Banking Leaders Dinner | Secure Infrastructure

Overview

In today’s fast-evolving Asia-Pacific business landscape, clarity is the competitive edge. For technology and security leaders - CIOs, CDOs, CISOs, and CTOs, that means transforming fragmented systems into a unified digital strategy that delivers real outcomes.

Despite growing investments in AI, data platforms, and cloud-native architectures, many enterprises are still weighed down by siloed tooling, outdated integrations, and security gaps. These disconnects block transformation, slow decision velocity, and expose organisations to risk.

Cybersecurity is now a foundational layer, not a support function. As cyber threats escalate and regulatory expectations rise, leaders must prioritise operational resilience, embedded security, and trust at scale.

One strategic enabler: Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). By converging networking and security into a single cloud-native platform, SASE helps:

Simplify architecture and improve visibility across hybrid environments

Enable secure remote access without compromising performance

Reduce tooling sprawl while boosting responsiveness and agility

For leaders charged with driving secure digital transformation, SASE isn’t just an infrastructure shift—it’s a lever for scale, security, and sustained performance.

What to expect

• Senior Executives 10 +
• Insights Industry
• Discussions Interactive

What we will cover

• Addressing Fragmented Infrastructure Disconnected systems create inefficiencies, increase risk, and delay transformation. Unifying architecture and data environments is critical to improving agility, reducing operational drag, and closing security gaps.
• Modernising for Security and Scale Legacy platforms can’t support today’s velocity or threat landscape. Modernisation must deliver both scale and embedded security, ensuring digital services remain resilient, performant, and protected.
• SASE as an Enabler A cloud-native SASE framework brings together networking and security to simplify environments, enforce consistent controls, and support secure access—without compromising performance or visibility.
• Building Resilience in a Hyperconnected World Operational resilience now demands real-time threat adaptation, seamless continuity, and the ability to recover fast from disruptions—whether technical, cyber, or regulatory.
• Enabling Trust and Observability Trust is earned through transparency and control. Deep observability, governance over data flows, and real-time visibility into systems and threats are now foundational—not optional.
• Strategy and Alignment Success hinges on alignment between digital priorities, data strategy, architectural design, and risk posture. Clarity across these domains enables faster execution and more confident decision-making.

Agenda

• 3:45 pm Setting the scene: aligning digital, security and infrastructure priorities for resilient scale(Executive Dinner)
• 4:00 pm Peer perspectives: how are leaders addressing fragmented systems, tooling sprawl, and visibility gaps?(Executive Dinner)
• 4:15 pm Roundtable: stitching together resilience, performance, and trust – what’s blocking progress and where are teams doubling down?(Executive Dinner)
• 4:30 pm SASE in action: how are leaders re-architecting for secure access, cloud performance, and embedded control?(Executive Dinner)
• 5:45 pm Trust and observability: building confidence with real-time insight, governance, and transparency(Executive Dinner)
• 5:50 pm Wrap‑up and key takeaways: what will you take back to your team?(Executive Dinner)

Partners

• Tata Communications

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