Futurist Keynote: Defending the Office of Finance with ABB Group

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By Matthew Griffin Keynote Presentations 23rd November 2022

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF

During this leadership session speaker and futurist Matthew Griffin discusses how companies and employees, and in this case the Office of Finance at ABB, can protect themselves from today’s and tomorrows security threats.

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Firstly, thank you to Piytr from ABB Group, a $28Bn group head quartered out of Switzerland with over 100,000 employees, which is widely regarded as the world’s top industrial automation and robotics companies, for asking me to educate ABB’s employees and finance office on the latest technology and non-technology enabled security threats.

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During my keynote, which follows on from another broader dive into the future of cyber and security, which I ran virtually from Standard Chartered’s offices in Accra, Ghana, after my fintech session there, I coached over 17,000 of their staff on the latest cyber security and physical security trends and exploits, showed them how to identify and defend against them, and gave them a 20,000 foot view of the inner workings of hackers, hacker communities, and the serious organised crime industry.

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Not stopping there I also discussed the view from the CFO’s office, behavioural and social engineering techniques, as well as future threats to their business, including synthetic content and deepfakes, before discussing the impact that the ability to use quantum computing to crack the majority of their encryption will have on their industrial automation products and services, including digital and meta twins.

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Having discussed a wide variety of security exploits I then switched gears and showed them all how they could reduce the risk of being compromised, and discussed the importance of having a Chatham House culture that provided employees with the space and freedom to share their concerns without fear of judgement or retribution.

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Matthew Griffin / About Author

Matthew Griffin, described as “The Adviser behind the Advisers” and a “Young Kurzweil,” is the founder and CEO of the World Futures Forum and the 311 Institute, a global Futures and Deep Futures consultancy working across the next 50 years, and is an award winning futurist, and author of “Codex of the Future” series.

Regularly featured in the global media, including AP, BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, Discovery, RT, Viacom, and WIRED, Matthew’s ability to identify, track, and explain the impacts of hundreds of revolutionary emerging technologies on global culture, industry and society, is unparalleled. Recognised for the past six years as one of the world’s foremost futurists, innovation and strategy experts Matthew is an international speaker who helps governments, investors, multi-nationals and regulators around the world envision, build and lead an inclusive, sustainable future.

A rare talent Matthew’s recent work includes mentoring Lunar XPrize teams, re-envisioning global education and training with the G20, and helping the world’s largest organisations envision and ideate the future of their products and services, industries, and countries.

Matthew's clients include three Prime Ministers and several governments, including the G7, Accenture, Aon, Bain & Co, BCG, Credit Suisse, Dell EMC, Dentons, Deloitte, E&Y, GEMS, Huawei, JPMorgan Chase, KPMG, Lego, McKinsey, PWC, Qualcomm, SAP, Samsung, Sopra Steria, T-Mobile, and many more.