Speaker Detail

Lovington Dela Cruz, P.Eng., is a Global Director and OT/ICS cybersecurity leader with over 25 years of hands on experience securing and engineering industrial control systems across oil & gas, water, and critical infrastructure sectors. He brings a rare practitioner’s perspective that integrates control systems engineering, functional safety, and operational cybersecurity, grounded in real world design, commissioning, and operational environments. A Technical Steering Committee voting member of the ISA/IEC 62443 Security Compliance Institute (ISASecure) and an active contributor to ISA99 and multiple IEC 62443 standards, he directly influences how industrial cybersecurity requirements are defined and applied. He is widely recognized for translating standards and risk into practical, defensible architectures that measurably improve safety, reliability, and cyber resilience. Attendees can expect authoritative, field tested insights from a trusted advisor deeply embedded in the global industrial automation and OT security community.