On October 21-22, Skadden hosted Fortify: Skadden’s Cyber, Privacy and AI Summit in the firm’s New York office. Approximately 120 attendees, including security and technology leaders, privacy and risk executives, and government officials, came together to examine complex and emerging cybersecurity, data privacy and AI challenges facing global Fortune 500 companies. The sessions explored a range of topics, including agentic cyber threats, Europe’s cyber and AI rulebooks in practice, data privacy predictions for 2027, and the board’s role in governing agentic AI and cyber risk. Executive Partner Jeremy London gave welcome remarks, and cybersecurity and data privacy co-heads Bill Ridgway and David Simon provided opening and closing remarks and moderated numerous panels. Other Skadden speakers included Raquel Fox, Archis Parasharami, Nicola Kerr-Shaw, Joshua Silverstein, Susanne Werry and Lisa Zivkovic.