The WiS breakfast session is an opportunity to help people network, it’s an informal session we hope will be fun, encourage discussion and creativity.

War economy - devastated from covid, it looks like the revival of the post covid economy will not be via green economy but by a war economy.

Can the West destroy Russia economically? Can the West now use its economy as a destructive force and weapon to crumble an empire without a single shot at their territory? How can digitalization help? Are we moving into a New Republic of the Internet where there are no more borders and no more nations? How will the new world order change businesses and our way of life? Which dreams have collapsed and which new hope can we adhere to?

Tomáš Sedláček offers a fresh, philosophical approach to the economy of good and evil, with critical insights on the societal and business impacts we may see in the years ahead.

Speaker: Tomáš Sedláček, Author of Economics of Good and Evil, Philosopher of Economics

An interactive panel discussion directly following the keynote. It will include insights from our ASIS community on the ground in Ukraine and experience sharing amongst attendees in Prague.

Facilitated by Eduard Emde, CPP, Head of Health, Safety & Security Section, ESA European Space Agency & ASIS Europe 2022 Conference Chair and Radek Havlis, CPP, ASIS Conference Vice Chair and Member of the European Board of Directors

Speaker info to follow

How do shifts in the power balance and unstable relationships between states impact businesses operating around the world? What do you need to be aware of and watch out for in your organisation? An expert presentation by Jens Paulus and Nana Kalandarishvili will be followed by roundtable peer to peer discussions facilitated by Torsten Wolf on the most likely scenarios that will unfold, what specific business risks they may bring about, and what is the role of security in risk mitigation efforts.

Facilitator : Torsten Wolf , Head of Group Security Operations, Zurich Insurance Company

Speakers: Nana Kalandarishvili , Manager, PWC
and Jens Paulus, Partner, PWC

How do algorithms actually work and why don’t they always behave the way they were intended? What does this mean for a future increasingly influenced by and even reliant on AI?

Matteo Grella will first take you through the fundamentals of understanding AI in non-technical language.

We’ll then use an AI risk monitoring use case to explore key questions of trust, liability, and the role of the security professional in an interactive debate facilitated by Radek Havlis.

Facilitator: Radek Havlis, CPP, ASIS Europe 2022 Conference Vice Chair and Member of the European Board of Directors
Speaker: Matteo Grella , Head of Research & Artificial Intelligence, Crisis24

Business travel may never be the same again. For organisations with staff around the globe, what are the impacts of new standards? How does the geopolitical arena influence travel risk? What do increased expectations on duty of care and inclusive company cultures mean for those entrusted with keeping business travellers safe?

Facilitator: Eduard Emde, CPP, Head of Health, Safety & Security Section, ESA European Space Agency & ASIS Europe 2022 Conference Chair

Speaker:
- Shaun Boulter, Global Head Operations & Security – Corporate Mobility, AXA Partners UK

For many companies, the workplace has undergone radical and likely permanent change. With remote working and increased flexibility the norm, how do security and HR overcome competing priorities to find the right balance between security, privacy and company culture? How do security teams rate in terms of diversity and inclusion? What are the key skills gaps and how can they be addressed?

After a frank exchange of perspectives on how security view HR and vice versa by Hilti colleagues Eva Mueller and Nicolas Haas, you will work with your peers through a scenario based exercise dealing with the security challenges which arise when companies are under pressure to recruit and onboard employees remotely.

Facilitator: Eva Mueller, Global HR Business Partner, Hilti Corporation

Speaker: Nicolas Haas, Global Head Cyber Risks, Control and Assurance at Hilti Corporation

During a time of crisis, prioritisation is key and the speed of leadership decisions is crucial. How do your priorities as a Security leader compare to those of your Chief Risk and Compliance Officer? How do you balance duty of care, legal requirements, company ethics, and security risk management reality in crisis planning and preparedness?

Join us to explore how security and compliance may pursue different approaches but need to come together on two fictitious but realistic crisis scenarios:

- An internal fraud investigation which leads to a run-in with local law enforcement

- A ransomware attack with a dilemma in choosing quicker data recovery or the risk of payments to a sanctioned state

This will be a highly interactive session with tabletop exercises and expert guidance.

