Jessica Barker is an award-winning global leader in the human side of cybersecurity. She is co-founder and co-CEO of Cygenta, where she follows her passion of positively influencing cybersecurity awareness, behaviour and culture in organisations around the world. She has delivered face-to-face cybersecurity awareness sessions to over 35,000 people in over 23 countries. Jessica has been named one of the top 20 most influential women in cybersecurity in the UK and is the Chair of ClubCISO. She is a popular keynote speaker, including keynoting RSA San Francisco in 2020. Jessica is the go-to cybersecurity expert for many media outlets, appearing on BBC News, Sky News, Channel 4 News, BBC radio and much more. In September 2020, Jessica’s book Confident Cybersecurity was published by Kogan Page and became a number one Amazon bestseller within hours of publication.

Adrian Davis. With a career spanning over 20 years, Adrian has worked across many sectors from defence to entertainment as a cybersecurity, supply chain and programme/operations management expert. Currently the CEO of IAAC (Information Assurance Advisory Council), he has significant senior commercial and strategic experience gained by leading the Europe, Middle East and Africa region for a global cybersecurity membership organisation; leading and creating multi-disciplinary sales, technology and consulting teams; and managing a consulting business delivering cybersecurity projects to blue-chip organisations globally. He is an acknowledged leader in information security, a published author and a writer of international information security standards. He holds a BSc(Hons) and a PhD from the University of London; a Durham University MBA; the CISSP; an FBCS CITP; and a Visiting Professorship at the University of Sunderland within the Faculty of Computer Science.

Bruce Hallas is the founder at Re-thinking the Human Factor. He is widely recognised, by practitioners through to regulators, as making a significant contribution to re-assessing the opportunity for improving employee awareness, behaviour and culture. Through a combination of his hugely successful Re-thinking the Human Factor podcast, the accompanying book and his coaching and training programmes, he has contributed to reshaping how senior information security and privacy professionals manage the risk associated with human factor. His insights are the outcome of a long-standing commitment to research and the experience of implementing these findings within organisations and work forces across the world. As the challenge of raising awareness, influencing behaviour and embedding values and practices into culture are not unique to security and privacy, much of what he shares originates from outside of the security and privacy industry. In some respects, Bruce is seen as a curator of insights as much as an innovator in how they can be applied, within the context of security and privacy. The appeal of Bruce’s work is in how he introduces you to a better understanding of what it means to be human and then uses this to highlight what aspects of these insights contribute to improved awareness, behaviour and culture. He has then used these insights to produce a range of design principles which form the basis for his ‘Design with the Human in Mind’ philosophy. He has then combined these design principles, with 20 years’ experience in information security and privacy, to create the SABC® framework which integrates fully into any management system. The framework supports security and privacy professionals, to help them deliver change programmes which address the limitations of traditional education and awareness programmes. Bruce’s practical and science-based insights, and his ability to draw on real life examples that almost everyone can relate to, have meant he has become a sought-after specialist around the world. He supports CISOs, DPOs and Education and Awareness Managers, to reset their strategic vision and build the capacity to achieve this, whilst ultimately being able to stand up to the highest levels of public and private scrutiny should they ever suffer a security or privacy incident.

Ciarán Mc Mahon is a director of the Institute of Cyber Security and an award-winning historian and philosopher of psychology. Ciarán is the author of the critically acclaimed The Psychology of Social Media (Routledge), and editor of the forthcoming Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 and Media and Technology (Routledge). Ciarán’s research interests lie at the intersection of psychology and technology, specifically cybersecurity and social media. He is an occasional lecturer at the School of Psychology, University College Dublin and a regular tweeter at @cjamcmahon. A former Government of Ireland Scholar, Ciarán has published peer-reviewed research on the history of psychological language, the psychology of social media, the social impact of cybercrime, digital wellness and human factors in cybersecurity. Ciarán has extensive media experience and regularly contributes to international media including Wired, Sky News, BBC World Service, Business Insider, USA Today, Fortune Magazine and The Guardian. A compelling public speaker, Ciarán is a passionate advocate for public engagement with online safety and cybersecurity.