The EnergyPact Foundation intends to further focus its efforts by addressing energy and cyber security, including through the establishment in Vienna of an annual platform of dialogue and international co-operation on the subject. This platform aims to bring together decision makers, political and industry leaders, experts, international organisations and NGO’s.  The inaugural multi-stakeholder conference in Vienna, “Cyberspace, Energy & Development: Protecting Critical Energy Infrastructures”, which will take place on February 16, 2017, will be hosted by the National Defence Academy, co-organised by the EnergyPact Foundation with the Austrian Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defence, the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, the CSP Austrian Cybersecurity Platform and supported by international organizations.

The inaugural multistakeholder conference will be immediately followed on February 17, 2017 by an international business high level panel, dedicated to ceo’s of large corporations «  Digital Security:  Protecting Strategic Business Leadership »  also hosted by the National Defence Academy.

The genesis and predecessor of these conferences was an international dialogue initiated during the first conference on this topic, held on October 10, 2014, at the ITU headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, co-organised by the EnergyPact Foundation and ITU, with the support of IAEA and the World Economic Forum (WEF).