Industry 4.0 is no longer a future vision, it has become the operating model for modern manufacturing. Across Germany and the broader DACH region, manufacturers are accelerating digital transformation by adopting cloud platforms, AI-driven automation, and highly connected production environments to increase efficiency, resilience, and global competitiveness. However, this transformation is also redefining cyber risk. As IT and OT converge, and industrial ecosystems become more interconnected, the potential impact of a cyber incident has expanded from data loss to intellectual property exposure, production disruption, supply chain interruption, and operational downtime. In this new environment identity, both human, machine and now AI, has emerged as the central control plane for securing modern manufacturing operations.
This private executive dinner will bring together manufacturing security leaders to explore how identity security is becoming a strategic enabler for operational resilience, secure innovation, and scalable industrial digitalization. The discussion will focus on securing machine identities across complex production environments and strategies to enable secure, just-in-time and least-privilege access for engineers, operators and third-party partners. Including approaches to move beyond legacy VPN models toward modern identity-centric architectures. We will also examine how organizations are strengthening cyber resilience in alignment with NIS2 Directive and evolving European cyber regulations. Join a curated group of industry peers for an off-the-record conversation on how identity security can protect critical operations, strengthen resilience, and securely scale innovation in the era of connected industry.
