Description

Our critical infrastructure owners and operators understand interdependency. The challenge is determining whether the resilience, redundancy, recovery plans, partnerships, and investments built around those dependencies remain sufficient as the threat environment changes. And none of us can solve this alone.

 Critical infrastructure is largely operated by the private sector, but its resilience is inseparable from federal, state, and local government; emergency management; law enforcement; technology providers; suppliers; and other critical infrastructure sectors. When disruption crosses sectors and jurisdictions, individual continuity plans must become a collective ability to sustain the nation's essential functions. 

Building on our conversations during National Preparedness Month, FITGOV DATA, and CYBERFUTURE, CIP 2026 asks a practical question: 

What do government, industry, and critical infrastructure owners and operators need to build together now to keep America operating when the systems we depend upon are under stress?

Welcoming: 

• Kristina Tanasichuk — CEO & Founder, Government Technology & Services Coalition (GTSC); Executive Editor, Homeland Security Today
• Brian Bonacci — Acting Executive Assistant Director, Emergency Communications, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• Wayne Dumais — Director, Mission Engineering & Standards Division, Science & Technology Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• Donna Dodson — Aspen Institute
• Shawn Whiteside — Vice President of Manufacturing, UFORCE USA
• Mridul Agrawal — Senior Electrical Engineer, Technical Leader, Multipoint Engineering (MEPCE); IEEE
• Patrick “Pat” Manley* — Lead for Quantum Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• Kelly Murray — Co-Founder & Executive Director, Center for Cross-Sector Coordination (CXC)
• Dave Wulf — Co-Founder, President & CEO, Center for Cross-Sector Coordination (CXC)
• Brian Harrell — Chief Security Officer, FirstEnergy; Former Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection, CISA
• Ann Dunkin — Former Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

In Partnership with: