Executive Summit

The role of the CISO is rapidly evolving, shifting from a primarily technical focus to becoming strategic leaders in both business and technology. Today’s CISOs focus on enabling growth, fostering trust, and embedding security into core business objectives. They position cybersecurity not just as a safeguard, but as a business enabler and differentiator.

Join George Mudie, CTO and CISO at H&M, as he shares his unique perspective on building your brand as a CISO and stepping into a broader business and technology leadership role.

In this session, we’ll discuss:

• How to become an effective technology leader as a CISO, translating cybersecurity into business value, participating in strategic decision-making, and supporting digital transformation.
• Ways to communicate the value of cybersecurity to the business and present it as a differentiator to the board.
• How CISOs can become indispensable partners for driving innovation and resilience in an increasingly digital world.

As AI rapidly transforms the digital landscape, CISOs must evolve cybersecurity strategies to keep pace with business innovation. This session examines the shift from AI-cautious governance to AI-first security operations, helping leaders balance risk, cost, and reward while building resilience. Attendees will learn frameworks for evaluating AI technologies, integrating AI into cybersecurity, and leveraging people and governance for success. The session challenges the idea that more AI is always better, advocating thoughtful, maturity-aligned, and risk-aware adoption of AI tools.

Key Takeaways:

• How to assess and adopt AI technologies at the right stage for your organisation.
• Balancing speed, complexity, and resilience as AI use grows in cybersecurity.
• Integrating AI with people and process to meet 2030 cybersecurity demands.

Join John Cruise, CISO at Mitie, as he outlines how Mitie has transformed IAM by moving beyond traditional passwords. Discover how secure alternatives—like biometrics, hardware keys, and passkeys—are being implemented to create a safer, more seamless authentication experience. This session will explore the rollout of biometric authentication, the cultural changes needed for a passwordless approach, and the communication strategies that kept employees informed and engaged throughout the transition. Gain practical insights and real-world lessons to help your organisation confidently adopt passwordless authentication.

Key Takeaways:

• Embracing Change: How to navigate cultural shifts and adopt passwordless access management in large organisations.
• Communication Strategies: Messaging and engagement tactics to support employees as they transition to biometrics and other secure authentication methods.
• Lessons Learned: Firsthand insights, common challenges, and practical tips for implementing passwordless authentication and strengthening security at scale.

As AI-driven automation and agentic technologies proliferate, the security perimeter now extends beyond people to encompass a vast and rapidly growing population of non-human (agent) identities. For CISOs, this shift introduces new risks and governance challenges, as traditional identity and access management (IAM) practices often fail to keep pace with the unique demands of agent identities. This session will examine the evolving threat landscape, highlight the consequences of inadequate controls, and provide actionable strategies for aligning human and non-human IAM.

Join to:

• Understand the key challenges of governing non-human identities, including lifecycle management, orphaned agents, and accountability as AI evolves.
• Explore practical approaches to bridging the gap between human and agent identity management, emphasising governance, oversight, and risk mitigation.
• Gain insights into effective controls and oversight mechanisms essential for securing the rapidly expanding population of agent identities within your organisation.

Dive deep into strategic approaches for embedding trust and security in agentic and generative AI initiatives. Leaders will engage in collaborative dialogue on advanced safeguards, governance frameworks, and the role of executive oversight in driving responsible AI adoption. Learn how to align security measures with organisational goals to maximise positive outcomes and maintain stakeholder trust.
Join us to explore:

• Advanced best practices for securing agentic and generative AI at scale
• How zero trust architecture and data governance support organisational objectives and regulatory compliance
• Executive-level approaches to fostering trust, security, and responsible innovation in AI deployment

In today’s world, cybercrime has become one of the largest global economies. With threats like AI-powered deepfakes, instant messaging scams, and advanced phishing attacks on the rise, CIOs and CISOs must make security awareness a top priority. The key to resilience is cultivating a culture where every employee can spot and respond to both traditional and emerging threats—minimising the risks of social engineering and strengthening your organisation’s overall security.
Join this boardroom discussion to explore:

• How to embed secure mindsets and behaviors into your organisational culture, staying ahead of ever-evolving social engineering tactics
• Practical strategies for empowering teams across all business functions to recognise and respond to threats before they escalate
• Ways to leverage awareness programs and training to achieve measurable improvements in your security posture

As AI and agentic AI become integral to every business function, organisations are discovering that the biggest constraint is no longer ambition—it’s confidence. A rapidly expanding attack surface, stricter regulations, and heightened geopolitical tensions are colliding with familiar data challenges like legacy and fragmented data, digital sprawl, and overexposed information. In fact, more than Show more...

As AI and agentic AI become integral to every business function, organisations are discovering that the biggest constraint is no longer ambition—it’s confidence. A rapidly expanding attack surface, stricter regulations, and heightened geopolitical tensions are colliding with familiar data challenges like legacy and fragmented data, digital sprawl, and overexposed information. In fact, more than 75% of organisations have already faced AI-related security breaches, creating faster and more severe consequences than ever before. This session will define modern data protection in the AI era and outline the foundational strategies that allow CISOs to enable faster AI adoption by replacing fragmented controls with a more unified approach to protecting the organisation’s data, even when planning for worst case operational scenarios.  

Key takeaways:

• Understand what modern data protection means for AI-powered organisations  
• Explore foundational strategies to prevent data breaches, compliance failures, and reputational harm while reducing friction in AI adoption  
• Learn how to establish secure, high quality, and well governed data frameworks so AI initiatives can scale faster and more safely

The future of enterprise AI isn’t just about capability, it’s about confidence. The confidence to give an AI agent access to your most sensitive systems, your most critical workflows, your most valuable data. And know that there are guardrails, visibility, and intelligence wrapped around every action it takes. That’s not a nice to have. That’s the price of admission for enterprise AI adoption at scale. And that’s precisely where Obsidian Security becomes a game changer. CISOs need to rethink their SaaS supply chain security which are now going to be accessed by AI agents. The modern SaaS supply chain is a double-edged sword—both a catalyst for AI and a labyrinth of hidden vulnerabilities. And as enterprise ecosystems become an increasingly complex web of interconnected tools, it's all-too-easy for attackers to leverage a single misconfiguration or compromised app to travel rapidly and invisibly across environments.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• How CISOs can champion AI with a security-first mindset 
• Strategies for achieving deep visibility into SaaS-to-SaaS connections, user activity, and third-party integrations for effective AI management
• Best practices in AI security from financial services, healthcare, manufacturing sectors