Facilitator: Michel de Jong, CPP, Head of Global Security, COFRA Holding.
Speakers: Markus Epner, Head of Academy, F24 AG, and Ing. Lucie Andreisová, Ph.D., CE Head of Compliance and Ethics, Tesco Stores Czech

*Open to all participants onsite* How do we get the best of out of the next generation of security leaders? What are the career insights that can help them develop? What do young security professionals bring that is unique and perhaps undervalued? And, what do they need and expect to help them thrive in the work environment?

Join roundtable peer-to-peer discussions that help us support the career development of aspiring security leaders. Add your ideas and voice to ASIS’ efforts to secure the future of the profession.

Facilitator: Erwin van de Weerd, Area Physical Security Manager BeNeLux at SAP & Vice-Chair ASIS Global Young Professionals Community
Speakers:
Ben Suurd , Regional Head of Security EU/AME Region, Reckitt
Mariana Duarte , Smart Buildings and Digital Solutions Manager – Europe, Johnson Controls
Peter French , Chief Executive, SSR® Personnel
Simon Rüegger , Head of Security Switzerland and Austria at EY & ASIS Switzerland Young Professional Officer

This session will focus on the functional shift from buildings being considered solely as fixed assets to becoming active players in companies´ efforts to tackle the challenges of the next decade such as the growing cyber risks for Buildings, the new security cloud-based models, and the need to include health and sustainability at the core of Security.
Speaker: Mariana Duarte , Smart Buildings and Digital Solutions Manager – Europe, Johnson Controls

If we asked you to guess how many organizations believed their current access control system is future-proof, what would be your guess? And if we took it one step further and asked you to imagine what the perfect future proof access control system could look like, would you be able to help design one? Well, these are two of many questions we posed to enterprise companies around the world, using a 3rd party market research firm. Some of the results will be shared by Frank ter Kuile of Nedap Security Management at ASIS Prague 2022. You’ll then get peek into the future of access control, and what these results implicate for the state of the security industry, with our guest speaker Lee Odess.

Speakers: Lee Odess, , Keynote Public Speaker and Author of "The 6 Phase Changes Shaping Access Control”
Frank ter Kuile, , Head of Marketing, Nedap Security Management

The question for security leaders is no longer if their company will be affected by a crisis, but when—no matter the size, industry or location. Crises don’t discriminate.

COVID-19 taught us that today’s security professionals are moving from being crisis managers to crisis leaders. This means you must leverage complimentary tools, develop relevant skill sets in your people, and build processes that are future-proofed for an evolving threat landscape.

In this session, we will explore the themes shaping the future of security: cyber-physical risks, security models and frameworks, and how to build resilience in the face of new and unexpected challenges.

Speaker: Chris Brozenick, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Dataminr

Security sensitive employers still allow their staff not only to bring private (BYOD) Smartphones but also they let them use private phones for security related services such as Access, ID Services and Authentication. Let us remember that Smartphones, even iPhones, may be infected and corrupt. Secure ID alternative is the SmartCard, i.e. equipped with highly encrypted DESFire EVx transponder. They may be considered as really secure but comfort and process intelligence and functionality is missing. An answer could be: Let us give every staff member a Smartphone, owned by the organization, not by the individual. Of course not allowing to use them privately, to give them back before leaving work. For this kind of procedure, Smartphone lockers have been invented. Is this really state of art? What, if a smart security device would exist, which is owned and operated by the organization, without private functions and truly secure? That´s why you need to learn a new acronym: GYOD – which stands for Get Your Operated Device. Uncompromised security, combined with privacy, Digital Proof of Work and Comfort is the goal. Does such a new device category, an “Interactive Smart Badge” make sense? What should it look like and how could it be integrated into corporate security infrastructure. Frieder Hansen from Infrafon looks forward to discuss pros and cons of access devices from SmartCard over Smart Badge to SmartPhone.

