Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit -UK 2026

artner Security & Risk Management Summit UK 2026: what to expect

The EMEA edition of Gartner’s flagship security event brings CISOs and security leaders together for research-backed keynotes, analyst one-on-ones, and peer roundtables, running alongside the Gartner Xpo show floor in London.

Key takeaways

• Gartner’s Security & Risk Management Summit UK 2026 is a major EMEA CISO event on September 22–24.
• Pricing is executive-tier (often £4,000+); confirm with Gartner.
• The audience is CISOs and security/risk leaders, not hands-on engineers.
• NIS2, DORA, AI governance, and supply chain risk headline the agenda.
• Echo delivers the auditable, SBOM-backed supply chain control regulators now expect.

Dates, location, and pricing

• Dates: September 22–24, 2026
• Location: London, UK
• Pricing: Estimate — confirm on official site. Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit passes are executive-tier and often exceed £4,000 / $4,000+, with public-sector and team rates on request. Early-bird windows typically close a few months out.

Who should attend

CISOs, security and risk leaders, and their direct reports responsible for strategy, governance, and regulatory compliance across EMEA.

Themes to watch

• AI governance and agentic AI risk, the dominant theme across the entire 2026 Gartner security calendar.
• Post-quantum cryptography readiness, as regulators start setting concrete migration timelines.
• Operational resilience under regulations like NIS2 and DORA.
• Supply chain and third-party risk, including the software and container images running in production.

Networking and after-parties

Peer roundtables, CISO Circle sessions (for qualified security leaders), analyst one-on-ones, and evening receptions on the Xpo floor make this as much a peer-networking event as an educational one.

Where container security fits into the conversation

Supply chain risk and regulatory resilience are exactly where container image security earns a line item in a CISO’s strategy — NIS2 and DORA both push organizations toward demonstrable, auditable control over their software supply chain, and a container image with no SBOM and no provenance record is a hard thing to defend in an audit.

Echo images ship CVE-free, FIPS-validated using a CMVP-validated cryptographic module, and pre-hardened against DISA STIG requirements, with full SBOM transparency in SPDX and CycloneDX formats and signed provenance via cosign and sigstore — the kind of documented control regulators are starting to expect by default. It’s the same model behind Varonis’s FedRAMP authorization using Echo, where the security team described the process as a smooth ride.

FAQ

When and where is the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit UK 2026? It runs September 22–24, 2026 in London, UK. This is the EMEA edition of Gartner’s flagship security summit, combining research-backed keynotes, private analyst meetings, CISO peer roundtables, and the Gartner Xpo vendor floor over three days for senior security leaders.

How much does the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit cost? Gartner doesn’t publish a fixed public price, but passes are executive-tier and frequently exceed £4,000 / $4,000+, with public-sector and team rates on request. Early-bird pricing usually closes a few months before the event, so confirm current figures directly with Gartner.

Who should attend the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit? It’s designed for CISOs, security and risk leaders, and senior staff responsible for security strategy, governance, and regulatory compliance across EMEA. The agenda is framed for decision-makers building programs and budgets, not for hands-on practitioners seeking deep technical tooling sessions.