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SUMMARY:Internet Resilience Forum
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nDate: Friday, November 14, 2025\nLocation: UCLA Meyer & Renee Luskin Conference Center\nRoom: Laureate Classroom\nTime: 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM\n\nThe Marconi Society’s Internet Resilience Forum brings together global leaders from infrastructure, hyperscalers, utilities, and public-interest sectors to address systemic vulnerabilities and co-create actionable solutions for a more resilient digital future. As Internet resilience is redefined to mean adaptability, not just recoverability, the Forum fosters collective accountability, sectoral alignment, and long-term collaboration. As resilience shifts from recovering after failure to anticipating and adapting to disruption, the Forum provides a space for candid dialogue, shared accountability, and long-term collaboration to safeguard the digital future.\n\n\nInternet Resilience Forum Voices\n\n\n\n\nJohn Janowiak\nPresident & CEO\nMarconi Society\n\n\n\nJohn Crain\nSVP & CTO\nICANN\n\n\n\nVint Cerf\nChief Internet Evangelist\nGoogle\n\n\n\nRam Mohan\nChief Strategy Officer\nIdentity Digital\n\n\n\nFiona Alexander\nCo‑Founder\nSalt Point Strategies\n\n\n\nPablo Hinojosa\nStrategic Advisor\nIR Institute\n\n\n\nNancy Morgan\nStrategic Advisor\nThe Cantellus Group\n\n\n\nDavid B. Cross\nCISO\nAtlassian\n\n\n\nMaarten Botterman\nGNKS Consult BV\n\n\n\nVictor Kuarsingh\nCapital One\n\n\n\nGirish Chandran\nViasat\n\n\n\nCaleb Queern\nKPMG\n\n\n\nRadia Perlman\nDell Technologies\n\n\n\nMike Smith\nUtility 2030 Leadership Collaborative\n\n\n\nPaul Vixie\nDeputy CISO\nAWS\n\n\n\n\n\nAgenda\nDownload the agenda here ( http://marconisociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2025-Internet-Resilience-Forum.docx.pdf ).\nBy convening global leaders across infrastructure, hyperscalers, utilities, finance, and public-interest sectors, the Forum aims to build a shared sense of accountability and identify cross-sectoral solutions.\nThroughout the day, we will explore the following key questions:\n-Why must resilience be adaptable as sectors are interdependent?\n-Where accountability lies across sectors and how it can be shared?\n-The risks of fragmented or siloed approaches.\n08:30 – 08:45 | Welcome & Opening Remarks\nThis session will set urgency and context: resilience is no longer optional, it is foundational to the Internet’s role as core human infrastructure. The speakers will establish the Forum as a place for candid, solution-oriented dialogue and will emphasize the urgency of collective action to enhance resilience in an increasingly interdependent Internet ecosystem.\nKey Considerations:\n-Why now? The convergence of physical, cross-sectorial and technological risks.\n-How the Marconi Society aims to catalyze collaborative solutions.\n-A call for openness, candor, and long-term commitment from participants.\nSpeakers:\nJohn Janowiak, President & CEO, Marconi Society\nVint Cerf, VP/Chief Internet Evangelist, Google\n\n08:45 – 09:15 | Setting the Stage: Activities and Insights from the IR Institute\nThis segment grounds participants in the IR Institute’s recent work, ensuring a shared evidence base. The objective is to establish a common understanding of the challenges and clarify the need for cross-sectoral responses. The Hyperscalers and Mapping workstreams highlight both systemic vulnerabilities and methodological innovations in visualizing interdependence.\nKey questions:\n-What early findings from the Hyperscaler Working Group reveal about best practices?\n-How mapping exposes invisible dependencies in infrastructure and supply chains?\n-Why must resilience frameworks integrate both technical and policy layers\nSpeakers:\nPablo Hinojosa, Strategic Advisor, Internet Resilience Institute\nRam Mohan, Chief Strategy Officer, Identity Digital\nFiona Alexander, Co-Founder, Salt Point Strategies\n09:15 – 10:30 | Session I: “Safeguarding the Digital Future – Sectoral Interdependence and Shared Risk”\nResilience cannot be built in silos. This session explores how networks, energy grids, hyperscalers, transport systems, and content providers are bound together in ways that expose hidden risks. Contributors will discuss lessons from recent disruptions and consider how industries can move from fragmented risk models toward collective preparedness. The conversation will examine the balance between sector-specific responsibility and shared accountability for safeguarding the digital future.