The fourth Warsaw Security Expo runs 1 to 3 December 2026 in Hall E at Ptak Warsaw Expo near Warsaw: a free-entry trade fair for security and protection systems with a three-session Congress of the security industry.
Warsaw Security Expo is an international trade fair for security and protection systems, organised by Ptak Warsaw Expo at its fairground in Nadarzyn, south-west of Warsaw. The 2026 edition is the fourth and runs from 1 to 3 December in Hall E. The organiser lists ten exhibition sectors: video surveillance and AI image analysis, alarm and threat detection, access control and biometrics, security system integration and smart buildings, perimeter protection, critical communications, drones and counter-drone systems, physical security and personal safety, identification and anti-counterfeiting, and specialised and rescue equipment. A Congress of the security industry with workshops and expert sessions runs inside the fair.
1 to 3 December 2026 (Tuesday to Thursday). Ptak Warsaw Expo, Hall E, Al. Katowicka 62, 05-830 Nadarzyn, Poland. Visitor hours are 10:00 to 17:00 on all three days. Exhibitors have access from 08:00 to 18:00, with individual stand assembly on 29 November (08:00 to 18:00) and 30 November (08:00 to 20:00) and dismantling on 3 December (17:00 to 24:00) and 4 December (08:00 to 12:00). The 2025 edition ran from 2 to 4 December 2025.
Ptak Warsaw Expo Sp. z o.o., the operator of the Ptak Warsaw Expo fairground, which says it is endorsed by UFI, the global association of the exhibition industry. Customer service is on +48 518 739 124 and media enquiries go to media3@warsawexpo.eu. The Congress sessions are run with content partners named on the official site: CartPoland, SIBO and Safety Project appear as conference organisers.
The 2025 edition recorded 5,194 visitors, according to the organiser's post-show report: 4,570 from Poland and 624 from abroad. The roles reported were security system installers (26.3 percent), technical and investment managers (25.9 percent), sales representatives (20.2 percent), safety engineers (14.7 percent) and physical security specialists (13 percent). The report names 85 or more exhibitors and 18,000 m² of exhibition space, and lists countries including Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Italy, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, India, Israel and Kyrgyzstan among the foreign visitors. The 2026 trade fair offer estimates 120 exhibitors and 40 speakers (organiser estimate, not an outcome).
The official home page names four speakers, all from Safety Project. The full speaker list for the three Congress sessions is not published as a roster in the sources read.
The 2026 edition is the fourth, and the organiser's own estimate is 120 exhibitors, 40 speakers and 18,000 m² (estimates, not results). The Congress programme is built around Poland's amended Crisis Management and Population Protection and Civil Defence legislation: nationwide workshops on crisis management and critical infrastructure, a session on protective structures (civil defence shelters), and a session on mass-event security with AI-based access control. The medal competition has new categories published on the site. The 2025 programme centred on the Security 2025 Protection and Safety Conference, co-organised by CartPoland.
Three Congress sessions are published for 1 to 3 December 2026, all in the Hall E conference room, plus the exhibition and the medal ceremony.
Expert presentations, hourly panels and practical workshops in the Congress, a Trade Fair Studio for interviews with exhibitors and experts, a networking zone for exhibitors, and an exhibitors' medal ceremony. Exhibitors receive a welcome package and badges sent to the address given at registration. No hosted-buyer or pre-booked meeting programme is published.
Free. Everyone who registers online or at the fair office receives a free pass, and parking at the fairground is free. An invitation alone does not give entry: registration or a ticket is required. Children are not recommended and under-18s must be accompanied by a parent or guardian throughout; children under 7 enter free. Registration asks for email and phone and consent to marketing messages.
Not publicly disclosed. No call for speakers is published. The Congress sessions are organised by named partners (CartPoland, SIBO, Safety Project), so a proposal would go through them or through the organiser's contact form, which routes to a Marketing department.
Request a stand through the Become an exhibitor form, which promises a contact with limited-time preferential rates for space and stand construction, or through a PWE Sponsoring Store listed on the site. No stand price is published in the 2026 trade fair offer or on the form. Flexible payment terms are offered up to 30 days before the event. The offer also describes a marketing package with VIP invitations, and an account manager for each exhibitor.
The home page counts 32 patrons and partners by tier: 7 fair partners, 4 content partners, 2 honorary patronages, 18 media patrons and 1 industry media partner. Names are shown mostly as logos with no tier attached. Logos on the page include ACTION S.A., Dormakaba Polska, Elavon, Atte Power, Ecos Systems, CNBOP-PIB, KIGEiT, PIIT, SIBO, Safety Project, the Association of Security Experts, Defence24 and Elektroda. Which logo sits in which tier is not documented here.
