Upcoming Events
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Conference: Creating and Securing Growth
05 November 2025, Berlin
The Konrad Adenauer Foundation and EIES are co-hosting an expert conference. Leading voices from politics, business, and academia will discuss key questions about the future of Germany as an industrial hub, emphasising challenges and opportunities of raw materials policy, resilient supply chains, and secure energy infrastructures.
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Roundtable: Developing the North Sea as a Strategic Energy Resource
18 November 2025, Berlin
The UK and Germany are preparing for the North Sea Summit in Hamburg on 26 January 2026. This is a pivotal moment to strengthen the case for the accelerated deployment of wind power as a strategic technology and as a means of securing European energy security.
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War-gaming Europe’s energy system: anticipating risks, building resilience
19 November 2025, Brussels
EIES and the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) will host a Chatham House rules event, exploring escalation dynamics, inter-institutional and cross-border collaboration and communication, underscoring the imperative of secure energy infrastructure and supply chains.
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ESLC-E Annual Christmas Dinner
11 December 2025, London
EIES will host its annual European Security Leadership-Europe Council Christmas Dinner, convening current and former industry, government, and military leaders committed to working across silos towards a safer and more autonomous Europe.
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Roundtable: Protecting Critical North Sea Infrastructure
January 2026, Berlin
This closed-door event will focus on the collective security of offshore critical national infrastructure and the protection of wind energy from hybrid threats, bringing together policymakers, industry representatives, civil society, and the military.
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SAFE Summit
27 - 28 April 2026, Washington, D.C.
The 2026 SAFE Summit is a leading platform for the global community of energy, transportation, and supply chain leaders to confront challenges, unlock solutions, and forge connections with other professionals in the energy, minerals, manufacturing, and national security space. Participants pursue aggressive solutions to advance the security and prosperity of America and allied nations.
Past Events
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Roundtable: REpower Europe's Energy and Grid Security
24 September 2025, Brussels
EIES and Statnett SF hosted a Chatham House-rule workshop discussing securing energy infrastructure “by design” by anticipating and responding to hybrid threats and improving planning/permitting to accelerate and secure the development of new infrastructure.
EIES and Statnett were joined by decision-makers from the European Parliament, European Commission and NATO as well as industry leaders and civil society. -
GLOBSEC Forum
13 June 2025, Prague
EIES and the GeoTech Centre co-hosted a roundtable - Circularity for Security: Defence Critical Material Recycling for Europe - at the GLOBSEC Forum.
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Roundtable: Securing Europe’s Supply Chains for Critical Sectors
19 - 20 May 2025, Budapest
EIES held a roundtable - Securing Europe’s Supply Chains for Critical Sectors - at the BESTalks 2025 Budapest Conference discussing standards, traceability and transparency in critical minerals and strategic technologies.
BESTTalks 2025 is organised by the Equilibrium Institute, an independent Hungarian think tank.
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Roundtable: Financing Critical Minerals Supply Chains
24 April 2025, London
EIES held a breakfast discussion, on the sidelines of the IEA Summit on the Future of Energy Security, at the Royal United Services Institute in London. The roundtable, chaired by Joan MacNaughton, CB, of EIES' leadership council, was attended by a range of investors, lenders, insurers, defence offtakers, miners and civil society, and will culminate in a paper due to be released in June.
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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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Workshop: Managing Chinese Clean Tech Investments in Europe
20 March 2025, Brussels
EIES and T&E organised a workshop with senior policymakers, industry representatives, clean tech manufacturing, and security experts to discuss how the EU can set an effective framework to manage risk and require technology and skills transfer from Chinese clean tech investment.
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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, Munich
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, London
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, Brussels
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.