IT Security Summit Munich 2026: Dates, Tracks & Ticket Prices
November 30 - December 4, 2026
The IT Security Summit Munich 2026 runs November 30 to December 4 at the Holiday Inn Munich City Centre, with conference days on December 1-2, Power Workshops November 30 and December 3, and a two-day Istio Ambient...
The IT Security Summit Munich 2026 runs November 30 to December 4 at the Holiday Inn Munich City Centre, with conference days on December 1-2, Power Workshops November 30 and December 3, and a two-day Istio Ambient bootcamp December 3-4. Five tracks, AI-Powered Security Automation listed first. All Access sits at 2,299 EUR regular (checked 2026-08-24, it-security-summit.com/munich). DevOpsCon attendees add this on for 300 EUR.
I track the IT Security Summit for one reason: AI-Powered Security Automation is the first track on the list, not the last. Most security conferences in 2026 tack an AI track onto the bottom of the programme and fill it with three vendor talks about a copilot. Putting it at the top on a card that also carries pentesting and secure coding says the organiser thinks the automation question sits in the centre of the discipline now, not at the edge.
I am not going to pretend the 2026 sessions will bear that out. S&S Media’s own programme page for the Munich edition says the schedule is still taking shape and points at last year’s lineup for reference. The tracks are confirmed, the pricing is confirmed, no 2026 speakers are announced. Buy in now and you are buying on the track list.
AI-Powered Security Automation sits at the top of five tracks that shape the whole event
The Munich 2026 track card runs five deep and stops there:
- AI-Powered Security Automation
- Cloud, API & Identity Security
- DevSecOps
- Pentesting, Vulnerability Management & Forensics
- Secure Coding & Software Development Lifecycle
Read the shape rather than the individual names, because it describes a specific attendee. Four of the five tracks are about building and shipping software securely. Only the pentesting and forensics track lands on the offensive and incident-response side. Governance, compliance, CISO peer strategy: absent. That gives you a useful yes-or-no filter at the door.
The AI-Powered Security Automation framing cuts two ways in 2026, and the sessions will decide which one you get. The genuinely interesting version covers agents with production access, the supply-chain surface 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 has AI in it now.
I cannot tell you which yet. What I can tell you is where the real questions in that space sit, because I track them. Our MCP servers report is the one place on this site with a security pillar built into the scoring and a live GitHub Advisory feed. Read it before the trip and you will know within ten minutes of any AI-security session whether the speaker is serious.
The Munich week breaks into five days with only two of them mandatory
The Holiday Inn Munich City Centre sits at Hochstrasse 3, 81669 Munich, a short walk from Rosenheimer Platz S-Bahn and roughly 15 minutes from Marienplatz. Central location beats the usual exhibition-park-on-the-city-edge shape, and staying somewhere other than the conference hotel costs you nothing in commute time.
| 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. Keynote-and-expo attendees need Monday night to Wednesday evening. Bootcamp attendees stay in Munich until Friday.
One practical warning the official site will not give you: these dates land in Munich’s Christmas market season. The city centre is packed, hotel rates run well above autumn prices, and the good options near the venue sell out early. Book accommodation when you buy the ticket, not once the programme publishes.
Three hundred participants over five years is the most useful number on the site
The organiser’s own history claims deserve reading precisely: 25 years of IT conferences at the publisher level, five years of Security Summit, two editions in Germany, and 300-plus satisfied participants (checked 2026-08-24, it-security-summit.com/munich).
That last figure is unusual because they publish it at all. Three hundred participants across the event’s whole run puts this firmly in intimate-conference territory. For context: the sibling DevOpsCon in the same building on the same dates claims more than 7,000 participants over ten years.
I do not read the small number 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. The numbers tell you so before you spend anything.
The 3-Day Pass is the tier the pricing is built to sell
Early-bird pricing closed August 20, 2026. Regular tier is what is bookable now. All prices in EUR, already including the 10 percent team discount for three or more tickets, excluding VAT.
| Ticket | Regular price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| All Access (Conference + Bootcamp) | 2,299 EUR | All conference days plus two-day bootcamp |
| 3-Day Pass + Free Workshop | 2,099 EUR | Three days including a workshop day |
| 2-Day Pass | 1,299 EUR | The two conference days |
| 1-Day Workshop Pass | 669 EUR | A single Power Workshop day |
The pricing tells you three things the marketing does not.
The 3-Day Pass had the biggest early-bird saving on the list: it dropped from 2,099 EUR to 1,259 EUR, an 840 EUR gap against 590 EUR on All Access. Anyone who booked before the cliff got 40 percent off on that tier versus 26 percent on All Access. The pricing was built to sell that middle pass.
The 2-Day Pass is the tier to be careful with. At 1,299 EUR regular it gets you two conference days at a 300-participant event with a thin expo. Everything that makes a hotel-format conference worth the airfare, the workshops and the bootcamp, sits outside it. The 800 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 was a cliff, not a slope. S&S Media publishes no second discount tier, so anyone booking now is paying the regular column. If you were planning to buy on the early-bird price, that budget calculation is stale.
The bootcamp is a service-mesh course, not a security one
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 pricing All Access at 2,299 EUR partly for the bootcamp, make sure Istio sits on your roadmap. If it does not, the 3-Day Pass at 2,099 EUR gets you the same two conference days plus a workshop for 200 EUR less.
The likely reason for pairing a service-mesh bootcamp with a security summit is the co-location with DevOpsCon, where service mesh is squarely on topic. The two conferences are staffed and programmed as one operation with two front doors.
The DevOpsCon 300 EUR add-on is the cheapest way in
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 IT Security Summit admission for 300 EUR, with six months of session recordings from both bookings and a year of devmio Fullstack access included. Against a 2,099 EUR IT Security Summit 3-Day Pass at regular rates, the gap is 1,799 EUR.
So the buying logic runs one way. If both events appeal, buy DevOpsCon as the base and add this one for 300 EUR. Buying the IT Security Summit first and then wanting DevOpsCon leaves you with no equivalent path in reverse that the organiser publishes. I have written up the DevOpsCon Munich 2026 tracks and pricing separately if you want to compare before deciding which base to buy.
The exception is if security is the whole reason for the trip. In that case IT Security Summit is the right base, you get the full five-day structure on the security side, and you are not paying for a DevOps programme you will not attend.
My honest go-or-skip framing
Go if you build or operate software and you want two days of engineering-level security material in a room small enough to corner a speaker afterwards. The central Munich venue, the hybrid option, and the co-located second conference all cushion the downside of getting the buying decision wrong.
Three caveats worth reading before you book.
The size cuts both ways. Three hundred historic participants means real access and 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 engineers, this is not the event.
You are buying on trust with no 2026 speakers announced. For a five-year-old conference with no household-name keynote reputation, that is a bigger ask than at an established event. If you need the programme first, wait until it publishes and pay the regular price then.
Language mix. S&S Media runs a mix of German and English content across its conferences. The material stays technical enough to follow either way, but do not assume an all-English programme until the sessions publish.
My split, briefly. Buy DevOpsCon and add this for 300 EUR if you straddle platform and security. That is the cheapest good outcome on offer this week. Buy the 3-Day Pass at 2,099 EUR if security is your primary reason for the trip and Istio is not on your roadmap. Attend remotely if travel is the blocker, since hybrid access and recordings ship with every ticket. Skip if you need a vendor floor, a compliance-and-governance programme, or a published keynote lineup before you commit.