Speakers

Claire Schrader, Senior Responsible AI Lead, AI Centre of Excellence, Lloyds Banking Group

Strategic and operational leader driving transformation across AI security and broader change initiatives within Lloyds Banking Group, leveraging threat intelligence expertise to ensure decisions are threat-led. Proven success in supporting secure innovation, embedding governance frameworks, and aligning cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, compliant, and business-aligned... solutions. Recognised for bridging technical and business domains, fostering collaboration, and shaping enterprise-wide security posture. Career history includes a lengthy time in the threat intelligence field, with a geopolitical focus, shifting into cyber threat intelligence and more recently relationship management to ensure security features in change delivery across the LBG. Experience also includes leading an AI security task forced on the secure adoption of AI technology.more

Daniyal Naeem, Distinguished Engineer, Principal Security Authority - AI, BT

Daniyal Naeem is an experienced Cybersecurity Professional with extensive expertise in cyber threat research, specialising in complex cybercriminal and nation-state threat actors. He has built and led global Cyber Incident Response and Threat Intelligence programmes, strengthening organisational resilience against advanced threats.Daniyal also brings expertise in... the security and governance of emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence and AI-enabled security tooling, with a focus on secure-by-design principles, AI risk management, and adversarial threat modelling. He is a critical thinker, a MITRE contributor, an astute problem solver, and an effective translator between technical and non-technical stakeholders.He holds a Master’s degree in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL), and is CISSP, CISM, and CCSP certified.more

William Dixon, Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute and Senior Technology Cyber Fellow, The Ukraine Foundation

William Dixon is an Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute, Senior Technology Cyber Fellow of the Ukraine Foundation and is a featured contributor on Cyber for the World Economic Forum. He started his career at GCHQ working on international security issues, and held senior positions at Barclays and the World Economic Forum where he was Head of Future... Networks and Technology. He holds a Masters Degree from the War Studies of King's College London, and is regularly featured in media outlets. more

Manit Sahib, Ethical Hacker & Former Head of Penetration Testing & Red Teaming, Bank of England

Manit is an experienced offensive security expert who is certified by UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) as well as His Majesty’s CESG Check scheme (HMG CHECK). He has over ten years professional experience in both UK Government and private offensive security operations. Formerly, Manit was the Head of Penetration Testing & Red Teaming at the... Bank of England.more

Robert Cooper, IT Security Engineering Lead, easyjet

Robert Cooper is a cybersecurity professional with over ten years of experience safeguarding enterprise environments across aviation and technology sectors. As IT Security Engineering Lead at easyJet, he leads strategic security initiatives, designs technical controls, and enhances organisational cyber resilience. He has extensive experience delivering risk assessments,... vulnerability management, and penetration testing coordination, alongside supporting regulatory and ISO27001 compliance. Robert has successfully driven secure cloud migrations, developed security processes, and partners with business stakeholders to embed security into technology decisions.more

Jonathan Armstrong, Partner, Punter Southall Law

Jonathan is an experienced lawyer with a concentration on technology and compliance. His practice includes advising multinational companies on matters involving risk, compliance and technology across Europe. He has handled legal matters in more than 60 countries involving emerging technology, corporate governance, ethics code implementation, reputation, internal investigations,... marketing, branding and global privacy policies. Jonathan has counselled a range of clients on breach prevention, mitigation and response. He has also been particularly active in advising multi-national corporations on their response to the UK Bribery Act 2010 and its inter-relationship with the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Jonathan is one of three co-authors of the LexisNexis definitive work on technology law, “Managing Risk: Technology & Communications”. He is a frequent broadcaster for the BBC and other channels and appeared on BBC News 24 as the studio guest on the Walport Review. In July 2023 Jonathan was appointed to the New York State Bar Association Presidential Task Force on Artificial Intelligence. Jonathan sits on the Task Force with leading practitioners, regulators, judges and academics to develop frameworks for the use and control of AI in the legal system.more