\nKey questions:\n-How can hyperscalers and traditional infrastructure players jointly address resilience at scale?\n-Lessons from recent disruptions (i.e., power outages, submarine cable cuts, ransomware). What dependencies between power, cloud, and networks remain hidden or unmanaged?\n-What mechanisms (joint risk registries, collective simulations, shared SLAs) can move resilience from individual responsibility to collective preparedness?\nSpeakers:\nNancy Morgan, Strategic Advisor, The Cantellus Group\nDavid Cross, CISO, Atlassian\nDr. Radia Perlman, Fellow, Dell EMC\nJohn Crain, SVP & Chief Technology Officer, ICANN\nMike Smith, Principal, Utility 2030\n\n10:30 – 10:45 | Coffee & Comfort Break\n10:45 – 11:45 | Session II: “Designing Coordinated Solutions: From Dialogue to Action”\nWith interdependence recognized and with shared risks on the table, this session shifts from diagnosis to solutions. Contributors will explore practical, scalable, and fundable interventions to reduce systemic vulnerabilities across infrastructure layers. The discussion will emphasize how accountability can be designed into partnerships, what conditions enable sustainable collaboration, and how resilience can be measured and tracked over time. Participants will leave with a clearer picture of where collective investment and innovation can make the most impact.\nKey questions:\n-What interventions could lower systemic risk (e.g., redundancy investments, federated trust frameworks, cross-sector drills)?\n-How accountability for resilience can be distributed fairly among public, private, and civic actors?\n-Pathways for long-term partnerships: joint financing models, multistakeholder agreements, or regulatory alignment?\n-The role of measurement: how to track and benchmark resilience improvements?\nSpeakers:\nMaarten Botterman, GNKS Consult BV\nVictor Kuarsingh, Managing VP, Connectivity, Capital One Financial\nPaul Vixie, Deputy CISO, AWS\nCaleb Queern, Managing Director, Cyber Security, KPMG\nGirish Chandran, Corporate CTO ,Viasat\n\n11:45 – 12:00 | Closing Remarks\nThis session will bring together the threads of the Forum, highlighting both insights and commitments. The session is less about recap and more about energizing participants to carry the work forward.\nKey questions:\n-What consensus or “no-regrets” actions emerged across sessions?\n-How resilience can become an organizing principle, not a reactive measure?\n-Next steps: where can participants plug in to the IR Institute’s ongoing workstreams?\nSpeakers:\nPablo Hinojosa, Strategic Advisor, Internet Resilience Institute\nRam Mohan, Chief Strategy Officer, Identity Digital\nFiona Alexander, Co-Founder, Salt Point Strategies\n12:00 – 13:00 | Executive Networking & Lunch\nParticipants are invited to continue conversations over lunch and explore opportunities for collaboration. Attendees are encouraged to attend the afternoon portion of the Academic Forum ( https://marconisociety.org/events/2025-academic-forum/ ).\n13:00 – 13:30 | Tour of 3420 Boelter Hall\nVisit 3420 Boelter Hall with Marconi Fellow Dr. Leonard Kleinrock, where the first message on the ARPANET—the foundation of today’s internet—was transmitted in 1969. The original IMP No. 1, the world’s first network node (and ancestor of the modern router), is still on display in the room. A rare chance to step inside the birthplace of our connected world.\n\n\n\n\nMarina Pappas is available to assist with any questions about the Internet Resilience Institute and can be reached at mpappas@marconisociety.org ( mailto:mpappas@marconisociety.org ).\nIf you plan to attend the Marconi Awards Gala ( https://marconisociety.org/2025-marconi-awards-gala-and-institute-forums/ ) on Friday, November 14, please reserve your seat here ( https://marconisociety.org/events/marconi-awards-gala-institute-forums-2025/ ).\nA limited block of rooms has been reserved at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center. Upon registering, you will receive a confirmation email with the link to secure your room. For any questions regarding travel, hotels, or other logistics, please contact Tim Landherr at tlandherr@marconisociety.org ( mailto:tlandherr@marconisociety.org ).\n\nSponsorship Opportunities\nSupport this exclusive convening of global Internet resilience leaders. To learn more about sponsorship opportunities, please contact Flora Tromelin at ftromelin@marconisociety.org ( mailto:ftromelin@marconisociety.org ).\n\n\n
URL:https://marconisociety.org/events/2025-internet-resilience-forum/
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