World Leaders to gather in February 2022 for in-person Global Cybersecurity Forum

World Leaders will gather in February 2022 for in-person Global Cybersecurity Forum. The Global Cybersecurity Forum (GCF) 2022 will be held in Riyadh on the 1st and 2nd of February 2022, under the High Patronage of King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques.

Rethinking the Global Cyber Order, the GCF 2022 theme, will look at the underlying difficulties in cybersecurity and how the global cyber community may take use of the numerous benefits cyberspace has to offer humanity. The GCF will continue to expand into an action-oriented global platform that integrates the global cybersecurity community, building on the momentum of previous forums. The GCF strives to drive socio-economic change, push knowledge boundaries on essential cybersecurity themes, foster investment, and lay the groundwork for global cooperation in cyberspace through its yearly events, continuing research, design and launch of new initiatives, and more.

Speakers and participants from high-level policymakers, industry executives, experts from NGOs, international organisations, and academics will lead interactive and dynamic conversations and sessions that will cover a number of sub-themes, including:

• The evolving international order in cyberspace;
• The current and future state of cybersecurity threats;
• Technologies of the future as solutions to threats;
• The human dimensions of cybersecurity in the future of work;
• Leveraging market forces and economic incentives
• Bridging global cyber divides and strengthening human-centric cybersecurity

The GCF, which is hosted by the National Cybersecurity Authority (NCA), was founded in February 2020, during Saudi Arabia’s G20 presidency, as a worldwide platform aimed at making the internet more resilient and better for everyone. To achieve this purpose, the platform highlights the necessity of international collaboration among many stakeholders and states. Former heads of state, industry leaders, policymakers, senior representatives from international organisations, prominent academics and thought leaders from around the world, and executives from the finance, health, energy, and transportation sectors have all been invited to the GCF to help achieve these goals.

When COVID hit, the GCF held its inaugural Virtual Dialogue, “Cyberspace: What Now, What Next?”, which drew over 250,000 people from over 100 nations. Economic incentives, the skills gap, investment, trust, cyber diplomacy, integrated awareness, and cyber conflict readiness were among the primary subjects discussed during the multidisciplinary sessions for the global cybersecurity community. The GCF team is looking forward to increasing global involvement in the upcoming event and working together to create a better cyberspace for all.