| 09:30 - 10:00 | Registration
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| 10:00 - 10:15 | Opening Remarks
- Seizo Onoe, Director, TSB, ITU
- H.E. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti, Chair, SG17RG-ARB I Head of Cyber Security, UAE
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10:15 - 12:45
| Featured Sessions
- Bhavya Singh, Senior Threat Hunter, CPX : "Buried in Threat Intel? Reimagine Threat Hunting with AI Agents"
- Sachin Koshy, Manager, SOC Engineering, CPX: "AI SOC without Borders: Securing Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Enterprises at Scale"
- Amit Menon, Manager, Cyber Consulting Services, CPX : "Build, Deploy or Consume? A Persona-Based Approach to AI Security"
- Gopinath Rajendiren, Manager, Threat Intelligence, CPX : "The Cybercrime Supply Chain: How Access, Data, and Money Fuel Today's Attacks"
- Fazil Ahmed, Manager, SOC Monitoring (OT Cybersecurity), CPX & Georgii Soroka Manager , SOC Engineering (OT Cybersecurity), CPX: "Why Most OT SOCs Fail and What the Best Ones Do Differently"
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12:45 - 13:30
| Lunch Break
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13:30 - 14:30
| Scenario 1: The Long Tail - Quantum risk in the incident queue
A threat that is years away does not automatically leave years to prepare. This is an exercise for the people responsible for overseeing critical systems i.e., those who receive reports, write the rules and answer for the outcome. It sets aside the mathematics and the migration roadmaps but asks something narrower and more immediate: what happens to established incident-handling and supervisory practice when an adversary can “harvest now and decrypt” later? Through a series of challenges, participants take supervisory decisions under pressure and identify where established frameworks, assumptions and authorities hold up, and where they do not. Each challenge approaches this from different operational angles, but all point at the same thing: what changes for the people responsible for oversight when the threat model changes underneath them.
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| 14:30 - 16:30 | Scenario 2: Kill two birds with one stone: Technology Innovation Institute
This exercise will focus on practical security problems created by the implementation and use of post-quantum cryptography. A strong cryptographic primitive does not automatically make the system around it secure. Through a series of CTF-style challenges, participants will analyse systems and artefacts involving post-quantum cryptographic mechanisms, including FALCON and HAWK, and identify weaknesses introduced through implementation, integration, protocol design, configuration, operational assumptions or information leakage. It is not about “breaking PQC” but about understanding where security assumptions fail once cryptography is implemented and exposed to a real attack surface. The individual challenges approach this from different technical angles, but they all contribute to the same question: What new security problems emerge when post-quantum cryptography becomes part of real systems?
- Mukul Kulkarni, Director, PQC Cryptography Research Center
- Jesus Dominguez, Senior Cryptographer, PQC Cryptography Research Center
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18 September 2026
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11:00 -12:00
| Prize Distribution & Closing Ceremony
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