CYD Campus Conference 2025

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
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