Welcome to cyberevolution 2023

Oh, what a welcome. Thank you for that, and thanks for coming. Welcome to Cyber Evolution. Warwick already mentioned that it's our inaugural conference, but it doesn't feel like this because obviously we had Cybersecurity Leadership summit beforehand, but under the new name, this is the first time that we have this event. So thanks again for, for coming and, and sharing this experience with us. When I look around, I do see a lot of familiar faces welcome, but also welcome to those who are the first time here.

I do hope that at the end of this conference, we all will be cybersecurity buddies, so I will check and on a Thursday whether we know we know each other's first name. When I did a little bit of a research of who is participating today, I could see a diverse group of people cease and CSOs, techies, even Britts journalists. We do have our research team students, quite a number. This is really refreshing to see so many young people here. And altogether 700 people have registered. We will have round about 400 distributed over the three days here in Frankfurt.

And I also welcome very much the roundabout 300 online watches of this event who yeah, will also follow what we are doing here. Now, when I looked at the long list, I asked myself, why are you here?

Well, those of you who are here in Frankfurt, the one or the other may be here because of the Hasan food tonight, which is a valid reason. So, so that's, that's okay. But I do think there is something else which unites us here at the conference and, and that's our passion for security. I know that many of you who work in cybersecurity, it isn't just a job, it's really a passion.

Of course, most of you are here because you wanna protect your organizations, your companies, perhaps also your family and friends. But ultimately what we do altogether here is we protect the future of our free society.

Now, hang on, you will ask yourself now the question, what is this guy talking about? Why is he talking about society?

Who is, who is this guy? And I tell you what, you are absolutely right. There are people who can talk much better about this topic than I can, and we have actually invited one of them, but he regretted that he couldn't come.

However, he sent a video, which I would like now to share with all of you. Can you please play the video? Ladies and gentlemen, it's a true honor to connect with each and every one of you as you come together at the Cyber Evolution Conference. Your drive towards innovation and standing strong in the face of cyber challenges is not just admirable, it's crucial in this rapidly changing world of ours. I gotta tell you, I'd sincerely love to be there with you, folks in person today.

However, the call of duty as president has me tethered to the goings on here in Washington, although I'm held back by the duties in these halls. Rest assured, my spirit is right there with you all navigating through the digital frontiers, alongside each and every one of you in the face of deep fake technology. Let's stay anchored to the truth and not let fabricated videos rewrite our shared reality. I want to thank the people at KuppingerCole who made this event possible, and may God bless you all. How does it make you feel? Isn't it a bit unsettling? But think about it.

I just talked to Victor who produced this video. How long do you think it took him to do it? 10 minutes, a little bit fast, one hour, one to two hours.

So it's, it's surprisingly simple to produce something like that. Now think about it, if someone would spend a bit more time, did a little bit more research, et cetera, et cetera, how convincing it was it would be, and if you then show it to people who are less educated than you are when you are cyber security guys, you are familiar with this kind of stuff. Isn't that danger dangerous? Isn't it something we need to do something about it? I think we should now, our future.

Let me talk a little bit about the conference now, what you can expect the next two and a half days, our future undeniably will be digital and it'll be AI driven. This is why we selected this conference logo or, or motto like the the AI driven digital world. And we also played, as you probably noticed with these two words, evolution and revolution. So what's the background of that? Evolution talks about all the good things we have been done in the past successfully to protect ourselves and the messages we need to continue to do this probably further improve it.

And this will be covered here in the conference. But of course, at the same time, we also will have to pay attention to the new stuff, to the quantum, to the metaverse of course, to ai, which will, which has the potential to revolutionalize our industry, revolutionize cybersecurity. And with your help, we would like to explore all this and dig deeper into it. You can expect 80 speakers in the next couple of days. Some of them with, I would say rockstar potential. So really heroes of the industry. They come from enterprises, government, NGOs, university, et cetera.

And they play in four tracks. So we have the anticipate track where we look a little bit further ahead into the future. We have the Inno innovate track where we talk about recent or ongoing innovation. And then we have the together track where we, which is all about sharing with each other, learning from each other, best exchange, best practices. And finally, we do have the interactive track. This is where we want your active participation. So what are the highlights from a content perspective?

