HENRY B. GONZALEZ CONVENTION CENTER

BILLINGTON CYBERSECURITY PRESENTS • INAUGURAL YEAR

Billington Critical Infrastructure CyberSecurity Summit

The risks have always been connected. Now, so are the stakeholders.

November 17–18, 2026 • Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center • San Antonio, Texas

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Complimentary registration for government & military attendees at every tier — verified .gov, .mil, or .us email.

THE FIRST NATIONAL CONVENING OF ITS KIND

The Billington Critical Infrastructure CyberSecurity Summit is the first national convening to unite all four lifeline sectors — energy, communications, transportation, and water — with every stakeholder in their defense: owner-operators, OT practitioners, state and local leaders, and federal partners, in one room.

Energy powers water. Communications carry control. Transportation moves fuel. And public safety, national security, the economy and countless government missions rely on them all. The four lifeline sectors have never operated independently — and the threat landscape now proves it daily. Yet the professional communities defending them were built sector by sector, layer by layer, each convening only with itself. This November, that changes.

Only Billington convenes this community. 17 years as the trusted convener of senior cyber leaders across the public and private sectors.

ENERGY • COMMUNICATIONS • TRANSPORTATION • WATER

A disruption in any one lifeline sector cascades across all four. This summit treats them the way adversaries already do: as one interdependent system.

WHO’S IN THE ROOM

Owner-Operator Security Leaders

The CISOs and security executives accountable for keeping essential services running across energy, communications, transportation, and water.

OT / ICS Practitioners

The engineers and security leads defending the control systems that actually run the infrastructure — content built for the plant floor, not repurposed IT agendas.

State & Local Leaders

The SLTT CIOs and CISOs who keep citizen-facing lifeline services available through disruption.

Federal & Military Partners

The federal officials and military cyber leaders the resilience mission runs through — CISA, FBI, and sector risk management leaders — engaging as partners, in working sessions.

Solutions Providers & Industry Partners

The companies building the technologies the lifeline sectors run on — engaging alongside the operators and agencies they serve, in the sessions and in the exhibit hall.

TWO DAYS BUILT FOR WORKING ACCESS

Cross-sector tabletop exercise (TTX) — work an interdependent-attack scenario alongside peers from all four lifeline sectors. Capacity is limited to 100 participants per session; register early to secure a seat.
Case-study general sessions — expert panels dissect a U.S. water-system attack, supply chain threats to energy ecosystems, and a large-scale attack on U.S. transportation systems.
Lessons learned from the Volt and Salt Typhoon breaches — government and private-sector experts on how adversaries are pre-positioning inside U.S. critical infrastructure.
Lunch roundtables — facilitated working discussions on intelligence sharing, cross-sector threat communication, the talent gap, and exercising toward a stronger defense.
All-attendee reception in the exhibit hall — close Day 1 with every stakeholder group in one place.

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FEATURED FIRESIDE SPEAKERS

Direct working access to the leaders the resilience mission runs through.

Nick Andersen

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Acting Director

Brett Leatherman

FBI
Assistant Director, Cyber Division

Tony Sauerhoff

Texas Department of Information Resources
Executive Director & State CIO for Texas

Vice Admiral (Ret.)
TJ White

Texas Cyber Command
Chief

THE FULL SOLUTIONS LANDSCAPE, IN ONE HALL

The private sector builds the technologies the lifeline sectors run on — and defending critical infrastructure is a shared mission between the operators, the agencies, and the companies producing the solutions they rely on. The exhibit hall puts that solutions landscape in one place, and hosts the all-attendee reception that closes Day 1.

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WHY SAN ANTONIO

San Antonio — home to the 16th Air Force (Air Forces Cyber), NSA Texas, the landmark Texas Cyber Command, and a growing ecosystem of critical infrastructure innovators — provides the ideal backdrop for a national convening: a focused, immersive two days with the stakeholders who share your mission.

EARLY BIRD RATES END SEPTEMBER 10

Government & military: complimentary at every tier. Corporate from $1,395 · Small Business from $595 · Non-Profit/Academic from $295 · Student from $95.

Open to U.S. and allied-nation citizens only; citizenship verified at registration and on-site.

Hero Image: VisitSanAntonio.com, Al Rendon