Speaker: Frieder Hansen , founder and owner of Infrafon GmbH

Sharpening and shifting organisational focus to resilience are foundational steps to building strength for the long term. Given the variety of threats today's business leaders face, it's important to design a built-for-purpose, crisis-agnostic program with the flexibility to adapt to whatever comes next. Positioning and socialising organisational resilience into a company’s cultural DNA and as an umbrella (capability) over core competencies and across technology, operations, data, workforce and financial domains require a central hub function, i.e., a Resilience Fusion Center. Are (Corporate) Security professionals ready and positioned (enough) to contribute to or steer such a Resilience Fusion Center (function/ position)?

Speakers: Jens Greiner, Director, PwC Germany and Daniel Krause, Senior Manager, PwC Germany

Embracing hybrid ways of working and recovering is not just convenient, but sensible too. The global COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic and permanent effect on how we work, but it’s merely accelerated a trend that’s been underway for several years, as organizations progressively move to a ‘hybrid’ way of working and recovering: at home, a local office and occasionally at corporate HQ. Join us to get a better understanding of how these trends will affect your teams and company moving forward from a continuity perspective.

Speaker: Karel Pelan , Country Manager, IWG

What is the next big step forward in securing high-risk environments? What breakthrough is now possible thanks to data optimisation and artificial intelligence?

Our presentation will examine a novel approach to optimising security performance currently experimented in European data centres. We will share lessons and insights on going beyond compliance, on eliminating critical fail factors, on developing new ways to achieve and measure security. In a setting where failure is not an option, security just got smarter

Speaker: Peter McGowan, Global Account Director, ICTS Europe

This presentation addresses the various drivers of employee cybersecurity awareness and show the success factors leading to a successful training or to a successful phishing simulation. In addition, myths and false promises of the security industry will be dispelled. Furthermore, we will show which trainings should be taught, what an awareness program should look like and which training recommendations are mentioned in the NIST Security Framework. Last but not least, we will discuss which key metrics should be used to measure employees awareness and which mistakes can be avoided.

Speaker: Palo Stacho, Head of Operations, LUCY Security AG

The threat landscape for executives, VIPs and staff around the globe is hybrid: gates and guards, bits and bytes. COVID forced security teams to “reset” their approach and absorb digital risk protection supporting physical security when physical protection isn't an option. Executives and VIPs are more digitally active and expected to have an opinion on polarising global events, too; from Hero to Zero in seconds. Security teams must be constantly aware of this. However, too often, there are unmanageable amounts of digital exhaust and noise. We should focus on certain assets, build threat models around them, prove they work, setup for scalability and move on to wider ambitions.

Speaker: Herro Zoutendijk , Regional Director EMEA, Constella Intelligence

Formerly called President’s Reception.

Sponsored by JCI, this is the perfect opportunity to meet and network with fellow industry professionals in the prestigious settings of the renaissance style Martinic Palace, in the Prague Castle area.

Tickets are required for this function (included in Leadership All Access ticket).

Stay fit and network at the same time!

A tradition since many years, join fellow security professionals and industry partners for a run. The route will take us along the ramparts of the Vyšehrad Castle with views on the Vltava (Moldau) river.

Distances are about 5k and 10k.

Meeting point: 06.10 AM in front of the Holiday Inn Prague Congress Centre (adjacent to the Prague Congress Centre).

Don’t be late, we will leave at 06:15 AM sharp.

What are the online and real-life risks created by today’s polarised societies? What can populism, activism, fake news or conspiracies on social media mean for your organisation’s risk outlook? What are the implications in the workplace?

Facilitator: Godfried Hendriks, CPP , 2020 ASIS President

Speaker: Orhan Topcu, Senior Regional Security Manager - Germany-Switzerland, Austria, Northwest Europe - Turkey, Microsoft

Explore the critical overlaps between cyber and physical risks. An overview of business use cases and recent ransomware incidents will be presented by cyber expert Nathan Green, and then the related challenges for physical security leaders will be brought to life by Letitia Emeana in roundtable peer to peer exercises. If you're concerned by knowledge or process gaps in your mitigation strategies, don’t miss this opportunity to discuss how integrated cyber-physical business systems are impacting the role of physical security professionals.

Facilitator: Letitia Emeana, CPP, PSP, Group Security Capability Manager, Unilever

Speaker: Nathan Green, Senior SME, Cyber Risk, Dataminr

Our number one priority is protecting our organisation’s brand. At the same time fake news is increasingly becoming a major threat. How do you respond to fake news from a crisis management perspective?

