Save the date: 10 September 2026

Nordic Resilience Summit 2026

The Nordic Resilience Summit is back in Riga — and this time, it is built around three tracks that get straight to what matters for anyone working on preparedness today.

On 10 September, leaders and practitioners from across the Nordic, Baltic, and NATO resilience community will spend the morning at the National Library of Latvia digging into preparedness, civil protection, and the kind of cross-sector cooperation that actually holds up under pressure. Whether you lead a public institution, run a business, or work at the intersection of defence and civilian life, this is a morning built to sharpen your thinking and expand who you can call when it counts.

As hosts, we’re genuinely glad to bring the Nordic-Baltic resilience community back to Riga. Beyond the programme itself, we want the Summit to feel like Latvia does: open conversations, new partnerships that outlast the day, and a chance to see a different side of the city with hosts who know it well.

Three angles on the same challenge

The programme runs from 9:00 to 13:00, organised around three streams — each designed to leave participants with something they can actually use afterwards.

1. Military and Civilian Synergies for Stronger Regions

Real resilience depends on defence and civilian actors working well together. This stream looks at where that cooperation is working (drone technology, dual use products and services), where it is still clunky, and what clearer preparedness structures could look like across the region. It is a rare room to have that conversation in — with people from both sides actually in it.

2. Leadership and Whole-of-Society Resilience

What does it take for leaders to build trust and readiness before a crisis hits? This stream brings together voices from public institutions, communities, civil society, media, and the private sector to look at resilience as something everyone has a stake in. Participants leave with a sharper sense of how coordination across sectors is actually built — not just talked about. For example – a year ago we called for 14 day readiness instead of the typical 72 hours.

3. Business for Better Preparedness

Preparedness isn’t only a public-sector question — it is an operational and economic one. This stream tackles business continuity, critical infrastructure, financing, payments, communications and supply chains, with a close look at the role companies play in regional readiness. For business leaders, it is a chance to benchmark their own resilience thinking against peers facing the same pressures.

Together, the three streams reflect what CIREN is here for: helping communities, businesses, civil society, and the public sector prepare for, respond to, and recover from crises in a time of hybrid threats, pressure on critical infrastructure, cyber risk, and a contested information environment.

AGENDA

SPEAKERS

Closing workshop: the Handbook for organizations across Europe

The Summit will close with a dedicated workshop for the launch of a new English edition of its Handbook, Preparing Businesses for War in Frontline Countries — a separate session at the end of the day.

Last year’s edition was launched in Latvian, aimed at local organisations. This one is different: it is built for organisations across Europe, not just the Baltics. Participants who stay for the closing session will be among the first to engage with it before taking it back to their own countries and organisations.

Watch from anywhere in the region

The Summit will be broadcast primarily across the Nordic-Baltic region via DELFI in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, with public broadcasters across the Baltics again invited to carry the programme, as they did in 2025.

Stay tuned for the latest updates on the programme, access, and participation.

Important note! For an extra security layer – we aim to take precautions for our speakers and on-site participants, and their exact identities are to be released shortly before or during the event.

SPONSORS AND PARTNERS

Nordic Resilience Summit 2026 is supported by

Partners of the Summit are DELFI Latvia, DELFI Estonia, DELFI Lithuania, Norstat Latvija, Visual Media and the National Library of Latvia.

Onsite attendance is restricted, if you would like to request in-person participation please send your details to summit@ciren.ngo.

Disclaimer: CIREN Nordic Resilience Summit is a non-commercial and mission-driven initiative, part of CIREN’s wider effort to protect communities in Northern Europe by improving the regional capability to mitigate against, prepare for, respond to, and recover from threatened or actual natural disasters, terror, hybrid threat/grey zone and military activity, or other man-made disasters, supporting greater resilience of businesses, civil societies, and the public sector. CIREN sincerely thanks all the volunteers, experts, supporters, partners and paying customers whose contribution made this initiative possible.