Trust Horizon live: Featuring special guest Nile Rodgers

Partner event: The next wave of cyber disruption.

Cybersecurity is entering a new era: AI is becoming adversarial, sovereignty is fracturing, quantum risk is accelerating and trust is fast becoming the defining pillar of organisational strategy. 

To navigate this shifting terrain, Thales is bringing together senior executives, innovators and CISOs to decode the forces shaping the next five years, followed by a rare creative conversation with legendary musical collaborator Nile Rodgers on adaptability, innovation and seeing around corners.

This high-impact, 90-minute virtual experience blends strategic foresight, cultural insight and executive conversation to give leaders a clear view of what’s coming between 2026 and 2030 - and what they need to do today to stay ahead.

What to expect

Attendees will gain a sharp, executive-level understanding of the five macro trends that will redefine cyber strategy, risk, and resilience through 2030.

They’ll hear directly from Thales senior leaders, debate real-world implications with top CISOs and tap into the creative mindset of Nile Rodgers, exploring how collaboration, timing and trust fuel both iconic music and world-class security.

Agenda

1. The Top 5 Trends Leaders Must Prepare For (2026–2030)

Five Thales senior leaders deliver elevated 5-minute debriefs decoding the forces that will reshape cybersecurity and business strategy:

• AI & bot acceleration: Real-time adaptive threats, offensive AI and bot-driven disruption
• Data sovereignty 2.0: Fragmenting global rules and the next compliance wave
• Identity and trust foundations: Reinventing digital trust, authentication and access
• Cloud-native risks: The new frontier of distributed attack surfaces
• Quantum’s forthcoming disruption: The countdown to crypto-obsolescence
• Outcome: Give CISOs, CIOs and business leaders the clarity to act before adversaries do.

2. Headline feature: Nile Rodgers

Nile Rodgers - Musician, songwriter, guitarist and record producer and the co-founder of CHIC. Nile Rodgers has written, produced, and performed on records that have sold more than 750 million albums and 100 million singles worldwide.

A cultural lens on leadership and foresight from one of history’s greatest collaborators. Topics include:

• How partnership shaped iconic work with Bowie, Madonna, Daft Punk and Diana Ross
• Innovation as anticipating the beat before the world hears it
• Creativity as a discipline of strategic foresight
• What cyber leaders can learn from producers who combine talent, timing and trust
• Outcome: Inspiration and emotional resonance that anchor the Trust Horizon series.

3. The CISO Roundtable: What it means for us

CISOs debate the implications of the five trends and Nile’s session:

• Which trends will strike first, and hardest
• What’s hype, what’s real and what’s arriving faster than expected
• Today’s biggest organisational vulnerabilities
• How collaboration, leadership and trust build resilience 

4. Live Q&A + Closing Pulse

• Interactive questions, rapid polling, and audience input to shape future editions of the Trust Horizon series.

Event details

• Location: Virtual
• Date:  20th January 2026
• Time: 2:00–3:30 PM GMT
  
• Speakers:
  • Nile Rodgers — legendary producer, guitarist, and creative innovator
  • Tim Chang - Thales – Global VP Application Security Product Management 
  • Tim Ayling – Thales – VP Cyber Solutions Specialist 
  • Jay Thurston – Thales – Field CSO Thales 
  • Todd Moore – Global VP, Encryption Products 
  • Blair Canavan - Director, Alliances - PKI & PQC Portfolio
  • Jon-Rav Shende – Thales – CTO Data Security 

Tim Chang - Global VP and GM Application Security Thales Cybersecurity Products

 

Tim Chang is Global Vice President and General Manager of Application Security for the Cyber Security Products business line at Thales. In this role, Tim is responsible for leading the global product team and go to market strategy of the application security portfolio. Tim is a seasoned cyber security professional with a focus on staying at the forefront of the latest technologies and cyber security trends to enable customers and partners to defend against complex threats with effective, efficient and innovative application security solutions.

 

Prior to this role, Tim served as the Global Vice President of Sales Engineering at Imperva, where he led a team of experts responsible for driving the revenue growth of Imperva’s industry leading Web Application and API security solutions. Before Imperva, Tim was a team lead at HPE supporting the growth of HPE’s big data technologies and machine learning based information governance solutions. Tim is based in the U.S. and is a graduate of Stanford University.

