DAY 2 | FREE TRACK
IoT Security and Embedded Systems
10:00 - 10:15
Chairperson's Opening Remarks
Chairpersons welcome and opening remarks
10:15 - 10:35
Presentation: Threat Detection and Incident Response in Distributed Systems
An operator from energy, transport or industrial automation outlines how they monitor, identify and respond to threats across complex, geographically distributed networks. The session highlights modern detection tooling, SOC‑to‑OT workflows and lessons from real incidents.
10:40 - 11:25
Panel Discussion: Defending City-Scale and Industrial‑Scale Connected Systems
Leaders from utilities, manufacturing, logistics and public infrastructure share how they manage cyber risk in critical environments. The panel explores segmentation, redundancy, cross‑agency coordination and the specific challenges of protecting systems that cannot be taken offline.
11:30 - 11:50
Presentation: Securing Machine-to-Machine Communications and Data Flows
A technical session on protecting communications across IoT, OT and edge‑to‑cloud systems. Topics include encrypted protocols, key rotation, secure tunnelling, network isolation and approaches for securing fast, low‑latency machine traffic essential to modern operations.
11:50 - 12:30
Networking Break
12:30 - 12:50
Understanding Risk in Cyber-Physical Systems
As Cyber‑Physical Systems (CPS) become deeply embedded in industrial operations, healthcare, transport, and critical infrastructure, the risks extend far beyond data breaches—cyber incidents can now trigger real‑world safety hazards, equipment failures, and major operational disruption. For CISOs, the expanding attack surface created by legacy OT, complex system interdependencies, and insecure protocols means that securing CPS is no longer a technical challenge alone but a strategic imperative requiring close alignment between cybersecurity, engineering, and operational teams.
12:30 - 12:50
Presentation: Navigating the EU Cyber Resilience Act
Europe’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is reshaping how organisations design, secure, and maintain digital products throughout their lifecycle. This track dives deep into what compliance really means—beyond simply meeting regulatory checkboxes. Sessions will explore the practical steps required to interpret CRA provisions, embed secure‑by‑default principles into product development, and establish clear governance structures that demonstrate conformity.
12:55 - 13:15
Presentation: Establishing Trust at the Edge: Device Identity and Runtime Protection for Intelligent Systems
This session explores how modern embedded and connected devices establish secure identities and maintain trusted operation in the field. It covers secure provisioning, hardware‑rooted identities, certificate lifecycles, and the mechanisms used to protect firmware, AI models and system state during runtime. Through practical examples across industrial, automotive and IoT deployments, attendees will learn how identity and runtime protection form the foundation of trustworthy autonomous and intelligent systems.
13:15 - 14:15
Lunch Break
14:15 - 14:35
Presentation: The Modern Embedded Toolchain – From Firmware to CI/CD Pipelines
An engineer discusses toolchains for firmware development, testing, code quality, automation and lifecycle support. The discussion includes cross‑compilers, simulators, emulators, build systems, reproducible firmware builds and how embedded teams adopt DevOps‑style workflows.
14:40 - 14:50
Presentation: Hardware–Software Co-Design for Intelligent Devices
A technology provider explains how to co‑optimise silicon, firmware, memory and peripheral interfaces to support next‑generation embedded workloads including sensing, lightweight AI inference and high‑reliability control loops.
14:55 - 15:15
Presentation: The Future of Embedded Systems in the Physical AI Era
A forward‑looking presentation on how embedded systems are evolving as the physical world becomes increasingly intelligent. This session examines the shift toward edge compute, emerging microcontroller architectures, tiny ML, new power‑efficient designs and the role of embedded engineering in autonomous infrastructure.