Conferences and keynotes

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 feature a speech by Monegasque Minister of State Christophe Mirmand, 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 - Les Mousquetaires Group and President of CESIN
• S.E. M. Christophe Mirmand, Minister of State of the Principality of Monaco 
• 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. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Speaker:

• Michael Sentonas, CEO - 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

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

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? Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Speaker:

• Olivier Ligneul, Group Cybersecurity Director – EDF

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