Everpure Leadership Series: When the Backup Becomes the Breach: Rethinking Cyber Resilience in a Sovereign Data World

9 Apr, 2026, Thursday

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When the Backup Becomes the Breach: Rethinking Cyber Resilience in a Sovereign Data World

The conversation around cyber resilience has moved beyond backup and recovery. In a world shaped by cross‑border data sovereignty mandates and AI systems learning from and acting on sensitive enterprise data, the question that data leaders are pondering is whether the data you recover is still yours, still intact, and still compliant. At the same time, enterprises are finding out that recovery systems can themselves become targets, and AI models can unintentionally exfiltrate or corrupt sovereign data.

This Everpure Leadership Series panel discussion brings together thought leaders from Everpure and practitioners to examine:

How data sovereignty reshapes the definition of “resilience” in distributed and cloud‑first architectures.
Why backup and recovery platforms are now frontline defenses, not afterthoughts.
The real‑world regulatory landscape when data residency or recovery actions violate sovereignty rules.
The new AI wildcard with autonomous agents that may overwhelm protected data zones or render critical assets temporarily unavailable.

This is a conversation for leaders who know that uptime means nothing if the data behind it can’t stand up to regulatory or AI scrutiny.

Date

2026-04-09
Time

1130-1230 SG/HKT | 1030-1130 ICT | 0900-1000 IST | 1330-1430 AEST
Place

Online

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Event

AGENDA

11:30 AM (SGT)

Welcome Remarks

Winston Thomas

Editor-in-Chief
CDOTrends, HR&DigitalTrends and DataOpsTrends

Winston brings over 20 years of journalistic experience to CDOTrends.com. As the previous editor at Computerworld Hong Kong, CIO Asia and PCWeek Asia, he followed, edited and wrote how the Internet and the rise of the digital economy impacted businesses across various industries. Most recently, Winston served as N. Asia editor of CMOInnovation. As the Editor-in-Chief of CDOTrends.com, he is bringing together intriguing articles, insights from leading thinkers, in-depth lessons from practitioners, and various thought leadership materials to develop a new resource for CDOs and other digital practitioners. Fascinated by new technology trends, he is constantly looking at how digital is reshaping our future lives.

Besides his communication skills, he is well-versed in building conference and marketing programmes externally and internally. Recently, he produced Total Security Conference 2016, Big Data and Business Analytics Forum 2016 and Future Workplace Forum 2016. Previously, he also launched CIO Asia Awards and helped to create the Computerworld Hong Kong Readers’ Choice Awards (today Computerworld Hong Kong Awards under Questex Asia).

As a copywriter, Winston has contributed to South China Morning Post (for finance and IT sections), Asia Week and IT Malaysia. He has also contributed technology-based articles for inflight magazines, including Cathay Pacific’s The Club and Gulf Air magazine, and recently to Benchmark Magazine.

Previous to his career in the media industry, he was a commodities broker and an abattoir manager in Singapore. He currently holds a B Sc. (Biology) with Merit, loves playing the piano and running marathon events.

11:40 AM

Rethinking Cyber Resilience in a Sovereign Data World

In a world shaped by cross‑border data sovereignty mandates and AI systems learning from and acting on sensitive enterprise data, the question that data leaders are pondering is whether the data you recover is still yours, still intact, and still compliant. At the same time, enterprises are finding out that recovery systems can themselves become targets, and AI models can unintentionally exfiltrate or corrupt sovereign data. This panel will discuss:

How data sovereignty reshapes the definition of “resilience” in distributed and cloud‑first architectures.
Why backup and recovery platforms are now frontline defenses, not afterthoughts.
The real‑world regulatory landscape when data residency or recovery actions violate sovereignty rules.
The new AI wildcard with autonomous agents that may overwhelm protected data zones or render critical assets temporarily unavailable.

Moderator:

Winston Thomas

Editor-in-Chief
CDOTrends, HR&DigitalTrends and DataOpsTrends

Panelists:

Matthew Oostveen

Chief Technology Officer, Asia Pacific & Japan
Everpure

Matthew Oostveen is the Chief Technology Officer for Pure in Asia Pacific & Japan. He is a member of the global CTO organization at Pure that helps empower Everpure’s customers to reach new heights of capability and efficiency in their organizations as well as guide them in their journey to future technologies.

Oostveen has deep experience in working closely with customers in the region across a range of technologies. Prior to joining Everpure, he had CTO roles with Dell EMC and VCE and also worked at leading companies such as IDC, Microsoft and IBM.

As an industry analyst with IDC Matt has authored and published over 50 research papers on a variety of technology related topics, forecasted the IT market and produced predictions documents on how the future will evolve.

This diverse background has given him a unique perspective of the IT landscape with particular deep expertise in the areas of cloud computing, big data, data analytics, mobility and the future workspace, and how these technologies intersect with one another. More importantly, he has a keen understanding of the dynamics between technology and business imperatives which has enabled him to serve as a trusted advisor to many large enterprises.

Oostveen has degrees from the Queensland University of Technology and Macquarie Graduate School of Management. He currently resides in Singapore with his young family and is a certified life saver.

12:25 PM