In an era defined by accelerated disruption — from AI and automation to evolving cyber threats and regulatory demands — CIOs and CISOs are no longer supporting roles; they are co-strategists shaping the enterprise of tomorrow. This panel convenes senior technology and security leaders to explore how organisations can architect secure, adaptive digital ecosystems that drive resilience, innovation, and long-term growth across industries. 

• How CIOs and CISOs are enabling new business models and operational agility through secure, scalable platforms 

• Elevating the CIO–CISO partnership to board-level strategy — ensuring that innovation and protection go hand-in-hand 

• Embedding cybersecurity, data integrity, and privacy as pillars of digital trust and competitive differentiation 

• Managing risk and governance across rapidly evolving technology landscapes and extended value chains 

• Building adaptable digital foundations that can respond to uncertainty — geopolitical, environmental, regulatory, and technological 

Bernd Wenninger, Chief Information Officer, A3M Global Monitoring 

Titus Hientzsch, Group Chief Technology Officer, World Freight Company International 

Riccardo Riccobene, Senior Information Security Officer, State Street Bank International 

Moderated by: 

Robert Hellwig, Chief Information Security Officer, University of Siegen 

Spotlight #1 –  Rethinking Ethical Hacking with the Cyber Resilience Platform by Marco Bertozzi, Cyber Risk Consultant, Bug Bounty Switzerland

Spotlight #2 –  With Great Power Cloud Comes Great Responsibility – A Live Hacking Experience with the Shared Responsibilities Model in Action by Moritz Gruber, Team Lead and Product Owner of Cloud Pentesting , ATOS International

As borders harden and trade tensions flare, cyber adversaries exploit every ripple. This session explores how world event telemetry like sanctions, elections, border clashes and deep-fake surges can feed a “context stack” inside the SOC and herby cutting noise and revealing genuine threats in real time. Dynamic trust heat-maps continuously risk-score suppliers, data centre regions and travel routes and then blocking ransomware crews before they pivot through third-party links. The introduction of a Mean Time to Verified Reality KPI will turn geopolitical flashpoints into a measurable security advantage.  

Bernd Wenninger, Chief Information Officer, A3M Global Monitoring 

The number of fraud attempts and fraud cases is rapidly increasing in the digital world. The rise of AI and deepfakes also presents additional attack methods and vectors.  
While consumers are constantly confronted with new and highly sophisticated fraud schemes, Service providers, payment processors and financial institutions must continuously detect and fend off these fraud attacks. 
As financial transactions usually involve multiple parties, securing the whole chain is becoming very complex and resource intensive.  To tackle the increasingly complex fraud pandemic, we can fortunately learn from developments in cybersecurity and the paradigm shift from cyber defense to cyber resilience. 

Andres Maurer, Principal, Prod AG and IT Director, UBS

• Translating analytics maturity into AI readiness: what capabilities still need to be built?  

• Breaking down silos between operational, analytical, and unstructured data for AI-driven decision-making 

• Balancing speed and responsibility: embedding governance, ethics, and explainability in enterprise AI rollouts 

Dr Florian Leser, Head of Data Analytics & AI, KKH 

• Is Data Mesh a fit for your enterprise, or just another architectural buzzword?  

• Empowering domain teams without losing governance: where central IT fits in.  

• Data discoverability, interoperability, and quality in hybrid cloud environments.  

• Aligning data architecture with AI, analytics, and business intelligence ambitions 

Andres Maurer, Principal, Prod AG and IT Director, UBS  

With technology being the no.1 value creator of our times and unprecedented capabilities of AI available it’s up to CIOs to prepare their organizations best for the productivity wave 

Dr Florian Leser, Head of Data Analytics & AI, KKH