AGENDA

Amar is an industry acknowledged expert and public speaker and is regularly invited to speak and share his insights by some of the largest and most respected organisations in the world including The BBC, The Economist’s Intelligence Unit, The Financial Times, SC Magazine, InfoSec Magazine, Computer Weekly, The Register and the Al-Jazeera English Channel.

Amar will be putting your questions to the panels, covering key topics and sharing his wealth of knowledge throughout the day.

Barker delivers thought-provoking and engaging presentations across the world, at corporate events as well as practitioner and academic conferences. Her speaking engagements are rooted in the work she does around the psychology and sociology of cybersecurity, particularly regarding cybersecurity threats, social engineering, how to effectively communicate cybersecurity messages, the psychology of fear and cybersecurity, and the language of cybersecurity

A former UK Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel, Oz is now focused on making society more secure by helping organisations effectively address the human aspect of cyber security.

He and his team have developed a software platform that leverages advanced data
analytics and cognitive technologies to measure and improve cyber security
awareness, behaviour and culture.

Oz was made an MBE in 2010 for his personal leadership in the most complex of conflict environments.

A four year STEALTHbits employee, Nick moved to the UK last year to lead the solutions engineering efforts in EMEA.

His responsibilities include helping organisations understand, detect, and mitigate the complex and ever changing security challenges surrounding credentials and the data they secure.

As the EMEA Cyber Security Evangelist for Radware, Pascal helps execute the company’s thought leadership on today’s security threat landscape. Pascal brings over two decades of experience in many aspects of Information Technology and holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the Free University of Brussels, specialized in electronics and parallel computing. As part of the Radware Security Research team Pascal actively researches IoT malware. Pascal discovered the BrickerBot and JenX botnets, did extensive research on Hajime and follows closely new developments and threats in the IoT space as well as applications of AI in cyber security and hacking.

Pascal has always kept his development practice as an independent consultant and likes to learn and apply new programming languages, regularly brushing up his skills in C++, Go, Python and expressing a special interest in Clojure and Kotlin.

Pascal holds several vendor certifications for security, routing and switching.

Working alongside new and existing Censornet customers since 2015 David understands the pressures on the security team all too well and has helped hundreds of IT security practitioners solve problems, drive efficiency and improve their organisation’s security posture.

Burak started his career in Sales engineering 7 years ago with LANDesk (now Ivanti) focussed on systems management. More recently Burak was a senior sales engineer for Citrix leading enterprise mobility management opportunities in the U.K

Steven Armstrong brings 15 years of experience working with and advising, a range of clients on cyber security.
His focus is on helping clients make better use of technology and ensure they reduce risk whilst enabling their business to remain dynamic and competitive – supporting the people, process and technology triangle.

Having built a reputation as a trusted advisor, Core to Cloud have been able to share the successful approaches organisations have taken to combat current and emerging threats. Core to Cloud pride themselves on being a different type of solutions provider, being vendor independent means the only agenda we are working on is yours.

Justin has over twelve years or experience in the digital forensic industry and has worked with clients across a wide range of industries, including financial, media, transportation, energy and mining.  Justin has served as a court appointed expert witness in UK, Irish Courts.

He has been a forensic expert in several high profile cases for corruption and fraud in the UK, Ireland, Tajikistan, Lithuania, Ukraine, Russia and Egypt; Working with global accountancy and investigation firms providing both eDiscovery litigation support and digital forensic analysis in civil and criminal proceedings spanning across the UK, EMEA and APAC.

Stefan Schmid is responsible for Siemplify in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Stefan has joined Siemplify in 2017 to drive the international expansion forward and grow the teams throughout the EMEA region. Prior to that, Stefan was managing HPE’s Enterprise Security Products business in EMEA and was responsible for the sales strategy across the HPE Enterprise Security product pillars, including HP ArcSight, Atalla, Fortify and Voltage.

He was joining Hewlett-Packard in 2010 through the acquisition of TippingPoint. Until 2010, Stefan managed TippingPoint, the leading provider of Network based Intrusion Prevention Systems, in Central and Eastern Europe as well as in the Middle East & Africa. Stefan started his career at TippingPoint in 2004 and was building up the sales teams within that region. Stefan began his career in the IT Security Industry in 2000 at Internet Security Systems (ISS) Germany in the role of a Sales Manager and was responsible for Enterprise Sales in Germany.