“LAC4’s annual flagship event brings together cybersecurity professionals to strengthen practical operational capabilities and advance cross-regional cyber resilience. With a focus on technical expertise and operational experience, CyberWeek@LAC4 2026 provides a space for cybersecurity practitioners and policymakers to exchange knowledge, share lessons learned and explore practical approaches to addressing evolving cyber threats. Ultimately, it’s an event about bringing people together, building trust, sharing experiences and turning connections into cooperation. By strengthening these relationships and learning from each other, we build the foundations for more resilient societies.” – Liina Areng, LAC4 Director
Agenda: Focus on Strategic and Technical Approaches
The agenda combines strategic and technical approaches with hands-on workshops, interactive sessions, practical exercises, real-world case studies and a cyber-range exercise.
Participants will deepen their skills in handling and responding to cyber incidents, share and learn from national CSIRTs’ and policymakers’ experiences from LAC region and Europe. The agenda explores key areas of cybersecurity such as supply chain security, cyber attribution, incident and crisis management, AI and third-party risks. Participants will learn from practical case studies, intelligence-driven incident response, adversary hunting, using open-source tools, responsible state behaviour and cyber incident communication. Additionally, technical trainings will focus on detection, defence and response in operational technology environments.
Opening Session to Focus on the LAC4 Story
CyberWeek@LAC4 2026 opens with a plenary session “From a Shared Vision to a Regional Platform: the LAC4 Story” to discuss the LAC4 achievements over past five years and discuss opportunities for the future by bringing together perspectives from the European Union and LAC region.
Opening remarks will be delivered by:
- Guido Gómez Mazara, President Dominican Institute of Telecommunications;
- Luis Soto, National Director of Intelligence;
- Raul Fuentes Milani, Ambassador and Head of the EU Delegation to the Dominican Republic;
- Liina Areng, Director of LAC4.
Opening Panel Speakers:
- Raúl Fuentes Milani, Ambassador and head of the EU Delegation to the Dominican Republic;
- Liina Areng, Director of LAC4
- Claudio Peguero, Ambassador for Cyber Affairs of the Dominican Republic;
- Carlos Leonardo, Executive Director of the National Cybersecurity Centre, Dominican Republic;
- Silvia Batista, CSIRT Coordinator, AIG – Panama;
- Candy Saunders-Alfred, Cyber Analyst, CARICOM IMPACS.
Session will be moderated by César Moliné Rodríguez.
0ct0b5rf35t: Bringing Together Regional Perspective for Cyber Incident Handling
A side-event, the LAC4 0ct0b3rf35t takes place on 20 November to offer a platform for more informal exchange of national experiences and best practices in dealing with cyber incidents in different countries. Topics span from risk management, cyber legislation, cyber threat intelligence, open-source tools, malware analysis and internal threat vectors.
In Numbers: 20+ Speakers, 120+ Participants, 35+ Countries
CyberWeek@LAC4 2026 will welcome more than 20 speakers and 120 participants, representing national cybersecurity authorities, policymakers, CSIRT/CERT teams, cyber incident responders, telecommunications, law enforcement from public authorities as well as private sector, academia and think-tanks from 15 organisations and companies and 36 countries and territories: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Germany, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Maarten, Spain, Suriname, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, the Netherlands, Trinidad and Tobago, and Uruguay.
Background
The 5th iteration of CyberWeek@LAC4 and 0ct0b3rf35 is organised by LAC4, a project funded by the European Union within the EU Global Threats Programme and implemented by the Estonian Information System Authority. Events take place in Centro INDOTEL and Spanish Cultural Centre in Santo Domingo.
This edition is organised in partnership with BlackHills, Centro Nacional de Ciberseguridad of the Dominican Republic, Claro, CrowdStrike, Cyber 4.0, the Delegation of the European Union to the Dominican Republic, DIGI Americas, EU-LAC Digital Alliance (Expertise France, Global Gateway), ESET República Dominicana, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Dominican Republic, Palo Alto, Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst (Toronto Metropolitan University), Sophos and VisionWare.
See the detailed agenda here.
