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According to a report by Deloitte Global, Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) is morphing into a more influential member of corporate leadership as companies around the world are becoming more strategic in how they manage cybersecurity risk. Also, 20% of businesses now have their CISOs reporting directly to the CEO rather than CIOs, indicating the expanding influence of the role within organisations. 

The continued heightened threat environment, adoption of breakthrough technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and generative AI (Gen AI), quantum computing, cloud shifts, changing regulatory landscape and talent crunch require today’s cybersecurity leaders to establish and refine their cybersecurity strategies. Modern cybersecurity programs and resources will now need to include a combination of risk management, security infrastructure, capabilities, people and technology into action.

It is clear that no matter where we go, we cannot avoid the impact of AI,” said Daryl Plummer, Distinguished VP Analyst, Chief of Research and Gartner Fellow. “AI is evolving as human use of AI evolves. Before we reach the point where humans can no longer keep up, we must.”

This sentiment underscores the urgency for CISOs to embrace innovation while fortifying their security postures. Recent incidents, such as the CrowdStrike and cloud outages, coupled with the rapid advancement of AI agents, have significantly expanded the attack surface for enterprises. As a result, CISOs must enhance their security and risk solutions to bolster operational resilience and improve incident response strategies.

The 4th FutureCISO Singapore Conference 2025, themed ‘Pathways Towards Differentiated Success’ will focus on how CISOs can enhance IT security value by ensuring that technology security initiatives contribute directly to business growth, resilience, and competitive advantage – driving agility that would allow their businesses to pivot quickly in response to disruption. The conference will feature insights from industry leaders and practitioners, addressing key topics such as:

  • Cybersecurity as business enabler
  • Optimising cybersecurity cost
  • Innovations in digital defense
  • Respond and recovery from incidents
  • Securing and governing breakthrough technologies

Through this conference, we will reveal strategies that will define the future of cybersecurity in Asia and ensure that cybersecurity not only protects but also propels our organisations toward success.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

CISOs, CTOs, Directors, Heads, MDs, SVPs, VPs, Leads, involved in:

  • Information Security
  • Cyber Security Architecture and Strategy
  • Security and Technology Risk
  • Cyber Security and Privacy
  • Information and Data Protection
  • Risk and Compliance
  • Cloud Governance and Security

WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND

The FutureCFO Conference aims to give CFOs, who also act as their company’s strategic business partner and catalyst, insights on ensuring corporate growth and successfully mitigating risks and challenges amidst the current economic and political uncertainties in their countries. The conference will also address strategies and best practices on how CFOs can reimagine finance functions and their organizations to survive and thrive in today’s fast-paced and digitally driven landscape.

This by-invitation only one-day event will gather over 120 senior finance leaders from multiple industries and offers the best opportunity to hear from the industry’s leading professionals, contribute questions from the floor, engage in incisive panel discussions that discuss real-life business cases, updates and strategies to meet the most pertinent challenges facing the finance function in 2020.

High-Level Industry Speakers

We gather 20+ industry speakers and experts from leading organizations for keynote presentations and incisive discussions so you can tap on their invaluable insights and best practices important to your finance function management and transformation.

Interactive Discussions

Be part of our interactive panel discussions that address the current hot topics, share ideas and experiences and get the answers to your pressing questions from prominent finance leaders on stage.

Networking Opportunities

Meet new business partners, engage and forge new connections with fellow finance and treasury leaders in the region, solution providers and many more at our event through luncheons, coffee breaks, one-to-one meetings and informal introductions.

Targeted In-Depth Sessions

8 hours of learning and networking opportunities packed into 10 in depth sessions. Listen to corporate-driven best practices and case studies sharing that are targeted to your profession through the personalized country-specific conferences we crafted for you - FutureCFO Conferences.

AGENDA

09:00

Chairman’s Welcome Remarks

Alvin Rodrigues, Editorial Consultant, CXOCIETY

09:15

Opening Keynote: Cybersecurity in Motion – Adapting to an Evolving Digital Landscape

Veronica Tan, Director, Safer Cyberspace Division, CYBER SECURITY AGENCY OF SINGAPORE (CSA)

09:40

Keynote: Data Under Siege – Adopting a Preemptive Defense and Offense Strategy

This session will share real-world insights into fortifying your data and improving resilience with practical attack intelligence, advanced data threat hunting, and rapid incident response and recovery.

David Allott, Field CISO, APJ, VEEAM

10:05

Panel Discussion: Doing More with Less: Cybersecurity as Business Enabler

In a digital race where organisations need to constantly stay one step ahead of threat actors, cyber security has become a key aspect of business growth. Gartner forecasts that worldwide end-user spending on information security is projected to total $212 billion in 2025, an increase of 15.1% from 2024. How should IT security leaders demonstrate the value of cybersecurity to ensure business resiliency amid competing business needs and evolving attack vectors?

