Exploring Cyber
Resilience in Strategy and Practice
22-24 October, 2025 EMEA | Vienna
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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.
Featured Speakers
Bipul Sinha
CEO, Chairman & Co-Founder
Rubrik
Kavitha Mariappan
Chief Transformation Officer
Rubrik
Arvind Nithrakashyap
CTO & Co-Founder
Rubrik
Mike Tornincasa
Chief Business Officer
Rubrik
Ramon Ali
Head of Infrastructure Engineering,
& Head of CISO
Engineering and Architecture
Barclays
Michele Mariella
Chief Information Officer
Group Maire
Antoinette
Van der Merwe
Chief Director, Information Technology
Stellenbosch University
Benjamin Bargetzi
Keynote Speaker & Bestseller
Author
Why Attend
Discover the timeless beauty and modern energy of Vienna
Anantara Palais Hansen Vienna Hotel
Schottenring 24, 1010 Vienna, Austria
Agenda
22 October
6:00 PM CEST
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.
23 OCTOBER
8:00 AM CEST
Breakfast
9:00 AM CEST
WELCOME REMARKS
CXO Collective Welcome Remarks
With nine of 10 organizations report experiencing a cyberattack in the last year, and one in five reporting 25 or more, the odds are stacked against defenders. Learn why today's cyber threat landscape mandates a focus on resilience and business continuity in the face of increasingly identity-driven and AI-enabled attacks.
9:15 AM CEST
OPENING KEYNOTE
The Trifecta: Data Protection, Cyber Resilience, AI Acceleration
Rubrik CEO, Chairman, & Co-Founder Bipul Sinha 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.
9:45 AM CEST
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.
10:15 AM CEST
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.
10:45 AM CEST
BREAK
Networking Break
11:15 AM CEST
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
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
12:00 PM CEST
BREAK
Lunch & Networking
1:30 PM CEST
INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP
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
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
2:15 PM CEST
BREAK
Transition Break
2:30 PM CEST
BREAK
Afternoon Keynote
3:00 PM CEST
INNOVATION KEYNOTE
An Early Look at Rubrik's AI Operations Platform
3:30 PM CEST
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.
4:00 PM CEST
BREAK
Afternoon Break
5:45 PM CEST
SPECIAL EVENT
Evening Experience
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
8:00 AM CEST
Breakfast
9:00 AM CEST
WELCOME REMARKS
CXO Collective: Welcome to Day 2
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.
9:05 AM CEST
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.
9:35 AM CEST
BREAK
Networking Break
10:00 AM CEST
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
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
10:30 AM CEST
BREAK
Transition Break
10:45 AM CEST
INTERACTIVE BREAKOUTS
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.
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
11:15 AM CEST
BREAK
Transition Break
11:30 AM CEST
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.
12:05 PM CEST
Closing Remarks
12:15 AM CEST
Networking Lunch & Farewell