Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) is pleased to announce that it is organising for another year the Cyber Innovation Forum (CIF2025), bringing together leading experts from law enforcement, private industry, and academia.
The Cyber Innovation Forum aims to foster collaboration, exchange cutting-edge insights, and identify transformative solutions to enhance EU law enforcement’s ability to prevent, detect, and investigate cybercrime.
The Cyber Innovation Forum will take place at Europol’s Headquarters in The Hague from 13 to 14 November 2025. The conference is open to professionals from law enforcement, the private sector, the public sector and academia. Participation is free of charge. Further information related to registration will be announced in due time.
We invite contributions related to innovative developments that may have an impact on preventing and combating the different forms of cybercrime (cyber-enabled crime, cyber-dependent crime, child sexual exploitation) leveraging the use of new technologies.
Please find below a non-comprehensive list of areas of interest:
- AI (ML, Automation, Robotics, Tool development and testing, etc.)
- Quantum computing, PQC, QKD, etc.
- Mobile communications: 5G, 6G, etc.
- Extended reality (AR/VR/Digital twins)
- IoT, intelligent assistants and smart policing
- De-anonymisation techniques
- Penetration testing, ethical hacking and cyber incident response
- Vulnerability management and frameworks
- Digital forensics
- UAV
- Legal challenges (legislative, regulatory and compliance standards and/or tools that facilitate the use of innovative techniques)
- Capacity building and cybercrime prevention
- Biometrics: face recognition, ETCT, etc.
- Malware analysis, steganography, etc.
The above list is non-exhaustive. We welcome original and impactful ideas that support law enforcement in addressing cybercrime.
For further information please visit: https://www.europol.europa.eu/publications-events/events/ec3-cyber-innovation-forum-2