  • Optimising existing security investments without compromising security posture
  • Making the business case for cybersecurity investments: Risks vs. Investments
  • Bridging the communication gaps with the boardroom and getting buy-ins from internal and external decision makers
  • Tool consolidation and optimisation for remediating blind spots
  • Getting the most value from limited security budgets by adopting Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) approach

Moderator:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY

Panelists:
John Zhang, Product Manager – Security Services, Product Development and Management, CITIC TELECOM CPC
Raj P B, General Manager – Cyber Security Hub Lead, MERCEDES-BENZ SINGAPORE
Andre Shori, APAC Cybersecurity VP and CISO, SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC
Shaofei Huang, Group CISO, SMRT CORPORATION

10:45

MORNING COFFEE BREAK & NETWORKING

11:15

Keynote: The Future of Cybersecurity: Mastering the Data Game

This session will explore how data is revolutionising the cybersecurity landscape.

  • The critical role data plays in predicting, preventing, and responding to cyber threats
  • Why organisations must adopt a data-centric approach to stay ahead in an evolving digital world

Lavy Stokhamer, Global Head, Cybersecurity Operations, STANDARD CHARTERED

11:40

Keynote: The Rise of AI in Security, Governance, and Compliance

AI automation is revolutionising the cybersecurity landscape—enabling organisations to scale data protection, streamline governance, and ensure regulatory compliance like never before. This insightful session will unveil strategies to harness the power of AI for robust data security, operational efficiency, and sustainable compliance.

  • Explore how AI is reshaping the future of secure and compliant digital ecosystems.
  • Proven best practices for leveraging AI in governance and compliance frameworks
  • Actionable data strategies to ensure seamless data protection and regulatory alignment
  • How to boost operational resilience and proactively guard against data breaches

Brandon Tan, Senior Director of Sales Engineering, APAC, FORCEPOINT

12:05

Fireside Chat: Securing the New Frontier with Generative AI

According to Gartner, the adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) will bridge the skills gap by 2028 and minimise the occurrence of employee-driven security incidents. With GenAI changing things fast in cybersecurity, how will GenAI impact CISOs and their teams in 2025?

  • The expanded use of GenAI in strengthening digital defense
  • Applying security frameworks around GenAI strategies
  • Automating security and implementing AI to remediate visibility gaps
  • How will the GenAI-driven SOC co-pilots transform cybersecurity in 2025
  • Use cases of GenAI in cybersecurity

Interviewer:
Alvin Rodrigues, Editorial Consultant, CXOCIETY

Interviewees:
Tobias Klingel, Director of Information Security, ASPIRE
Tien San Chng, Cyber Technology and Strategy, Cybersecurity, TEMASEK

12:35

NETWORKING LUNCH

13:45

Keynote: Building a World-Class Vulnerability Operations Center (VOC)

In today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape, the ability to effectively manage vulnerabilities is crucial to maintaining the security and integrity of organisations. While many enterprises have a Security Operations Center (SOC) to monitor threats in real-time, the Vulnerability Operations Center (VOC) takes a more proactive approach to security by focusing on identifying, triaging, and remediating vulnerabilities before they can be exploited. This session will explore the concept of a VOC and why it is an essential evolution in cybersecurity, especially in an era where the volume and complexity of vulnerabilities can easily overwhelm security teams.

Dr. Christopher Chai, Solutions Director APJ, HACKUITY

14:10

Panel Discussion: Elevating Response and Recovery in Cybersecurity

As the world navigates the ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats and attacks, there is no way security leaders can keep up with these. According to Gartner, CISOs who elevate response and recovery to equal status with prevention are generating more value than those who adhere to outdated zero tolerance for failure mindsets. Rather than keep implementing new tools every time new cybersecurity disruption occur, CISOs should consider deploying new approaches to stay resilient.

