The event will gather more than 20 industry-leading Main Stage speakers, plus an exciting selection of startups and growth-stage companies working in the fields of software, intelligence and security services.
Director of Technology, Darktrace, UK
Dave Palmer is a cybersecurity technical expert at Darktrace, with more than 10 years’ experience in UK government intelligence at GHCQ and MI5.
Professor of cybersecurity, Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, UK
Creese has co-written more than 60 academic papers on cyber security, strategy and defence.
Lead engineer, Android Security, Google, US
US-based Ludwig is responsible for the security of the Android ecosystem, protecting more than 1.4 billion mobile devices and the operating system, apps, and services that run on them.
Founder and CEO of NEST, Negotiation Strategies LTD, Israel
Between 1994 and 2001 Cristal worked in Israeli peace negotiation teams. Today his firm defends against cyber hostage taking – when nefarious groups highjack an organisation’s IT systems.
Technical director, National Cyber Security Centre, UK
The former technical director of cyber security and resilience at GCHQ now leads the UK’s national cyberdefence efforts at the UK's new National Cyber Security Centre.
CRO F-Secure, Finland
Hacker and cyber war specialist Hypponen has been reverse engineering malware since 1991. He has written for the New York Times, WIRED and lectured at the universities of Oxford, Stanford and Cambridge.
Head of threat intelligence, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence Division, UK
Nish leads the Threat Intelligence team in BAE System's Applied Intelligence division. His team tracks criminal and national security threats to build a picture of their motivation and capabilities.
Research director, International Security, Chatham House, UK
At the foreign affairs think tank, Lewis focuses on global security and WMDs. She advised on the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament.
Technical director, Metrix Cloud Ltd, UK
Woodruff is technical director of Metrix Cloud Ltd, a cyber security agency that deals with hacked websites and cyber security training.
Founder, Have I Been Pwned?, Australia
Hunt has received six of Microsoft’s MVP – Most Valuable Professional – awards, created data breach awareness site Have I Been Pwned? and authors courses at Pluralsight, an online education site for tech professionals.
Author, Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies, UK
Veteran reporter and author of several books about international security, Corera has written about presidential races, terrorist groups and the inner working of security services.
Security advisor, Secure Trading, UK
Al-Bassam is a security advisor at Secure Trading and a PhD researcher focusing on cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. At age 16, he was the co-founder of LulzSec, a group that hacked Sony, Fox and the FBI.
Managing director, Neon Century Intelligence, UK
Former government intelligence analyst Colquhoun founded corporate investigations firm Neon Century in 2014. Using an “ethical” model, it only gathers publicly available data.
Government chief information officer, Estonia
Kotka led Estonia’s e-residency programme. He is special advisor to the European Commission’s vice-president on the European Digital Single Market and was the 2014 European CIO of the Year.
Co-founder & CTO, HackerOne, US
Created by Rice and security leaders from Facebook, Microsoft and Google, HackerOne is a vulnerability co-ordination and bugbounty platform advising Yahoo!, Twitter and GM.
Visiting professor, War Studies Department King’s College London, UK
Former director of GCHQ, Omand was the first UK security and intelligence coordinator. His book, Securing the State, was published in 2011.
This article was originally published by WIRED UK
