Closed-door conversations to talk cyber

Our event ethos

For over 25 years AKJ Associates has been the trusted forum for CISOs, Heads of Operational Risk, Compliance Directors and senior security leaders across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. We deliver closed-door, high-level events where delegates gain actionable insights, benchmark strategies with true peers, and build lasting, trusted connections.

If you are a CISO, Head of Operational Risk, Compliance leader, or senior security decision-maker
then AKJ Associates events are built for you.

What you can expect

Quality not quantity

Our experience in the heart of the international security markets confirms our insight that focus, quality and unique intelligence wins every time. Our events are deliberately constructed by size, specialist insight and the most senior delegations in the business. Every agenda is tightly packed with advanced, practitioner-led content — from technical case studies to regulatory updates and resilience strategies. Every delegate is vetted to ensure you’re meeting genuine peers facing the same challenges. And every conversation is meaningful, confidential, and relevant.

Meaningful Conversations: In a closed-door environment you can engage directly with senior peers and regulators as well as vendors who are on the front line providing market tested invaluable guidance
Discretion: Sensitive discussions about security, compliance, and risk are the norm. Our events provide a confidential space where leaders can be honest, share hard lessons, and test new ideas safely.
Relevance guaranteed: Every speaker, every session, every delegate is chosen for their relevance to your role. You spend your time on what matters to you.
Deeper Relationships: Our tailormade events mean more opportunities for genuine dialogue and trusted connections you can call on when it counts.

For senior leaders, the true value of an event is in the quality of the conversations and insights you take away. That’s why AKJ Associates events are deliberately designed to be sharp, fundamentally useful and based on real life security experiences.

Gain perspective

Whether it’s one of our flagship international conferences, a focused regional summit, or an intimate breakfast briefing, AKJ Associates events give you the opportunity to step outside the day-to-day and gain the perspective, intelligence and relationships you need to lead with confidence and to stay ahead of attackers, regulators, and board expectations:

Enabling collective security

Most importantly, we strive to building collective security through shared knowledge. Cyber-attackers learn from each other constantly. They share tools, exploits, tactics, and innovations at a pace that often outstrips defenders. Defenders – especially in critical infrastructure, government, and high-risk sectors – must do the same. AKJ’s conferences also give governments and regulators, a real-time check on what’s happening on the ground – and an opportunity to align policy with operational reality.

We aim to

Relationships are key

This trust is critical. When an attack hits – whether it’s ransomware, a supply chain compromise, or a nation-state intrusion – the speed and effectiveness of the response often depends on pre-existing relationships. The person sitting next to you at a conference might become your first call when a zero-day exploit hits your environment. And we constantly hope to elevate the role of security professionals to ensure that they gain a strong voice at the executive level, recognition from peers in other functions, clear career pathways and community support and a platform on which to be heard and share expertise. We want to play our part in professionalising, standardising and empowering a discipline that is now mission-critical. Most importantly though – and harking back to why we launched these events 25 years ago – AKJ Associates mission is to supporting national and economic resilience. When cybersecurity fails, the impact is systemic. Entire sectors—finance, transport, healthcare—can grind to a halt. Governments can’t protect citizens or critical services. Business continuity becomes impossible.

We work hard to build

National resilience, by reinforcing public-private partnerships.
Sector-specific resilience, by fostering coordination and preparedness within critical industries.
Economic security, by reducing risk exposure, enabling secure innovation, and ensuring business continuity.

For this reason, these events are not just for security teams. They are must-attend forums for policymakers, regulators, engineers, risk managers, procurement leaders, and senior business executives to help shape policy, procurement, regulations and security best practices through open dialogue.