2024 High–Level Panel: When the Next Disruption Strikes, Who is Responsible for Digital Resilience

17 OCT 2024

2024 High-Level Panel: When the Next Disruption Strikes, Who is Responsible for Digital Resilience

Large-scale digital disruptions that occur instantaneously with no advance warning can often erode public confidence in the digital domain, threatening to stall the progress and undermine the potential of digitalisation. Given the complex and interconnected nature of the digital ecosystem, such disruptions are bound to happen, and are perhaps even unavoidable. It is not a question of if, but when the next disruption could occur, and the ability to recover quickly and effectively from a disruption is key.

Without resilience, it becomes difficult to have trust in our digital ecosystem. Digitalisation will inevitably falter if people start doubting or even avoiding digital technologies. Ensuring a resilient and trusted digital environment is not just a technical challenge, and questions remain over who is responsible for digital resilience and how different stakeholders work together.

This session discussed the strategic and policy implications of resilience in the digital domain, and the possible next steps taken to strengthen resilience in the digital domain. The panel of government experts and industry leaders discussed the roles and responsibilities of the public and private sectors in strengthening resilience in the digital domain, and how public-private partnerships could contribute to this important effort.

Keynote Speaker
MG Lee Yi-Jin, Chief of Digital and Intelligence Service. Ministry of Defence, Singapore

Moderator
Mr Gaurav Modi, Consulting Managing Partner, ASEAN and Singapore, Ernst & Young

Panellists

  • MG Lee Yi-Jin, Chief of Digital Intelligence Service (CDI), Ministry of Defence, Singapore
  • Mr Akshay Joshi, Head, Centre for Cybersecurity, World Economic Forum, Switzerland
  • Mr Andrew Whittaker, Head of Cyber Policy Department, UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), United Kingdom
  • Ms Kemba Walden, President, Paladin Global Institute
  • Mr Greg Bunghardt, Director of Cyber Security Policy, Department of Public Safety, Canada