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Registration Opens: Breakfast & Networking45 minsCollect your badge, grab some breakfast, and settle in. Connect with fellow security leaders over a great cup of coffee before we kick off.
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15 minsThe CLS team and our chair, Jeroen, kick off the day with a warm welcome. Grab your seat as we outline some housekeeping, what to expect, and how to get the most out of your time!
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40 mins
KEYNOTE:
Drawing on the Darwinian idea of “survival of the fittest,” organizational fitness today is no longer defined by preventing every attack. Instead, resilient enterprises shift from a narrow defense mindset to a broader continuity‑focused approach.
Fitness is measured by the ability to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to adverse conditions. This shift is accelerated by AI, which now amplifies every phase of the kill chain: expanding attacker speed, scale, and sophistication.
The session examines how AI reshapes the overall risk landscape and provides leaders with a 20‑point action plan to strengthen cyber resilience and fight back effectively
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40 mins
PANEL DISCUSSION:
The threat landscape keeps expanding while headcount and budget rarely keep pace, and the expectation to do more with less isn't a talking point, it's simply where the job sits right now. Nobody in this room needs that explained to them, which is rather the point. This session is about what leaders actually do with that reality: how they decide where their time and effort go when there's more of everything except them, how they shift from being the person who solves every problem to the person who builds a team and a business that can solve its own, and whether regulation, so often treated as a burden, can instead become the thing that finally gets the rest of the organisation pulling in the same direction.
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Refreshment Break10 minsStretch your legs, refill your cup, and process the morning's insights. Enjoy a quick bite and casual chat with fellow attendees before heading to your roundtables!
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60 minsHow do you integrate security into the DNA of your business?
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60 minsHow do you know your response plans will hold up before you need them?
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60 minsHow do you govern AI use without becoming a blocker to innovation?
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60 minsDuring change, how do you maintain an accurate view of active privileges?
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Transition Break10 mins
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90 mins
Meet trusted, community-based vendors in a relaxed setting that feels personal
- 11:40-12:10 | 12:10-12:40 | 12:40-13:10
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Lunch & Networking60 minsGood food and great company. Hit the buffet, sit down with fellow attendees, and simply enjoy a completely no-pressure break with your peers.
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25 mins
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35 mins
FIRESIDE CHAT:
Identity is the most consistent thread running through real world breaches, and as environments fragment and machine identities multiply, the problem is outpacing most teams. This panel covers three of the most pressing challenges right now: managing access through constant organisational change, detecting insider threats before they escalate, and governing non-human identities without becoming a blocker to engineering.
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35 mins
PANEL DISCUSSION:
Most security teams have blamed people for years, and most have responded with more training that gets ignored on principle. This panel is for the CISOs who've stopped treating human behaviour as the problem and started looking at the design around it, the workflows, the friction, the number of steps between a good instinct and an approved action. That means fewer rules and more design, and it means trusting people with judgement rather than routing everything through an escalation path built for an organisation half the size.
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Tea & Coffee Break10 minsCheck our app to see your personalised 1-2-1 itinerary, and enjoy some refreshments
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60 mins
Meet trusted, community-based vendors in a relaxed setting that feels personal
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60 minsHow to manage insider risk without creating a culture of suspicion?
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60 minsHow do you govern AI use without becoming a blocker to innovation?
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60 minsHow do you build real assurance across a supply chain you don't control?
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60 minsWhat does rationalising your tech stack actually look like in practice?
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Closing Remarks & Evening Reception145 minsWe wrap up the formal sessions and open the bar. Unwind after a packed day with great food, drinks, a live band, and a photo booth to capture the night.
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Registration Opens: Breakfast & Networking45 minsGrab some breakfast, and settle in for day 2. Continue the conversation with fellow security leaders before we kick off!
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10 mins
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60 minsAs new technology enters the business faster than you can assess it, how do you stay in control?
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60 minsHow do you stay ahead of regulatory pressure without it consuming everything?
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70 minsHow do you attract and retain security talent in a market where demand outweights supply?
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60 minsIn a role that never switches off, how do you protect yourself and your team from burning out?
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Refreshment Break5 mins
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40 mins
KEYNOTE:
This session takes the audience inside a real attack. The methodical process of observing an organisation from the outside, connecting people, systems and routines, and finding the gap that was always there.
The audience sees which signals were missed, where the bank could have intervened, and how small changes would have shut the door before it was ever opened.
The lesson: attackers don't win at the point of breach. They win long before it.
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30 mins
FIRESIDE CHAT:
Translating technical risk into decisions that actually move the board has always been hard. Under NIS2, with personal liability now part of the equation, the pressure to get it right has sharpened considerably. This panel explores how security leaders are shifting from threat reporting to financial risk narratives that secure budget, drive real decisions and position security as a genuine business enabler.
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90 mins
Meet trusted, community-based vendors in a relaxed setting that feels personal
- 11:40-12:10 | 12:10-12:40 | 12:40-13:10
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Lunch & Networking30 mins
Good food and great company. Hit the buffet, sit down with fellow attendees, and simply enjoy a completely no-pressure break with your peers.
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Tea & Coffee Break5 mins
Check our app to see any final 1-2-1 meetings, and enjoy some refreshments
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30 mins15:20-15:50