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Congresses and symposiaPublished on 23 September 2025

CYD Campus Conference 2025

Soldier's helmet and lettering “CYD Campus Conference – The Role of Cyber in Conflicts and (Hybrid) Warfare”

Event Date

29
Oct
2025
  • Wednesday 09:00 - 18:00
Kursaal Bern
Kornhausstrasse 3
3013 Bern

This year's Cyber-Defence Campus Conference will take place on Wednesday, 29 October 2025, at the Kursaal Bern. The main theme of the conference is ‘The Role of Cyber in Conflicts and (Hybrid) Warfare’. We look forward to welcoming experts and interested parties from government, industry and academia to this conference.

Event Details

Language of the event

English

Contact

Cyber-Defence Campus
Feuerwerkerstrasse 39
CH-3602 Thun

Prices

Program

08:30
Registration


09:00
Welcome / Intro


09:10
Opening Keynote

Dr. Markus Mäder, State Secretary for Security Policy, State Secretariat for Security Policy

09:35
On the Role of Offensive Cyber Weapons in Conflicts

Marcus Willett, Senior Adviser for Cyber, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

10:20
Coffee Break


10:50
Impact of Cyber-Operations: What we (don't) Know

Dr. Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Deputy for Research and Teaching, Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich

11:20
Cyber Influence Operations: Threats and Countermeasures

Dr. Raphael Meier, Scientific Project Manager, armasuisse Science and Technology

11:50
Cyber Securiy Research @ Cyber Defence Campus, Student Thesis Pitches


12:05
Lunch

13:35

Network under Attack? The Case of Undersea Cables
Dr. Camino Kavanagh, Visiting Senior Fellow, Department of War Studies, King's College London

14:05
Conflicts - Impact and Measures in the Energy Sector
Iana Peix, OT Security Specialist, Alpiq

14:35
Talk

15:05
Automated Discovery and Exploitation of Previously Unknown Vulnerabilities – Reality or Fiction?
Dr. Anil Kurmus, Senior Research Scientist, IBM Research, Zurich

15:35
Coffee Break


16:20
Startup Challenge, Pitches & Award Ceremony

16:50
Closing Remarks


17:00
Apero / Networking