teissLondon2026 Agenda

09:00 - 09:10

Plenary (AM)Chair's Welcome

Speakers

Thom Langford

CISO, Security Executive and Advisor & Host

teissTalk Host

Moona Ederveen-Schneider

Founder

Resilia Connect

Jonathan Craven

Data privacy and cyber security consultant

XRHA

09:10 - 09:40

Plenary (AM)AI-powered threats: the next generation

Speakers

Milena Maneva

Head of Business Continuity & Resilience – EMEA

Cantor Fitzgerald

Sarah Armstrong-Smith

Executive Director

Secure Horizons

Don Gibson

Chief Information Security Officer

Kinly

+2

09:40 - 10:00

Plenary (AM)Latest ransomware trends, tricks and tripwires to avoid in 2025. Forewarned is forearmed...or at very least prepared and informed

Speakers

Richard Cassidy

EMEA CISO

Rubrik

10:00 - 10:05

CISOs & Leadership (AM)CISOs & Leadership: Chair's Welcome

Speakers

Moona Ederveen-Schneider

Founder

Resilia Connect

10:00 - 10:05

Threat Landscape (AM)Threat Landscape: Chair's Welcome

Speakers

Thom Langford

CISO, Security Executive and Advisor & Host

teissTalk Host

10:00 - 10:05

Culture & Education (AM)Culture & Education: Chair's Welcome

Speakers

Jonathan Craven

Data privacy and cyber security consultant

XRHA

10:05 - 10:30

Culture & Education (AM)Reducing your cyber-talent shortage and skills gap

Speakers

Neil King

IT Information Security Professional

Canon Europe

Lisa Ventura

Cyber Security Specialist & Founder

Cyber Security Unity

Stuart Frost

Head of Enterprise Security & Risk Management

Department for Work & Pensions

Andrea Cullen

Co Founder/Co CEO

CAPSLOCK

10:05 - 10:30

Threat Landscape (AM)AI-driven incident response – challenges, benefits and actionable takeaways

Speakers

Sarah Armstrong-Smith

Executive Director

Secure Horizons

Johann van Duyn

Chief Information Security Officer

Do & Co

Alan Jenkins

Principal Consultant

Cyber Security Navigator Ltd

Tom Ellis-Aziz

Cyber Resilience Lead

Deloitte

10:05 - 10:30

CISOs & Leadership (AM)AI cyber-threat defence tools – what works and what doesn’t?

Speakers

Jean Carlos

Information Security Lead

Trade Republic

Tiago Rosado

Chief Information Security Officer

Asite

Dr. Zia Ush Shamszaman

Senior Lecturer in Computer Science

Teesside University

Petra Vukmirovic

Head of Information Security and Technology

Numan

10:30 - 11:00

CISOs & Leadership (AM)Staying safe with robust cyber-insurance coverage

Speakers

Paul Holland

Cyber Capability Manager

Royal Mail

Jay Vinda

Global CISO and Cyber Risk Engineering Lead

Mosaic Insurance

Cameron Brown

Head of Cyber Threat and Risk Analytics

Ariel Re

Mike YEOMANS

Cyber and Non-Natural Catastrophe Risk and Management

Confidential Insurance Company

10:30 - 11:00

Threat Landscape (AM)Revolutionising your threat intelligence with large language models

Speakers

Mike Johnson

Global Cyber Threat, Incident Response, and Security Operations Manager

Verifone

Satyam Rastogi

Director of Information Security & DevOps

BAMKO

Janet Bastiman

Chief Data Scientist

Napier AI

Alan Jenkins

Principal Consultant

Cyber Security Navigator Ltd

10:30 - 11:00

Culture & Education (AM)Human-centric security programmes in the AI age

Speakers

Dom Lucas

Head of Security

British International Investment

Thomas O’Driscoll

Head of Security Operations and Intelligence

National Highways

Jacqueline Hanson-Kotei

Senior Manager Enterprise Information Security & Governance

MTN Ghana

Sara Carty

Founder & CEO

Unboring

11:00 - 11:30

CISOs & Leadership (AM)Morning Break

11:00 - 11:30

Culture & Education (AM)Morning Break

11:00 - 11:30

Threat Landscape (AM)Morning Break

11:30 - 13:00

Roundtables & WorkshopsSelling infosec as a business enabler

11:30 - 13:00

Roundtables & WorkshopsCan AI mitigate your supply chain cyber-risks?

11:30 - 13:00

Roundtables & WorkshopsPhishing simulations – should you bother?

11:30 - 13:00

Roundtables & WorkshopsCan internal audit boost your cyber security readiness?

