AGENDA Cyber Security Leaders' Convention

Day 1: 

Morning session

• 9:55 am - 10:05 am

Welcome - Gurps Khaira - Global Cybersec Implementations at HSBC and CyberSec Leaders’ Convention Hosts 2025

• Drake Suite

• 10:10 am - 10:50 am

Keynote - Milos Pesic, CISO, Accelleron

Case Study: Our Cyber Security Journey

• Drake Suite

• 10:55 am - 11:40am 

Leadership Panel: Cyber Priorities for Leaders in 2025

• Drake Suite
• Tamlynn Deacon - HNK - Director Cloud Services
• Martin Astley - CISO - 247 Home Rescue
• Andrew Brant - Weatherbys Bank - Technology and IT Services Architect
• Martin Covill - iPSL - CISO
• Edward Roffe - Pinnacle Pet Group - Global Chief Information Security Officer
• Eliza-May Austin -  TSC - CEO

Mid-Morning Session: 

• 11:45 am - 12:45 pm 

Tea & Coffee Refreshment Break with Chief Compliance Officers & Heads of RIsk

•  12:00 pm - 12.45pm

 Cyber Peer to Peer Networking Session

•  12:00 pm - 12.45pm

Squalify Round Table -  Confident Cyber Conversations with the Board

○ Drake Suite

• 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm

Lunch (provided) 

• Restaurant

Afternoon Session:

• 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm 

Room Take Over - Reverse Brainstorming Challenge: Can You Solve a Tech Crisis?

• Drake Suite

• 2:45 pm - 3:00 pm

Tea & Coffee Refreshment & Networking Break

• 3:05 pm - 4:05 pm

           Tech Hour with Experts

• Drake Suite

Late Afternoon Session:

• 4:05 pm - 4:50 pm

Panel: "Beyond Malice: The Accidental Insider Threat"

• Drake Suite

• Moona Ederveen-Schneider - Advisory Board Member - Cyber London
• Ian Thornton-Trump - Inversion6 - CISO
• Anthony Ayanleke - MUFG - Head of Cyber Sec

• 4:50 pm - 5:00 pm 

Wrap-up Day 1

• 5:00 pm - 5:15 pm 

Check in 

• 6.30 pm - 6:55 pm 

Networking Drinks Reception 

• 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

The CyberSec Leaders’ Dinner

Day 2: 

• 7:00am - 9:40am 

Networking Breakfast

Morning Session: 

• 9:40 am - 9:45 am 

Welcome - Gurps Khaira - Global Cybersec Implementations at HSBC and CyberSec Leaders’ Convention Hosts 2025

• Signet & Warbler Suite

• 9:45 am - 10:30 am 

Panel: - Changing Threat Landscape

• Signet & Warbler Suite
• John Pennick - Berkeley Insurance Group - Financial Risk Director Cyber
• Raza Sadiq - Mqube - Head of Enterprise Risk
• Katie Wood - Bibby Financial Services - Information Security Architect
• Petra Vukmirovic - Numan - Head of Information Security
• Jim Cosser - Zepz - CISO

• 10:35 am - 11:35 am 

Mallard Suite

A live tour of The Dark Web 

Mid-Morning Session: 

• 11:35 am - 12:00 pm 

Tea & Coffee Refreshment & Networking Break

• 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

ROOM TAKE OVER - Bitdefender

• Signet & Warbler Suite
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• 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm 

Lunch (provided)

• Restaurant

Afternoon Session:

• 1:45 pm - 2:30 pm 

Panel: How Financial Institutions Can Keep Up Against AI-Driven Cyber

Threats.

○ Signet & Warbler Suite

● Daniel Crisan - Head of VM and AppSec - Instinet

● Anton Yunussov - Mazars - Director Cyber Advisory

● Ramit Sharma - Natwest - VP Engineer Lead

● Victor Onyenagubom - Lecturer in Cybersecurity Teesside University

London

• 2.30 pm - 3:15 pm

Panel: Regulatory Changes Ahead and Common Practice That Will Be Affected.

• Signet & Warbler Suite
• (Moderator) Sara-Jane Higgins - Data Privacy Specialist - CKH IOD
• Tony Proctor - Security & Information Risk Advisor - West Midlands Combined Authority
• Henry Davies - Data Protection Officer -  Birdie
• Jon Staniforth - CISO - CyberEdBoard Community

• 3:15 pm - 3:20 pm 

Closing remarks 

• 3:20 pm - 3:45 pm
  Final networking, card swap and coffee for the road

All times and sessions  are correct at time of publication but subject to change