AHS 3|26 - New Frontiers in Digital Resilience
New Frontiers in Digital Resilience: Cascading Risks and the Human Factors
Digital resilience has become one of the defining challenges of our era, yet our frameworks for understanding and managing it are struggling to keep pace with the reality of interconnected, interdependent systems. This session brings together insights from two major international initiatives to explore what the frontiers of digital resilience actually look like in 2026.
Drawing on the ITU's Critical Digital Risks report, the session opens by reframing the threat landscape. While cybersecurity rightly commands attention, the scenarios that pose the most systemic risk are often non-intentional: solar storms disrupting power grids and navigation across continents; heatwaves cascading from overheated data centres into health systems and financial clearing; severed submarine cables taking down entire regions for weeks. Most business continuity plans are simply not designed for this reality. The second thread draws on the WEF Global Future Council on Cybersecurity's work on a common cyber language, and what it reveals about why resilience so often fails at the moment of truth. The third frontier is psychological: how cognitive biases, organizational culture, and human behavior under stress shape our ability to build and sustain resilience in practice. For cybersecurity professionals, this session translates global-level insight into organizational reality, and discusses concrete implications for how we think, communicate, and act on digital risk.
Event Properties
- Event Date
- 09. Jun 2026 16:40
- Sprache / Language
- English
- CPE Hours
- 1
- Location
- Hybrid Event - Detecon (Schweiz), Zurich AG
- EB_TYP
- After Hour Seminars
- Individual Price
- This Event is for free
Speakers
Öykü Isik
Öykü is an expert in digital strategy, cybersecurity, and digital risk. A computer scientist by training, she holds a PhD in Information Systems from the University of North Texas and focuses on the intersection of technology management and organizational resilience. Most recently a Professor of Digital Strategy and Cybersecurity at IMD Business School, she led flagship programs in AI for Business and Cybersecurity Strategy and Risk. Öykü currently serves as the co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Cybersecurity, contributing to international initiatives on bridging the cyber skills gap. She also co-chairs the ITU & UN Disaster Risk Recovery collaborative initiative on Critical Digital Risks.
Her research and insights are published in leading journals such as Information & Management as well as Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. Recognized as a Thinkers50 Radar member and a multi-year Swiss ‘Digital Shaper,’ she brings a global perspective to critical digital infrastructure, having lived and worked in Belgium, the United States, and Turkey before moving to Switzerland. She currently advises organizations on digital resilience and delivers executive education mandates on the strategic implications of emerging technologies.