

EMEA, Vienna, Austria
22-24 October 2025
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.

Bipul Sinha
CEO, Chairman & Co-Founder
Rubrik

Kavitha Mariappan
Chief Transformation Officer
Rubrik

Arvind Nithrakashyap
CTO & Co-Founder
Rubrik

Ramon Ali
Head of Infrastructure Engineering, & Head of CISO Engineering and Architecture
Barclays

Antoinette Van der Merwe
Chief Director, Information Technology
Stellenbosch University

Jousry Abdel-Khalek
Group CISO, Group DPO and Head of Group Risk Management
Liechtensteinische Landesbank

Guillaume Pool
Global CTO
Super Group Holdings

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

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

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

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.
venue
Anantara Palais Hansen Vienna Hotel
Schottenring 24/1010, 1010 Wien, Austria

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.

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
Chief Transformation Officer
Rubrik

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
CTO & Co-Founder
Rubrik

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

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:

Arvind Nithrakashyap
CTO & Co-Founder
Rubrik

Gowri Rao Krishnamurthy
Sr. Director, Product Management
Rubrik

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:

Alka Tandon
Sr. Director, Product Management
Rubrik

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:

Alka Tandon
Sr. Director, Product Management
Rubrik

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.

Lauren Wise
Sr. Director, CXO Value Economics and Operations
Rubrik

Florian Beauml
VP, Sales EMEA
Rubrik

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
Founder and Chairman
ISSA
3:15 PM
Innovation Keynote
An Early Look at Rubrik's AI Operations Platform

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
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:

Arvind Nithrakashyap
CTO & Co-Founder
Rubrik

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.
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
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
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:

Arvind Nithrakashyap
CTO & Co-Founder
Rubrik

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:

James Hughes
VP, Sales Engineering
Rubrik

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
Chief Transformation Officer
Rubrik

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:

Arvind Nithrakashyap
CTO & Co-Founder
Rubrik

Gowri Rao Krishnamurthy
Sr. Director, Product Management
Rubrik

Stephan Schickling
SVP Digital Core
Evonik

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
VP, Sales Engineering
Rubrik

Antoinette Van der Merwe
Chief Director, Information Technology
Stellenbosch University

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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