Quantum computing, automated threats, digital fraud, and shadow IT: four new speakers for Swiss Cyber Storm 2026
Swiss Cyber Storm 2026 takes place on October 20 at the Kursaal Bern under the motto “Shadow IT” – when employees work around corporate policies to get things done, and what that means for security and compliance. Artificial intelligence — not just in the form of Shadow AI — will also receive ample attention, alongside other current topics. This year’s conference schedule is taking shape. Here are four more speakers who await you:
Marco Brenner (IBM Quantum) will explain why IBM believes quantum is closer than many expect — no more than five to ten years away. His talk, whose title carries a promise (“Here are your next steps as the development is accelerating”), will offer practical, hands-on guidance on next steps as the development accelerates. Marco’s view: the standard advice of “build an asset inventory” is a dead end. Andres Maurer (Prod) will address digital fraud. FINMA released guidance on the topic in April, and the NCSC is pushing for more effective action in a field that is broad and affects the country directly. Andres will share first-hand experience with fraud from inside banking. Mazin Ahmed (FullHunt) is an information security specialist and penetration tester who presented at Swiss Cyber Storm 2016 while he was a student in Sudan working on Swiss bug bounty programs. He has since moved to Canada and founded FullHunt, a service that provides organizations with attack surface management on a large scale. In his talk, “Shadow IT as visible on the internet,” Mazin will share findings from Switzerland. He will discuss servers that were not intended to be exposed, etc. Tin Zaw (Fastly) has decades of experience in enterprise security, having led initiatives at industry leaders such as Qualcomm, Symantec, AT&T, Intuit, and Verizon. At Swiss Cyber Storm 2026, he will draw on his experience as project leader of the Automated Threats Project, which he has co-led since 2015. Automated threats are all the various problems that come with bots using your services, and that’s a lot.
These four will join the speakers we already introduced in an earlier newsletter: Sébastien Schnyder, Ivano Somaini, Stéphane Adamiste, Jeroen van der Ham-de Vos. More details on all speakers and the evolving program are available on the schedule page of our website.
