BRC Virtual Cross-Sector Summit

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 from 10am-4pm ET

The Business Resilience Council held the 3rd Annual Virtual Summit on June 10. The complimentary, multi-sector event featured speakers discussing topics relevant to all-hazards threats. Sessions included:

Behnam Ben Taleblu, Iran Program Senior Director and Senior Fellow at The Foundation for Defense of Democracies
- Mark Orsi, CEO at Global Resilience Federation
- Moona Ederveen-Schneider, Founder and Board Advisor, and Faculty at University of Cambridge
- Sounil Yu, Chief AI Officer at Knostic
- Y. John Jiang, PhD, Researcher and Author, Cloud Security Alliance
- Alex Sharpe, Managing Director at Sharpe432 LLC and Adjunct Professor of Cybersecurity Risk and Strategy at NYU
- Charles Blauner, Operating Partner at Crosspoint Capital Partners
Gary Schwartz, SVP of Marketing at NetRise
Jason Clinton, Deputy CISO at Anthropic
- David Hylender, Associate Director of Cybersecurity Consulting and DBIR Co-Author at Verizon Business
- Philippe Langlois, Co-Author of the DBIR at Verizon Business
Brian Katula, Director of Operational Resilience at Global Resilience Federation

Speakers

2026 BRC Virtual

Behnam Ben Taleblu

Iran Program Senior Director and Senior Fellow
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Mark Orsi

CEO
Global Resilience Federation

Moona Ederveen-Schneider

Founder and Board Advisor, and Faculty
University of Cambridge

Sounil Yu

Chief AI Officer
Knostic

Y. John Jiang, PHD

Security Architect, Global Cloud Infrastructure and Delivery at SAP, and researcher and author in the Quantum-Safe Working Group at Cloud Security Alliance