Benelux CIO Executive Summit

Governing Body members host this dinner for attendees to launch the event with an evening of peer networking. Join us at the Sazanka, where you will experience à la minute cooking with Japanese precision. From your seat around a griddle you will see Japanese teppanyaki chefs at work showing their special cooking techniques. Add to this the use of top quality ingredients, an extensive choice of sakes and wines, plus dynamic discussion with your peers.

This is your opportunity to pre-book private face-to-face meetings with executive peers attending the Summit, using a private online portal running up to and during the event. Gain real, practical insights into what other companies and industries are doing, to take back to your boardroom.

Please note: This is for CIO & CISO attendees only.

 Most CISOs feel comfortable managing the minor security incidents with standardised processes, but what about major incidents that shake the very foundations of your organisation like the NotPETYA attack? Such crises can be career changing. 

Join this workshop to:

• Learn the basic building blocks of effective cybersecurity crisis response
• Share challenges and best practices in managing major security events
• Benchmark against your peers and identify lessons learned

Attendees must pre-register for this session, space is limited to 45 seats. If all seats are taken, please join the waitlist and you may be able to join the session if a seat becomes available. 

The only certainty in cybersecurity is that it must be woven into the very fabric of your business, and as a CIO or CISO you must be part of the leadership working to stay ahead of a cyber disaster.

Join to discuss how to:

• Effectively and efficiently manage your digital supply chain risk
• Enable security teams to collaborate with the business in an ever-increasing threat landscape
• Measure and communicate cyber risk to the board for greater understanding

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Ingvild Hokstad.

CIOs globally are struggling with the primacy of technology outpacing the availability and skill development of their talent. This interplay is complex, and a failure to act by schools, universities and the enterprise organisations themselves is only going to worsen the technology skills shortage.

In this session you’ll have the chance to:

• Evaluate retraining your workforce vs. recruiting those with the right skills
• Discuss what it takes to create opportunities for the next generation to thrive in a technology career
• Understand how the education sector and businesses can work together to engage the talent of the future

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Ingvild Hokstad.

Changing demands on enterprise architects require a new approach to tooling. The need to provide smart answers – and fast – to challenging business questions means a fundamentally different approach to architecture design. LeanIX’s André Christ explores:

• The benefits of making the switch from diagram-driven to data-driven architecture
• How it positively impacts the perceived value of enterprise architecture
• The potential to provide daily benefits to hundreds of people in the organisation, not just a few

In the midst of digitalisation, organisations are embracing new technologies to continue to improve business. Yet the advancements come at a cost; a need for an increasingly robust security strategy that safeguards more than network perimeters.

Join this session to learn more about how:

• Siloed decision making is impacting digital transformation and perpetuating complexity
• Security could become an enabler, and accelerate digital transformation, but a different approach is required
• What is in the art of the possible when business stakeholders are leveraged and empowered

The rush to innovate has resulted in more sophisticated threat defences, but it has also created a complex web of tools that must be managed by an already overworked and understaffed security team. Heterogeneity of defence systems is itself a defence, so modern security teams need to approach consolidation differently.

Join your peers for a discussion around how:

• Data-first approaches to security architectures illuminate natural consolidation points
• Cross-collaboration within the IT organisation improves security posture and reduces tool sprawl
• Leveraging other parts of the organisation improves security posture through smarter processes and practices

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Ingvild Hokstad.

Insights into Organisational Behavior for Cyber Risk Governance Using Security Ratings

Are organisations working in a structured manner to successfully address cyber risk or are they purely reaction driven? Mckenna will share use cases of organisations that have been breached in the last 12 months and explore the insights you can gather from across multiple security domains, including network security, DNS health, patching cadence, application security and endpoint security. 

Join this session to learn how to better leverage security ratings, including: 

• Gain insight into the cyber risk governance of organisation 
• Take proactive measures to help mitigate risk to your organisation or vendor landscape
• Collectively apply better and more disciplined governance

Organisations need to change their approach to digital transformation to ensure that their people, processes and technology are aligned and underpinned to a common strategy. To achieve this, and to avoid falling foul of another high profile breach, security transformation needs to be baked into the wider transformation agenda.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• How to make cybersecurity a focal point of any digital transformation project. 
• Pivoting the CISO function from the ‘no’ department to the ‘yes’ department

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Ingvild Hokstad.

Cybersecurity is one of the biggest challenges and threats to business, therefore it’s vital it becomes Board-level priority. In a rapidly changing business environment, the introduction of new technologies coupled with new and changing regulations is presenting organisations with a dynamic and expanding threat and risk landscape. This requires deliberate risks discussions with the business and the need to strengthen cyber skills and capabilities. In this session Robbert van Rutten, VP CIO and CISO of Royal Dutch Shell, will share some of the lessons learned when engaging with the Executive Committee and Board.

Attend this session to:

• How to engage with the Executive Committee and Board members on information risk management matters and others
• Find out what worked and didn’t work when improving the transparency of cyber reporting and measurement
• Hear the lessons learned at Shell on how to have a meaningful dialogue on cyber risk with the C-suite/Board