Conferences and keynotes

Opening Conference | Wednesday, October 7 | 1.30 PM - 2.30 PM | Salle des Princes

We are pleased to welcome Christophe Mirmand, Minister of State of the Principality of Monaco, who will speak during the opening session of the 2026 Assises, following the introduction by the conference chair, Maria Iacono.

His address will be a highlight of the conference, setting the tone for the discussions and reflections that will shape this new edition.

Speaker:

• S.E. M. Christophe Mirmand, Minister of State of the Principality of Monaco

Opening Conference | Wednesday, October 7 | 1.30 PM - 2.30 PM | Salle des Princes

Certainties are wavering. Geopolitical tensions are intensifying. Threats are closing in. Artificial intelligence is redefining practices, accelerating innovation… and profoundly transforming the risks our organizations face.

In this increasingly challenging world, cybersecurity has never been more strategic. More than just a bulwark, it is becoming a driver of trust and resilience.

To kick off this 26th edition of Les Assises, Maria Iacono welcomes the leaders who are shaping cybersecurity today and preparing for the future, both in France and internationally.

Alongside the three honorary co-chairs of the 2025 and 2026 Assises - Odile Duthil, Loïs Samain, and Fabrice Bru - this conference will open by giving voice to the organizations driving cybersecurity, cooperation, and major digital security challenges.

The conference will then followed by an international perspective from Glen Prichard, Director of the Cybercrime and Technology Section at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). His remarks will encourage attendees to view cybercrime for what it has become: a transnational, organized, fast-moving, lucrative threat that profoundly shapes our digital societies.

Finally, two leading figures from the French cybersecurity ecosystem - Vincent Strubel, Director General of ANSSI, and Patrick Touak, Head of the Ministry of the Interior’s Cyberspace Command - will share their analysis of the strategic challenges organizations face as threats continue to evolve. This opening session will provide an opportunity to take a step back, understand the transformations underway, and set the tone for the 2026 edition. For as the world accelerates, one conviction stands out: Let’s be bold.

Speakers:

• Odile Duthil, Head of Cybersecurity - Caisse des Dépôts Group and President of CLUSIF
• Loïs Samain, Head of Group Cybersecurity Strategy - RATP
• Fabrice Bru, Head of Cybersecurity - France Travail and President of CESIN
• Glen Prichard, Chief of the Cybercrime and Technology Section - UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime)
• Vincent Strubel, Director General of ANSSI
• Patrick Touak, Head of the Ministry of the Interior’s Cyberspace Command

Partner Keynote x CROWDSTRIKE | Wednesday, October 7 | 6.00 PM - 6.30 PM | Salle des Princes

The threat landscape is undergoing a structural transformation. Attackers exploit relationships of trust and move between identities, cloud infrastructures, and AI systems at machine speed. AI accelerates every stage of an attack, reducing operations that used to take hours to just a few minutes. This same technology creates a new surface area that needs to be protected: autonomous agents deployed within enterprises, equipped with privileged access and subject to minimal oversight.

Mike Sentonas, President of CrowdStrike, will draw on CrowdStrike’s daily visibility into the global threat landscape to explain the transformations already underway, demonstrate how they are redefining both attack and defense, and outline what security leaders need to master in order to stay ahead of threats.

Speaker:

• Michael Sentonas, President - CrowdStrike

Partner Keynote x WIZ | Thursday, October 8 | 9.30 AM - 10.00 AM | Salle des Princes

AI has fundamentally accelerated the speed and scale of cyber threats. With AI autonomously discovering zero-days and executing attacks, traditional defenses simply can't keep up. To stay ahead, security teams need an operating model built for the AI era. One that maximizes code, infrastructure, and runtime context in real-time to drive remediative action.

In this keynote, Wiz Co-Founder Yinon Costica shares how organizations can defend at machine speed without slowing down innovation.

Speaker:

• Yinon Costica, co-founder and VP Product - Wiz (part of Google Cloud)

Partner Keynote x CYERA | Thursday, October 8 | 6.15 PM - 6.45 PM | Salle des Princes

Agents are becoming the biggest opportunity in the enterprise, and the biggest adversary. They read your data and act under borrowed identities, at a speed no human review process was built to match. The old question in security was how to keep bad actors out. The new one is stranger: how do you create and manage the biggest risk in your own enterprise, the agents you deployed on purpose?

