Innovation and Resilience in a Changing World - Safeguards as a Shared Responsibility
The objectives of the 2026 Symposium are as follows:
Innovate – take stock of latest and emerging scientific and technological advancements, and share and advance ideas on how to integrate them into safeguards approaches, methods and tools for enhanced IAEA capabilities and strengthened effectiveness and improved efficiency of safeguards.
Build resilience – identify effective organizational approaches, practices, and cultures for adapting to and withstanding resource scarcity, technological complexity and operating environment uncertainty to ensure the continued delivery of timely and effective verification.
Converge – enhance shared awareness and understanding of new challenges facing the safeguards community that arise from a changing operating environment, and build common resolve and partnerships to ensure the safeguards system’s continued effectiveness.
NOTE: INDICO (abstract submissions) will be available as of 20 February 2026.
