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CXO Collective EMEA Vienna
CXO Collective EMEA Vienna

EMEA, Vienna, Austria

Exploring Cyber Resilience in Strategy and Practice

22-24 October 2025

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The CXO Collective: Curated. Insightful. Impactful.

Cyber resilience is more than a checkbox or failsafe. It's a key business strategy. But too often IT, security, and data executives work in silos when business continuity and risk management should be a shared aim. Today's CXOs need a forum to workshop strategies and design cross-functional implementation plans to ensure their organizations remain ahead of business disruption—before the inevitable incident becomes a material event.

Rubrik CXO Collectives are exclusive two-day gatherings designed for CXOs, by CXOs. These forums offer the opportunity for candid conversations about real-world problems and strategies to solve them among CIOs, CISOs, and CTOs across industries—all within a strictly confidential setting free of media and exhibitors.

Previous Featured Speakers

Bipul Sinha

Bipul Sinha

CEO, Chairman & Co-Founder

Rubrik

Kavitha Mariappan

Kavitha Mariappan

Chief Transformation Officer

Rubrik

Arvind Nithrakashyap

Arvind Nithrakashyap

CTO & Co-Founder

Rubrik

Ramon Ali

Ramon Ali

Head of Infrastructure Engineering, & Head of CISO Engineering and Architecture

Barclays

Antoinette Van der Merwe

Antoinette Van der Merwe

Chief Director, Information Technology

Stellenbosch University

Jousry Abdel-Khalek

Jousry Abdel-Khalek

Group CISO, Group DPO and Head of Group Risk Management

Liechtensteinische Landesbank

Guillaume Pool

Guillaume Pool

Global CTO

Super Group Holdings

Why Attend

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Expand Your Professional Network:

Connect with fellow CXOs for unique insights on strategic challenges facing organizations and opportunities for overcoming them.

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Access Shared Intelligence:

Through keynotes and interactive breakouts, learn from executives with experience impacting organizational success through thoughtful resilience planning.

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Operationalize Security Insights:

Meet with Rubrik executives, product leaders, and engineering teams to discover how to seamlessly integrate business continuity solutions into existing IT and security strategies.

Be a Part of Exclusive Community

Be a Part of Exclusive Community:

Our tailored guest lists ensure only the most relevant industry peers will be in attendance for these discrete, private experiences offering the opportunity to share candid feedback on the Rubrik product roadmap.

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Immerse yourself in the history, passion, and energy of Rome

Anantara Palais Hansen Vienna Hotel

Schottenring 24/1010, 1010 Wien, Austria

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Venue

22 OCTOBER

6:00 PM

Special Event

Welcome Reception & Dinner

Join us for an opportunity to network with peers and enjoy an unforgettable dining experience at the Anantara Palais Hansen Hotel Theo's Lounge & Bar.

Welcome Reception & Dinner

23 OCTOBER

8:00 AM

Breakfast

9:00 AM

Welcome Comments & Opening Keynote

The Trifecta: Data Protection, Cyber Resilience, AI Acceleration

Rubrik Chief Transformation Officer, Kavitha Mariappan, explores Rubrik's position at the intersection of data protection, cyber resilience, and enterprise AI acceleration. Learn how the Rubrik Security Cloud platform delivers robust cyber resilience and recovery, including identity resilience, for business continuity.

Kavitha Mariappan

Kavitha Mariappan

Chief Transformation Officer

Rubrik

Jousry Abdel-Khalek

Jousry Abdel-Khalek

Group CISO, Group DPO and Head of Group Risk Management

Liechtensteinische Landesbank

9:45 AM

Platform Innovation Keynote

Charting the Roadmap for the Rubrik Security Cloud

Rubrik Co-Founder and CTO Arvind Nithrakashyap dives deep into Rubrik product features and releases as the company evolves to protect customers' data from novel threats, securely enable the full promise of AI advancements, and outpace the competition.

