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Strategic Cyber Resilience: The New Frontline Against Nation-State Warfare

As state actors blur the lines between cyber warfare and cybercrime, adopting sophisticated AI-driven tactics targeting supply chains and critical infrastructure; traditional defense-focused security models prove insufficient. The demand for advanced, resilient security architectures has never been greater. This panel will discuss cyber resilience as the cornerstone of modern defense strategy, transforming cybersecurity from cost center to competitive advantage.

Tomas Hemker Bio

Thomas Hemker, CISSP, CISM, CISA, CDPSE is a Security CTO and CISO Advisor and has more than 30 years working experience in IT-, Information- and Cybersecurity. The last six years he was responsible for the Threat Intelligence Service and the Advisory Board of the DCSO Deutsche Cyber-Sicherheitsorganisation GmbH. Prior to that, he was part of the EMEA CTO Office at Symantec and a Field Engineering Manager at PGP Corporation. He is known as a technology advisor in the industry, author, speaker and lecturer at a university of applied sciences. He is also an active member of the BSI Expertenkreis, professional associations like ISACA and a founding member of the German (ISC)2-Chapter. In the past he represented organizations in different associations and committees for cyber security standardizations and information exchange (TeleTrust, VDMA, ITU-T, ENISA, ISF).

Colonel Mietta Groeneveld Bio
Colonel Mietta Groeneveld is the Director of the NATO Command & Control Centre of Excellence (C2COE). The C2COE’s core mission is to accelerate NATO’s transformation in Command and Control, focusing on enabling NATO’s Multi-Domain Operations, transforming multinational headquarters through technology, and improving multinational decision-making in the age of AI.
Since joining the military in 1986, Colonel Groeneveld has held a range of command and staff positions at the technical, operational, and strategic levels. She earned a Master’s degree in Applied Physics from Technical University Delft and, in 2014, completed both the Canadian National Security Program (NSP6) in Toronto and the EU High-Level Course on Security & Defence.
Following these achievements, she has held key positions at the international strategic level. In the immediate aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Crimea, she served as the Branch Head for Multilateral Military Affairs. She also represented the Netherlands on the NATO Logistics Committee and the Committee on Standardization. Additionally, she chaired the board of the BENELUX Arms Control Agency and the NATO CIMIC COE and was a board member of the Strategic Airlift Capability C-17 and the Movement Coordination Centre Europe (MCCE). In recent years, she has served as the President of AFCEA The Hague.
Her deployments include a 2002 mission to Kyrgyzstan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom and a 2017-2018 tour in Afghanistan, where she was CJ4/EF5 of the Training and Advisory Command-North and held the NLD-SNR/red card for the Resolute Support Mission.
Colonel Groeneveld has substantial expertise in emerging technologies, cybersecurity and their impact on the command and control of multinational Deterrence and Defence. She is a frequent public speaker at international NATO and technology events and a driver for change in the art of war.