Resilience by Design: Beyond the Outage Era

July 2, 2026

ROUND TABLE

Resilience by Design: Beyond the Outage Era

Thursday, July 2 at 3:30pm
CALI Kitchener Road Restaurant & Bar

Building a Future
we can all trust

Average cost of downtime now hovering at $9,000 per minute

In an era where digital business is synonymous with total availability, the traditional "Disaster Recovery" mindset is no longer enough. As we navigate 2026, the industry has reached a tipping point: downtime is no longer just a technical glitch—it is a financial catastrophe, a regulatory violation, and a permanent stain on brand trust.
Key Discussion Pillars:
  • The 4-Step Resilience Roadmap: A strategic framework to Assess, Consolidate, Engage, and Iterate your application posture.
  • Architecting for the "When," Not "If": Why 2026 mandates a shift toward a robust security fabric and multi-cloud redundancy as AI adoption accelerates.
  • Attack-Driven Outages: Combating DDoS, API abuse, and malicious bots through Unified WAAP and virtual patching at the edge.
  • Defining the "Point of No Return": Practical strategies for establishing your Maximum Tolerable Outage (MTO) and executing effective tabletop exercises.
With the average cost of downtime now hovering at $9,000 per minute, and frameworks like the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) mandating that firms prove their ability to withstand disruptions, resilience has shifted from a "nice-to-have" to a core strategic imperative.an era where digital business is synonymous with total availability, the traditional "Disaster Recovery" mindset is no longer enough. As we navigate 2026, the industry has reached a tipping point: downtime is no longer just a technical glitch—it is a financial catastrophe, a regulatory violation, and a permanent stain on brand trust.
This exclusive roundtable gathers senior IT leaders and security architects to move beyond the myth that "adding more servers" prevents outages. We will dive deep into the transition from basic High Availability (HA) to Fault Tolerant (FT) "specialist" architectures—the difference between a quick recovery and never losing service in the first place.
Join us to learn how to bridge the "architectural gap" and ensure your business remains airborne, even when an engine fails. Resilience isn’t accidental—it’s architectural.

Meet the Speakers

Kevin Smith
Chief Technology Officer | Lucanet
Seasoned technologist, experienced both as an individual contributor software engineer, an architect and building and leading high performing engineering teams. He spent 8+ years at Microsoft mostly in software engineering roles where he worked on the first version of the .NET Framework, and shipped the first three versions of BizTalk Server. He spent more than 10 years leading Front Office engineering teams at Investment Banks building global derivatives trading platforms. More recently, he was the CTO at Fastmarkets where he led their digital transformation before joining Hg Capital as a Portfolio CTO. He holds 6 software design patterns for his inventions.
Rui Yuan
Regional Head , ASEAN | Lucanet
Graduated in Information Science and Risk Management at the Zhejiang University in China and obtained an MBA degree from IESE Business School. Prior to Lucanet, she worked in the fields of Project Finance and Structured Finance in North and Latin America. At Lucanet, Rui has managed a variety of projects in different companies, from international listed companies to agile startups. Rui Yuan has extensive knowledge in business, finance and IT and is also a certified CFA with professional project management skills. Her specialty is designing efficient digital transformation projects, business development, and strategic planning.

Schedule

03:30pm: Registrations
04:00pm: Welcome Drinks & Welcome speech by Thales
04:15pm: Resilience By Design : Beyond the Outage Area by Thales
05:00pm: Networking & Dinner
CALI Kitchener Road Restaurant & Bar

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181 Kitchener Road, #02-02, Singapore 208533

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