Arvind Nithrakashyap

Arvind Nithrakashyap

CTO & Co-Founder

Rubrik

Guillaume Pool

Guillaume Pool

Global CTO

Super Group Holdings

10:15 AM

CXO Fireside Chat

Data Protection & Cyber Resilience Lessons from the Trenches

We highlight the data protection and resilience-building efforts of forward-thinking CXOs in this interactive drill-down on the strategies and tactics innovative IT and security leaders are pursuing for their organizations.

Ramon Ali

Ramon Ali

Head of Infrastructure Engineering, & Head of CISO Engineering and Architecture

Barclays

Kavitha Mariappan

Kavitha Mariappan

Chief Transformation Officer

Rubrik

10:45 AM

Networking Break

11:15 AM

Interactive Breakouts

The Rubrik Security Cloud: One Platform for Complete Cyber Resilience

The Rubrik Security Cloud (RSC) is a SaaS platform combining backup, recovery, and data security into a single solution, helping users detect threats faster, minimize risk, and recover with confidence. Built on zero trust principles, RSC protects data across enterprise, cloud, and SaaS environments.

Join us to learn:

  • How unified visibility and control simplifies management and reduces complexity, leading to more rapid recoveries without malware reinfection
  • The power of proactive threat detection with AI-powered analytics that identify anomalies and indicators of compromise before they escalate
  • Security benefits of automated data security posture management that discovers, classifies, and controls access to sensitive information
Arvind Nithrakashyap

Arvind Nithrakashyap

CTO & Co-Founder

Rubrik

Gowri Rao Krishnamurthy

Gowri Rao Krishnamurthy

Sr. Director, Product Management

Rubrik

James Hughes

James Hughes

VP, Sales Engineering

Rubrik

Key Capabilities for Rapid & Reliable Identity Restoration

When identity systems fail, business stops. Recovering Microsoft AD Forests can take days and involve manual, error-prone processes. Entra ID applications are rarely backed up, making rebuilds even more complex. Okta does not offer native tenant-level recovery, and organizations often miss critical configurations, attributes, and metadata during restoration.

Join us to learn:

  • How Rubrik Identity Recovery helps secure hybrid and multi-IdP environments, dramatically reducing mean time to recovery 
  • Benefits of automating complex restoration workflows, validating integrity before cutover, and providing point-in-time recovery across systems
  • How organizations can quickly and confidently restore identity services—minimizing downtime, protecting revenue, and safeguarding customer trust
Alka Tandon

Alka Tandon

Sr. Director, Product Management

Rubrik

Mike Tornincasa

Mike Tornincasa

Chief Business Officer

Rubrik

12:00 PM

Lunch & Networking

1:30 PM

Interactive Breakouts

Establishing End-to-End Cyber Resilience for Microsoft 365

Today's attacks repeatedly begin with identity compromise and end with data exfiltration or ransomware. This playbook, repeatedly deployed by threat actors, calls out for a response. To become resilient, organizations must be confident their cyber posture allows for recovery across their entire targeted surface area—and quickly.

Join us to learn:

  • How accurate data classification helps limit sensitive data exposure
  • How the Rubrik Security Cloud unifies cyber posture and recovery for Microsoft 365 environments
  • Benefits of a unified control plane for streamlined backup, posture, threat, and recovery management
Alka Tandon

Alka Tandon

Sr. Director, Product Management

Rubrik

Richard Cassidy

Richard Cassidy

Field CISO

Rubrik

From Risk to Return: A Business Value Framework for Cyber Resilience

In today's digital economy, cyber resilience can be a core driver of business performance, trust and continuity.  Through real-world insights and executive perspectives, explore how to transform cyber resilience management into strategic advantage that safeguards operations, strengthens trust and aligns to business growth initiatives.

