Our events
Shaping Cyber Security 2025
The topic of our flagship conference was “Stronger Together: Cyber Capabilities for Vigilant Democracies” and the event took place in June 2025
Workshops
Check out the academic and policy workshops we organized.
Shaping Cybersecurity 2024
The topic of our flagship conferencewas “China’s Cyber Challenge – Strategic Competition in the Digital Age” and the event took place in June 2024.
Events
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Mateusz Łabuz took part in two workshops as part of the Cyber Agora program implemented in cooperation between the German Marshall Fund, EU Cyber Direct and Microsoft. The seminars serve as preparation for the European Cyber Agora conference, which will take place on October 22-23, 2025 at the Microsoft Technology Center in Brussels. Its aim…
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Mateusz Łabuz was a speaker at a seminar organized by Gemeinschaft Katholischer Soldaten, during which the issues of cybersecurity, disinformation and security policy were raised. The participants discussed, among others, the concept of cognitive warfare and contemporary threats related to the development of modern technologies. Much space was devoted to cybersecurity strategies and new vectors…
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Mateusz Łabuz was a speaker at the Friedenswerkstatt “Konflikte und Konfliktbearbeitung im digitalen Raum” organized by the Evangelical Church in Germany. The event was organized to better prepare social institutions in Germany for the challenges related to the development of modern technologies. In his speech, Mateusz talked about cyber threats and information threats, which are…
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Mateusz Łabuz took part in the Promotionskolleg “Sicherheit und Entwicklung im 21. Jahrhundert” seminar organized by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung. He presented a speech on the subject of systemic competition regarding the regulation of artificial intelligence. Mateusz raised numerous issues related to the confronting visions of governance in the field of AI and modern technologies, and…
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The Shaping Cybersecurity Conference 2024, co-organized by the German Federal Foreign Office (AA), the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH) and the Digital Society Institute (DSI) at ESMT Berlin, will bring together experts to discuss the challenges posed by China’s cyber operations and technological ambitions. The disruptive potential of China’s vision for a global Internet, driven by…
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Cyberattacks and information operations accompanying the Russian invasion of Ukraine have underlined the disruptive potential of digital technologies well beyond the immediate conflict zone. Already prior to the war, criminal cyberattacks against critical infrastructure have become major national security threats, heightening geopolitical tensions due to tacit or even active state support. Against the backdrop of…
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For the official opening of the IFSH research focus “International Cybersecurity”, the team around project leader Dr Mischa Hansel organised an event titled “With Zero Trust to Global Trust? International Cybersecurity in Light of the SolarWinds Attack”. More than 50 representatives from science, business, diplomacy, politics and the media took part in the interdisciplinary workshop. After an opening…
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IFSH research focus International Cybersecurity recently held its second interdisciplinary workshop, focusing on which actors and procedures could advance the implementation of the UN norms of responsible state behaviour in cyberspace. The short presentations by Jacqueline Eggenschwiler (University of Oxford), Alexander Klimburg (Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace), Sheetal Kumar (Global Partners Digital) and Mischa Hansel (IFSH) shed…
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The harmful effects of cross-border criminal cyber-attacks were made abundantly clear as hospitals, energy providers, and other infrastructure services were indiscriminately hit or even directly targeted last year. Meanwhile, UN member states embarked on a new negotiation process with the goal of creating a global convention against the criminal misuse of information and communication technology.…
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End of June 2022 the ICS team conducted a workshop in cooperation with the Federal Foreign Office on cyber security within the framework of the dialogue processes on the German National Security Strategy. The hybrid event centred on four thematic blocks, each introduced by short keynote speeches followed by discussions, and was held under Chatham…
Archive
- Webinar: Cyber-Operationen in den Kriegen in der Ukraine und im Gazastreifen
- Webinar at Nottingham Trent University
- Conference in King’s College in London
- Matthias at the symposium of Evangelic Church in Germany
- Our workshop on cybersecurity and cognitive warfare
- Shaping Cybersecurity 2025: „Stronger Together: Cyber Capabilities for vigilant Democracies”
- Webinar with the students of the University of Warsaw
- ICS at the German Forum Security Politics by BAKS
- Keynote speech at the Constitutional Club in New Delhi
- Keynote at the seminar organized by the Western Institute
- Preparations for Cyber Agora
- Keynote at the seminar organized by Gemeinschaft Katholischer Soldaten
- Participation in Friedenswerkstatt “Konflikte und Konfliktbearbeitung im digitalen Raum”
- Participation in Promotionskolleg “Sicherheit und Entwicklung im 21. Jahrhundert” seminar
- Shaping Cyber Security 2024: “China’s Cyber Challenge ” Strategic Competition in the Digital Age
- Shaping Cyber Security 2023: “Cyber in Conflict“ – Supporting Partners & Avoiding Escalation
- Kick-off Workshop on “Zero Trust”
- Workshop on the Implementation of UN Cyber Norms
- Workshop on Promises and Pitfalls of a Global Cybercrime Convention
- Workshop on the Cybersecurity Chapter of the German National Security Strategy
- Workshop on Government Vulnerability Disclosure