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Security & Resilience Expert Exchange

24 June 2025

Overview

The Kyndryl Security & Resilience Expert Exchange is an exclusive peer-to-peer community of senior IT leaders, CISOs, and CROs who gather quarterly and hold open virtual discussions to share their challenges and gain insights from their peers. 

Topics are based on interests and feedback provided from 15-minute prep calls with participants in the weeks prior to the roundtable.

Hosted by Kyndryl and facilitated by Profitable Ideas Exchange (PIE), this event provides attendees with a valuable opportunity to network and build relationships, benchmark themselves against peer companies, and learn industry best practices.

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Frequently discussed topics

  • Defense strategies, disaster recovery and regulations
  • The evolving role of CISO in cybersecurity governance and risk management
  • CISO reporting and risk management roles
  • Industry security and compliance regulatory frameworks
  • Consolidation of tools
  • Data backup, data recovery, and Minimum Viable Company
  • Cyber resiliency & security playbooks
  • 3rd & 4th party risk management
  • IAM evolution and building a zero trust framework
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Featured sessions

Orlando

Forza Steel’s RISE with SAP transformation on Azure unlocks innovation  
 

When: Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 11:30 am - 11:50 am EST
Speakers: 
Clay Caldwell, SVP of SAP Growth for Applications, Data & AI, Kyndryl          Juan Daniel Quezada, CIO of Forza Steel


Forza Steel partnered with Kyndryl to enhance operational efficiencies, reduce costs, and improve financial visibility by transforming their SAP environment.
 

Join to learn about strategies to integrate SAP and non-SAP applications, transform data and use AI/ML.

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Kyndryl host and exchange facilitator

Cónal Hickey,
Vice President, Security & Resiliency Practice Leader, Strategic Markets
 

In his current role of Vice President and Global Cyber Resilience practice leader for Kyndryl in Strategic Markets, Conal is helping clients become more cyber resilient in their IT and digital transformation journeys.

 

Cónal has extensive experience in enabling clients to move their applications across hybrid/multi-cloud environments.  He led the IT separation workstream during the Kyndryl spin-off from IBM and held senior executive positions at IBM, including Network Services and Cloud Migration Services.

Paul Quigley,
Managing Director and Partner with Profitable Ideas Exchange

Paul Quigley is a Managing Director and Partner with Profitable Ideas Exchange, where he convenes and facilitates C-level executive conversations with Chief Human Resource Officers, Chief Information Officers, Chief Information Security Officers, Chief Learning Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, and Chief Procurement Officers and Chief Sustainability Officers. He takes pride in helping senior executives connect, collaborate, and solve complex business challenges.

2025 sessions hosted by Kyndryl leaders

Regulation, Compliance and Operational Risk Management

February 27th, 2025
 

Host: Cónal Hickey, Vice President, Security and Resiliency Practice Leader, Strategic Markets
Facilitator: Paul Quigley, Managing Director and Partner with Profitable Ideas Exchange
 

CISOs from multiple industries and countries convened to discuss regulation, risk and vendor compliance management. They discussed the importance of top-down approaches to compliance, the challenges of operational risk management and the complexities

The agenda was developed based on interviews with participants.

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Member quotes

‘“I am so thankful for this program. As CISOs, we are often on an island trying to figure this stuff out alone. Having the opportunity to connect with my peers in a substantive way has been so valuable.”

“I get more value in these exchanges than going to the big industry events. One call, someone talked about something they had recently executed on, and I was like 'wow, why am I not doing that?’ Now I am doing it. That is the value this community brings. This is really valuable to me.”

“I really appreciate this exchange. I see your events and I want to be a part of them because they are actionable. So many of these engagements are just theory based. Thank you.”

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