The International Security Exhibition, SICUR 2022, was organised by IFEMA MADRID from 22-25 February. It brought together 38,906 professionals and 1646 companies exhibiting across four of the Exhibition Centre’s halls.
This event was a great success both in numbers and quality. As well as achieving excellent participation numbers, it attracted high-level decision-makers and purchasers. Some 34% of visitors were managers, which is essential for reviving relationships and business following the pandemic crisis. Different aspects of the pandemic have put security at the forefront for prescribers and users of security equipment and solutions.
SICUR also had excellent overseas attendance with professionals from 59 countries, 7.4% of the Fair’s visitors. There were many attendees from Portugal, consolidating SICUR’s leadership across the Iberian peninsular, in addition to those from Italy, France and the United Kingdom, in that order.
SICUR attracted security sector professionals from all parts of Spain, with a diverse range of visitors from all the regions. Attendees from outside Madrid accounted for 56.5% of Spanish attendees, with Catalonia, Andalusia and Valencia, in that order, being the other regions with the highest number of visitors to the Fair.
SICUR offered a comprehensive and markedly technological vision throughout the Exhibition Centre’s Halls 4, 6, 8 and 10 from this leading and highly innovative sector. 1646 companies took part, of which 508 were direct exhibitors, and 17% were from twenty other countries.
And for the first time, the SICUR LIVEConnect platform made this a hybrid event with online participation by companies and professionals in parallel with the in-person event, extending its geographical scope and the time for participants to follow the Fair as it will stay operational until March 11.
To complement the trade show, in the technical talks programmes FORO SICUR (SICUR Forum), SICUR CYBER and SICUR RESILIENCIA (SICUR Resilience), industry experts offered a wide and varied range of topics and examined the current state of the security sector in all its breadth. This programme of activities attracted nearly 1400 attendees.
Among other issues, the FORO SICUR programme addressed the challenges and demands in global security and contracting security services. It analysed operational security and operations in emergency management, pandemic crisis management, new technologies in incident resolution and innovation and new challenges in fire-fighting. It also covered the coordination between public and occupational health and the new occupational health and well-being scenarios in depth.
In cybersecurity, the SICUR CYBER programme was organised in collaboration with Seguritecnia and Red Seguridad. It brought together several expert presentations on cybersecurity oriented to the needs of the Security sector. This space addressed digitalisation for security businesses, cybercrime investigation, protecting video surveillance and access control systems, the Spanish cybersecurity ecosystem and cybersecurity in the corporate security field, among many others.
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