David Cook - Solicitor Advocate at Eversheds Sutherland

David is a Solicitor Advocate specialising in cyber security and data protection compliance and litigation.

His experience spans advising FTSE 100 companies on their cyber security posture and data protection programmes, through to advising on investigation and response following some of the most significant and high profile (and highly confidential) hacks of UK corporate bodies.

David has also successfully defended alleged hackers from Anonymous, TeamPoison and LulzSec. He has advised police officers on the law behind and pitfalls involved in cyber crime prosecutions from the North West, South Wales, Yorkshire and Humber police teams, as well as a course at the Royal College of Policing.

He frequently works with academia and government in driving forward the evolution of cyber security controls frameworks.

He is sought out for comment by newsprint and television media and is a noted public speaker in this area. Attendees frequently comment that David’s talks are lively, engaging and always enjoyable.

Carl Nightingale - Director [Cyber Security] CGI

Carl is a Security Risk & Compliance consultant with more than 20 years’ in the IT industry starting from a programming background developing international roll-outs of ERP systems through to working within the risk and governance domain focussing on Information Security. He has a solid understanding of the wider IT Risk Management, Governance and Compliance space, and specialise in the following areas: IT Due Diligence; Pre and Post Merger integrations; Carve-out / separation planning; SOx; COBiT; ISO27001/ISO27002; PCI; IT Risk Management; IT Audit; Business Process Mapping; Policies & Procedures; ERP (J.D. Edwards, Oracle, SAP); Interoperability; e-Commerce; Web Storefronts; Software Development Lifecycle; Systems Assurance; Project Assurance; Data Assurance; Data Conversion; NMap; Nessus; Penetration Testing; and, Vulnerability Assessments.

Further detailed experience with expertise in systems security (application and network), secure infrastructure architecture, cloud security, web application security, identity and access management systems, project life cycle management, datacentre security assessment, security assurance and technical leadership. As a former programmer and is fully versed in the software development life cycle management of applications development. He has implemented J.D. Edwards; Oracle and SAP globally (including a middleware specialist regarding interface development).

In the last 7 years his focus has been assessing security posture across various organisations (e.g. Central Government (Dept. of Transport; Ministry of Justice; Dept. of Health (and various NHS Trusts); Home Office; Nuclear; MoD). Recent example projects include: assessing sensitive nuclear information to drive secure network re-engineering; vulnerability assessment conducted over target systems within the nuclear fleet; running annual accreditation programmes to identify security risks across Government systems; and ascertaining the Human Factor influence upon information security across mission critical systems across all three armed forces.

In addition, Carl has assessed, defined and introduced new security operating models for various organisations (i.e. global logistics firm). This has been supported by helping clients achieve certification to, for example, ISO27001 (NHS subsidiary).

His background in programming has afforded Carl to obtain relevant experience in the development, implementation and maintenance of application life management from initial conception through to go-live and BAU states. Furthermore, he understands the intricacies of development; access to various data sets required through various environments by IT support staff; the process of promoting changes through test into production after acceptance; the management of the maintenance activities once in BAU state; and, where the appropriate pitfalls in security can occur during this life cycle.

Geoff White - Reporter Channel 4 News & BBC Radio

Geoff White shines light onto the technology that is changing our world for the better...and sometimes worse.

An award-winning television news journalist at Channel 4 News and an engaging keynote speaker,

he unveils a hidden world to audiences, elaborating on the latest developments in everything from cybercrime and cybersecurity,

to internet dating and cutting-edge hardware.

Special Agent Todd Renner - FBI Assistant Legal Attaché in London

FBI Supervisory Special Agent Todd Renner is an Assistant Legal Attaché (ALAT) in London, responsible for leading complex international cyber intrusion investigations. In this role, ALAT Renner leads FBI collaborative efforts with United Kingdom authorities and industry partners to successfully execute the Pursue, Prevent, Protect, and Prepare strategy.

Prior to his assignment in London, Special Agent Renner was a Supervisory Special Agent with the FBI’s Cyber Division Technical Operations Unit, developing and initiating sophisticated intelligence generating opportunities for the U.S. Government. SA Renner also served as a Case Agent and SWAT operator in multiple field offices in the United States.

SSA Renner is a member of the FBI’s Computer Intrusion Response team and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a Masters in Business Administration.

Paul Mason - Ethical Hacker

Paul is an ethical hacker and a deeply experienced educator. Paul has trained many different groups from primary and secondary pupils, head teachers, national and international conferences and government.

During Paul’s time at Secarma, Paul is involved with high value clients; advised on policy and compliance; conducted research; presented at international conferences and advised the Police and Scottish Government on cyber matters.

