Leadership training for the AI era.
A partnership between Foundation Layer and Poker Power.
Strategic play as a leadership laboratory — where you can test how you think when the stakes are real.
Judgment is the skill that doesn't automate
Through curated poker experiences hosted alongside major cybersecurity convenings, the series turns strategic play into a practical laboratory: how you assess risk, read signals, and decide under pressure — with real stakes and immediate feedback.
This is leadership development for the people responsible for securing the systems that increasingly shape society. No poker experience required.
Sharpening decision discipline at the scale where it costs the most.
Building the confidence to act before you have all the information.
Practicing the judgment the next role will demand of you.
See what Poker Power is all about
Two minutes on the method — why the table turns out to be the fastest way to practice how you decide.
Cybersecurity has always been a judgment discipline. AI raises the stakes.
What changed isn't the nature of the work — it's the speed, scale, and autonomy of the systems those decisions now govern.
Leaders now shape how autonomous systems behave, how risk propagates, and how organizations respond when those systems fail.
Women adopt AI at significantly lower rates than men. When part of the workforce lacks confidence engaging with these systems, the whole ecosystem is less prepared to govern them.
Calibrating risk and deciding in ambiguity are practiced skills. They need an environment where the practice is real and the cost of being wrong is not.
Power Play: An Evening of Strategy and Connection
Cybersecurity and technology leaders spent an evening at the table with Poker Power instructors — learning the fundamentals of the game and practicing the skills leaders use daily: assessing uncertainty, reading signals, managing risk, deciding under pressure.
No poker experience was required — and by the second hour, it showed.
We are currently seeking sponsors and partners for our 2027 event.
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We are currently seeking sponsors and partners for 2027. Support leadership development while reaching a highly engaged room of cybersecurity and technology leaders.
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"Poker teaches you how to make good decisions even when you don't have all the information."
Annie Duke
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