After the success of the first edition, the international Space&Underwater Conference returns to Rome, the leading Italian event for strategic, technological, and regulatory analysis of the new emerging domains in global geopolitics: Space and the seabed.
Promoted by Cybersecurity Italia, the second edition will be held on December 3, 2025, at the General Command of the Carabinieri, in the “Salvo D’Acquisto” Barracks in Rome.
Speakers and Participants
As in previous years, the event will host representatives from Italian and European institutions, armed forces, regulatory authorities, strategic industries, and research centers, alongside international experts. Attendance will be by personal invitation, and the event will also be broadcast via live streaming.
The Conference will feature a plenary session and themed working groups.
The world changes, the domain expands.
Hybrid conflicts, cyber attacks, sabotage of critical infrastructure, threats from hostile artificial intelligence, military use of Earth orbit and oceanic backbones: today more than ever, the Space and Underwater domains have become strategic battlegrounds for global powers. The Conference will bring together civilian and military experts, institutional representatives, strategic companies, and international stakeholders to reflect on the risks and opportunities linked to the control of the new “digital and geopolitical highways”.
Technology, security, power.
The expansion of the Space Economy—currently valued at over $540 billion—advances rapidly, driven by satellites, AI, quantum communications, and interplanetary missions. But the underwater domain is also central: 99% of global data traffic travels through submarine cables, increasingly vulnerable to interference and sabotage. In both areas, security and resilience have become top priorities.
Space&Underwater 2025 will serve as a high-level platform for dialogue on the future of security, technology, and national sovereignty in an increasingly interconnected and unstable world.
Speakers at Space&Underwater will include leading personalities from the world of Institutions (Parliament, Government, Regulatory Authorities), Armed Forces, Industry and the most relevant stakeholders from Italy and other European and non-EU countries.
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Space&Underwater is a closed-door event. The conference will be held in the presence of a selected, ad personam invited audience and will also be broadcast via live streaming. It will only be possible to attend by invitation from the organizers.
