IT Security Summit Munich 2026: Dates, Tracks & Ticket Prices
November 30 - December 4, 2026
TL;DR: The IT Security Summit Munich runs November 30 to December 4, 2026 at the Holiday Inn Munich City Centre, with conference days and expo on December 1-2, Power Workshops on November 30 and December 3, and a...
TL;DR: The IT Security Summit Munich runs November 30 to December 4, 2026 at the Holiday Inn Munich City Centre, with conference days and expo on December 1-2, Power Workshops on November 30 and December 3, and a two-day bootcamp on December 3-4. Five tracks, one of which is AI-Powered Security Automation. Early-bird pricing ends August 20, 2026, putting All Access at 1,709 EUR against a 2,299 EUR regular price. It is co-located with DevOpsCon Munich, and the cheapest way in for a DevOpsCon attendee is a 300 EUR add-on rather than a second full ticket.
I cover this event on ZPlatform’s AI events hub for one reason: AI-Powered Security Automation is the first track on the list, not the last. Most security conferences in 2026 have an AI track that turns out to be three vendor talks about a copilot. Putting it first, on a programme that also carries pentesting and secure coding, suggests the organiser thinks the automation question is now the centre of the discipline rather than an adjacent trend.
Whether the sessions bear that out, I cannot tell you yet, and this is the part of the guide I want to be blunt about. The 2026 programme is not published. S&S Media’s own programme page says the schedule is still taking shape and offers last year’s lineup for reference. So the tracks below are confirmed, the pricing is confirmed, and the speakers are not announced. Buying before August 20 means buying on the track list.
This guide covers the exact dates and the five-day structure, all five tracks, every ticket tier with real numbers, the bootcamp, how the co-located DevOpsCon changes the maths, and an honest read on who should go. All figures come from the official IT Security Summit site, checked on August 17, 2026.
Key Takeaways
- Dates are November 30 to December 4, 2026, at the Holiday Inn Munich City Centre, Hochstrasse 3, 81669 Munich. Conference and expo days are December 1-2.
- Early bird ends August 20, 2026. All Access drops from 2,299 EUR to 1,709 EUR, and the 3-Day Pass from 2,099 EUR to 1,259 EUR, an 840 EUR difference.
- AI-Powered Security Automation is a full track, listed first of five, alongside DevSecOps, cloud and identity security, pentesting and forensics, and secure coding.
- This is a small event, and the organiser says so. Five years of Security Summit, two German editions, and 300-plus participants. Compare that with the 7,000-plus DevOpsCon claims for the sibling conference in the same building.
- The bootcamp is Service Mesh with Istio Ambient, two days on December 3-4, which is an infrastructure topic rather than a security one.
- DevOpsCon attendees get in for 300 EUR. If you were considering both, buy the DevOpsCon ticket and add this one.
A 300-participant conference is not a weakness, it is a different product. You will get time with speakers that a 5,000-person security event structurally cannot give you. Just do not buy it expecting a show floor.
What Is the IT Security Summit?
The IT Security Summit is a German security conference run by S&S Media, the Frankfurt publisher behind devmio and the entwickler.de Academy, and the same organiser as DevOpsCon, MLcon, and the API Conference. Its own history claims are worth reading precisely: 25 years of IT conferences at the publisher level, but only 5 years of Security Summit and 2 editions in Germany, with 300-plus satisfied participants.
That last number is the most useful figure on the whole site, and it is unusual that they publish it. Three hundred participants across the event’s history puts this firmly in the intimate-conference category. For context, the sibling DevOpsCon running in the same building on the same dates claims more than 7,000 participants over ten years.
I do not read that as a red flag. It is a positioning fact, and it changes what you should expect. At this size you are buying access to speakers and a room where people talk to each other, not a vendor expo and a keynote you watch on a screen. If your reason for attending a security conference is to walk a floor and collect vendor demos, this is the wrong event and the numbers tell you so before you spend anything.
The format is the standard S&S Media shape: two dense conference days in a hotel with a small expo attached, wrapped in optional Power Workshop days and a two-day bootcamp. The event is hybrid, so every element is available remotely as well as on site.
When and Where Is the IT Security Summit Munich 2026?
The summit runs November 30 to December 4, 2026 at the Holiday Inn Munich City Centre, Hochstrasse 3, 81669 Munich, Germany.
The five days break down like this:
| Day | Date | What runs |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | November 30, 2026 | Power Workshops |
| Tuesday | December 1, 2026 | Conference day 1 and expo |
| Wednesday | December 2, 2026 | Conference day 2 and expo |
| Thursday | December 3, 2026 | Power Workshops and bootcamp day 1 |
| Friday | December 4, 2026 | Bootcamp day 2 |
The conference proper is Tuesday and Wednesday. Everything else is optional depth that you buy separately, which is the detail that decides your flights: keynotes-and-expo attendees need Monday night to Wednesday evening, bootcamp attendees are in Munich until Friday.
The venue is genuinely central, a short walk from Rosenheimer Platz S-Bahn and roughly 15 minutes from Marienplatz. That is a real advantage over conferences held in exhibition parks on the city edge, and it means staying somewhere other than the conference hotel costs you nothing in commute time.