In this keynote, Cyera CEO Yotam Segev introduces the Agentic Trust Triangle, a new framework built on data, identity, and agent security working as one system, not three separate tools. He'll share how CISOs are shifting their operating model to answer the only question that matters now: not whether you can trust your agents, but what you can trust them with.

Speaker:

• Yotam Segev, Co-founder & CEO - Cyera

Partner Keynote x QUALYS | Friday, October 9 | 11.30 AM - 12.00 PM | Salle des Princes

We knew that AI would have profound effects. We just didn’t yet know what “profound” really meant.

On March 26, a simple configuration error in a content management system was enough to send shockwaves through the industry. No attacker, nothing that would even have been considered a reportable breach. A journalist discovered a draft that should never have been published, and the next day, the cybersecurity sector lost 4.5% of its value.

This marked the beginning of six months that would shake up the landscape: a model deemed too dangerous by its own creator; nineteen days during which the world’s most effective defensive security model was unavailable to European organizations; an intrusion carried out through 17,600 actions with no one at the helm; and then, in September, four executives, despite being competitors, publicly calling for a slowdown.

Ivan Milenkovic looks back on these six months, backed by data, to understand what they concretely mean for decision-makers: the limits of human control, what we no longer see in our own environments, and the role Europe can truly play in this new race for AI.

Speaker:

• Ivan Milenkovic, VP Cyber Risk Technology - Qualys

Plenary Conference | Friday, October 9 | 2.00 PM - 2.45 PM | Salle des Princes

In-depth interview: A major organization offers a behind-the-scenes look at its strategic cybersecurity decisions. Over the course of 45 minutes, discover a real-world context, the trade-offs that were made, and the choices that shape the company. A discussion free of theoretical rhetoric, designed to help you understand the impact of these decisions on governance, business, and internal culture.

Doing More with Less: The New Equation for Cybersecurity

What if the answer were to dare to make choices that few organizations are willing to take on?

Geopolitical threats, organized cybercrime, artificial intelligence, digital sovereignty, and the transformation of critical infrastructure: the rules of the game are changing faster than ever.

In this context, the challenge is no longer simply to strengthen cybersecurity. It is about making the right choices, at the right time, to protect what matters most, support business operations, and preserve the organization’s ability to act.

Drawing on his experience leading cybersecurity for the EDF Group, Olivier Ligneul will share with the entire ecosystem in attendance (providers and users) his vision of the transformations underway and the trade-offs they impose on large organizations. When everything is accelerating, how do you stay in control?

Speaker: Olivier Ligneul, Group Cybersecurity Director – EDF | Jean-Christophe Mathieu, Global CISO - Group SNCF

Closing Conference | Friday, October 9 | 4.00 PM - 4.45 PM | Salle des Princes

In the extreme depths explored by Laurent Ballesta, no feat is achieved alone. Behind every discovery lies a close-knit team, where trust, complementary expertise, and mastery of the systems are the true keys to success.

As a photographer, biologist, and explorer, Laurent Ballesta shares the lessons learned from his most ambitious expeditions through spectacular images and extraordinary stories. His experience resonates with the challenges of IT and cybersecurity: in complex environments where risk is ever-present, sustainable performance relies above all on collective intelligence, preparation, and the ability to act together.

An invitation to dare differently: to dare to innovate, to dare to cooperate, and to understand that the greatest explorations, like the greatest transformations are, above all, collective adventures.

Speaker:

• Laurent Ballesta

Premium Talk x PALOALTO NETWORKS | Wednesday, October 7 | 5.00 PM - 5.45 PM | Room: Van Dongen

As a global leader in identity and secure transactions, IDEMIA places the performance of its SOC at the heart of its business resilience. Jean Mercadier will share insights from a major transformation: the modernization of a traditional model into an automated SOC using Cortex XSIAM, thereby laying the groundwork for the gradual integration of AI into their SecOps operations.

This session will detail how IDEMIA succeeded in:

• Restoring value to its internal SOC teams by reducing repetitive manual tasks and alert noise.
• Unifying detection and response to optimize response times (MTTD/MTTR).
• Optimize its TCO through platformization, by streamlining tools to free up investment capacity.
• Converge this SecOps vision toward the cloud to ensure consistent protection of its perimeter.

A session focused on operational challenges, lessons learned, and the real benefits observed by an early adopter of the Cortex XSIAM platform.

Speakers:

• Jean Mercadier, Head of Cyber Defense Center - IDEMIA
• Matthieu Douvenou, DSM Cortex & Cloud - Palo Alto Networks