Khaled Fattal - Chairman of Multilingual Internet Group (MLi Group)

Khaled Fattal is chairman of the MLi Group, (also known as Multilingual Internet Group) www.MLiGrp.com whose motto is "CyberSecurity is No Longer the Keyword - Survivability is”

He is also creator and producer of “Era of the Unprecedented™” (EotU™) Investigative Program featuring University Screenings - Citizen Journalism - Interactive Debates & Live Streaming. Fattal created EotU™ because “Democracy is Under Unprecedented Threat” with the goal to create global public engagements & debates about societies challenges & to offer hope and new solutions moving forward. https://EraoftheUnprecedented.com

Fattal has been involved in the global infrastructure of the Internet, its resiliency and security since mid-90’s. He championed and was a major contributor to making it the Multilingual Internet it is today and was instrumental in the inclusion of the clause “Multilingualism of the Internet” in the United Nations World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) December 2003 Declaration of Principle which was signed by 172 nations. He was one of the few international experts invited by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in 2004 to the 1st UN consultations in New York on Internet Governance which led to the creation of the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF). He also worked with other regional and International fora such as ITU, ICANN, and many others. He has served on ICANN’s advisory committee to the President and board on Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) since 2005 and has worked with many local communities and governments worldwide in helping them improve local Internet access, while keeping safety and security core to this mission.

Fattal created The MLi Group & its Survivability Strategies™ model and solution in response to the new breed of cyber terrorists and the failing Resiliency, Continuity & Cyber Security Strategies in recent years and on unprecedented scales. MLi helps mitigate the latest new threats such as the politically-motivated cyber-attacks aimed to alter the political and economic directions of nations, the destruction-motivated new breed of extremist terrorists (like ISIS) who are perpetrating and inspiring political, ideological, ‘religious’ and especially cyber-attacks threatening corporate and national “Survivability”. The MLi Group has labeled these new threats as Poli-Cyber™ since 2013. He is frequently invited to keynote, speak and chair public and private expos, conferences and events and writes regularly for online and print cyber, internet, political and defence publications.

Noha Amin - Cyber Security Woman Leader

Noha Amin, Cyber Security Woman Leader. Winner of multiple awards in Canada and the Middle East (ICSIC and MESA women leaders’ awards). Manchester Evening News has featured her as one of the Top 30 Women in Tech in Manchester, March 2018. She is a Member of Women Directors Forum, in the UK. Noha is an Advisory Board Member for CISOCouncil–Middle East and Chairwoman for WLCS initiative (Women Leaders in CyberSecurity), as well as an Advisory Board Member for OWASP ME (Open Web Application Security Project – Middle East) – WICS initiative (Women in Cyber Security). Noha’s contribution to the cyber security arena extended to be a conferences/webinars speaker, panellist, and podcaster as well as an Advisory Committee Member for several Cyber Security Resilience Conferences in the UAE.

Her work in a leading telecoms firm, has earned her the opportunity to contribute to the cyber security community in the UK. She is as an Ambassador for TechNation Tier1 Exceptional Talent Visa Program in the UK, and an Advisory Steering Committee member for Tech Show North 2019. Noha is a Founder of www.Gaviotta.com and www.ShadesOfSecurity.com platforms for promoting, mentoring, and support Cyber Security Awareness and Women Empowerment and Leadership.

Dr Victoria Baines - Visiting Associate of the Oxford Internet Institute

Dr Victoria Baines is a leading author and speaker in the field of cybersecurity. She has appeared on the BBC, CNN and other major broadcast media outlets as an authority on the misuse of emerging technologies.

For several years, Victoria was Facebook’s Trust & Safety Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Prior to this, Victoria led the Strategy & Prevention team at Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), where she was responsible for the European Union’s cyber threat analysis. Victoria is a Visiting Associate of the Oxford Internet Institute (Oxford University).

Jasmine Taylor - Cyber Security Consultant at KPMG

Jasmine is a cyber-security consultant working for KPMG UK’s long standing pen testing and vulnerability assessment team. A maths graduate from Sheffield University, Jasmine started her career teaching IT, becoming an Ambassador for STEM, before later joining IBM to deliver the Wimbledon Tennis Championships and most recently part of the Software Engineering / DevOps delivery team. In her spare time Jasmine supports various NGO programmes and since 2016 has volunteered with ‘Drop in the Ocean’, the ‘Skaramangas Refugee Camp’ near Athens.

Stu Hirst - Head Of Cloud Security, Photobox Group

Stu is currently the Head Of Cloud Security at Photobox Group (which includes Moonpig, PosterXXL, Greetz and Hofmann).

He was instrumental in building Skyscanner’s Security team from 2015-2017, having led them to the final of SC Magazine’s Security Team Of The Year 2017.

He has previously worked in security at The Trainline and was part of the Cyber Leadership Team at Capital One UK.

He has twice been nominated as a finalist for Cyber Evangelist Of The Year at the Scottish Cyber Awards and runs one of Scotland’s leading Tech Meet Ups; Security Scotland.

Stu has appeared at numerous leading Security events such as InfoSec Europe, Cloud Expo Europe and Future Of Cyber Security.

Twitter: @StuHirstinfosec

Dave Palmer - Director of Technology at Darktrace

Dave Palmer is the Director of Technology at Darktrace, overseeing the mathematics and engineering teams and project strategies. With over ten years of experience at the forefront of government intelligence operations, Palmer has worked across UK intelligence agencies GCHQ & MI5, where he delivered mission-critical infrastructure services, including the replacement and security of entire global networks, the development of operational internet capabilities and the management of critical disaster recovery incidents. He holds a first-class degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the University of Birmingham.