If fake news threatens your organisation or even jeopardises its continuity, the crisis management team needs to respond swiftly, but wisely. One of the factors to consider is a security response, whether cyber or physical. What would your input be from an Enterprise Security Risk Management (ESRM) perspective if the board requires it?

In this interactive ‘bring it to the boardroom’ crisis management training you will get busy! The training combines theory with a scenario to get you developing solution-oriented response elements on the spot. The quickly developing scenario challenges participants to come up with ESRM-based response suggestions. And you need to explain (and defend) your suggested crisis response to a panel of seasoned senior practitioners (the board) in an elevator pitch manner.

Because of the format, the takeaways of this interactive training are instant. Building on the success at previous events, the training format is repeated, but the scenario is new and will confront you with new dilemmas based on actual cases. Nothing faked!

Facilitators: Erik De Vries, CPP, PSP Director, DutchRisk and Glenn Schoen CEO, Boardroom@Crisis BV

Details to come

The key principles behind Enterprise Security Risk Management are well known and accepted – but how are companies actually implementing the model? How does it support risk based approaches to security strategy? How do you use ESRM to improve the positioning and understanding of the security function? How does it help in measuring the effectiveness of security strategies and incident response?

Security leaders from diverse sectors – telecoms, chemicals, and sport - will share their experience of addressing security risk within the context of business strategy. Join us for a lively mix of case study insights and peer to peer dialogue.

Join this session for a mix of case study insights from security leaders in major enterprises, and peer to peer dialogue.

Facilitator: Axel Petri, Deputy Chief Security Officer, Deutsche Telekom
Speakers:
-Werner Cooreman ‎, Senior Vice President – Group Security Director, Solvay Group
- Hendrik Grosse-Lefert‎, Head of Department Services & Security Chief Security Officer & Integrity Officer, Deutscher Fussball-Bund e.V.

With action plans to limit climate change at the top of regulatory agendas, sustainability and circularity can no longer be standalone CSR initiatives, they must be embedded in business plans. Mitigation and adaptation are essential - both to stay resilient and to meet customer expectations.

How does security become part of the sustainability strategy and what does this mean for your security outlook and operations? Combining short, focused case studies with extensive discussion and interaction, this session will give you vital insights on one of today's critical business challenges.

Facilitators: Inge Huijbrechts, Global Senior Vice President Sustainability, Security and Corporate Communications, Radisson Hotel Group and James Morris, CPP, Head of Security Services, EMEA, Corporate Protection Services, Aon.

Seven speakers, will have 10 minutes each to raise awareness of a perspective they believe needs more attention – that may be an issue facing security professionals, a risk that is going unnoticed, an opportunity that the community should embrace, or a life-changing lesson learned.

Join this lively conclusion to our parallel sessions.

The aim of the presentation is to inform and educate security professionals of the surveillance threat by the Pegasus mobile phone spying software and its discovery and evolution over the last 3 years. From first discovery to the fascinating story, of how this software attack was used in one of the worlds most high profile divorce cases. What the software does how it gets on the victims phone and who may be at risk.

Speaker: Jason Dibley, Director, QCC Global Ltd

We believe that digital technologies enables a new way of working to meet changing business and market requirements. Digital transformation, in contrast to digitization and digitalization, goes beyond traditional roles like security, research, sales, or production. Because, digital transformation begins with your understanding of, and how you engage with, the business. Building a 21st-century security approach on lists, excel, or paper drawings just isn’t sustainable. Instead, thinking, planning and creating digitally, sets you up to be agile, flexible and ready to grow. Together. Side by side with the business.

Speaker: Jeroen Harmsen, CPP, PSP, , Teamlead Global Business Development, Nedap

A new generation of smart cameras that can be flexibly equipped with Al video analytic applications are changing the way video analytics can be deployed into new and existing camera installations. Running directly on powerful cameras, these AI analytics solve traditional security applications - intrusion detection or perimeter detection - as well as specialized needs for many verticals, such as crowd control in stadiums, heatmapping in retail or worker safety in manufacturing. Leveraging these new possibilities, however, poses challenges to the traditional security organization and requires new skillsets as well as increased cross-functional collaboration. This presentation will look at how security professionals can start harnessing these innovative solutions to add value to their organization beyond security.

