25.3 Breaking Point: Building Resilience in a Fractured World

Join CyNam for our final headline event of the year, apart of the ‘Secure the Future Series’.

We are fast approaching a breaking point.

Geopolitical volatility, systemic risk, and technological escalation are reshaping the security environment, and for the UK, resilience is no longer a theoretical exercise. From sub-sea cable vulnerabilities to the increasing political viability of targeted sub-strategic weapons, the world we operate in is becoming more unpredictable and more fragmented. For the first time in decades, official language now reflects this reality: “radical uncertainty,” “dangerous conditions,” even “warfighter.”

For Gloucestershire’s cyber, national security, and defence communities, these shifts are close to home. This region plays a critical role in shaping, enabling, and protecting national capability, and that role is evolving fast.

Breaking Point is a high-impact headline event that will bring together senior voices from government, defence, industry, and academia to test the assumptions shaping our current approach to resilience. With a focus on real-world threats, strategic posture, and the technologies driving both disruption and defence, we’ll ask: are our frameworks fit for a world where multiple crises could converge and where the old rules no longer apply?

Who Should Attend:

This event is for professionals across the Gloucestershire cyber, national security, and defence communities, from technical specialists and early-career talent to operational leaders, policymakers, and innovators. If you’re contributing to the UK’s security, whether through code, policy, research, or mission delivery, this event is for you.

As part of our commitment to supporting our community, we’re proud to have Lives of Colour as our charity partner for this event. During registration, attendees will have the option to make a voluntary donation, with 100% of proceeds going directly to to support their vital work in promoting inclusion, diversity, and equality.

Host or Publisher Cyber Cheltenham