Upcoming Events
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BeSTalks 2025 Budapest
May 2025
EIES will hold a roundtable - Securing Europe’s Supply Chains for Critical Sectors - at the BeSTalks 2025 Budapest Conference, for a discussion on standards, traceability and transparency in critical minerals and strategic technologies
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GLOBSEC Forum
June 2026
EIES will hold a roundtable - Circularity for Security: Defence Critical Material Recycling for Europe - at the GLOBSEC Forum on 12 - 14 June.
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Energy Security Forum
September 2025
Building on the success of EIES’ inaugural high-level event, ‘Implementing a Whole-System European Energy and Supply Chain Security Strategy’ on July 3rd, 2024, EIES will host the Energy Security Forum 2025.
More details coming soon.
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SAFE Summit
2026, Washington, D.C.
SAFE Summit 2026 will build on the success of previous SAFE Summits, growing the audience and prestige of this must-attend event.
More details coming soon.
Past Events
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SAFE SUMMIT 2025
01-02 April 2025, Washington DC
SAFE Summit 2025 built on the success of both SAFE Summit 2023 and SAFE Summit 2024, growing its audience and prestige.
EIES Executive Director Alberic Mongrenier hosted a panel during the Summit, Transatlantic Storms and Synergy: Energy Security and Economic Resilience.
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Webinar: Revolutionary Change - Or Extinction? A Discussion on Europe's Auto & Battery Industry
27 February 2025
For decades, Europe led the global automotive industry, shaping the future of transportation. However, Europe has fallen behind in the race for emerging automotive technologies, particularly batteries. This webinar explored learnings from Dunne Insights’ report for EIES’ “Europe’s Auto & Battery Industry: Revolutionary Change – Or Extinction.”
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Raw Material Supply & Recycling for National and Economic Security
14 February 2025
On Friday, 14 February, SAFE’s Center for Critical Minerals Strategy, the European Initiative for Energy Security (EIES) and its Energy Security Leadership Council held an exclusive event on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, Plowshares into Swords: Rethinking Raw Material Supply & Recycling for National and Economic Security.
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ESLC-Europe Annual Christmas Dinner
16 December 2024
EIES convened its Energy Security Leadership Council - Europe for its first in-person gathering in London on December 12th 2024.
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EIES Discussion: NATO-EU Roundtable on Energy Infrastructure Security
22 November 2024
EIES hosted an Allied Energy Infrastructure Security Roundtable with NATO’s ASG for Innovation, Hybrid and Cyber, Jean-Charles Ellermann-Kingombe and the Director General of DG ENER at the European Commission, Ditte Juul Jorgensen, with industry experts spanning energy producers, TSOs, cyber, and technology.
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Webinar: Where do we go from here?
22 November 2024
EIES brought together experts in an off-the-record setting to discuss mutual areas of interest including: future U.S. energy, climate, and related trade policies and their implications for Europe and European energy security.
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Implementing a Whole-System European Energy and Supply Chain Security Strategy
03 July 2024
EIES convened a high-level event, "Implementing a Whole-System European Energy and Supply Chain Security Strategy" on July 3rd, 2024. The gathering featured a keynote speech by Maroš Šefčovič, Executive Vice President of the European Commission, Introductory remarks by Albéric Mongrenier, Executive Director, European Initiative for Energy Security and two panels: Building Diverse and Secure Global Supply Chains and Securing European and Allied Energy Infrastructure.
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EIES, SAFE, U.S. State Department Convene Minerals, Energy, and Defense Leaders at Munich Security Conference
19 February 2024
The discussion focused on actionable strategies that would diversify access to critical minerals, as part of SAFE’s Mineral Investment Network for Vital Energy Security and Transition (MINVEST) partnership with the U.S. Department of State.
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EIES Launch: Developing a Roadmap to Strategic Autonomy and a Competitive Energy Transition
14 December 2023
On 14 December, the European Initiative for Energy Security (EIES) was launched, with a panel of leading voices including European Commission Executive Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič, as well as Ambassador Réka Szemerkényi, former Hungarian Ambassador to the United Sates, and Andris Piebalgs, Former EU Energy Commissioner, both members of EIES’s Energy Leadership Security Council.