LIVE Podcast: Your OT Cyber Plan Is Only as Strong as Your Recovery

We are live for the first time!

Recorded in front of a live audience at GrayMatter’s Think Do Leadership Summit in Chicago in June 2026, this special episode of Trust Me, It’s Air-Gapped brings together a cross-section of four OT security voices for a conversation about industrial cybersecurity.

Host Scott Christensen, OT Cybersecurity Practice Lead at GrayMatter, is joined by Zach Vera, Account Manager at AMDT Octoplant; Steve Alger, Digital Transformation Lead at Lear Corporation; and Adam Shepherd, Sr. Systems Admin at REA Magnet Wire.

Together they dig into why recovery time scares practitioners (sometimes more than an attack itself), how to make the business case for cyber investment when there’s no clean ROI, and what it really takes to bridge the IT/OT divide.

The panel also cuts through AI hype on the plant floor, exposes the danger of tribal knowledge and makes the case for treating cybersecurity as a long-term program — not a one-time project.

Visit us at graymattersystems.com to apply to attend our next Think Do Leadership Summits in Atlanta on Aug. 18, 2026, and Pittsburgh on Sept. 15, 2026.