International security chiefs to convene in Glasgow for CYBERUK

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – itself a part of GCHQ – has now announced the latest speakers to be confirmed for the event at the SEC Glasgow, including Anne Keast-Butler (director of GCHQ), Stephanie Crowe (head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre), Keri Gilder (CEO, Colt Technology Services), Rajiv Gupta (head of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security), Margaret Heffernan (author, CEO and Professor of Practice at the University of Bath), Yoichi Iida (Japan’s national cyber director and deputy national security advisor), Claudia Plattner (president of the German Federal Office for Information Security) and Geoff White (author, journalist and podcaster).

They will be joined by leaders from the NCSC including CEO Dr Richard Horne and UK Government ministers who will give keynote addresses.

Senior representatives from industry including Google Cloud, Anthropic and PQ Shield as well as leading academics from the University of Glasgow have also been confirmed.

Places are still available for private sector delegates to register for CYBERUK 2026 until Thursday 2 April.

Collective resilience

Dr Richard Horne said: “Cyber security has never been more important for our collective resilience and prosperity and, at this critical juncture, the question we must ask is not whether, but how we should accelerate our defences to stay ahead of growing online threats.”

Horne continued: “This discussion will be central at CYBERUK 2026, and I’m delighted to be hosting key international partners and cyber security experts to examine this question and how we can tackle common challenges, risks and vulnerabilities.”

He concluded: “I would strongly encourage leaders across the cyber and business communities to seize the opportunity to engage with this flagship event and be a part of this crucial conversation.”

Overarching theme

The overarching theme of this year’s event – which takes place in the conference’s tenth year – is ‘The Next Decade: Accelerating our Cyber Defence’ and will seek to answer questions including:

*How can the UK strengthen its resilience in the face of the cyber challenges of the next decade?

*How do we align economic growth with resilience and make cyber choices that benefit the whole economy?

*How do we defend critical systems – including with Artificial Intelligence – in an uncertain world?

*How has the threat evolved in the last ten years and how has our approach to cyber defence evolved?

*What actions can we take now to shape trends, policies and the technology evolution?

CYBERUK will be delivered by the NCSC and sponsors across four distinct tracks of activity: ‘Resilience’, ‘Technology’, ‘Threat’ and ‘Ecosystem’.

*Further information about accessing the event and CYBERUK 2026’s programme, exhibitors, speakers and sponsors can be found on the dedicated CYBERUK website