Tim Ayling - VP EMEA - Cybersecurity Specialists, Thales Cybersecurity Products

 

Tim Ayling currently serves as the VP EMEA Cyber Security Specialists at Thales.  With over 25 years’ experience in the cybersecurity industry, Tim began his career in System Engineering.  He began his leadership career when he established Entrust Inc. in Australia in 2003 and was made Vice-President Asia Pacific in 2006. Tim has held numerous leadership roles in large cybersecurity vendors, including RSA Security, Imperva, Trend Micro, Kaspersky Labs and now Thales, as well as spending time in the cyber-security practise of KPMG. Tim holds an MSc in Secure E-Commerce and an MBA from the University of Warwick.

Jay Thurston- Field CISO, Thales

 

With over two decades of cybersecurity leadership in financial services, Jay brings deep expertise in encryption, risk mitigation, and compliance. As a former leader at JPMorgan Chase, he managed global teams and drove strategic security programs that strengthened resilience and ensured regulatory alignment across the enterprise.

 

Throughout Jay’s career, he led teams responsible for safeguarding critical areas including PCI DSS/PIN compliance, Data Protection, Payment Key Management, Vendor Management, and Sarbanes-Oxley. Jay is passionate about building security strategies that not only protect data but also enable business growth and trust in an increasingly complex digital landscape.

Dr. Arthur Langer - Northeastern University

 

Dr. Arthur Langer is recognized as a technology leadership expert and a professor at Northeastern University. He is known for his work in technology management, leadership, and education. Dr. Langer has held various academic and professional roles, often focusing on bridging the gap between technology and business leadership.

 

He has contributed extensively to research and teaching in areas such as information systems, technology leadership, and organizational change. Dr. Langer is also involved in mentoring and developing future technology leaders through his roles in academia.

 

For the most current and detailed biography, I recommend visiting Northeastern University's official website or Dr. Langer's professional profiles, such as LinkedIn or his faculty page at Northeastern.

Todd Moore - Global VP, Data Security Products, Thales

 

Todd Moore is the head of the Data Security Products portfolio at Thales Cyber Security Products, where he drives the strategy for the company’s industry-leading data encryption portfolio. Moore is a respected cybersecurity professional with more than 20 years of experience helping enterprises protect their most sensitive data and applications. He is a growth leader who routinely develops business cases and market analysis for new product investments, demonstrated capability to develop competitive strategies, and build teams from the ground up and negotiate strategic relationships and alliances.

 

Previously he was Senior Vice President for Encryption Products at Gemalto prior to its acquisition by Thales. Before that he was Vice President of Encryption products at SafeNet before its acquisition by Gemalto. Prior to that, he served as Vice President of Product Management for the Federal Market at SafeNet where he focused on high- speed link encryption, high assurance authentication, cross domain solutions and cybersecurity. Before joining SafeNet, he was a director of product management at Harris Corporation.

 

Todd holds a Master’s of Science in Electrical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology, a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer & Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and a Bachelor’s of Art in Physics & Mathematics from Ithaca College

Blair Canavan - Director, Alliances - PKI & PQC Portfolio, Thales Group

 

Blair has 35+ years of cybersecurity sales, marketing and business development expertise. Blair’s cybersecurity and cryptographic career began with Symantec, followed by Chrysalis-ITS (Thales), Titus (Fortra), Black Duck (Synopsys), InfoSec Global (Keyfactor) and Crypto4A. Blair was recruited back to Thales’ Global Technology Alliances team in 2019, tasked with the development and curation of the PKI and Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) portfolio.  He is an avid presenter, webinar host and global PQC industry contributor, including the founder of Thales’ PQC Palooza events held during the RSA Conference. Blair holds an Hons.BA Co-op from the University of Waterloo and Business Option from Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada.

Jon-Rav Shende - CTO Data Security

 

Jon-Rav Shende is a global technology and business leader with 20+ years of experience within data management, cloud services, and data centre operations, AI/ML, cybersecurity, and digital SOC modernisation. With early experience in Oil & Gas SCADA systems, Jon has witnessed the enterprise technology shift: from on-prem systems to cloud, from virtualisation to hyperscale platforms, and now from machine learning to agentic AI.

 

He serves as the CTO for Data and part of the AI team at Thales, bringing experience as a technical leader who has advised executives on modernising data and AI strategies, LLM, CyberSecurity Engineering, and AI security experience to Thales to shape data security, AI Security, and trust architectures with governance models for global enterprises.

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