The organiser describes exhibitors as CCTV and video surveillance makers, suppliers and integrators, cybersecurity companies, smart-building system suppliers, telecom and software firms, video analytics and AI firms, access control and biometrics providers, physical security services and CBRNE detection suppliers. Visitors are installers, technical and investment managers and sales staff, and also local government and uniformed services representatives. No exhibitor count by type is published.
Not documented for 2026. The Media menu address (warsawsecurityexpo.com/en/media/) returned a "page not found" error on 20 October 2026. Press enquiries go to the organiser's media and marketing desk (media3@warsawexpo.eu).
The organiser reports 52 media publications for 2025 and an advertising-value equivalent of 320,000 EUR, and expects 60 publications and 450,000 EUR for 2026. The report lists media patrons (logos only). No independent coverage was reviewed for this fiche.
Weak as evidence. The coverage figures (52 publications, 320,000 EUR of advertising-value equivalent, 421,000 promotional content views) are the organiser's own, and the media patrons are partners of the fair, so their coverage is placed rather than independent. The 2026 values are forecasts. Visitor numbers are also organiser-declared, and the 2025 post-show report shows an earlier statistics block that mixes Industry Week and Security Expo figures.
Defence procurement officers looking for a national defence show: the focus is civil security, access control and CCTV, with drones and CBRNE as a smaller strand. Foreign buyers who need an English-language programme: the Congress programme is shown in English, but its working language is not stated, and about 88 percent of 2025 visitors came from Poland. Anyone expecting a speaker-led summit: only four speakers are named so far.
It is a December regional trade fair, held on the same dates as other Ptak Warsaw Expo fairs. The organiser describes itself as one of the important security events in Central and Eastern Europe. It is a civil-security show with defence-adjacent themes (drones, CBRNE, critical infrastructure) and not a dedicated defence procurement fair; the sources read name no comparison events.
No. The three previous editions (2023, 2024 and 2025) are listed on the official site as held in Warsaw at Ptak Warsaw Expo, and no other city is mentioned.
The official site is offered in Polish, English, Czech, German, Latvian, Lithuanian, Slovak and Ukrainian. Congress sessions are listed in English on the English pages, though titles of some organiser partners are in Polish and the real working language of each session is not stated. Interpretation is not mentioned.
Not publicly disclosed. No livestream or recording is announced for 2026. The organiser publishes a post-show report, exhibitor catalogues and conference pages for previous editions.
Not publicly disclosed. Admission is free, so there is no ticket to refund. Exhibitor terms sit in the organiser's fair regulations and its documents-to-download page, which were not read in full.
Not publicly disclosed. No accessibility statement appears on the fair's pages. Cloakrooms and food outlets are available on site, and the fairground has a large indoor footprint, but step-free access and assistance are not described.
The fairground is at Al. Katowicka 62, 05-830 Nadarzyn, near Warsaw Chopin Airport (under 10 minutes by car, according to the organiser). By public transport, take buses 703 or 711 from the P+R at Al. Krakowska 15. By car, parking is free, and the organiser gives about 13 minutes from Warsaw Western station. The previous fiche's bus 709 route could not be confirmed.
Because entry is free and the Congress is aimed squarely at obligations that Polish organisations are now preparing for: the amended crisis management and civil defence laws, critical infrastructure identification and protective structures. A security manager or local-government official can see suppliers and attend all three sessions for no ticket cost, with 5,194 mostly Polish visitors in 2025. That mix of regulation-driven topics and a free trade floor is the reason to go.
Because every figure is the organiser's. The 5,194 visitors and 85 exhibitors are from its own post-show report, the 2026 figures of 120 exhibitors and 40 speakers are estimates, and the report's statistics block mixes the Industry Week and Security Expo series. The previous version of this fiche gave 3,612 Polish and 191 other European visitors, which do not match the report's 4,570 and 624. Treat the dates, the free admission and the Congress topics as organiser-stated and confirm them on the registration page.
Official site: https://warsawsecurityexpo.com/en/. Registration: https://warsawsecurityexpo.com/en/registration/. Congress: https://warsawsecurityexpo.com/en/conferences/. Visitor FAQ: https://warsawsecurityexpo.com/en/for-visitors/. Organiser: https://warsawexpo.eu/en/. Post-show report 2025 and the 2026 trade fair offer are linked from the official site. Contacts: media3@warsawexpo.eu (media), +48 518 739 124 (customer service).