Tabletop Lab
Engage in simulated healthcare security scenarios. Practice incident response, risk assessment, and crisis management in a safe environment.
Led by Nina Kollars, PhDLights Out and Last Call: A Drunken Tabletop on Medical Device Resilience
by Courtney McCarty
Healthcare cyber exercises often end at compromise: ransomware lands, systems fail, and the red team wins. Yay (eyeroll). Real hospitals don't stop there; patients still need scans, medications still need to be delivered, and clinicians still need to make decisions after access disappears.
Lights Out, Last Call is a highly immersive and conversational "Drunken Tabletop" experience where participants become a hospital's clinical resilience team immediately following a catastrophic network downtime event impacting connected medical devices. There is no audience. There are only participants.
While sipping cocktails and responding to evolving scenario injects, attendees will navigate the uncomfortable reality of healthcare operations and executive decisions after digital access breaks down. Participants may suddenly lose nuclear medicine imaging, discover vendor firmware dependencies, face impossible prioritization choices, reroute patients across hospitals, and debate whether AI-generated remediation recommendations should be trusted during a crisis.
Through collaborative play, this exercise explores a serious question hidden inside a chaotic environment: when hospitals lose access, who still gets care, who decides, and who gets left behind?
The session combines cybersecurity, medical device resilience, supply chain dependencies, and operational continuity into a social experiment designed to transform healthcare chaos into practical lessons.
Come for the cocktails, stay because your nuc med cameras went offline.