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Date: Wednesday, 5th March 2025
Time: 12pm – 2:30pm (HKT)
Location
The Landmark Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong
15 Queen’s Road Central,
Central, Hong Kong
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Synopsis and overview of the session
Join Ruth Protpakorn, PhD (KnowBe4) in this future-thinking roundtable about the intricate dance between protective and malicious AI.
This knowledge-sharing session delves into the evolution of deepfakes, predicting their increasing sophistication and potential to revolutionize social engineering attacks.
A key focus is the concept of using “good AI” to combat “bad AI,” exploring how machine learning and artificial intelligence can be leveraged to identify and neutralize emerging threats.
- The evolution and increasing sophistication of deepfakes: The session will discuss how deepfake technology is advancing and its potential to transform social engineering attacks, making them more convincing and harder to detect.
- Using “good AI” to combat “bad AI”: We explore how machine learning and artificial intelligence can be harnessed as defensive tools to identify and neutralize emerging AI-driven threats in cybersecurity.
- Anticipating and adapting to AI-driven attack vectors: The session will focus on methods for staying ahead of rapidly evolving technological threats, emphasizing the importance of proactive strategies in cybersecurity.
- The symbiotic relationship between human expertise and AI in cybersecurity: we talk about the continued importance of human awareness and training, alongside the integration of AI systems, to create a more robust and adaptive cybersecurity approach.
Want to stay one step ahead of the next emerging technology threats? Join us to share methods on anticipating and adapting to rapidly changing AI-driven attack vectors; the continued importance of awareness training, and the need for a symbiotic relationship between human expertise and AI systems in cybersecurity.
So join us, over lunch at The Landmark Mandarin Oriental with other industry peers to collectively navigate the complex, AI-driven cybersecurity landscape of the near future.
Presenter
Ruth Protpakorn, PhD, Head of Enterprise Sales, Asia, KnowBe4
Highly accomplished sales and business development professional with extensive experience in and passion for helping companies solve business pain with enterprise SaaS solutions. Proven track record of success managing in start-ups and high growth organizations, building teams, partnerships, and sales pipelines. Significant expertise in all aspects of cloud platform business; driving full cycle of complex sales deals from campaigns development, demand generation, executive presentation, to closure. Multilingual and proficient conducting business in North America, Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ).
Moderator
Ross O’Brien, Principal Advisor, Focus Network
Ross is a writer, commentator, research manager and consultant. His analysis centres on the impact information technologies have on Asia’s economic and social development.
Ross is a recognised thought leader on technology-enabled sustainability, having conceived and developed two global indexes which assess the role of new technologies in the fight against climate change: The Green Future Index and The Blue Technology Barometer. The Green Future Index is used as a benchmarking tool by several national and pan-national government organizations worldwide, including the European Commission.
Ross has written and delivered reports and presentations for C-level executives for over two decades as an independent consultant and has served as a non-executive director on the board of Weyland Tech, a developer of mobile business and fintech applications.
Being based in Hong Kong for over 20 years, and in Asia for nearly 30, Ross has conducted market research and consulting projects in over a dozen Asian economies, including months-long engagements in China, Indonesia, Vietnam and Bangladesh. He has also worked in professional service teams at Asian technology firms including Huawei and PT Telkom.
About KnowBe4
KnowBe4 empowers your workforce to make smarter security decisions every day. Over 65,000 organisations worldwide trust the KnowBe4 platform to strengthen their security culture and reduce human risk. KnowBe4 builds a human layer of defense so organisations can fortify user behavior with new-school security awareness and compliance training.
Deploying KnowBe4 results in users that are alert and care about the damage that phishing, ransomware and other social engineering threats pose. The platform includes a comprehensive suite of awareness and compliance training, real-time user coaching, AI-powered simulated social engineering, and crowdsourced anti-phishing defense. With content in 35+ languages, KnowBe4 provides the world’s largest, always-fresh library of engaging content to strengthen your human firewall.
Website: www.knowbe4.com
Joe Gillett, Head of Oceania, KnowBe4
Joe Gillett is the Head of Oceania at KnowBe4 where he is responsible for building and managing sales teams within the region. He has 20 years of experience in the IT and telecommunications sectors managing teams in all sectors from SMB/ mid-market/ corporate/ enterprise and government, across all verticals. Gillett previously held sales leadership roles at 5G Networks, Optus and Telstra. He earned his honours bachelor in Business Administration from the University of La Trobe, Australia and is a Mentor and Coach to sales professionals and customers, to enable them to achieve their goals.
Agenda at a glance
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm – Registration & networking
4.00 pm – 4.05pm – Welcome address
4.05 pm – 5.15pm – 3 course lunch served4.05 pm – 4.45pm – Embracing disruption in the financial services industry: A Privacy versus Security conundrum – Amanda Chan, BlackBerry
4.45 pm – 5.15pm – Demo
5.15pm – 5.45pm – Discussion
5.45 pm – 6pm – Closing remarks
