Cyber Sovereignty & Digital Resilience: Who Owns Your Security When It Matters Most?
Cyber Sovereignty & Digital Resilience
Who Owns Your Security When It Matters Most?
A private executive luncheon at the Royal Air Force Club. Limited places.
When disruption strikes, can your organisation retain control and keep operating?
Cybersecurity sits at the heart of digital sovereignty, business continuity and leadership accountability. Decisions about identity, cloud platforms, AI and third-party suppliers determine how much control organisations retain when it matters most.
For leaders, this raises critical questions:
Who controls access to your systems and data? Which dependencies could interrupt essential services? How credible are your recovery plans?
Hosted by Danette Copestake, this private, three-hour executive briefing brings together a carefully curated group of senior leaders to examine these questions through practical scenarios, a working lunch and candid peer discussion.
The conversation will focus on five leadership priorities:
Identity and access: Understanding who can access critical systems, grant permissions and exercise control.
Zero Trust across the organisation and its partners: Examining how access is verified and governed across interconnected environments.
Cloud, AI and supply-chain dependencies: Identifying where supplier concentration, external control and geopolitical pressures create exposure.
Continuity under disruption: Planning for compromised systems, unavailable providers and interrupted access, with recovery arrangements that can be tested.
Cyber strategy and business outcomes: Connecting security investment, risk ownership and resilience to the services the organisation must sustain.
Throughout, we will explore digital sovereignty in practical terms: the ability to make informed choices, retain meaningful control and preserve options when circumstances change.
The working lunch and closed-door roundtable will be held under the Chatham House Rule, creating space for participants to share experience, challenge assumptions and discuss difficult decisions openly.
You will leave better equipped to:
Identify gaps in control across identity, suppliers and recovery arrangements.
Ask sharper questions of technology providers, security teams and business leaders.
Explain cyber risk and resilience priorities clearly at board level.
Set practical priorities for strengthening continuity, accountability and strategic options.
The session is designed for board members, NEDs, CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, Chief Risk Officers, and senior leaders responsible for AI, data, cybersecurity and transformation, including those in financial services, insurance and government.
Venue: Royal Air Force Club
Time: 13:00–16:00
Format: Executive briefing, working lunch and closed-door roundtable
Attendance: In person only
The structured agenda will be shared with confirmed attendees. Places are limited to support meaningful discussion and peer exchange.
To express your interest in attending, please contact Danette Copestake.