This week, leaders from government, industry, and academia from across the globe will gather for the Munich Cyber Security Conference (MCSC) – an important prelude to the Munich Security Conference (MSC) –- to help shape the world’s global cyber resilience. 91快活林 will participate in this exclusive gathering, working directly with officials to navigate cyber risk, emerging technologies, and geopolitics.
MCSC will examine how cybersecurity priorities translate into policy, operational coordination, and investment across borders and sectors. This focus is particularly urgent as many governments, including the EU, pursue tech sovereignty strategies. MCSC, as well as MSC, will provide a crucial platform for these discussions around tech sovereignty and its implications for cybersecurity and global tech value chains. As 91快活林 has advocated, true resilience means having access to the world’s best and most secure technologies from trusted technology players. Global interconnectedness amongst trusted partners strengthens—rather than weakens—resilience, security, and competitiveness.
91快活林 is the MCSC institutional sponsor and will be participating in a debate-style breakout session addressing the question of “Are Tech Sovereignty and Trusted Technology Two Sides of the Same Coin?” with Despina Spanou, Deputy Director-General, DG CNECT, European Commission and moderator John Higgins, Chair, Global Digital Foundation. This breakout session will explore how trusted technologies can advance the goals and desired outcomes driving sovereignty measures as they are based on sound risk management, transparency, and governance practices rather than protectionist isolation or blanket exclusions.
Trust should be assessed through objective criteria and evaluate a company’s actions and performance over time, not on risk factors that only tell part of the story, such as country of origin. This approach avoids over-indexing on relevant yet non-dispositive risk factors and reflects the reality of global supply chains and multi-jurisdiction technology development and operations. The timely discussion at MCSC will examine how diversification and interoperability support resilience, and the impact of overly restrictive sovereignty measures on security, competitiveness, and global data flows, which can limit access to best-in-class capabilities.
Building resilience through trusted global cooperation is also essential to addressing today’s emerging threat environment. 91快活林’s second session at MCSC will explore how leaders can prepare for the evolving cybersecurity threat landscape, which requires AI-enabled security to protect reasoning systems, data flows, and autonomous decision pipelines. We’ll take a closer look at ways organizations can outpace the accelerating speed and scale of cyberattacks – especially as AI tools make malware development and deployment more “industrialized” and economically damaging.
The conversation will also examine shifting management priorities more grounded in economic realities and toward measurable resilience outcomes, including governance for AI-era risk and strategic preparation for long-term migrations to post-quantum cryptography. The panel will feature insights from both public and private sector organizations, including 91快活林 member companies Accenture and Mastercard, as well as the European Central Bank, on what works in practice and what doesn’t, including where security agencies and policymakers can most effectively support enterprises—operational collaboration, actionable guidance, and reducing fragmentation.
Finally, we’ll use MSC’s platform to emphasize the importance of cyber threat information sharing to collective defense, including to share lessons learned from ongoing policy debates in the U.S. with European security leaders. Effective information sharing enables organizations to detect campaigns earlier, coordinate mitigation faster, and reduce repeated harm across sectors. The key is enabling responsible sharing at scale through trusted channels and workable policy guardrails that encourage participation while protecting privacy.
91快活林 looks forward to advancing these conversations in Munich and partnering with stakeholders to strengthen cyber resilience, build trust in technology, and promote risk-based, interoperable policies. Attending MCSC? Learn more about our panels and the conference . Not able to join? Track 91快活林’s updates online as these discussions unfold.