 2026. Royal Academy of Engineering must make commitments to suppliers at that time and making changes will result in additional costs or penalties. If the cancellation request is received after the deadline, we cannot issue a refund and would recommend a substitution to attend in your place. A written notification of a substitution will be accepted by email up to the morning of the event.
Diversity monitoring form
The Academy is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and one of our goals is to develop an engineering community fit for the future. To help us achieve this, we would like to collect some basic anonymous data about the event attendees. If you would like to help, please complete the diversity monitoring form by logging into your user account on our website and completing ‘Update my D&I data’.
Programme*
| Time (GMT) | Description |
| 8.15am | Registration and refreshments |
| 9.00am | Welcome addresses |
| Session 1: How prepared are we for the next wave of threats to our critical infrastructure? | |
| 9.30am | Senior speaker from geopolitics sphere, followed by four senior engineering speakers. |
| 11.00am | Break |
| 11.20am | Inspiration 1 |
| Session 2: Cutting it off at the source: what’s being done to prevent threats, and what can we do better? | |
| 11.30am | Panel session with speakers, moderated discussion and audience Q&A |
| 1.00pm | Lunch |
| 2.00pm | Inspiration 2 |
| Session 3: When the worst happens: stories about failure, recovery and renewal | |
| 2.10pm | Panel session with speakers, moderated discussion and audience Q&A |
| 3.30pm | Inspiration 3 |
| Session 4: Rethinking resilience for a challenging world | |
| 4.00pm | Panel session reflecting on how we need to change our thinking on resilience |
| 5.15pm | Final summary, audience voting, introduction to next conference |
| Reception and dinner | |
| 5.30pm | End of conference and moving into reception in exhibition space |
| 6.45pm | Call for dinner (must be pre-booked) |
| 7.00pm | Dinner |
| 9.30pm | End of Reception and dinner |
*subject to change