A conference on cognitive security, cybersecurity, disinformation, and Europe's future.
Cyber operations, disinformation, cognition, language, culture, and AI no longer act on adjacent fronts. They act on one level: shared reality. Existing academic and policy silos do not match the structure of the problem.
The conference is designed to name the convergence — and make it publicly legible as a distinct European research domain.
Security, influence, culture, and public judgment are no longer separable.
AI compresses time, scale, and plausibility across the information environment.
Europe lacks a stable shared frame for meaning, legitimacy, and trust.
Current architectures remain siloed across policy, cyber, media, and academia.
Speakers, chairs, and invited institutional guests pre-align the room before the public programme begins.
A joint opening plenary, then parallel thematic tracks — from shared reality, language, and culture to cognitive security, cyber, and disinformation.
AI and European coherence, resilience and frontier lessons — and a joint closing plenary: why this is now a distinct European research domain.
Researchers working on shared reality, cognition, language, culture, AI, legitimacy, and public trust.
Cybersecurity experts, cognitive security practitioners, FIMI and disinformation specialists, strategic communications leaders.
European institutional actors, foundations, policy intermediaries, and cross-sector conveners.
A small number of sponsors positioned to underwrite the event and join the follow-on institutional conversation.
Conceptual depth, operational credibility, institutional leverage, and financial capacity — in one room.
A recognisable European domain linking shared reality, cognitive security, cyber, disinformation, language, culture, and AI.
A 6–10 page post-conference document defining the field, its stakes, and the bridge to institutionalisation.
Selected essays — not proceedings — forming the first serious textual body of the field.
From shared reality, language, culture, and AI to cognitive security, cyber, disinformation, and strategic communications. Selected essays will form the curated post-conference volume.
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