Critical Dependencies: Strategic Capital and Digital Infrastructure

Industrial resilience requires capital that backs what matters—and systems that don't break. Panel one asks where the money comes from: corporate venture units, industrial deep-tech investors, and venture builders operating with different logic than traditional VCs. Longer timelines, harder problems, competitive advantage measured in decades. Panel two examines digital infrastructure—cloud concentration risk, cybersecurity at operational scale, AI governance, and data continuity. Two sessions, one throughline: building industries that last .