One practical warning the official site will not give you: these dates land in Munich’s Christmas market season. The city centre is busy, hotel rates run well above autumn prices, and the good options near the venue book out early. Sort accommodation when you buy the ticket, not once the programme publishes.
Quick facts:
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Event | IT Security Summit Munich 2026 |
| Dates | November 30 - December 4, 2026 |
| Conference and expo | December 1-2, 2026 |
| Power Workshops | November 30 and December 3, 2026 |
| Bootcamp | December 3-4, 2026 |
| Venue | Holiday Inn Munich City Centre, Hochstrasse 3, 81669 Munich, Germany |
| Format | Hybrid, on site or remote |
| Tracks | 5 |
| Participants (historic) | 300+ across 5 years |
| Early-bird deadline | August 20, 2026 |
| All Access early bird | 1,709 EUR (regular 2,299 EUR) |
| Organiser | S&S Media / entwickler.de Academy |
| Co-located | DevOpsCon Munich |
| Official site | it-security-summit.com/munich |
The Five Tracks
- AI-Powered Security Automation
- Cloud, API & Identity Security
- DevSecOps
- Pentesting, Vulnerability Management & Forensics
- Secure Coding & Software Development Lifecycle
Read that list as a shape rather than five separate things, because it describes a specific kind of attendee. Four of the five tracks are about building and shipping software securely. Only the pentesting and forensics track sits on the offensive and incident-response side, and there is no governance, compliance, or CISO-strategy track at all.
This is a security conference for engineers, in other words, and specifically for engineers who write and operate software. If you are a compliance lead looking for NIS2 and DORA sessions, or a CISO looking for a peer-strategy room, the track list is telling you to look elsewhere. That is a useful thing for a conference to be clear about.
On the AI track specifically. “AI-Powered Security Automation” is a framing that cuts two ways in 2026, and the sessions will decide which one you get. The genuinely interesting version covers agents with access to production systems, the supply-chain surface that AI tooling has opened up, and what automated triage does to alert quality. The tedious version is a parade of vendors explaining that their existing product now has AI in it.
I have no way to tell you which this will be until the programme publishes, and I am not going to guess. What I can tell you is where the real security questions in that space currently sit, because I track it: our MCP servers report is the one place on this site with a security pillar built into the scoring, fed by the GitHub Advisory Database, and the agent-integration layer it covers is exactly the new attack surface this track should be about. Read it before you go and you will know within ten minutes of a session whether the speaker is serious.
The Bootcamp: Service Mesh with Istio Ambient
The two-day bootcamp on December 3-4 is Service Mesh with Istio Ambient, an intensive on Istio’s ambient mesh mode.
Worth flagging plainly: that is an infrastructure and networking topic, not a security topic, even though service mesh carries real security value through mTLS and policy enforcement. If you are buying All Access at 1,709 EUR partly for the bootcamp, make sure Istio is genuinely on your roadmap. If it is not, the 3-Day Pass at 1,259 EUR is the better buy and you save 450 EUR.
The likely explanation for the pairing is the co-location with DevOpsCon, where a service mesh bootcamp is squarely on topic. That is fine, and it is a hint about how to think about this whole week: the two conferences are staffed and programmed as one operation with two front doors.
IT Security Summit Munich 2026 Ticket Prices
All prices in EUR, already including the 10 percent team discount for three or more tickets, excluding VAT. Individual pricing without the team discount is higher, which is why the official site writes these as “from” figures.
| Ticket | Early bird | Regular | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALL ACCESS (Conference + Bootcamp) | from 1,709 EUR | 2,299 EUR | All conference days plus the two-day bootcamp |
| 3-Day Pass + Free Workshop | from 1,259 EUR | 2,099 EUR | Three days including a workshop day |
| 2-Day Pass | from 879 EUR | 1,299 EUR | The two conference days |
| 1-Day Workshop Pass | from 479 EUR | 669 EUR | A single Power Workshop day |
A group discount of 10 percent applies on three or more tickets, and it is already baked into the numbers above.
Three things the table tells you that the marketing does not.
The 3-Day Pass carries the biggest early-bird saving on the list. It drops from 2,099 EUR to 1,259 EUR, a difference of 840 EUR, against 590 EUR on All Access. In percentage terms that is 40 percent off versus 26 percent. If you are buying before August 20, this is the tier the discount is designed to sell.
The 2-Day Pass is the one to be careful with. At 879 EUR it gets you the two conference days at a 300-participant event with no meaningful expo. Everything that makes a hotel-format conference worth the airfare, the workshops and the bootcamp, sits outside it. The 380 EUR step up to the 3-Day Pass buys a full workshop day, and it is the best marginal spend on the page.
August 20 is a cliff, not a slope. There is no published second discount tier. After that date you are paying the regular column.
The DevOpsCon Overlap: Do Not Buy Two Tickets
DevOpsCon Munich runs at the same venue on the same dates, also from S&S Media. The two programmes share the venue, the week, and a DevSecOps track each.
