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This stage champions diversity and inclusion with dynamic keynotes, engaging panels, and hands-on workshops to sharpen your skills. Connect with peers, discover career-boosting strategies, and dive into initiatives that drive diversity in cybersecurity. From novices to pros, you'll find crucial resources to broaden your expertise and foster a more inclusive cybersecurity field.
Cybersecurity careers are as diverse as the threats we face. This panel brings together hiring managers, educators, and security leaders to explore what employers are really looking for today—from technical skills to adaptability and AI literacy. Learn how certifications, hands-on experience, and non-traditional pathways are shaping the modern cyber workforce—and how to position yourself in a skills-first market. The session will include extended audience Q&A, offering a chance to gain personalised advice, guidance, and insight directly from seasoned professionals.
Whilst low-hanging terms like “master/slave” and “black/whitelist” are no longer as embedded in system architecture and team vocabulary, Franky Biles explores how your organisation can go further. By overturning legacy terminology, coding conventions, and everyday expressions in tech and cyber that perpetuate exclusion and bias in security design and recruitment, you'll leave with actionable insights to help build a more inclusive digital future.
Have you ever giggled at ‘Penetration Testing’? Got a graphic sense of ‘male to female’ ports? How might you rephrase ‘Terminated User’ or ‘Repeat Offender’ so your colleagues become a stronger line of defence? And just how would you ‘kill two birds with one stone’?
One of the world leading researchers on anonymisation (and related topics of Statistical Disclosure Control and data synthesis) discusses whether the concept and methods of anonymisation still have a role to play in the world including AI. He discusses his 2014 prediction that Anonymisation would cease to be useful within 15 years whether this looks likely to be true and if so, what do we need to do instead?
Key Takeaways:
As cyber threats grow in scale and sophistication—driven by automation, geopolitical tensions, and evolving attacker tradecraft—resilience strategies must keep pace. This panel brings together leaders in national infrastructure, cyber defence, and policy to explore how organizations are adapting to a threat landscape where disruption, not just data theft, is the goal.
The discussion will move beyond AI hype to focus on practical resilience measures, including dynamic risk response, Zero Trust integration, and intelligence-led defence. Drawing on current and emerging frameworks and regulations like NIST CSF The Cyber Resilience Act, panellists will share real-world insights into defending critical systems under sustained and advanced attack conditions.
Building inclusive pathways into cyber requires intentional design — from outreach to executive development. This session explores how to attract and grow diverse talent without relying on outdated models.
Key Takeaways:
Create frictionless entry for untapped talent
Promote equity in career progression
Align hiring with long-term capability
Enhace your USPs
At today’s crawl, cyber won’t hit parity until 2075, while we face a 4.8 M‑person talent gap and teams with 30 % women see 40 % fewer breaches. Yet just 17 % of CISOs are female.
Ukraine’s Fast‑Track Proof: War drafted the men; thousands of women pivoted into cyber and tech roles in months, showing parity can happen at warp speed when survival demands it.
Session Promise: In 30 minutes, we’ll torch the “slow progress” myth, steal Ukraine’s playbook, and slash 50 years to five.
Key Takeaways
Data > Diversity Talk: Use stats to win board buy‑in.
Mid‑Career Hinge: Sponsor & retain women where the pipeline leaks worst.
Live‑Fire Training Hack: Practical, real-world education (Ukraine‑style) to upskill twice as fast.
