ICS Cybersecurity Conference 2026

It took place at W Hotel Nashville in Nashville, TN.

The organizer identifies ICS users, ICS vendors, system security providers, and government representatives as attendees.

The event is for operations, control systems, and IT/OT security professionals focused on SCADA, DCS, PLC, and field controller cybersecurity.

It is worth it for OT security architects, control systems engineers and ICS security leads, since the speakers were billed as practitioners from companies such as Grainger, Siemens Energy and Microsoft and the audience focuses on SCADA, DCS and PLC security. Pure IT security staff with no industrial exposure would get less from it, and the series has run since 2002, so it carries an established community of ICS users, vendors and government representatives.

Cybersecurity conferences usually see business casual, with jeans and a collared shirt or sweater common, and suits rare outside executives. Nashville in early October is mild, so a light layer is enough for the hotel venue.