Techweek 2026 - Building Operational Technology (OT) Resilience Beyond the Supply Chain

Over the past few years, we’ve learned a hard global lesson: when operational technology fails, recovery is no longer measured in hours or days — it’s measured in months. Replacement hardware is back‑ordered, specialist skills are scarce, and supply chains remain fragile.

In this new reality, resilience isn’t just about protection — it’s about preparation. It’s about designing, operating, and securing OT systems with the assumption that you won’t be able to replace them quickly, that downtime has real‑world consequences, and that cyber risk now sits squarely alongside safety, productivity, and continuity.

Today is about looking beyond the supply chain and focusing on what we can control: visibility, resilience, and decisions made before an incident happens.