Agenda

27th – 28th October 2026 // São Paulo, Brazil

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Building Industrial Cyber Resilience Through Uniting People, Process, and Technology

Day 1 // 27th October
The Human Element and Operational Architecture: Breaking Silos to Secure the Shop Floor
08:00 – 17:30
08:00Registration
08:50Opening Address by Marcus Abreu, Head of Innovation, Digital & Operational Technology, Acelen
09:00

  • Why do friction points still exist between IT and OT regarding risk ownership, operational priorities, and security tolerances?
  • Evaluating the reality of IT/OT convergence: Is it delivering better security outcomes or simply expanding the digital attack surface?
  • Assessing the maturity of current governance, policies, and technical controls (like network segmentation) in hybrid environments.
  • Moving from theory to practice: How to build a unified culture of accountability, trust, and clear communication between IT and plant operations.

– Moderator: Miguel Nascimiento, CISO and Head of IT Infrastructure, Aperam
– Marcelo Assumpção, CISO & DPO, Elera Renewables
– Daniel Morales, Corporate Automation Manager, Braskem
– Danilo Cabrini, Corporate Manager of Electrical Instrumentation and Automation, bp bioenergy
– Cleber Guimarães Ferreira, Security Officer & Cyber Security, Klabin
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09:40

This session will explore:

  • Attacker use of AI and how defenders will benefit from AI
  • The evolving threat landscape from across the globe
  • Ransomware and multifaceted extortion as the most disruptive form of cybercrime
  • Maturing security operations in the cloud & The growing threat of infostealer malware
  • The importance of preparing for post-quantum cryptography
  • Insights specifically for Latin America

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– Gemina
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10:20Networking Break
11:00

This session will explore:

  • Analyzing an industrial case study on how the integration of IT and OT reveals new security vulnerabilities.
  • Exploring how public-private partnerships can help navigate the specific regulatory hurdles of securing hybrid IT and OT environments.
  • Leveraging shared threat intelligence and ecosystem-wide collaboration to bridge the cultural gap between IT security and plant operations.
  • Implementing best practices and clear policies to overcome cultural friction and drive alignment between teams

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– Marcus Abreu, Head of Innovation, Digital & Operational Technology, Acelen
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11:30

This session will explore how organizations can overcome the following issues in managing OT security:

  • Difficulty in assessing risk due to low visibility of OT assets
    Mitigating risk and prioritizing investment
  • Keeping up with industry standards and incorporating safety systems in the scope
  • Managing security risk throughout the entire plant lifecycle with limited OT expertise

– Senior Expert, Rockwell Automation
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12:00

Maintaining continuous visibility over legacy and modern OT assets remains one of the greatest challenges in critical infrastructure. This session presents a practical approach to using robust open-source monitoring architectures, such as Zabbix, to bridge the visibility gap in industrial networks. We will discuss how to track asset health, monitor critical resources, and establish rapid-response workflows using real-time communication channels like WhatsApp for incident alerts. Attendees will discover how combining proactive monitoring with agile alerting enhances operational resilience and strengthens the security posture of the plant floor without overcomplicating the technical stack.
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.– Thadeu Tourinho, CISO, Tereos
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12:30

The rise of Industry 4.0 and 5.0 has unlocked unprecedented opportunities for manufacturing, but it has also introduced new cybersecurity challenges. In today’s hyperconnected operations, threats can easily move laterally from IT systems or third-party devices to critical factory assets like machines, controllers, and sensors. Traditional approaches to segmentation often increase complexity and costs, while vendor remote access exposes factories to third-party risks. This session will explore how we can utilize Zero Trust in OT environments and hence build a comprehensive architecture that ensures we stay secure.
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– Senior Expert, Honeywell
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13:00Lunch Hosted by Gemina
14:00

Operational Technology (OT) systems in critical infrastructure face significant security challenges from vulnerabilities in legacy systems and outdated software. Simply having visibility into these risks. This session will offer insights into requirements of compensating controls outlined in common industrial standards and discover recent innovations that enable efficient, large-scale operationalization of OT security and compliance. We’ll further explore a comprehensive approach that integrates asset visibility, risk assessment and prioritization, contextual segmentation, and virtual patching techniques.
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– Senior Expert, InprOTech
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14:30

New technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, have transformed the cybersecurity landscape, presenting dynamic scenarios and compelling incident handling and response teams to adopt a new approach. Investing in new technologies to strengthen defences and ensure the ability to analyse what is happening in cyberspace is practically mandatory today. However, the most important element of this ecosystem is still the individual. From this perspective, technical teams must be equipped with the necessary skills to adapt to this new landscape. Optimising processes and communication channels is essential to provide organisations with the cyber resilience necessary to maintain digital services. Therefore, paying attention to aspects related to the human factor, such as building robust teams, establishing an agile and reliable communication network, and continuously raising user awareness of cybersecurity, remains fundamental to building a cyber-resilient structure..
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15:00

  • What are the main tools when it comes to monitoring the third-party when giving them access to your infrastructure for management, maintenance, and even administration?
  • If the third-party got compromised, how confident are any of you that they will notify the organization? And how can this be assured?
  • Does Zero Trust play a big role in third-party risk management?
  • What features do you expect to be implemented when it comes to Zero Trust for Vendors management?

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15:30

Given the rise in cyber attacks in the past few years, the focus is on the insecurity of the oil and gas industry’s infrastructure. In a recent study of the Oil and Gas Industry, only 35% of the respondents rated their organization’s OT cyber readiness as high. Are you in the other 65%?Learn:

  • How you compare to your peers in areas including risk and readiness
  • The opportunities created by the interconnection of infrastructure
  • The need for securing the OT environment
  • New technologies to protect the Oil and Gas infrastructure

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15:40Networking Break
16:10

T1. Developing Secure-by-Design Frameworks for Our Critical Infrastructure Companies
– Regis Paravisi, Country Manager, Acronis
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T2. Utilizing Secure Risk Metrics to Ensure Board-Level Buy In
– Ivan Athanazio, Chief Information Security Officer, Universidade Federal Fluminense
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T3.Ensuring Our Supply Chains Remain Secure Against An Expanding Threat Landscape
– Felipe Ribeiro, Information Security Coordinator & DPO,3 Corações S/A
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T4.Overcoming Future Threats to Our IT-OT Cyber Programmes
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16:50

  • Why is it simpler to buy another software tool than to fix a broken security culture?
  • Why does expensive training fail to change habits, and what actually works?
  • How do we pitch human-centric security to executives who only want to buy technical fixes?
  • How do you stop employees from viewing security as an IT problem rather than their responsibility?

– Moderator: Yan Gomes, CISO, PneuBras
– Bruno Sicchieri, RISO, Bunge
– André Gomes, CISO, EuroChem Brazil
– Rogerio Alves, CISO, Hirota Food
– Gabriel Calegari, Senior Manager, Cybersecurity, Nestlé
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17:30 Chairs Closing Remarks by Marcus Abreu, Head of Innovation, Digital & Operational Technology, Acelen
17:35 Drinks Reception

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