This 1.5-day MIT roundtable brings together senior leaders across supply chain, operations, technology, cybersecurity, and risk management to examine how major cyber incidents and emerging threats associated with AI agents are affecting physical supply chains. Participants will explore what organizations can do to prepare for and mitigate these risks and recover faster.
The roundtable will introduce the new MIT Cybersecurity Lab, a collective effort to help protect global supply chains against cybercrime. Recent cyberattacks have demonstrated that a single incident can halt manufacturing plants, warehouses, transportation flows, and entire distribution networks, potentially generating hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. At the same time, growing technology dependency and the use of AI agents across supply chains are creating new attack vectors and expanding the cascading effects of cyberattacks across supply chains.
Participants will learn directly from affected firms, compare current prevention, mitigation, and recovery practices, and identify the most urgent gaps where new research, tools, and collaboration are needed. Participants will also discuss the trade-offs among AI agent capabilities, privileges, autonomy, and cybersecurity risk; explore how emerging threats such as prompt injection and model modifications could affect physical operations; and discuss the guardrails needed to deploy AI safely in supply chain and manufacturing operations.
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
The roundtable will run from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., followed by a reception.
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
The roundtable will run from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Times are subject to change.
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Registration Note: This event is exclusively for members of the MIT CTL Supply Chain Exchange and invited guests. Please register using your work email to confirm eligibility. Upon registering, you will receive a “pending approval” status. Your request will be reviewed, and you will receive a confirmation email once approved.
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