Conference toolkit
Slide templates
Ready-made slide templates for official NetSec and EISS conference sessions. Eight layouts in the NetSec house style, sized 16:9 for the screen: title, section, programme, speaker, content, comparison, plenary, and a closing call to action. Preview each one below, then download the editable deck to build your session.
● European Security Studies Conference · Panel
Disruptive Machines
AI, Information Operations & Cyber Security
Chair & DiscussantDr Arthur Laudrain · ETH Zürich
● Friday, 12 June 2026 · 16:40 – 17:55 · D House, Lecture Hall 8
Hosted by Stockholm University
Part One
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The threat landscape
How automation is reshaping influence operations, and what it means for European resilience.
Programme · 16:40 – 17:55
Panel programme
16:40Opening & framing remarksA. Laudrain
16:50Generative AI & information operationsJ. Carver
17:10Cyber resilience & strategic autonomyS. Verschuren
17:30Discussion & Q&AAll
Chair & Discussant
Dr Arthur Laudrain
Senior Researcher · ETH Zürich
Works on cyber conflict, information security and the governance of emerging technologies, with a focus on election interference.
WG1
WG3
Key arguments
Three shifts to watch
Automation lowers the cost of influence while raising the cost of trust. The result reshapes three fronts at once.
Scale. Synthetic content makes volume cheap and provenance hard to verify.
Speed. Detection and response cycles compress from days to minutes.
Sovereignty. Capability gaps become strategic dependencies.
Risk versus response
The risk
Fragmented defence
National responses diverge; adversaries exploit the seams between mandates and jurisdictions.
The response
Networked knowledge
Shared methods, a common evidence base, and cross-border epistemic communities close the gaps.
Closing Plenary
Concluding remarks
& Best Paper Prize
Sanne Verschuren
Boston University
Julia Carver
Leiden University
Magnus Petersson
Stockholm University
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