Speakers

Mike Fell OBE, Director of National Cyber Operations, NHS England

Mike has spent 15 years in range of security roles for the UK Government and is currently Director of National Cyber Operations for NHS England. He is responsible for the security of NHS England’s data and systems, as well as leading work to enable the resilience of the whole Health & Social Care System in defending and responding to cyber-attacks.   Prior... to this Mike spent six years as the Head of Cyber Security Operations and latterly as Deputy Chief Security Officer for HMRC. He’s filled his CV with roles in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in Afghanistan, in National Security and in helping to secure the 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games. He is proud to be a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Information Security.   Mike is passionate about helping people protect themselves from cyber threats, regularly talking about the topic including on national TV and Radio. His teams have won Digital Leaders, Government Security and IT Industry Awards for their innovative work keeping the UK public safe. His work isn’t limited to the UK, providing voluntary help to build capacity and capability in a range of overseas organisations.   more

Mark Logsdon, CISO, NHS England

Mark is Chief Information Security Officer for NHS England having joined from UKHSA (Test and Trace) where he was head of Cyber Assurance and Oversight. With over 30 years of experience in security, Mark has held a number of high profile roles in the public and private sectors. He has a strong business focus seeing security as a business enabler. At every opportunity... Mark seeks to manage the needs of business against those of security and risk. Outside of work, Mark works to raise much needed funds for NSPCC Childline. He is a member and former Chair of the WhiteHat Ball Committee which to date has raised over £2M for the NSPCC. more

Gill Fenney, Head of IT Risk Governance, Bupa

Gill has had a long career in IT working across financial, retail and services sectors, initially in technical roles but with the last 17 or so years specialising in Information Security. She has worked as a consultant running compliance programmes such as SOx, ISO 27001 and PCIDSS for various companies during this time. She is now Head of IT Risk Governance for Bupa.

Steve Ramsden, Chief Information Security Officer, The Global Fund

Steve Ramsden is Chief Information Security Officer and Digital Innovation/Architect at The Global Fund, an international organization based in Geneva, Switzerland. 
Before joining Global Fund Steve held senior management positions within UK Government, responsible for security and design for UK Government’s digital transformation and was a certified... GCHQ/CESG information assurance advisor for protection of UK government systems.   Steve has passion for sports and education and supports the University of Geneva SDG Solution lab, to help scale up frontier technologies including, WEB3, Quantum, AI, blockchain, encryption and privacy preserving technologies to accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals. 
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Patrick Maw, Medical Device Integration and Cyber Security, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

I am the Consultant Scientist and lead of the Scientific Computing section of the UCLH Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering Department. Here I am involved in all aspects of the implementation of Health IT systems and software medical device implementation and development. I am working on  addressing the issues of cyber security that affects connected medical... devices and have worked with NHS Digital to setup an expert group to determine an NHS wide approach. And am a subject matter expert for this group.
I am also very involved with the Scientist Training Programme (STP) and I’m the scientific lead for the Clinical Scientific Computing specialism in England. As well as being co-chair of the National Performance Advisory Group – IT and Connectivity Network and vice chair of IPEMs Computing Special Interest Group.
That unfortunately leaves me little time for my leisure interests which are tennis, skiing and supporting Leeds United.  
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Will Hodson, Cyber Analyst, CFC

Will joined CFC from the Allianz graduate scheme in 2017. Having previously worked as a property and casualty underwriter, Will has spent the past 6 years working in cyber insurance. In his role as Cyber Analyst, Will sits across all the cyber teams at CFC, working on product development, underwriting strategy, marketing initiatives and education and training for... underwriters and brokers alike.more

Rob Fox-River, Director, UK Healthcare Cyber Lead, EY

Rob leads the Healthcare Cybersecurity Practice at EY. He is passionate about helping others, bringing more people into cybersecurity and the value of the NHS. He has experience in cybersecurity in healthcare on a national land local level and in both the public and private sectors.