Cybersecurity Futures 2030: India Workshop

Organized by the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) and hosted in partnership with the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Futures 2030 is a foresight-focused scenario planning exercise to inform cybersecurity strategic plans around the globe.

Led by subject-matter experts at UC Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC), our future-focused scenarios consider how digital security is set to transform over the next five- to seven years. The project includes a series of international workshops, hosted in partnership with the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity, that will explore fundamental differences

in how societies think about, evaluate, and respond to emerging cybersecurity challenges. Identifying and understanding those differences—and the tensions they will create at the global level—is critical for the researchers, practitioners, firms, and governing bodies to build their capacity to seize opportunities and mitigate cybersecurity risks just over the horizon.

These workshops explore a landscape of future possibilities, examining how emerging forces and uncertainties could intersect to reshape how humans relate to digital technology—and what it means to be secure. Each workshop is designed to engage approximately 30 participants, including global stakeholders from academia, industry, government, and civil society. Workshop participants will “test drive” cybersecurity scenarios for 2030 and come away with new foresight and insights that are broadly applicable across countries and regions. We will carefully

document the findings from these workshops and synthesize insights into how cybersecurity may evolve—nationally, regionally, and globally—and the implications for policy and decision

making across a wide scope of enterprises and organizations.

Key questions for the workshop include:

• How might persons and institutions in your region react to these future scenarios?

• How might your region think that the “rest of the world” will react?

• What are the greatest tensions and challenges that we anticipate arising?

• Where might surprising commonalities of interests and values surface?

• What can firms, governments, NGOs, and individuals in your region do now to better ‘shape the playing field’ on which emerging cybersecurity challenges will manifest?

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