Forget "digital landscapes" and "robust strategies." The truth is, you're in a war. The gloves are off. As threat actors scale their empires with botnets, deepfakes, and AI-driven mayhem, a counterforce is rising—and you’re invited to the frontlines. This isn’t your vendor pitch parade. This is where hackers, defenders, and global cyber enforcers join forces to disrupt the disruptors.

From ransomware rescue ops to next-gen takedowns, The Empire Strikes Back dives into the real stories and real solutions happening now on the bleeding edge of cyber warfare. This isn't another cookie-cutter "summit" with stale pastries and corporate platitudes. This is a tactical briefing for the defenders on the front lines. This is where the Rebel Alliance gathers to share intel, tool up, and learn how to punch back.

Walt Disney dreamed of Tomorrowland as a vision of progress. Our challenge is to ensure tomorrow’s digital world is not just innovative, but secure — and that takes leadership across borders.

In his presentation Craig Jones will cover:

• The borderless nature of cybercrime and cyber threats, real world examples/cases.
• Trust as the foundation of security.
• The Leadership imperative; it is not just about technology.
• A vision for 2030, a safer digital tomorrow.
• Call to action (optional).

Key takeaways:

• Craig will draw on his experience (with examples), including designing a national cybersecurity strategy in the UK/Europe, through to delivering a Global Cybercrime Programme as the Director of Cybercrime with INTERPOL for 196 countries, also the negotiations at the United Nations for the new UN Cybercrime Convention.

As industrial organizations introduce new digital tools and technologies to their environments, their security challenges have grown more complex. Digital transformation reveals the need for greater cybersecurity preparedness across the critical infrastructure sectors. Cybersecurity risk, as with all risks, cannot be completely regulated or eliminated, but instead we must support the people and the process with cybersecurity technology. During this session, we will hear from Fortinet customers as they share the importance of securing their cyber-physical systems to mitigate risk and keep OT production networks safe, available, and secure.

Dive headfirst into the battleground where foreign spies, deepfakes, and Dark Web criminals conspire to steal from you. Today’s adversaries are relentless and cunning. They’re exploiting every vulnerability, deploying an arsenal of generative AI bots and bandits. As we hurtle towards the future, cybertheft will take over $20 trillion USD from organizations just like yours. Join cybersecurity expert and legendary FBI spy hunter Eric O’Neill in this unexpected presentation. With fresh stories that read like a thriller, Eric teaches you to think like a spy catcher and win.

Objectives:

• Understand why cybercrime is the fastest growing business on earth
• Understand the connection between espionage and dark web cybercrime
• Learn counterintelligence techniques to protect yourself and your company from cybercrime
• Learn to think like a spy hunter

Hear from Fortinet’s CISO about the issues that keep him awake at night, how he addresses risk within the organization and to protect Fortinet Customers and his predictions for the risks that will be top of mind for CISOs in 2026.

The emergence of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) has fundamentally shifted the cybercrime landscape. What once required technical prowess or insider access can now be automated, personalized, and deployed at scale—by anyone with an internet connection. AI is enabling increasingly sophisticated attacks, from deepfake impersonation and voice fraud to automated social engineering and vulnerability discovery.

This panel brings together experts explore the tools, practices, and collaborations needed to defend against AI‑driven cybercrime. With an eye toward practical implications, panelists will consider the tradeoffs in using AI for defense, defense against insider threats, and the urgency of public-private coordination & policy levers.

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