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Date: October 10, 2026
Event: c0c0n 2026 Conference
Location: Grand Hyatt, Bolgatty, Kochi, Kerala
Format: Panel Discussion
Moderator: Leeladhar Meena (Director (West), NCIIPC)
Panelists: Vedant, Vipin Pavithran, Maya R Nair (Cyber Security Thought Leader), Ramesh Gurram (CISO, BSE), Anant Shrivastava (Founder, Cyfinoid Research)
Overview
Panel discussion on what the AI era means for critical infrastructure protection, national security, and strategic technology decisions. The panel mixed perspectives from the government side (NCIIPC, the national critical information infrastructure protection agency), a stock exchange CISO, and practitioners from research and industry.
Discussion themes centered on the same shift that ran through the conference: attackers and defenders both get AI leverage, critical infrastructure operates on long technology lifecycles that do not refresh at AI speed, and strategic technology choices (build, buy, or adopt) increasingly carry national security weight.
Key Topics
- Securing critical infrastructure as AI changes both attack and defense timelines
- National security implications of AI adoption in critical sectors
- Strategic technology decisions in the AI era