David Frith - Director Consulting Delivery - Cloud Security

David is in Director Consulting Delivery of Cloud Security at CGI, this being both an externally facing and internal role. The work involves managing a team of Security Architects and helping projects deliver secure cloud solutions and ecosystem deployments. As such David has a global perspective via work across bid processes and programme engagements covering multiple localities and industry areas and this also involves being the UK lead on DevSecOps and creating secure processes and tool use across CGI. It is supplemented through input across a number of internal bodies such as the CGI Cloud Advisory Council which sets CGI’s overall cloud strategy as well as outside bodies such as TechUK and the Cloud Security Alliance in doing similar work externally.

Paul Taylor - Cyber Crime and Cryptocurrency Investigation Specialist, North West Regional Organised Crime Unit

Detective Sergeant Paul Taylor is the Cyber Crime Coordinator for the North West region and one of the UK’s most experienced cyber crime investigators. He is responsible for ensuring that all reports of cyber crime in the North West receive the most appropriate level of service and works with colleagues throughout law enforcement to provide the most effective response to attacks against individuals and businesses. As part of his role, Paul works closely with the dedicated Cyber Crime Teams within each of the six North West Police Forces; Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside and North Wales to strategically ensure close working across the Pursue, Prepare, Protect and Prevent strands in line with the HM Government’s Serious and Organised Crime Strategy.

Paul is well known amongst law enforcement for his work with cryptocurrencies and has assisted dozens of cases involving the criminal abuse of cryptocurrency, including cases of fraud, dark web drug and firearms dealing and cyber crime. He has provided training to several law enforcement agencies and continues to assist in the upskilling of investigators and those at the front line in his work as a National Tactical Advisor.

Paul has recently completed a master’s degree in Cyber Security, Threat Intelligence and Forensics with The University of Salford and during his studies had the opportunity to publish research into online gaming forensics and cyber security applications of blockchain.

Graeme Park - Head of Global Security Operations Centre at The Hut Group

Graeme leads Global Security Operations for The Hut Group (THG). THG is a global leader in health, beauty, fitness and lifestyle, and is home to some of the world's best brands, including MyProtein and look fantastic. A rapidly growing business, THG is one of the UK’s largest privately owned companies valued at over £4bn. At its core is a technology platform, ‘THG Ingenuity’ which provides a first rate e-commerce solution for fast moving consumer goods hosting a range of global brands. THG also recently acquired UK2 a UK based hosting company and Hanger 7, one of the UK’s top digital content agencies. It has also recently signalled investment of £760million in and 12,000-person campus to be built at Manchester Airport. spanning 16.8 acres, will be the UK's largest bespoke office outside London. Graeme’s remit includes protecting, monitoring and responding to security incidents across the THG global estate.

Bruce Wynn OBE FBCS CITP - Advisor and Mentor in the Cyber and C4ISR areas for Defence and National Security

Bruce has over 34 year's experience in military cyber activity, and 15 years in the civilian cyber security world (including 4 years with law enforcement on both sides of the Atlantic). He continues to support UK MOD as their senior professional Cyber Advisor and Mentor.

Based on his military and law enforcement experiences, he will synthesise some thoughts about your cyber security priorities for today, your ROI across the spectrum of cyber security, and where you might want to think about refocussing your resources (whatever they are!) to help YOU better protect YOUR systems. He might even prompt/stimulate a concrete action plan with you!

Greg van der Gaast - Head of Information Security at The University of Salford

Greg has over two decades of technical and management experience in Information Security. A frequent speaker about bringing visibility, care, and accountability to the Information Security profession, he is an expert in building extremely efficient InfoSec organisations by enabling leadership, addressing root causes, and harnessing human potential.
In addition to developing training with uSkill Academy and his own consultancy, cmcg, he is currently the Head of Information Security at the University of Salford as well as being a lecturer on practical Information Security there.

Bharat Mistry - Principal Security Strategist at Trend Micro

Bharat is Principal Security Strategist at Trend Micro and is responsible for advising Trend Micro’s largest UK and Irish customers on security transformation. Bharat has 20 years of experience as an information security professional and has worked for Alcatel Lucent/Nokia, KCOM, Siemens and before Trend Micro he held the position of Security Technologist in the CTO Office for HP Enterprise Security Services. Bharat works with CISOs to understand risks, develop security strategies and enable business objectives.

Efrene “Ren” Sakilayan - Assistant Legal Attaché for FBI Londony

Assistant Legal Attaché (ALAT) Efrene “Ren” Sakilayan has been an FBI agent for more than 14 years and worked Cyber matters for more than 12 years. ALAT Sakilayan was a member of the FBI’s Cyber Action Team, a rapid deployment team tasked by the FBI’s Cyber Division to respond to critical Cyber incidents anywhere in the world. ALAT Sakilayan responded to and investigated multiple large-scale cyber incidents throughout the United States while assigned to both the FBI San Francisco office and the FBI’s Cyber Division. He now works as an FBI Assistant Legal Attaché out of the United States Embassy in London, United Kingdom and covers FBI cyber criminal matters in the United Kingdom and Ireland.