Come out the night before the event to get an early start on networking with your manufacturing peers. The reception will be taking place on site at the meeting foyer of the Westin Crystal City Reagan National Airport.

Feel free to join other manufacturing leaders for some networking and a light breakfast. 

Set the scene for the day's agenda with Manufacturers Alliance's John Miller.

As new threats emerge, especially in regards to AI capacities, manufacturing cyber leaders will need to pivot strategies. Hear about the upcoming priorities of the Office of National Cyber Director (ONCD) directly from the White House's Seeyew Mo, Assistant National Cyber Director for Workforce, Education, and Awareness at the ONCD. He'll also share the National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan and insights about the Cyber workforce and the “people” aspect of resilience.

Despite the concerns and challenges of AI-powered security threats — making AI both a threat and an asset — using artificial intelligence tools may save cyber professionals valuable time and money. Explore the rapidly growing applications for AI during this guided session with Joel Max, Cybersecurity Officer, Smart Infrastructure USA, Siemens Industry.

Threat Groups continue to strengthen their grip around the neck of manufactures. Between named threats with documented tactics to newly identified threat groups with impressive modular attacks paths, manufacturers have taken the brunt of many of these attacks. Unlike utilities and government entities, manufacturers do not have access to resources, regulations, or a lack of competition. 

In this presentation, Elan Alvey, Senior Industrial Consultant Threat Operations Center at Dragos, will share resources available to manufacturers and practical implementation of some of the resources, such as SANS 5 Critical Controls. Attendees will also look at current and emerging threat groups and how proper planning and mitigation can help protect an environment.

Join Fred Hobbs, Cyber Security Director and Nuvera Information Technology Manager at Hyster-Yale Materials Handling as he shares his insights on third-party risks.

Take the opportunity to discuss challenges, successes, solutions, and lessons learned over lunch. Reconnect with industry leaders or make new contacts as you take a break from presentations.

Ransomware attacks are a severe threat to any business, but especially to manufacturing organizations that rely on data and systems to operate efficiently and safely. To prevent disruptions, equipment damage, compromised quality, and exposure of sensitive information, manufacturing businesses need a storage strategy that can protect their data from ransomware and enable fast recovery in case of an attack. 

Learn how a leading manufacturer implemented a modern storage architecture that combines immutable object storage, edge caching, and rapid file recovery to create a best-in-class defense against ransomware attacks. Also hear from industry expert John Capello at Nasuni about the benefits of this approach, such as reducing the time-to-recovery from weeks to minutes, improving performance and scalability, and lowering costs.

You will also discover:

• The three pillars of a storage strategy built for ransomware protection: immutable object storage, edge caching and composable infrastructure
• A case study including the situation before modernization, the implementation and the benefits today
• Lessons learned from deploying these strategies

With topics customized for the attendees' concerns, we'll spend the hour in discussion and workshop mode as attendees share current or future concerns and have the opportunity to solicit feedback from the group on issues facing their companies.

Close out the conference with insights from Mike Flynn, Vice President & Counsel of Government Affairs at Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), on cyber standards that are gaining group, conversations on the Hill that are worth tracking, and technology geo-politics that could impact the sector.