Dr. Cynthia
Sutherland
Chief Information Security Officer at BlackCrest Cyber, LLC
"Tech Without Burnout in the Age of AI"
"Tech Without Burnout in the Age of AI"
Tue May 12 - 4:20 PM EDT/New York (See in local time)
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"Tech Without Burnout in the Age of AI"
"Tech Without Burnout in the Age of AI"
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Session: Tech Without Burnout in the Age of AI
In today’s high-stakes cyber landscape, speed is everything—but it’s costing us more than we realize. As organizations rush to integrate AI and secure digital systems, the pressure on cybersecurity teams has quietly reached a breaking point. Burnout is no longer an exception—it’s becoming operational risk.In this timely leadership talk, Dr. Cynthia Sutherland, former CISO for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and FEMA, introduces the A.I.R. Framework™: Aligning Innovation with Empathy, Integrating Innovation with Intention, and Recovering with Permission.
Rooted in lived experience and 28 years of leadership across defense and enterprise systems, this session offers a what it takes to protect both our missions and the minds behind them.
Key Takeaways
- Tactics to lead innovation without exhausting your teams
- Strategies to align systems, people, and priorities under pressure
- A mindset shift that treats resilience as a core protocol—not a perk
Bio
Dr. Cynthia Sutherland is The Resilience Transformer™—a globally recognized cybersecurity executive, resilience strategist, and transformational speaker with 28+ years of experience securing defense, government, enterprise ecosystems, and industrial control systems across 16 industries. She protected more than $1 trillion in assets, led cybersecurity diplomacy across 50+ nations, and driven measurable reductions in risk, cost, and incidents through human-centered innovation.She served as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Global Chair for a 23-nation NATO security board, and as a Global Automotive Cybersecurity Leader at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Her work spans governance, cybersecurity, cloud integration and compliance, Artificial Intelligence (AI) implementation, and organizational resilience across global platforms.
Named a “STEM Pioneer Who Rocks” by NSA, Dr. Sutherland bridges emotional intelligence, organizational strategy, and cybersecurity to engineer environments where ideas and people thrive—because transformation should not burn out the minds that build the future.
