Conference Description
Key Takeaways
- Two-day conference covering digital forensics, blockchain investigations, cybercrime response, and AI abuse prevention
- Speakers from INTERPOL, OpenAI, national police agencies, and the World Economic Forum’s Cybercrime Atlas initiative
- Designed for law enforcement, financial institution compliance teams, CISOs, and critical infrastructure operators
- Accredited with 9 CPE credits through the Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists
- Includes restricted workshops for law enforcement alongside sessions open to all attendees
About the Event
The Digital Forensics Conference 2026 takes place on 4 and 5 November at Sava Centar in Belgrade. The in-person event brings together professionals from law enforcement, financial services, and critical infrastructure sectors to address the evolving challenges of digital crime investigations. Previous editions have attracted over 2,000 participants from more than 50 countries.
The programme spans keynotes, presentations, panel discussions, and hands-on workshops. Day one features the main track with sessions on threat intelligence, ransomware investigations, and the intersection of security operations centres and open-source intelligence. Day two includes a specialized forum on blockchain analytics and cryptocurrency enforcement, followed by afternoon workshops.
Key Topics
Sessions address blockchain forensics and cryptocurrency tracing, with presentations on drainer investigations combining blockchain analytics with smart contract analysis. The programme covers ransomware response, dark web intelligence, and the practical application of OSINT tools in criminal investigations. Panels examine the enforcement chain from policy through intelligence to prosecution in cryptocurrency cases.
OpenAI representatives will discuss agentic investigators and human judgment in threat investigations. Additional sessions explore virtual asset crimes, cross-border investigation challenges, and the operational hurdles law enforcement agencies face when tracing criminal proceeds internationally.
Speaker Faculty
Confirmed speakers include Sungyong Kang, Criminal Intelligence Officer at INTERPOL’s Financial Crime and Anti-Corruption Centre, who has led Operation HAECHI targeting cyber-enabled financial crime. Barry Walsh, Head of Ireland’s Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau, brings over 20 years of serious crime investigation experience. Jethro Cornelissen leads the Cybercrime Atlas, a World Economic Forum initiative that has delivered more than 30 intelligence packages to Europol, INTERPOL, and AFRIPOL.
Other speakers represent the Bavarian Central Office for the Prosecution of Cybercrime, the Cyberpolice Department of Ukraine, OSCE, OSINT Industries, and Live Nation Entertainment’s cyber intelligence team.
Who Should Attend
The conference targets directors of national police agencies, heads of financial intelligence units, CISOs at critical infrastructure operators, compliance heads at commercial banks, AML and CTF leads at investment banks, and risk directors at payment processors. Professionals from telecommunications, power grid operations, and transport security will find relevant content on protecting critical systems from cyber-enabled threats.