I mean, with almost 100 sessions, it's really hard to give you a complete overview. Yeah, but of course my highlights, I can share with you. I already enjoyed the workshops in the morning, very much so here. Clear highlights were the ransomware exercise. We had this, the SAI scenarios.

You, you will hear more about that later. We had the zero trust workshop and, and a couple of more things. And what I got got from the people who attended it was very engaging and people enjoyed.

George, it thanks for, for making this already a success. Success Now in the evening or in in, in the next couple of hours, we will very much focus on the future of cybersecurity and we will also talk a little bit about the, the importance of identity in our new cybersecurity world. And at the end of the day, we will go get a welcome note from the hazards minister of the Interior, Peter Boyd, who will also talk about what government is doing to protect us and how and what that means to us.

And then of course, we are looking forward to the Hassen evening with good typical food and drinks framed by a pitch night. And we will talk about the format of this evening later today, tomorrow, what are the my favorites for tomorrow? We are looking forward to a talk from the BKA Bunes al Armed about the latest that's there. They are seeing, I would certainly not miss the presentation from Ra Schneider from Allianz ai, the new weapon in the arsenal of the hackers, or later in the evening, Henry Fergu presentation on cloud security in the evening.

Again, we are having a wonderful night with good food and drinks and a pitch night. No, not a pitch night, sorry, a pub quiz. Mixed that up on Thursday.

Again, lots of topics. We will further look into the future. We will present some of the research of coping a cold regarding cybersecurity trends in the future. Talk more about securing the Metaverse, for example. So we have Stefan Berger here from Marco lab. He will have, he will bring his vrs with him. You can actually use them and see how Marco lab used the metaverse to automate their service business in the company. Very interesting. And you can, since he's the cso, we can also talk to him about what he's doing to secure it.

And then at the end of of Thursday, Thomas chassis, CSO from Secom, we'll talk about AI important but will not do the CSOs job. Of course there are lots of opportunities to network. Hopefully you can exchange on which buzzword is the most overused in cybersecurity, for example. But remember the star of the conference is sitting here. It's really you. We are making this conference for you. And I already mentioned that so many experts around, around this room, there's a big, big opportunity to talk to each other, to learn from each other much more than just receive information from the stage.

So please do me a favor and make use of that. We also support this. So for example, in every session you can participate and ask questions via the conference app. Hopefully everyone has it now during lunch tomorrow and on Thursday, we have certain desks with where we talk about special topics. We call it cyber bites.

So, so look for the topic you're interested in and then you can, it's, it's moderated by one of our Analysts. And then you can talk about this topic with your peers. Analysts, our Analysts are around, you can get in contact with them two ways. They offer interactive sessions where they talk about their recent research. So join these sessions and you get information from them. But you can also, again using the the app and call for a one-on-one session and have a discussion with them individually. Talked already about pitch note and pub quiz on Wednesday.

There's another very interesting, and for us at least very new format, we host a capture the flag competition. So more than I actually forget it. 12 or how many teams, more than 12 teams compete with Giza from enterprises, but also from universities. And you can actually watch them working. So please watch out and, and see what they're doing. And we are looking forward who will be the winner And we will then award the winner Thursday at the final closing keynote. And last but not least, don't forget to engage with our security providers out there.

I've talked to them and they promised me they will be friendly, they will not be ugly, they don't bite and sometimes they are even very, very knowledgeable. So please make use of that. And when you depart from from this conference, we do hope that you're not only carry away good memories, you should also carry away all the presentations, et cetera. So they will be available. The web also, also those sessions which you couldn't attend personally because obviously there's four parallel sessions.

You can't attend everything, but you can watch the recorded videos even after the conference and you can benefit. So from what you've learned here, even for longer and for a couple of weeks more, you have also access to co codes research. Please make use of that. We of course are proud of it, but we are very keen to receive your feedback to improve even further. Now I do hope you will enjoy the next two and a half days. And without further ado, I suggest we now get started.