GSX 2025 reveals session line-up and keynote speakers

GSX 2025 has announced that will encompass 200+ sessions that tackle vital issues in the security profession.

The session line-up includes themes of:

• Crime
• Digital Transformation
• Information Security
• Law and Ethics
• Managing Organisations
• National Security
• Physical and Operational Security
• Professional Development
• Risk Management

GSX will also feature three unique keynote speakers: Ian Bremmer, Sol Rashidi and General Paul M Nakasone.

Monday 29 September 

The New Abnormal: Who are the Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World? | Ian Bremmer, President of Eurasia Group & Global Politics and Markets Expert

We have entered a period of heightened geopolitical and market volatility, what Ian Bremmer calls the “New Abnormal.”

In the past few years, we’ve seen a financial crisis, a global recession, the Eurozone crisis and the Arab Spring.

All of this comes against the backdrop of a G-Zero world, an environment where no country or group of countries is willing and able to sustainably set the international agenda.

This lack of global leadership will ensure that the ride gets even bumpier before the turbulence subsides.

This world without leaders will undermine our ability over the next decade to keep the peace in Asia and the Middle East, to grow the global economy, to reverse the impact of climate change, to feed growing populations and to protect the most basic of all necessities air, food and water.

Its effects will be felt in every region of the world, even in cyberspace. 

Tuesday 30 September 

The AI-Powered Security Paradigm | Sol Rashidi, 10 Patents, Best-Selling AI Author and former Amazon & Fortune 100 C-Suite Exec

As AI becomes a mission-critical infrastructure, the integration of human strategic thinking and AI operational capabilities creates unprecedented opportunities for security leaders.

By mastering AI integration, security professionals don’t just secure their career relevance, they emerge as indispensable strategic leaders driving innovation and competitive advantage.

Rashidi will help you design a future where AI amplifies human strategic capabilities, creating unprecedented value and establishing security leaders as essential business catalysts in an AI-driven world. 

Wednesday 1 October

Lasting Leadership Lessons from the World’s Second Oldest Profession | General Paul M Nakasone, Former Commander, US Cyber Command & Former Director of the National Security Agency

For nearly six years, General Paul M Nakasone led the largest and most technically advanced component of the US Intelligence Community, the National Security Agency.

Decorated with the Intelligence Community’s highest award, he is an experienced, transformational leader, who succeeded in recruiting and retaining the best and brightest talent; bringing transparency and greater engagement with the private sector; and in developing broader internal and external partnerships to overcome the nation’s most challenging adversaries.

Weaving real life leadership lessons learned during his own career, General Nakasone brings meaning to the hair-raising challenges he faced as one of the Intelligence Community’s most visible leaders and to where corporate leaders can leverage this knowledge as they work to align their teams and lead them to success.