Empowering Critical Infrastructure: ASSIST Promotes AI-Driven Cybersecurity at the FSAS Technologies Summit Tour 2026
As Europe accelerates the modernization of its utilities, transport networks, and healthcare systems, the threat of landscape targeting critical operations has grown increasingly complex. Meeting these challenges requires secure, localized, and self-reliant technological solutions that protect digital sovereignty without sacrificing efficiency.
At the FSAS Technologies Summit 2026, held from July 1–2 at the Showpalast in Munich, ASSIST showcased how localized artificial intelligence can safeguard these essential services by promoting the LLM4CIP project (LLM-Powered Cybersecurity Preparedness and Risk Mitigation for Critical Infrastructure Protection).
As the coordinator of this groundbreaking initiative funded by the Digital Europe Program, ASSIST used the summit platform to present next-generation defensive technologies to European enterprise leaders.
The central theme of the FSAS Technologies Summit – the real-world value of secure, sovereign IT infrastructures - harmonizes perfectly with the core principles of LLM4CIP. Rather than relying on external, non-EU technology stacks, LLM4cip is developing a fully sovereign European cybersecurity ecosystem. Hosted locally and leveraging localized AI models (such as Mistral), the platform is specifically designed to mitigate the data privacy and dependency risks associated with non-EU technologies.
During the interactive networking event in Munich, the ASSIST team took the opportunity to introduce the upcoming LLM4CIP Open Calls, designed to accelerate the adoption of sovereign, AI-driven security tools across European infrastructure operators.
Funding and Support
LLM4CIP is funded by the DIGITAL Europe Programme of the European Union and submitted under the DIGITAL-ECCC-2024-DEPLOY-CYBER-07-LARGEOPER call for proposals, with project ID 101249717.



