Speakers

A lineup of global leaders and experts

CYBERUK speakers are selected by the National Cyber Security Centre for their deep expertise and insight into future technology, future threats, and getting 'future ready' in the cyber security sector. Representing the UK and overseas, these are the people at the heart of change within our industry.


Anne Keast-Butler‎‎
Director‎
GCHQ

Felicity Oswald
NCSC Chief Operating Officer
National Cyber Security Centre (UK)

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
DD Cyber Growth
NCSC

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

Andrew Elliot
Director, Cyber Security and Digital Identity
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Sami Khoury
Head
Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS)

Stephen Bonner
Deputy Commissioner
ICO

Nick Godfrey
Senior Director, Office of the CISO
Google Cloud

Ollie Whitehouse
Chief Technology Officer
NCSC

Professor Dame Angela McLean
Government Chief Scientific Adviser
Government Office For Science

Paul Waller
Principal Technical Director
NCSC

Simon Croall
VP Business Development & Innovation
Ultra Intelligence & Communications

Gary Winter
Software Engineer
Ultra Intelligence & Communications

Khalid Evans
Graduate Software Engineer
Ultra Intelligence & Communications

Robert Lord
Sr. Technical Advisor
CISA

David Weston
VP OS Security and Enterprise, Microsoft
Microsoft

Professor Sadie Creese
Professor of Cybersecurity
University of Oxford

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

Siân John MBE
Chief Technology Officer
NCC Group

Ollie Whitehouse
Chief Technology Officer
NCSC

Wim van der Schoot
Member of Technical Staff
Anthropic

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

Simon Llewellyn
Director Cyber Security Guidance
Canadian Centre for Cyber Security

Natalie P
NSA UK Cybersecurity Leaf
NCSC

Harry W
Tech Director for Incident Management
NCSC

Sophia N
Deputy Head of Incident Management
NCSC

Stuart Davis
Senior Director, Incident Response Services
CrowdStrike

Natalie P
NSA Cybersecurity UK Lead
NCSC

Orlando Scott-Cowley
Cybersecurity Lead EMEA
Amazon Web Services

Chris Ensor
Deputy Director for Cyber Growth
NCSC

Dr Mary Haigh
CISO
BAE Systems

Stuart Okin
Director for Cyber Regulation
Ofgem

Leanne Price
Deputy Director Government Security Profession
Cabinet Office



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

Howard Watson
Chief Security and Networks Officer
BT Group CTO



Lee Kirkpatrick
Incident Lead
Sophos

Paul Jacobs
Incident Response Team Lead
Sophos

James Duggan
Solutions Architect UK&I

Professor Awais Rashid
Professor of Cyber Security
University of Bristol

Dr Z. Cliffe Schreuders
Reader in Cyber Security
Leeds Beckett University



Deryck Mitchelson
Global CISO
CheckPoint

Kevin Breen
Senior Director Threat Research
Immersive Labs

Ben R
Deputy CTO for Private Sector CNI
NCSC

John Fitzpatrick
Director
Lab539

Paul Hopkins
Global Head Of Cyber Strategy & Secure By Design
Vodafone

Zygmunt Lozinski
Quantum Safe Networks
IBM Research

Ray Robinson
OT Director
NCC Group

Hannah McCartney
Cyber Security Consultant
NCC Group

Ben Fletcher
AWS EMEA CIRT Team Leader
AWS

Richard Meeus
Director of Security Technology and Strategy, EMEA
Akamai

Nigel Gibbons
Senior Advisor & Director
NCC Group Plc.

Mani Sundaram
EVP & GM Security Technology Group
Akamai Technologies

Jonathon Ellison
Director
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
Australian Signals Directorate

Nitin Natarajan
Deputy Director
CISA

Paul Chichester
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
National Security Agency

Alex Leadbeater
Technical Security Director - GSMA
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

Andrew Elliot
Director, Cyber Security and Digital Identity
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Ollie Ilott
Director
AI Safety Institute

Dr Matthias Heck
Head of Unit
Federal Office for Information Security (BSI)

Rosamund Powell
Research Associate
The Alan Turing Institute

Jeremy B
Head of Cryptography and High Threat Technologies Group
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

Paul Chichester MBE
Director of Operations
NCSC

Eleanor Fairford
DD Incident Management
NCSC

Geoff White
Author & Investigative Journalist

Annabel W
NCSC Assessment Global Issues Team Lead
NCSC

Justin Warner
Global Threat Analysis Lead
Microsoft

Jen Roberts
Assistant Director
Atlantic Council

Natalia Krapiva
Senior Tech Legal Counsel
Access Now

Mike S
DD Ops
NCSC

Matilda Rhode
AI and Cyber Security Lead
BSI

Paolo Di Prodi
Founder Priam Cyber AI
Priam Cyber AI Ltd

Mark Ryan
Professor of Computer Security
University of Birmingham

Sarah Beckel
Technical Director
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

Ian M
DD Election Security
NCSC

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



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 M
Analysis Mission Lead
NCSC

Fiona Bail
National Cyber PATH lead
National Cyber Resilience Centre Group

Brian William Webb
Chief Security Officer, BT Consumer
BT Consumer

Ralph B
CTO - Economy & Society
NCSC

Robert Hannigan
Chairman, International Business
BlueVoyant

Adam Holt
VP Sales Engineering
BlueVoyant

Tony Anscombe
Chief Security Evangelist
ESET

Scott Bartlett
Head of Capability Development - Cyber Security & Resilience
Leonardo

Jack Chapman
SVP Threat Intelligence
Egress

Nick Godfrey
Senior Director, Office of the CISO
Google Cloud

Stuart McKenzie
Managing Director - Mandiant Consulting, EMEA
Mandiant/Google Cloud

Saj Huq
Chief Commercial Officer
Plexal

Eleanor Fairford
Deputy Director for Incident Management
NCSC

Adrian Jones
Head of Ventures
BMNT

Joshua Burch
Managing Partners
GALLOS Technologies

Paul Wilkes
Partner
Osney Capital

Andy Bamford
CEO NSSIF
NSSIF

Leonora Ross Skinner
Investment Manager
Molten Ventures

Alex L1
Deputy Hd NCKC
NCSC

Lucy Dobson
Head of Cyber Engagement
Government Security Group, Cabinet Office

Rosie Marr
Deputy Director Cyber Operations and Assurance
Government Security Group, Cabinet Office

Jacqueline Tomlinson
Head of Cyber Assurance and Engagement
Government Security Group , Cabinet Office

James Maude
Director of Research
BeyondTrust

Javvad Malik
Lead Security Awareness Advocate
KnowBe4

Ryan Lee
Head of Threat Operations
NHS England

Sean Sapstead
Head of CSOC

Tim Mitchell
Senior Security Researcher
Secureworks



Alex Jessop
Principal DFIR Consultant
NCC Group

Sarah Beckel
Technical Director
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

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