  • How to become an augmented cybersecurity organisation
  • Setting a clear cybersecurity roadmap that thrives
  • Developing well-established processes and solutions that will be applicable regardless the threats evolution

Moderator:
Anthony Lim, Fellow of Cybersecurity Governance & FinTech, SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

Panelists:
Jeffrey Kok, VP, Solution Engineers, Asia Pacific and Japan, CYBERARK
Neal Jetton, Director Cybercrime, INTERPOL
Kamran Rafiq, CISO, MOH OFFICE FOR HEALTHCARE TRANSFORMATION (MOHT)
Tan Chin Tang, Head of IT Security, PATHOLOGY ASIA HOLDINGS (PAH)

14:50

Panel Discussion: Managing the Cybersecurity Burnout Crisis

study from BlackFog reveals that nearly a quarter of CISOs and IT Security decision makers are actively considering leaving their roles, with 93% citing overwhelming stress as the key driver. With the progressively advanced and unrelenting cyberthreats, such as AI-powered attacks, ransomware, growing vulnerability on social media platforms and data exfiltration, IT security leaders face immense pressures to secure their organisations, are tasked with mounting responsibilities and often need to work longer hours with fewer resources. How should enterprises address the burnout crisis in their IT security function?

  • The rising pressures on cybersecurity leaders
  • Fostering a strong cyberculture from the top down
  • How to address burnout and retain top cybersecurity talents
  • The path to cyber resilience through effective people management

Moderator:
Alvin Rodrigues, Editorial Consultant, CXOCIETY

Panelists:
Hwee Cher Tan, Group Head, Information Security & Data Governance, CGS INTERNATIONAL SECURITIES GROUP
Kenneth Choo Luo Yi, Head of Cyber & Governance, NTUC LEARNINGHUB
Garion Kong, Information Security Manager, Asia Pacific, SPIRAX GROUP & Senior Advisor, ISC2 SINGAPORE CHAPTER

15:30

AFTERNOON COFFEE BREAK & NETWORKING

16:00

Panel Discussion: Preventing, Detecting and Responding to Disinformation and Misinformation in the Age of AI

Gartner predicts that by 2028, 50% of enterprises will begin adopting products, services or features designed specifically to address disinformation security use cases, up from less than 5% today. In the era where disinformation campaigns are magnified by the proliferation and potential misuse of generative AI to produce what is known as “synthetic content”; if left unchecked, this can cause serious financial loss and lasting reputational damage to any organisation.

  • Disinformation 2.0 in the age of AI
  • Implementing disinformation security to combat disinformation
  • Integrating and implementing ethical AI and ML to prevent the spread of misinformation

Moderator:
Dr. Anuradha Rao, Founder, CYBERCOGNIZANZ

Panelists:
Dr. Yi (Estelle) Wang, Head of Product Cybersecurity & Privacy Office, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE SINGAPORE
Alvin Lim, Head of InfoSec and Data Protection Officer, ENDOWUS
Devki Gourav Pal, Vice President, Head of Cyber Security Operations – Corporate, LAZADA

16:40

Fireside Chat: Integrating Cyber Crisis Management into Incident Response Plan

The recent case with CrowdStrike and prolonged outages suffered by cloud hyperscalers serve as a stark reminder of the ever-present challenges in managing complex cybersecurity environments and the importance of having a well-rehearsed incident response plan. With the ever-changing cyber threat environments and ransomware are poised to become even more sophisticated, fused with AI and automation to increase the speed and precision of their attacks – how should CISO enable effective incident response in the years to come?

  • The growing role of Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platforms to manage incidents more effectively
  • Developing an organisational approach to incident response preparedness
  • Maintaining strong incident response plan amidst fluctuating regulatory landscape
  • Real-world examples of secure framework implementations

Interviewer:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY

Interviewees:
Varun Srivastava, APAC Head – Cyber Security Operations, GLOBAL FSI
Eric Wong, Director of Cybersecurity, SYNAPXE

17:10

CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS

17:20

END OF CONFERENCE

2025 SPEAKERS

Allan Tan

Group Editor-in-Chief

CXOCIETY

Andre Shori

APAC Cybersecurity VP and CISO

SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC

Anthony Lim

Fellow of Cybersecurity Governance & FinTech

SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

Devki Gourav Pal

Vice President, Head of Cyber Security Operations - Corporate

LAZADA

Dr. Christopher Chai

Solutions Director APJ

HACKUITY

Garion Kong

Senior Advisor

ISC2 SINGAPORE CHAPTER

Kamran Rafiq

CISO

MOH OFFICE FOR HEALTHCARE TRANSFORMATION (MOHT)

Lavy Stokhamer

Global Head, Cyber Security Operations

STANDARD CHARTERED

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General Manager - Cyber Security Hub Lead

MERCEDES-BENZ SINGAPORE

Shaofei Huang

Group CISO

SMRT CORPORATION

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CISO - Asia Pacific

AIRBUS

Tien San Chng

Cyber Technology and Strategy, Cybersecurity

TEMASEK

Tobias Klingel

Head of Information Security

ASPIRE

Veronica Tan

Director, Safer Cyberspace Division
CYBER SECURITY AGENCY OF SINGAPORE (CSA)

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