- Purpose
- A municipal leadership exercise balancing service continuity, operational resilience, cyber capability and public trust through escalating incidents.
- Format
- Team dashboard + facilitator deck + standings
- Decision arc
- Investment → incident → remembered consequence
- Public demo
- 2–3 minutes
A municipal leadership exercise balancing service continuity, operational resilience, cyber capability and public trust through escalating incidents.
What it explores
Cyber City treats resilience as a whole-city leadership problem rather than a technical awareness quiz. Teams must keep services operating while investing in capabilities whose value may only become visible after an incident.
Continuity, resilience, cyber capability and public trust create competing demands. A technically defensible response can still damage legitimacy or leave the city unable to handle what follows.
How the experience works
Escalating incident rounds are managed through a team decision dashboard, facilitator deck and shared standings. Conditional rules make later events respond to earlier investments and omissions.
The system remembers whether a team built capacity, deferred control or prioritised immediate continuity. Consequences therefore feel causal rather than arbitrarily punitive.
The consequential moment
An early shortcut returns as the condition that magnifies a later incident. Participants can trace the crisis back to a decision that looked reasonable when the pressure was lower.
Public demonstration
Two linked incidents are enough to show the compounding loop: choose an investment, respond to the first disruption, then discover how the earlier decision changes the second.