Speaker: Jose Carlos Faria Agrela , Senior Sales Executive EMEA, Azena

The Russian invasion of Ukraine marked the second time since Covid-19 that corporate leadership has turned to intelligence and security teams to solve unprecedented problems. The conflict has settled, but the knock-on risks are now only beginning to play out. A key challenge will be retaining board-level attention on the latter. This session will investigate lessons learned from the Ukraine crisis and help us benchmark how organisations are managing the ongoing fallout. We will also explore how this is an opportunity to turn intelligence into board-level success.

Speaker: Hugo Crossthwaite, Intelligence Operations Manager, Dragonfly

Effective crisis management is the need of the hour. When it comes to handling a crisis, being prepared with best laid plans is essential. Crisis Leadership takes a step further and goes beyond emergency response to crisis anticipation and preparedness.
Organisations that can look at the worst-case scenarios and adapt their structures to support effective command and control, supported by tools and sound principles will benefit from swift decision-making at the various stages of crisis management to ensure minimal damages.

Learn why Crisis Leadership is crucial for modern business and how organisations can adapt operational structures and implement proven strategies.

Speaker: Markus Epner, Head of Academy, F24 AG

A lot of risk managers in the corporate travel security community use "duty of care" and "travel risk management" interchangeably, but the two even though heavily connected have very different meanings.

We will take a look at the moral and legal obligations of both. Also how the new working environments such as work from home and work from anywhere is creating confusion and mayhem in te4h boundaries of what an organisation is liable for.

Speaker: Shaun Boulter, Global Head Operations & Security – Corporate Mobility , AXA Partners UK

Critical to managing and mitigating risk is having accurate, timely risk intelligence. Yet the abundance of information, misinformation, and noise muddies the waters and determining exactly which information to react to makes effective decision-making increasingly difficult. These challenges are driving increased investment in intelligence professionals to help businesses anticipate changes and disruptions in their operating environments. A successful intelligence programme will intimately understand the organisation's operating environment, business model, and global footprint to ensure nearly all risks and consequences are considered. The session discusses best practices to consider when implementing an intelligence programme to maximize its effectiveness. Additionally, we will review how intelligence professionals can reduce uncertainty and improve resilience in an ever-changing risk landscape.

Speaker: Ben Thorne , Manager, Intelligence, Crisis24

Multisite buildings face the same challenges as larger buildings often, without the same resources. However many of the same building system advances that help make large facilities healthier, more sustainable and profitable are now available for small and medium buildings. Join this session where we will cover new and coming regulations on corporate sustainability including greenhouse gas emissions and energy efficiency and how you can use new technology to enable your multisite building portfolio.

Speakers: Rafael Barbudo Martinez, Sr Business Development Manager South Europe, Honeywell Building Management solutions HBS, and Arjun Nandanuri, Business Development Manager, Honeywell Building Solutions

Many trends have been evolving during the global pandemic: Automation, end-to-end digitisation, ecommerce, smart technology, outsourcing and working from home all accelerating on the adoption curve, whereas other trends we are seeing are regressing, such as capital expenditure, global supply chains, offshoring and in-person services or interactions. We are also seeing people increasing their focus on issues of health, safety, environment, sustainability and governance. These changing trends and behaviours are introducing new risk paradigms to manage and ensure enterprise resilience, readying any organisation for their next threat or global shock. But what does operational resilience really look like, and how can we continue to adjust from a digital, physical and IT perspective while remaining relevant and successful?

Speaker: Owen Miles, Field CTO CEM, Everbridge

Physical security incidents are associated with a strong emotional impact. Affected by these emotions, decision-makers can make wrong choices with effects on business continuity and efficiency. Through these decisions, time, people, various assets, inventory, and money are resources that will be impacted from optimally serving the business. Is it possible to avoid these unwanted effects? Can we step aside and overcome human emotions? Adaptability, speed of reaction and the need for compliance through application are desirable characteristics of a risk management system. To what extent can we rely on an integrated digital solution to achieve these goals?

Speaker: Florin Marica , Managing Director, Ultravision Consult