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NKCS Conference 2026

Driven by geopolitical developments and global crises, the European cybersecurity market is growing. At the same time, efforts to achieve greater Digital Sovereignty mean that European providers are playing an increasingly important role. At this conference organised by the National Coordination Centre for Cybersecurity (NKCS), under the motto ‘Cybersecurity: A Market of the Future – A European Market for European Products’, current developments and initiatives relating to the topic will be examined, and ways in which the cybersecurity sector can be supported effectively and in a targeted manner will be discussed. The conference provides a platform to foster synergies, collaboration and knowledge transfer, and to strengthen Europe through targeted investment and innovation. In his presentation ‘A sovereign foundation rather than in-house development: Opening up the public administration’s software supply chain’, Julian Schauder (DevSecOps Lead, ZenDiS) will demonstrate how products, specialist processes and platforms can be integrated into secure supply chains through ZenDiS projects, such as the Secure Government Container Initiative (SGCI), thereby opening up a broad, sovereign market. The SGCI provides hardened open-source container images for public administration – validated and open.

Conference: ‘Conscious Strategic Decisions for Digital Sovereignty’

Digitalisation is now a fundamental prerequisite for society, the economy and the public sector. At the same time, dependence on global platforms and cloud services has increased in an era characterised by cyber threats, stricter regulations and geopolitical tensions. This places new demands on how organisations design and manage their digital infrastructure, and how they make informed decisions that balance risks, dependencies and opportunities. The conference brings together stakeholders from the fields of technology, strategy and security to demonstrate how organisations can strike a balance between control, innovation and efficiency in their digital decision-making – thereby strengthening their long-term scope for action. How realistic is the goal of Digital Sovereignty in Europe? Should Europe focus on building new infrastructure – or on gradually reducing existing dependencies? And what can be done at national level? These key questions will be discussed by Lea Beiermann (Partnership Lead, ZenDiS), Laurent Rojey (Director of Digital Commons at EDIC), Lina Hallmer (CTO, Bonnier News AB) and Rasmus Frey (Chief Executive and Secretary, OS2) in the panel discussion “European infrastructure – can (and should) we build a digitally sovereign Europe?”.

NExTcommunity Meeting: Open Source in Public Administration

Developing Open Source Collaboratively Through Implementation Partnerships

How can we successfully collaborate on the joint (further) development of open source solutions? The Masterportal Implementation Partnership (IP) demonstrates how it can be done: as an alliance of public institutions, its aim is to jointly further develop the open source geoviewer Masterportal. The next community meeting will take a look at collaboration within the partnership: how do the members organise themselves? Which processes enable effective collaboration? How can development be commissioned jointly? With an opening presentation by Jens Nienaber (Product Manager, Dataport), participants will learn about the structures of the IP and discuss which success factors can be applied to other open source projects and collaborations in the public sector. Lea Beiermann (Partnership Lead, ZenDiS) and Janou Feikens (Community Manager, ZenDiS) lead the NExTcommunity together with Nicolai Ridani (DigitalService).