As CFO of a company that is both a cybersecurity leader and a builder of it’s own hardware, Christiane Ohlgart sits at the center of OT risk from two directions: securing the products Fortinet builds and protecting the production that builds them. Globally, Fortinet customers are adapting to a cyber landscape where incidents now interrupt commercial production and critical infrastructure, and where AI is accelerating attackers and defenders alike. In this opening session, Christiane shares how she sees OT risk evolving: the regulatory and funding shifts ahead for critical infrastructure, why a shortage of people makes operating IT and OT on one platform a business decision, and how these realities shape where Fortinet invests in OT.

The adversaries targeting industrial environments are deliberate, well-resourced, and operationally patient. They understand industrial control systems, know how to move undetected across IT and OT boundaries, and time their strikes for maximum operational impact. Keeping pace requires more than perimeter defenses — it requires intelligence. In this session, a FortiGuard Labs expert delivers a practitioner-focused briefing on the current ICS and OT threat landscape and how intelligence-led defense changes the calculus for industrial security teams — moving from chasing alerts to understanding adversary intent, prioritizing vulnerabilities that are actively being exploited, and making faster, better-informed decisions when it counts. For any organization where security failures carry operational consequences, threat intelligence is not a tactical tool. It is a strategic advantage.

Most critical infrastructure organizations have a risk management process on paper. But the standard cycle — identify, assess, treat, monitor, communicate — was built for IT environments, and it breaks in specific, predictable ways the moment it meets OT reality across generation, pipelines, refineries, and the grid: asset inventories that can't keep pace with geographically dispersed sites, turnaround and maintenance windows that make patching impossible, qualitative scores that can't support a board or regulator conversation, and a fundamental tension between security and the uptime that keeps production and power flowing. This session walks through each phase of the risk management cycle, diagnoses exactly where and why it fails in OT energy environments, and offers a practical blueprint for rebuilding it around financial quantification, continuous telemetry, and the language that actually moves decisions at the executive level.

Self-assessed security readiness often scores higher than reality. Incomplete asset inventories, flat networks, shared credentials, and untested response plans rarely show up when OT teams grade themselves. They surface quickly during an incident or an audit. In this panel, industrial partners share what they see when perception meets reality. They'll discuss how they help customers set a realistic maturity baseline, get IT, OT, and leadership to agree on where the gaps are, and turn that clarity into a prioritized plan for resilience, response, and regulatory readiness. Attendees will leave knowing how to benchmark their own programs candidly and where to focus first.

Securing operational technology in the energy sector has never carried higher stakes. Expanding connectivity, aging control systems, third-party access, and an evolving threat landscape converge on environments where downtime means lost production and interrupted power. In this panel, IT and OT security leaders from across energy operations share how they're strengthening resilience in real time: where to tighten controls and where to preserve operational flexibility, and how to reduce risk without disrupting the systems that keep power flowing. They'll discuss where emerging technologies like AI fit into an OT security strategy rather than driving it, along with governance, third-party exposure, and incident readiness. Walk away with practical perspective from peers building measurable resilience across plants, sites, and the grid.

Cybersecurity for any organization is an evolution based on people, process and technology. During this fireside chat, we sit down with NAME HERE, to explore the cybersecurity journey at COMPANY HERE. We will discuss how they manage risk for their critical infrastructure and discuss lessons learned as they navigate change to mature their cybersecurity strategy.