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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 minsRefill your coffee cups and check the event app to see your personalised 1-2-1 meetings!
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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
KEYNOTE:
To defeat the adversary, we must move beyond tracking their tools - we must understand their mind.The traditional approach to cybersecurity has focused relentlessly on the technical what (malware signatures, TTPs) and the macro why (geopolitical tension, economic drivers). However, the next decisive frontier in intelligence and defence requires a pivot to the who: the personality dynamics that fuel cyber threat actor groups and using autonomous tools to follow in their footsteps.
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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:
AI has made phishing and social engineering significantly more sophisticated, and that alone is reason enough to review whether current security culture strategies are still fit for purpose. At the same time, boards and teams are adopting AI faster than most governance can keep pace with, and the more it does the thinking, the less practice people get doing it themselves. This panel looks at culture under pressure from both directions at once, external threats getting harder to spot, and internal capability quietly eroding the more it's outsourced to the machine.
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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 Remarks10 minsA quick wrap-up of key themes and takeaways of the day!
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Evening Reception105 mins
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
An introduction to what to expect on Day 2 from Chairperson Jeroen Prinse!
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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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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
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Lunch & Networking45 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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45 mins
KEYNOTE:
Cybersecurity is often seen as a technical problem. But in a world where artificial intelligence personalizes and scales social engineering, the real battlefield is shifting elsewhere: to human psychology.
In this keynote, criminologist and human cyber risk expert Veerle Peeters takes the audience through a new perspective on cyber risk. She shows how attackers systematically exploit human reflexes such as trust, urgency, authority, and curiosity, and how AI can now exploit these mechanisms faster and more precisely than ever before.
Using recognizable examples, stories, and insights from behavioral science, she demonstrates why traditional security awareness often falls short. People often know what they should do, but under pressure they act differently than expected.
The keynote therefore explores a different approach to cyber resilience: not starting from perfect people, but from real people. Organizations that understand how decisions are made under stress can design systems, processes, and culture that support safe behavior.
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15 minsWe finish the two days with a wrap up of key takeaways, thanks and a prize draw!