  • Reframe cyber resilience as a value driver - rather than known to be a cost of compliance and protection
  • Learn methods to quantify and communicate the financial and operational impact of resilience investments
  • Explore a structured approach to connect initiatives to organizational priorities, risk appetite and regulatory expectations
Lauren Wise

Lauren Wise

Sr. Director, CXO Value Economics and Operations

Rubrik

Florian Beauml

Florian Beauml

VP, Sales EMEA

Rubrik

Francesco Chiarini

Francesco Chiarini

Founder and Chairman

ISSA

2:15 PM

Transition Break

2:40 PM

Afternoon Keynote

Cyber Resilience in Practice: Leveraging EU Frameworks to Increase Readiness and Maturity

The evolving European cyber resilience regulatory landscape -through NIS2, DORA, CER, Cyber Resilience Act, and the EU AI Act- demands that move beyond compliance and build verifiable cyber resilience. This shift relies on two critical enablers: accountable leadership and measurable progress. This keynote translates regulatory intent into practice, showing how to embed cyber resilience across strategy, operating models, processes, and technology. It highlights the growing importance of the Cyber Resilience Officer (CRO) role and demonstrates how the Cyber Resilience Capability Maturity Model (CR-CMM) can guide organizations in advancing their resiliency posture.

Francesco Chiarini

Francesco Chiarini

Founder and Chairman

ISSA

3:15 PM

Innovation Keynote

An Early Look at Rubrik's AI Operations Platform

Dev Rishi

Dev Rishi

GM, AI

Rubrik

3:45 PM

Thought Leadership Keynote

The Intentional Innovator: Leading through an Age of Rapid AI Advancement

From a vantage point spanning tech, academia, and advisory appointments, Benjamin Bargetzi specializes in helping high-performing individuals get the most out of themselves. In this fast-paced keynote, he will draw from deep expertise in brain science, cutting-edge AI research, and leadership to explore how IT & security executives can help steer their organizations through periods of rapid technological development. 

Benjamin Bargetzi

Benjamin Bargetzi

Keynote Speaker & Bestseller Author

Enbridge

4:20 PM

Additional Interactive Breakout

AI Resilience: Building and Accelerating AI Agents with Rubrik

Today's CISOs and CIOs must walk the fine line of accelerating AI adoption to harness the productivity gains without putting their organizations at risk. But open-source models are often insufficient for organization-specific needs and don't integrate well into existing workflows. Agentic AI presents even further opportunity for enhanced output, but requires potentially hazardous levels of access and autonomy.

Join us to learn:

  • How the acquisition of Predibase and release of Agent Rewind, powered by Rubrik metadata and data lake, can help organizations securely deploy GenAI
  • Strategies for harnessing the maximum benefits of agentic applications without succumbing to the risks
  • How AI security solutions can help teams build and deploy models with speed and confidence, accelerating ROI
Arvind Nithrakashyap

Arvind Nithrakashyap

CTO & Co-Founder

Rubrik

Dev Rishi

Dev Rishi

GM, AI

Rubrik

4:20 PM

Afternoon Break

6:00 PM

Evening Experience at Palais Liechstenstein

Experience an exclusive evening in Vienna at a princely palace. Set within a unique historical estate steeped in regal splendor, this will be an evening to remember. Expect captivating ambiance, centuries-old charm, and an unforgettable opportunity to step back in time—just for one remarkable night.

24 OCTOBER

9:00 AM

Welcome Remarks

CXO Collective Welcome Remarks

Rubrik Chief Transformation Office Kavitha Mariappan kicks off day two of the CXO Collective with a preview of upcoming research from Rubrik Zero Labs on identity-driven cyber threats.

Kavitha Mariappan

Kavitha Mariappan

Chief Transformation Officer

Rubrik

9:05 AM

Keynote

Quantifying the Business Benefits of Cyber Resilience

Cyber resilience is no longer a defensive tactic. It’s a strategic business enabler. This session introduces a cyber resilience business value framework that helps organizations evaluate their current posture, understand the true cost and complexity of their operations, and identify opportunities for return potential. 

Lauren Wise

Lauren Wise

Sr. Director, CXO Value Economics and Operations

Rubrik

9:35 AM

Networking Break

10:00 AM

Interactive Breakouts

Challenges & Opportunities for Cloud-Based Cyber Recovery

Cloud-native applications are critical revenue and productivity drivers, but their distributed nature makes it harder to ensure their resilience. Attackers know this, and are increasing cloud attacks in response. Organizations struggle to understand what data is exposed, how long recovery would take, and how to demonstrate resilience to stakeholders like boards and regulators.

