Venue
The International Convention Centre
The International Convention Centre, 8 Centenary Sq, Birmingham B1 2EA, UK

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Event Date Mon May 13 CEST - Wed May 15 CEST (7 months ago)
In your timezone (EST): Sun May 12 6:00pm - Tue May 14 6:00pm
Location The International Convention Centre
8 Centenary Sq, Birmingham B1 2EA, UK
Region EMEA
Details

This event is the UK government's flagship cyber security event, hosted by the National Cyber Security Centre. It convenes over 2,000 cyber security leaders and professionals each year for networking, knowledge exchange, and collaboration.
Learn about cutting edge developments, and explore how your peers plan to respond quickly to the threats and opportunities of rapidly developing technology.

Why should I attend?
• Network with 2,000+ cyber security leaders and technical professionals
• Hear from 100+ expert speakers about the threat landscape, resilience and mor
• Meet 150+ sponsors and exhibitors, for collaboration, learning and innovation
• Attend 10+ hours of exclusive and dedicated networking events around the city

Speakers

2024 Speakers

PLENARY:

Anne Keast-Butler‎
Director, GCHQ

Felicity Oswald OBE
CEO, NCSC

Harry Coker
National Cyber Director, The White House

Claudia Plattner
President, Federal Office for Information Security Germany

Matthew Collins
Deputy National Security Adviser, Cabinet Office

Heather Adkins
VP, Security Engineering & Head of Google’s Office of Cybersecurity Resilience, Google

Keiichi Ichikawa
Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary and Deputy National Security Adviser, Cabinet Secretariat

Chris Ensor
Deputy Director for Cyber Growth, NCSC

Claudia Natanson MBE
Chair UKCSC Board of Trustees, UK Cyber Security Council

Emran Mian
Director General, Digital Technology and Telecoms, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Sami Khoury
Head, Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS)

Professor Sadie Creese
Professor of Cybersecurity, University of Oxford

Stephen Bonner
Deputy Commissioner, ICO

Nick Godfrey
Senior Director, Google Cloud

Ollie Whitehouse
Chief Technology Officer, NCSC

Angela McLean
Government Chief Scientific Adviser, Government Office For Science

Professor Sir Peter Knight
Professor, Imperial College London

Matthew Griffin
CEO, 311 Institute

Mani Sundaram
EVP & GM Security Technology Group, Akamai Technologies

Jonathon Ellison OBE
Director for National Resilience and Future Technology, NCSC

Dr Marsha Quallo-Wright
Director Delivery, Engineering and Crypt Key (Interim), NCSC

Kemba Walden
President, Paladin Global Institute

Stephanie Crowe
First Assistant Director General Cyber Security Resilience, Australian Signals Directorate

Nitin Natarajan
Deputy Director, CISA

Paul Chichester MBE
Director of Operations, NCSC

Emelia Probasco
Senior Fellow, Center For Security And Emerging Technology

Dmitri Alperovitch
Chairman, Silverado Policy Accelerator

Sarah Armstrong-Smith
Chief Security Advisor, Microsoft

Air Vice Marshall Tim Neal-Hopes OBE
Commander, National Cyber Force

David Luber
Director, Cybersecurity Directorate, National Security Agency

STREAM A:

Principal Technical Director, NCSC

Robert Lord
Sr. Technical Advisor, CISA

David Weston
VP OS Security and Enterprise, Microsoft

Wim van der Schoot
Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

Dr Sara Vecchini
Security Operations and Data Science Lead, 2T Security Ltd

Sian John
Chief Technology Officer, NCC Group

Gary Winter
Software Engineer, Ultra Intelligence & Communications

Khalid Evans
Graduate Software Engineer, Ultra Intelligence & Communications

Anjana Rajan
Assistant National Cyber Director for Technology Security, The White House

Simon Croall
VP Business Development & Innovation, Ultra Intelligence & Communications

Deputy CTO for Cyber Policy and Assessments, NCSC

Alex Leadbeater
Technical Security Director, GSMA

Stacie Hoffmann
Head of Digital Standards, Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology

Kathleen Moriarty
Tech and Standards Strategy Consultant, Transforming Information Security LLC

