Securing Digital Supply Chains: Navigating the East-West Technology Divide
21 Oct 2025
Level 3, Room GW6 | Sands Expo and Convention Centre
Concepts of Trust and the Spillover of General Ecosystem Dynamics into Cyber Specific Supply Chains
As global supply chains are redrawn by rising geopolitical tensions and increasingly nationalistic trade policies, organisations with business across both the East and the West are challenged in navigating the diverging technology architectures and concepts – the East-West technology divide.
Leaders are now faced with the need to navigate the increased semiconductor sovereignty, and the range of challenges from software localisation to cross-border interoperability gaps. This development exacerbates the already complex risk management necessary in the digitally enabled businesses, leading to a strategic consideration and imperative.
In this session, Teo Xiang Zheng unpacks the implications of "supply chain de-risking" on digital infrastructure resilience. He explores how businesses can adapt to diverging technology architectures, concepts of cyber defence, and how leaders need to plan and manage the emerging cyber risks arising from the fragmentation in the digital supply chain.
Leaders are now faced with the need to navigate the increased semiconductor sovereignty, and the range of challenges from software localisation to cross-border interoperability gaps. This development exacerbates the already complex risk management necessary in the digitally enabled businesses, leading to a strategic consideration and imperative.
In this session, Teo Xiang Zheng unpacks the implications of "supply chain de-risking" on digital infrastructure resilience. He explores how businesses can adapt to diverging technology architectures, concepts of cyber defence, and how leaders need to plan and manage the emerging cyber risks arising from the fragmentation in the digital supply chain.
