Highly Resilient Organizations Session — Cloud Resilience & Digital Sovereignty
Highly Resilient Organisations Program (HRO) - Technology & chain resilience
This second research track within the HRO-program is about ensuring digital continuity by strengthening cyber resilience, cloud sovereignty and third-party dependency controls across the full technology ecosystem. Strengthening these capabilities focuses on how to build resilience against external service risks, reducing the impact of both unintended accidents and deliberate disruptions.
Session - Cloud resilience & digital sovereignty
Organisations rely heavily on cloud platforms, creating new operational dependencies. Resilience requires clarity on data governance, transparency and exit readiness with hyperscalers. As a leading voice in digital infrastructure policy, Michiel Steltman, sets the stage by framing digital resilience not just as a technical hurdle, but as a strategic necessity for organisational autonomy in an era of global cloud dominance. After that, Marc Welters, Chairman of NOREA and Partner IT Audit and IT Advisory at EY, will share practical insights on CISO's boardlevel discussions. We discuss architectural considerations and controls that ensure continuity across cloud failures. Participants should be able to define sovereignty measures relevant to their business strategy as a practical take-away.
Program
- 13:30 – 14:00 | Welcome
- 14:00 – 14:05 | Opening – Christoph Heller
- 14:05 – 14:10 | Introduction – Suzanne Janse
- 14:10 – 14:30 | Michiel Steltman – Setting the scene
- 14:30 – 14:50 | Marc Welters - Practical insights on CISO's boardlevel discussions
- 14:50 – 15:30 | Discussion
- 15:30 – 16:00 | Break
- 16:00 – 16:55 | Deep-dive IDRS and Q&A
- 16:55 – 17:00 | Wrap-up and Key Take-aways
- 17:00 – 18:00 | Networking Reception
This is the first session of the Highly Resilient Organizations Program led by Research Supervisor Suzanne Janse, Lecturer and Research Supervisor at Erasmus School of Accounting and Assurance. Read more about session 2 and session 3.
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