GCHQ director Anne Keast-Butler confirmed in speaker line-up for CYBERUK 2024

Hosted by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), itself part of the world-leading intelligence agency GCHQ, CYBERUK 2024 will bring together the intelligence community, Government, industry and academia at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham to explore the entire spectrum of future cyber challenges and solutions – from Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven threat detection and quantum computing to ‘secure by design’ principles.

Among those speaking at CYBERUK 2024 are Professor Dame Angela McLean (chief scientific advisor to the UK Government), Keiichi Ichikawa (deputy national security advisor for Japan), Heather Adkins (vice-president of security engineering at Google), Dmitri Alperovitch (co-founder and executive chair of the Silverado Policy Accelerator), Kemba Walden (president of the Paladin Global Institute) and investigative journalist and author Geoff White.

Also due to speak are Sadie Creese (Professor of Cyber Security at the University of Oxford) and futurist Matthew Griffin.

For the first time, CYBERUK is coming to the West Midlands, which is a thriving cyber security hub with specialist university research centres, innovative start-ups and a cluster of major cyber security enterprises.

‘Future Tech, Future Threat, Future Ready’

Over 2,000 UK and international cyber security experts will gather in the West Midlands for discussions conducted under the headline theme ‘Future Tech, Future Threat, Future Ready’.

Across a series of VIP keynotes, panels and workshops, key questions include:

*How do we build a cyber security ecosystem that can manage the threats and opportunities of the future?

*How do we ensure future technologies are ‘secure by design’, not as an afterthought?

*How do we anticipate the threat picture will change as new technologies, including AI and quantum computing, develop?

NCSC CEO Felicity Oswald said: “CYBERUK is unique in its ability to bring together experts from the private sector, academia and Government national security teams for informed debate and discussion on how we keep cyberspace safe and prosperous now and into the future. Birmingham is a city renowned for its history of innovation and, more recently, its thriving cyber community. I’m looking forward to welcoming distinguished colleagues and experts from across the globe to the city to discuss how we improve our collective resilience.”

CYBERUK will be delivered by the NCSC and key partners across four distinct streams of activity: future threat, future tech, future ready and interactive workshops. In addition to a packed agenda, the event hosts an exhibition featuring more than 100 companies including Akamai, Google Cloud, Ultra, Crowdstrike, AWS, Microsoft and BT.   

*For more information on the CYBERUK 2024 programme, exhibitors, speakers and sponsors visit the dedicated CYBERUK website