This year’s edition, which brings together elite decision-makers, CEOs, senior government officials, representatives of the most prominent international companies, non-governmental organizations and academia around the world, confirms the Kingdom’s leading position in the world in supporting international efforts. . And the unification of joint efforts at the level of discussion of strategic issues related to cyberspace.
The date of the forum coincides with what the world is seeing today in the form of an increase in cyber threats. This calls for a redoubling of efforts to protect cyberspace, especially in light of the accelerating global exploitation of technological capabilities over the past few years.
The sessions of the forum will discuss five main areas covering a wide range of topics with the aim of advancing development in this sector and enhancing synergy and partnerships between public and private agencies around the world.
Cyberlandscape) will present current and future threats to cybersecurity and how technology can be used as secure solutions, while participants in the second axis (cybereconomics) will discuss areas of capitalizing on market forces, incentive programs and economic governance in shaping cyberspace.
The third axis (geocyberdevelopment) discusses the ever-changing global cyberspaces, and the sessions will discuss development aspects of the international system and technologies of the future.
In the sessions of the fourth axis (the future of cyberwork), participants will discuss ways to attract, develop and retain talent; Understanding the challenges and providing appropriate incentives, while the fifth axis (cybersecurity for all) will discuss finding practical solutions to overcome the cybergap on a global scale and ensure the achievement of cybersecurity for all societies; The interactive sessions, especially in developing countries, will include different ways of exploring the future of cybersecurity, and will also focus on the role of advanced technologies in the revolutionary exchange of information.
The forum revealed that registration procedures for participation in the International Cybersecurity Forum, as well as the names of local and international speakers, will be announced in the near future.
