Agenda

►Fireside Chat: Preparing for the future of Healthcare

Dulcie Herreros, Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, NHS England
Mark Logsdon, CISO, NHS England

• How is the security environment changing in the current climate?
• What do you think of the current trends towards AI?
• What needs to change to enable us to face threats in the modern world?
• What are you most worried about & where should investment go?

►Building Resilience Through Experience: Lessons from Recent Cyber Attacks

Mike Owen, Deputy Director Cyber Operations, NHS England

• How real-world cyber attacks unfolded in the NHS, including what worked, what failed, and the practical lessons learned from responding under pressure.
• Key strategies for building organisational cyber resilience, drawn from first-hand experience of managing incidents in a complex, high-impact environment.
• Actionable insights leaders can apply immediately to improve preparedness, decision-making, and recovery before, during, and after a cyber attack.

►Don’t fear the auditor!

Nasser Arif, Cyber Security Manager, LNWUH NHS Trust

• A simple shift in mindset can transform those dreaded NHS security audits into powerful opportunities for learning, improvement, and growth. 
• This is a human centred take on audits that focuses on continuous improvement and not fear.
• Learn how to prepare and present clear evidence to auditors, how to use audit results to motivate teams and encourage positive change, and why it is not a weakness to ask for help and support when you need it.

►Fireside Chat: Cyber Resilience, Regulation, and Risk in Modern Healthcare

Simon Brady, Event Chairman (Moderator)
James Witt, Head of Information Security, Barchester Healthcare Ltd

• With healthcare organisations are under increasing scrutiny from regulators how do you engage (or not) with them proactively on cybersecurity, and what does ‘good’ look like from their perspective today?
• In a care setting where availability can directly impact resident wellbeing, how do you balance strong security controls with the need to keep systems accessible for frontline staff?
• Ransomware continues to target healthcare—beyond backups, what does genuine organisational readiness look like in practice?
• As care providers increasingly rely on digital suppliers (from EHR systems to connected medical devices) how are you managing cyber risk across that supply chain, and where do you see the biggest blind spots?
• With a largely non-technical workforce in care homes, how do you design security awareness and controls that actually work in day-to-day care delivery?

►Preparing Organisations for Emerging AI Threats: Deepfakes, Cognitive Resilience & Trust

Holly-Jane Grayling, Security Culture & Awareness Lead, Tunstall Healthcare

• How AI-enabled threats such as deepfakes, voice cloning, and synthetic identity attacks are being used to bypass traditional security controls in healthcare
• Why attackers increasingly target cognition, trust, and decision-making under pressure rather than technical vulnerabilities
• Introducing “cognitive resilience” as a practical capability for recognising and responding to AI-driven manipulation in real time
• Practical approaches to strengthening verification behaviours and organisational readiness for synthetic media incidents