Here is the part that matters commercially. If you buy a DevOpsCon Munich ticket, you can add admission to the IT Security Summit for 300 EUR, with six months of recordings from both bookings and a year of devmio Fullstack access included. Against a 1,259 EUR IT Security Summit 3-Day Pass, that is not a small difference.
So the buying logic runs in one direction. If both events appeal, buy the DevOpsCon ticket as your base and add this one for 300 EUR. Buying an IT Security Summit ticket first and then wanting DevOpsCon leaves you with no equivalent path in reverse that the organiser publishes.
The exception is if security is the whole reason for the trip. In that case the IT Security Summit pass is the right base ticket, you get the full five-day structure on the security side, and you are not paying for a DevOps programme you will not attend. I have written up the DevOpsCon Munich 2026 tracks and pricing separately if you want to compare before deciding which way round to buy.
Is the IT Security Summit Munich 2026 Worth It? My Honest Take
Go if you build or operate software and you want two days of engineering-level security material in a room small enough that you can actually corner a speaker afterwards. The central Munich venue, the hybrid option, and the co-located second conference all reduce the downside of getting it wrong.
Three honest caveats.
The size cuts both ways. Three hundred historic participants means genuine access and a real conversation. It also means a thin expo, fewer parallel sessions, and no guarantee that anyone else in the room works on your specific problem. If you are attending to find vendors or to hire, this is not the event.
You are buying on trust before August 20. No 2026 speakers are announced. For a five-year-old conference with no household-name keynote reputation, that is a bigger ask than it would be at an established event. If you need the programme first, plan to pay regular price and treat the early-bird window as not applying to you. That is the real trade.
Language. S&S Media runs a mix of German and English content across its conferences. The material is technical enough to follow either way, but do not assume an all-English programme until the sessions publish.
My go-or-skip framing. Buy the 3-Day Pass before August 20 if this is your primary conference, because that tier carries the largest discount and includes a workshop day. Buy DevOpsCon and add this for 300 EUR if you straddle platform and security, which is the cheapest good outcome available this week. Attend remotely if travel is the blocker, since hybrid access and recordings are included anyway. Skip it if you need a vendor floor, a compliance and governance programme, or a published keynote lineup before you commit.
Frequently Asked Questions
When and where is the IT Security Summit Munich 2026?
November 30 to December 4, 2026 at the Holiday Inn Munich City Centre, Hochstrasse 3, 81669 Munich. Conference days and the expo are December 1-2, Power Workshops run November 30 and December 3, and the bootcamp runs December 3-4.
How much does an IT Security Summit Munich ticket cost?
Early-bird prices start from 479 EUR for a one-day workshop pass and run to 1,709 EUR for All Access, against regular prices of 669 EUR and 2,299 EUR. The 3-Day Pass with a free workshop is 1,259 EUR early bird against 2,099 EUR regular. All figures include the 10 percent discount for three or more tickets and exclude VAT.
When does IT Security Summit Munich early-bird pricing end?
August 20, 2026. No later discount tier is published, so regular pricing applies after that date.
What tracks does the IT Security Summit Munich 2026 cover?
Five: AI-Powered Security Automation, Cloud API & Identity Security, DevSecOps, Pentesting Vulnerability Management & Forensics, and Secure Coding & Software Development Lifecycle. There is no governance or compliance track.
Who is speaking at the IT Security Summit Munich 2026?
Not announced yet. The organiser’s programme page states the schedule is still taking shape and publishes the previous edition’s lineup for reference only.
How big is the IT Security Summit?
Small. The organiser claims 300-plus participants across five years of the event and two German editions. The co-located DevOpsCon, by comparison, claims more than 7,000 participants over ten years.
Can I attend the IT Security Summit Munich online?
Yes. The event is hybrid, with remote access available for all elements, and tickets include six months of access to the session recordings from your bookings plus one year of devmio Fullstack access.
Is the IT Security Summit worth it if I already have a DevOpsCon ticket?
Almost certainly, at the price. Adding IT Security Summit admission to a DevOpsCon Munich booking costs 300 EUR, which is less than the cheapest single-day pass sold on its own. The caveat is practical rather than financial: two co-located programmes means more sessions you cannot attend, so it works best when someone will genuinely use both.
The Bottom Line
The IT Security Summit Munich 2026 is a small, engineering-focused security conference that has put AI-powered automation at the top of a five-track programme, in a central Munich hotel, alongside a much larger sibling conference you can add for 300 EUR.
The insight worth carrying: the organiser publishes its own attendance history, and 300 participants over five years is the single most informative number on the site. It tells you this is an access event rather than a scale event, which makes the workshop and bootcamp days the reason to go and the two-day conference pass the tier to avoid.
Your concrete next step for the IT Security Summit Munich 2026: decide first whether DevOpsCon is your base ticket, then book on the official IT Security Summit Munich site before August 20, 2026. While you wait for the programme, read our MCP servers report so you can judge the AI-security sessions properly, and subscribe for AI event alerts to hear when the 2026 speaker roster lands.