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FIRSTCTI26 · 2026 RECAP

Modat at FIRST Cyber Threat Intelligence Conference 2026

FIRST’s dedicated CTI conference: plenary talks on real-world problems, plus hands-on workshops in small groups. The 2026 edition sold out.

Dates
21 to 23 April 2026
Where
Munich, Germany
Organiser
FIRST
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Champion Sponsor

What ran through it

  • CTI tradecraft
  • Cross-sector trust
  • Workshops over keynotes

Recap

How it went

01

We were a Champion Sponsor

Our largest sponsorship of the year so far, at the conference dedicated specifically to cyber threat intelligence rather than security in general. The 2026 edition sold out.

02

Vincent and Koen were there for all three days

Workshops on the Tuesday, then two days of plenaries chaired by Munich University of Applied Sciences and the Bosch Group. Management-level sessions alongside deeply technical ones, which is unusual and the point: the strategy people and the analysts were in the same room.

03

Built to mix sectors that rarely meet

FIRST set out to create a trusted space for stakeholders who would not normally cross paths, with plenary talks on sensitive real-world problems and hands-on workshops in small groups. The plenaries were live-streamed; the workshops were not.

Who was there

Pick up where we left off.

If you met us at FIRSTCTI26, or meant to, write to whoever is closest to your work.

Vincent Thiele

Vincent Thiele

Co-Founder & COO

Twenty-five years across finance, government and technology, most of it on your side of the table: Head of Operations for ING Bank’s CISO department, CISO at Cybersprint, then Deputy CISO at Darktrace. A former FS-ISAC board member and current CSIRT.global board member, so he has sat through the vendor conversation from the buying seat.

Koen Volwerk

Koen Volwerk

Director of Sales

Based in the Netherlands, and usually the first point of contact for a commercial conversation: the demo link on this site books time directly with him. He works with security and intelligence teams on where Internet Intelligence fits alongside the tooling they already run, and what it takes to get it into production rather than into a pilot that never ends.

Where we are going next

Four conferences before the end of the year, including a talk in Strasbourg.

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