Speakers: CYBERUK 2025

Day 1 - Wednesday 7 May
Day 2 - Thursday 8 May

Ben Aung
EVP Chief Risk Officer
Sage

Ciaran Devane
Chair
Health Service Executive - Ireland

John Edwards
Information Commissioner
Information Commissioner's Office

Ffion Flockhart
Global Co-Head of Cybersecurity
A&O Shearman

Charlie Gero
Vice President, Chief Technology Officer
Akamai

Dr Mary Haigh
CISO
BAE Systems

Richard Horne
Chief Executive Officer
NCSC

Baiba Kaskina
General Manager
Computer Emergency Response Team for Latvia

Rod Latham
Director Cyber Security and Digital Identity
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Alan Marjan
First Assistant Director-General, Cyber Security Resilience
Australian Signals Directorate

Stuart McKenzie
Managing Director - Mandiant Consulting, EMEA
Google

Felicity Oswald OBE
Chief Operating Officer
NCSC

Emma Smith
Cyber Security Director
Vodafone

Bridget Walshe
Associate Head
Canadian Centre for Cyber Security

Ollie Whitehouse
Chief Technology Officer
NCSC

Deputy Director Assessment
NCSC

Jonathon Ellison OBE
Director for National Resilience
NCSC

Rod Latham
Director Cyber Security and Digital Identity
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Nihal Newman
Director, Security and Resilience Policy
Ofcom

Emma Smith
Cyber Security Director
Vodafone

Gemma Ungoed-Thomas
Director State Threats, Cyber & Technology
Cabinet Office

Suman Ziaullah
Head of Department
Financial Conduct Authority

Technical Director for Platforms Research
NCSC

Security Researcher
NCSC

Pelin Demir
UX Designer
NHS login

Darren Hutton
Chief Digital Officer
NHS login

Deputy Director Policy and International
NCSC

Gavin Millard
Vice President, Product
Tenable

Lee Pillay
Senior Security Architect
Softcat

Mark Walmsley
Global Chief Information Security Officer
Freshfields

Daniel Dresner
Professor of Cyber Security
University of Manchester

Sian John MBE
Chief Technology Officer
NCC Group

Adam Joinson
Professor and Director of Institute for Digital Security and Behaviour
University of Bath

Genevieve Liveley
RISCS Director
University of Bristol

Awais Rashid
Professor of Cyber Security, University of Bristol
Director, Cyber Security Body of Knowledge

Head of Global Threat
NCSC

Matt Hull
Director, Global Threat Intelligence
NCC Group

Liz James
Managing Security Consultant
NCC Group

Thomas Lancaster
Threat Intel Lead
Volexity

Paul Pratt Midian
CISO
easyJet

Joel Snape
Senior Security Researcher
CrowdStrike

Matt Trueman
National Security Director
NCC Group

Maria Adebahr
Cyber Ambassador
Federal Foreign Office Germany

James Babbage
Director General Threats
National Crime Agency

Paul Chichester CMG
Director of Operations
NCSC

Maureen Costello
Vice President UK, Ireland, Sub Saharan Africa
Google Cloud

Jonathon Ellison OBE
Director for National Resilience
NCSC

Amy Arin Ertan
Cyber Defence Policy Officer
North Atlantic Treaty Organization HQ

Liesyl Franz
Deputy Assistant Secretary
U.S. Department of State

Emily Goldman
Director for Cyber Strategy and Policy
National Security Council / White House

Keiichi Ichikawa
Deputy National Security Advisor
Japan

Anne Keast-Butler
Director
GCHQ

David Koh
Chief Executive
Cybersecurity Agency of Singapore

Tim Neal-Hopes OBE
Commander
National Cyber Force

Sarah
Deputy Director Economy & Society

Deputy Director for Government Cyber Resilience
NCSC

Deputy Chief Technology Officer
NCSC

Sarah Armstrong-Smith
Chief Security Advisor
Microsoft

Maureen Beresford
Director of Corporate Governance and Stewardship
Financial Reporting Council

Georgina Cohen
Cyber Security Leader
IBM UKI

Eleanor Fairford
Director Cyber Defence and Risk, MOD
Ministry of Defence

Luke Fairless
CISO
Tesco

Jessica Figueras
Co-Founder
CxB - Cyber Governance for Boards/UK Cyber Security Council

Dr Mary Haigh
CISO
BAE Systems

Irfan Hemani
Deputy Director - Cyber Security & Resilience Policy
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Tom McDonald
Director, Defence and Cyber Security VFM Audit
National Audit Office

Scott McKinnon
Chief Security Officer
Palo Alto Networks

Trevor Pound
Strategic Advisor to Director Analytics, Capabilities, and Engagements (ACE)
Canadian Centre for Cyber Security

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

Technical Director for Hardware Security
NCSC

Principal Technical Director
NCSC

Cyber Physical Security Architect
NCSC

Sadie Creese
Professor of Cybersecurity
University of Oxford

Peter Garraghan
Chief Executive Officer
Mindgard

Sarah Hadfield
Head of Energy Sector Security
National Energy System Operator

Will Harvey
Head of Cybersecurity (CISO)
International Airlines Group Global Business Solutions

Marc Lueck
CISO-in-Residence
Zscaler

Simona R. Soare
Senior lecturer in Strategy and Technology
Lancaster University

Nerys Thomas
Interim Director What Works
College of Policing

Edward Venmore-Rowland
Head of AI Cyber Security Policy
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Daniel Woods
Lecturer
University of Edinburgh

Stefan Woronka
Director, Industrial Cybersecurity Services
Siemens

Deputy Director Assessment
NCSC

Senior Incident Handler
NCSC

Technical Director for Incident Management
NCSC

Head of Global Threat
NCSC

Paul Foster
Head of National Cyber Crime Unit
National Crime Agency

Wanda Mizell
Attaché
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Timothy Rawlins
Director & Senior Adviser
NCC Group

Jen Roberts
Associate Director
Atlantic Council

John Scott-Railton
Senior Researcher
The Citizen Lab, The University of Toronto

Jurre van Bergen
Technologist
Amnesty International

David Watson
Director
The Shadowserver Foundation

Dr Lorna Kirkby
Senior Policy Adviser on Software Security
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Ultan Mulligan
Chief Services Officer
European Telecommunications Standards Institute

Edward Parsons
Vice President
ISC2

Sarah Penman
Director Enterprise Information Security
NCSC New Zealand

Daniel Prince
Professor of Cyber Security
Lancaster University

Georgina Brown
Senior Lecturer in Forensic Linguistics
Lancaster University

Claire Hardaker
Professor of Forensic Linguistics
Lancaster University

Andrew Martin
Professor of Systems Security
University of Oxford

Ian Miles
Research Lead
Frazer-Nash Consultancy

Emma Woodward
Doctoral researcher
University of Bath

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