Energy Security / C-UAS Forum
Co-located With the Energy Drone & Robotics SummiT
June 24, 2026 | 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Woodlands Waterway Marriott
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Energy Security / C-UAS Forum Sponsors
What’s Being Discussed
Agenda – June 24, 2026
Who Should Attend?
This forum is purpose-built for the security decision-makers, operations leaders, and technology evaluators responsible for protecting energy infrastructure — and who need actionable intelligence, peer experience, and regulatory clarity, not theory.
From DroneFly
Physical Security Director or Manager at a utility, pipeline, or O&G company
Chief Security Officer or VP of Security for an energy asset owner/operator
Operations or Facility Manager responsible for site safety and access control
UAV/Aviation Program Lead or Robotics/Technology implementation team
Compliance Officer managing NERC CIP or physical security standards
Emergency Response or Crisis Management Leader
Government Relations professional tracking C-UAS and infrastructure policy
Technology Evaluator or Procurement Lead for physical security systems
Law Enforcement or Homeland Security official with energy sector responsibilities
Why Attend?
Peer Intelligence — Hear directly from asset owners and operators who are actively deploying — or evaluating — C-UAS systems at real facilities, not consultants theorizing from the sidelines.
Regulatory Clarity — Leave with a clear-eyed picture of the NERC CIP, SAFERSKIES, and FY2026 NDAA landscape — and a concrete sense of what compliance will require before the mandates arrive.
Technology Evaluation — Cut through vendor noise with expert-led sessions on what detection and mitigation technologies actually work in industrial environments — and which approaches create new risks.
Actionable Frameworks — Walk away with a layered-defense framework and a clear roadmap for building public-private coordination agreements with law enforcement under the new federal authorities.
Full EDR Summit Access — Forum registration includes full access to the Energy Drone & Robotics Summit — the industry's premier event for drone and robotics technology across the energy sector.
Senior-Level Networking — Connect with the security leaders, technology providers, regulators, and law enforcement officials who are collectively shaping the future of energy infrastructure protection.
The sky above your facility is now part of your critical infrastructure security perimeter.
State-sponsored actors, extremist groups, and opportunistic adversaries have identified energy infrastructure as a high-value, under-defended target.
This timely half-day forum convenes the security leaders, owner-operators, regulators, service solution providers, public safety agencies and technology innovators who are writing the new playbook, before the next incident forces your hand.
** The Energy Security / C-UAS Forum registration is included with an EDR Summit All-Access Conference Pass
Why This Conversation Can’t Wait
The energy facilities and electric grid was never designed with aerial threats in mind. Drones are inexpensive, widely available, and increasingly capable — which means your security perimeter no longer ends at the fence line.
Modern UAS threats are analogous to cyber threats: low-cost, scalable, and capable of creating disproportionate damage far beyond the point of attack. The time to act is before the breach, not after.
Reconnaissance & Site Mapping
Most drone incidents near critical infrastructure currently involve surveillance like mapping facility layouts, identifying weak points in physical security, and testing response times.
This intelligence feeds far more coordinated follow-on attacks, both physical and cyber.
State-Sponsored Targeting
DHS has explicitly warned U.S. energy companies about nation-state threats. Global conflicts have demonstrated that refineries and generating stations are valid military targets, a strategic calculus now being applied to the U.S. homeland by adversaries including Iran.
The Regulatory & Legal Gap
FAA airspace rules leave utilities able to observe threatening drones but unable to legally interdict them in flight.
Operators are stuck watching a potential attack unfold and can only respond after the drone lands, often too late to prevent harm to personnel or critical equipment.
C-UAS Is Becoming Mandatory. Don't Wait for the Breach.
Asset owners who wait for regulations to arrive before building airspace security capability will be left scrambling. The FY2026 NDAA has already created new frameworks. NERC CIP-014 updates are accelerating. DHS is actively warning operators. The question is no longer whether to act — it's whether you act on your terms, or the regulator's.
SAFERSKIES Act (FY2026 NDAA) — New authority for state and local law enforcement to detect, track, and mitigate credible drone threats near designated critical infrastructure sites.
NERC CIP-014 Evolution — Growing industry push to update physical security standards to explicitly include airspace defense as a required protective measure for high-impact facilities.
Active DHS Warnings — The Department of Homeland Security has directly urged U.S. energy companies to increase security in response to confirmed threats from nation-state actors.
NERC GridEx VIII Findings — Industry stress-test participants called for consolidated federal guidance and new government support, confirming the current regulatory framework is insufficient.
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