Tánaiste Micheál Martin is in Kerry this Friday and he visited Valentia Island to announce the inaugural Subsea Cable Security and Resilience Symposium.
It will take place at the historic Valentia Island Transatlantic Cable Station in on October 10-12.
The Tánaiste and 85 representatives from 10 countries will review 15 presentations and discuss a range of topics in seven panels.
Growing digital dependencies as well as recent geopolitical tensions and the concurrent climate crisis have placed the topic of critical infrastructure protection at the top of policy, industry and research agendas.
This includes subsea telecommunications cables, across which over 99 per cent of transcontinental data traffic transits and upon which countries across the globe increasingly rely as they continue to digitally transform their economies and societies
Delegates will discuss papers ranging from history to geopolitics to technology to security and resilience, with topics such as:
- Cable protection in Cold War strategic thinking
- Responding to threats to undersea cables
- Subsea Cable resilience in the Caribbean
- Operating in a heightened geopolitical context
- Subsea cable incidents, data collection, reporting and response
The Valentia Transatlantic Cable Foundation will host the not-for-profit event at the place from where the first transatlantic cable was laid over 150 years ago.
The symposiumis run in collaboration with a team of Irish and international researchers as well as global industry actors and with the generous support of AquaComms, Ireland’s Departments of Foreign Affairs and Defence, the IDA, Aurora, Philip Lee, Analysys Mason and the European Subsea Cables Association.
The Tánaiste will spend this afternoon meeting the public in Killorglin and Killarney with general election candidates Cllr Michael Cahill and Linda Gordon Kelleher.
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