Chris Box
Distinguished Engineer, BT Group

Head of Cryptography and High Threat Technologies, NCSC

Tommy Charles
Chief Cryptographer and Distinguished Technologist, HP

Dr Ali El Kaafarani
Founder/CEO, PQShield

Zygmunt Lozinski
Quantum Safe Networks, IBM Research

Dr Ayesha Khalid
Senior Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast

STREAM B:

Paul Chichester
Director of Operations, NCSC

Harry
Tech Director for Incident Management, NCSC

Head of Incident Management, NCSC

Stuart Davis
Senior Director, Incident Response Services, CrowdStrike

Representative from the National Security Agency

Paul Chichester
Director of Operations, NCSC

Eleanor Fairford
Deputy Director for Incident Management, NCSC

Geoff White
Author & Investigative Journalist, NCSC Assessment Global Issues Team Lead

Justin Warner
Global Threat Analysis Lead, Microsoft

Jen Roberts
Assistant Director, Atlantic Council

Deputy Director Operations, NCSC

Matilda Rhode
AI and Cyber Security Lead, BSI

Sarah Beckel
Technical Director, CISA

Mark Ryan
Professor of Computer Security, University of Birmingham

Natalia Krapiva
Senior Tech Legal Counsel, Access Now

Paolo Di Prodi
Founder, Priam Cyber AI Ltd

STREAM C:

Chris Ensor
Deputy Director for Cyber Growth, NCSC

Mary Haigh
CISO, BAE Systems

Stuart Okin
Director for Cyber Regulation, Ofgem

Leanne Price
Deputy Director Government Security Profession, Cabinet Office

Christine Maxwell
Director Cyber Defence, Ministry of Defence

Dr Marsha Quallo-Wright
Director Delivery, Engineering and Crypt Key (Interim), NCSC

Research Lead, NCSC

Ann Dunkin
Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of Energy

Howard Watson
Chief Security and Networks Officer, BT Group CTO

Ian
Deputy Director for Government Cyber Resilience, NCSC

Bella Powell
Cyber Director, Government Security Group, Cabinet Office, Cabinet Office

Mike Fell
Director - National Cyber Operations, NHS England

Stuart Frost
Head of Enterprise Security & Risk Management, UK Government (DWP)

Jason Corbishley
Chief Information Security Officer, Police Digital Service

Charles Fecteau
Principal Cybersecurity Technical Advisor - Cyber Defence

Amy
Analysis Mission Lead, NCSC

Sarah
Deputy Director Economy & Society, NCSC

Fiona Bail
National Cyber PATH lead, National Cyber Resilience Centre Group

Brian Webb
Chief Security Officer, BT Consumer

Sponsors & Partners

2024 Sponsors

LEAD SPONSORS:
• Akamai
• Google Cloud

TECHNICAL MASTERCLASS SPONSOR:
• NCC Group

NETWORKING SPONSORS:
• Accenture
• Cloudflare

NETWORKING DINNER SPONSOR:
• Microsoft

STREAM A SPONSOR:
• Ultra

STREAM B SPONSOR:
• Crowstrike

STREAM C SPONSOR:
• AWS

CYBER ECOSYSTEM ZONE SPONSOR:
• Deloitte

LIVE STREAMING ZONE SPONSOR:
• ISC2

WELCOME DRINKS SPONSOR:
• Means Business

PREMIUM INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP SPONSORS:
• BlueVoyant
• Eset
• Sophos
• Synack

INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP SPONSORS:
• BeyondTrust
• Check Point
• Egress
• Immersive Labs
• KnowBe4
• Leonardo

SCHOOLS OUTREACH PROGRAMME SPONSOR:
• Viasat

SME INNOVATION ZONE HOSTED BY:
• Department for science, innovation & Technology

STARTUPS ZONE HOSTED BY:
• Plexal

CYBER GAMES SPONSOR:
• Elastic

DIGITAL DELEGATE BROCHURE SPONSOR:
• Talanos

MEETING HUB SPONSOR:
• DXC Technology

WOMEN IN CYBER BREAKFAST SPONSOR:
• Lockheed Martin

BURSARY SPONSORS:
• Barclays
• Illumio
• Risk Ledger

BARISTA BAR SPONSOR:
• sAPPHIRE

JUICE BAR SPONSOR:
• HackerOne

LANYARD SPONSOR:
• Blackberry

WATER BOTTLE SPONSOR:
• Acubed.IT