11:30 - 13:00

Roundtables & WorkshopsThe psychology of change: and developing secure habits

Speakers

Sarah Janes

Behaviour and culture specialist

Layer8

11:30 - 13:00

Roundtables & WorkshopsLessons on the Business Value of Cybersecurity and GRC Investment

Speakers

Nick Rafferty

Co-founder and Chief Product Evangelist

SureCloud

11:30 - 13:00

Roundtables & WorkshopsThe AI Assurance Gap: What Adversarial Testing Can Reveal About Your Governance Reality

Speakers

James Thomas

Cyber Security Consultant and CAIO

Dionach

11:30 - 13:00

Roundtables & WorkshopsA cyber pro’s worst day: Crisis simulation

11:30 - 13:00

Roundtables & WorkshopsRedefining identity security for the agentic AI era

Speakers

Scott Shields

Enterprise Engineer

Delinea

11:30 - 13:00

Roundtables & WorkshopsA playbook for new CISOs - learnings from years in the trenches

11:30 - 13:00

Roundtables & WorkshopsMaintaining your credibility as a security advisor

13:00 - 14:00

Roundtables & WorkshopsLunch

13:00 - 14:00

CISOs & Leadership (PM)Lunch

13:00 - 14:00

Culture & Education (PM)Lunch

13:00 - 14:00

Threat Landscape (PM)Lunch

14:00 - 14:01

CISOs & Leadership (PM)CISOs & Leadership: Chair's Welcome

Speakers

Moona Ederveen-Schneider

Founder

Resilia Connect

14:00 - 14:40

CISOs & Leadership (PM)Navigating the evolving responsibilities of a modern CISO

Speakers

Kelly Hagedorn

Partner

ALSTON & BIRD

Mike Gillespie

Founder & Thought Leader

Advent IM

Edward Tucker

Director – Cyber Security Practice

Telefónica Tech

+2

14:00 - 14:01

Culture & Education (PM)Culture & Education: Chair's Welcome

Speakers

Jonathan Craven

Data privacy and cyber security consultant

XRHA

14:00 - 14:01

Threat Landscape (PM)Threat Landscape: Chair's Welcome

Speakers

Thom Langford

CISO, Security Executive and Advisor & Host

teissTalk Host

14:00 - 14:40

Threat Landscape (PM)Navigating the SaaS supply chain security threat landscape

Speakers

Peter East

Head of Cyber Security, ISRD EMEA

Hitachi Ltd.

Lukas Weber

Senior Vice President

AlixPartners

Edewede Oriwoh

Group IT Information and Cyber Security Manager

Zigup Plc

14:00 - 14:40

Culture & Education (PM)Creating a positive cyber-security workplace culture

Speakers

Steven Furnell

Professor of Cyber Security

University of Nottingham

Penny Jackson

Director of Strategy, Awareness & Engagement (Human Risk Management)

Aristos Partnership

Raza Sadiq

Head of Enterprise Risk

MQube

Rebecca Stephenson

Specialist Lead

Highlands University College

14:40 - 15:00

CISOs & Leadership (PM)Addressing cyber-risk and compliance with a risk-focused methodology

Speakers

Edward Starkie

Director, GRC

Thomas Murray

Laurie Gibbett

Cyber Security Managing Consultant

Eraneos UK Ltd.

Lessie Skiba

Deputy Managing Director

Cyber Readiness Institute

+2

14:40 - 15:00

Culture & Education (PM)Is your cyber security approach leaving neurodiverse colleagues behind?

Speakers

Petra Vukmirovic

Head of Information Security and Technology

Numan

Andy Smith

Business Information Security Officer

Pearson

Munib Ali

Partner

AlixPartners

14:40 - 15:00

Threat Landscape (PM)2026 threat trends: protecting your organisation in an evolving cyber-threat landscape

Speakers

Cameron Brown

Head of Cyber Threat and Risk Analytics

Ariel Re

Michela Resta

Solicitor

CyXcel

Gry Evita Sivertsen

COO

Gritera Security

+2

15:20 - 16:00

CISOs & Leadership (PM)Afternoon Break

15:20 - 16:00

Threat Landscape (PM)Afternoon Break

16:00 - 17:00

Plenary (PM)teissTalk: Why your security team is burned out – and what to do about it

Speakers

Thom Langford

CISO, Security Executive and Advisor & Host

teissTalk Host

Johann van Duyn

Chief Information Security Officer

Do & Co

Cavan Fabris

Partner - Head of Data & Cyber

RPC

Don Gibson

Chief Information Security Officer

Kinly

17:00 - 18:30

Plenary (PM)Evening Drinks

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