From Tabletop to Incident Response: How AI Is Changing How Teams Test and Respond

Tabletop exercises are only as strong as the scenarios behind them, and building those scenarios has always been time-consuming, inconsistent, and hard to scale. AI can help teams design realistic, role-appropriate exercises faster, synthesize inputs from across the business, and surface gaps that paper-based walkthroughs can miss. 

The same AI-assisted workflow can also support live incident response by structuring the decision flow, surfacing relevant runbooks, and helping teams stay focused under pressure. This session shows how AI makes exercise design faster and more effective, and how that same approach applies when an actual event is underway. 

Fusion experts will walk through the process in practice, from building and running an AI-assisted tabletop to applying that workflow during real incident response. You’ll leave with a repeatable approach for using AI across both exercises and incidents. 

Key Takeaways 

• See how AI accelerates tabletop exercise design, from scenario creation to role-specific injects 
• Understand how the same AI-assisted workflow adapts to live incident response 
• Learn where AI adds the most value, and where human judgment has to lead 
• Walk away with a practical framework for applying AI across exercises and incidents