Agenda

►Mythos and Beyond: What the Next Generation of AI Means for Security, Sovereignty, and Business

Rob Flanders, Head of Threat and Incident Response, BAE Systems

• The changing AI landscape: the latest advances in AI models, the impact of US export controls, and how policy is shaping global AI development.
• Emerging security challenges: how increasingly capable AI models are changing the cyber threat landscape, including the path towards the much-discussed concept of Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI).
• Implications for the UK and Europe: what a US-centric AI ecosystem means for competitiveness, sovereignty, and the capabilities organisations will need to succeed.

►Fireside Chat: Capacity or Efficiency – What's the Real Issue in Cyber Defence?

Quentyn Taylor, Senior Director – Product, Information Security and Global Incident Response, Canon Europe (Middle East and Africa)
Simon Brady, Event Chairman (Moderator)

• For years, cybersecurity has been framed as a capacity challenge: more threats, more alerts, more tools, and never enough people or budget. But what if the real constraint isn't capacity at all? What if organisations are failing to get the most from the people, platforms, and data they already have?
• Are security teams truly capacity constrained, or is operational inefficiency the bigger barrier to improving cyber resilience?
• Where is the greatest source of inefficiency today—people, processes, technology, or fragmented data?
• How should organisations measure efficiency in cyber defence, and what metrics best demonstrate a meaningful reduction in cyber risk?
• If you had one strategic investment over the next three years, would you prioritise increasing capacity or improving efficiency—and why?

►AI in the Middle : Basic security considerations in multi-model/agentic architectures

Ben Trethowan, CISO, Brit Insurance

• Identifying the need to perform effective supply chain security assessments upon AI providers, including consideration of product/service-level aspects.
• Discussing the importance of effective Non-Human Identity (NHI) management, across user/workload identities, as the role of identity encapsulation/impersonation increases.
• Highlighting the challenges of achieving pervasive security governance and observability across complex AI architectures.
• Appreciating the potential ‘novel’ security threats introduced through AI utilisation.
• Leveraging existing data security approaches to support the extension of data visibility/control into complex AI architectures.