Join us to learn:

  • How Rubrik Cloud Application Resilience introduces a unified platform to protect data and configurations associated with top-tier applications
  • How automated orchestration helps reduce the impact of cyber incidents
  • Key resilience capabilities including continuous cloud discovery, orchestrated application recovery, and centralized monitoring and reporting
Arvind Nithrakashyap

Arvind Nithrakashyap

CTO & Co-Founder

Rubrik

Alka Tandon

Alka Tandon

Sr. Director, Product Management

Rubrik

Profiles in Resilience: Recovery Capabilities for Real-World Scenarios

Cyber incidents hit organizations of all sizes, sectors, and verticals indiscriminately. What separates those that are able to recover in minutes or hours rather than days, weeks, or months? This session explores the architecture and solutions organizations have in place that allow them to remain resilient in the face of cyber threats.

Join us to learn:

  • Why ransomware and other cyber threats continue to threaten data despite technical controls
  • The architecture and tooling required to drive faster cyber recovery, limiting downtime and data loss
  • How to make the best use of existing cybersecurity solutions and partner capabilities to maximize resilience
James Hughes

James Hughes

VP, Sales Engineering

Rubrik

Richard Cassidy

Richard Cassidy

Field CISO

Rubrik

10:30 AM

Transition Break

10:45 AM

Interactive Workshop

Interactive Workshop: Save the Data CXO Workshop

This simulation immerses executives in a realistic, high-pressure ransomware incident affecting a critical SaaS provider to global financial institutions. Participants navigate the cascading impacts of a sophisticated cyberattack by a well-organized threat actor involving both large-scale data exfiltration and operational disruption. The scenario reflects authentic pressures faced by financial services providers under current regulatory regimes (SEC, GDPR, NIS2, MAS TRM, APRA). Dialogue, timelines, and decision points are based on real-world incident responses from recent major cyber events, with pacing and ambiguity to mirror the pressures of real board-level crisis governance.

Kavitha Mariappan

Kavitha Mariappan

Chief Transformation Officer

Rubrik

Richard Cassidy

Richard Cassidy

Field CISO

Rubrik

Achieving Enterprise Data Protection Across Hybrid IT Environments

Cloud data sprawl, acquisitions of major infrastructure providers, and a concerted effort by threat actors to target backups represent significant challenges for enterprise data protection programs today. Many IT and security leaders are responsible for managing and protecting hybrid and multi-cloud environments on top of on-premise data centers, stretching resources thin and introducing ample opportunity for security oversight.

Join us to learn: 

  • How legacy recovery technologies threaten the availability and integrity of enterprise data
  • Deficiencies in cloud-native recovery capabilities and how threat actors target them
  • Critical capabilities of purpose-built solutions that help teams overcome enterprise data security challenges
Arvind Nithrakashyap

Arvind Nithrakashyap

CTO & Co-Founder

Rubrik

Gowri Rao Krishnamurthy

Gowri Rao Krishnamurthy

Sr. Director, Product Management

Rubrik

Stephan Schickling

Stephan Schickling

SVP Digital Core

Evonik

Pascal Reif

Pascal Reif

Head of Network & Server Operations

Evonik

11:15 AM

Transition Break

11:30 AM

Customer CXO Panel

How Today's CXOs are Pursuing Digital Transformation for Data Protection

Learn how experienced IT and security leaders are navigating challenges including data sprawl in hybrid and multi-cloud environments, identity-driven cyber threats, backup-related compliance concerns, RTO requirements, AI-enablement, and more in this candid conversation among accomplished CXOs.

James Hughes

James Hughes

VP, Sales Engineering

Rubrik

Antoinette Van der Merwe

Antoinette Van der Merwe

Chief Director, Information Technology

Stellenbosch University

Alexander Ietan

Alexander Ietan

CIO

Kremsmueller

12:05 PM

Closing Remarks

12:15 PM

Networking Lunch & Farewell

1:30 PM

Networking Experience at Schlumberger Cellars

Join your peers for a guided walk through Austria’s oldest and largest sparkling wine cellar, a stunning maze of vaulted cellars crafted by the renowned engineer Carl Ritter von Ghega. 

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