Leadership Masterclass 3: Securing the Digital Frontier: Managing AI, Data Privacy and Cyber Security

In the digital age, ensuring the security of data, protecting privacy, and managing cyber security risks have become paramount. This Masterclass delves into the intricate intersection between artificial intelligence, data privacy and cyber security, equipping participants with the knowledge and tools to charter an effective course for their organisation through this complex and developing area.

Speakers

Jamie Saunders

Jamie is a strategic security consultant, providing risk management advice to a range of large corporations and governmental organisations. He is a Fellow of the James Martin School at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the European School of Management and Technology’s Digital Society Institute.

Jamie is a member of the UK Government’s Expert Advisory Group on Cyber Resilience, a member of the Advisory Group of the UK’s Association of Insurance and Risk Managers in Industry and Commerce, and works with a number of digital security start-ups in the UK, US and Japan. Jamie retired from the Board of the UK National Crime Agency in 2017 after twenty-nine years of public service, the majority at the UK’s national signals intelligence and cyber agency, GCHQ.

Toby Lewis

Toby is an esteemed Cyber Security and AI expert sharing insights on major cyber threats and the application of Artificial Intelligence. His career began within the British Intelligence Services and he was a founding member of the National Cyber Security Centre. He now leads an international team of Cyber Security Analysts for Darktrace, a British AI & cyber security firm.

His career has been punctuated by major cyber security events, initially working on the threat from Nation State espionage until WannaCry transformed the cyber crime landscape into one dominated by ransomware. Toby has delivered keynote speeches at flagship conferences on cyber security, sharing his experiences working at the sharp end, combating major cyber security incidents and providing insights into the cyber threat landscape. He has provided expert commentary for mainstream broadcast news and print media on topics ranging from the benefits and risks associated with Artificial Intelligence to joining BBC Radio 5 Live on the morning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine to discuss the potential use of cyber weapons by the two countries.

Since joining Darktrace at the start of 2021, Toby has been at the forefront of the real-world application of AI and machine learning within cybersecurity, drawing on his artificial intelligence expertise, and a deep understanding of the value in using the right type of AI for the right application as well as the human factors involved in building confidence within organisations as they begin their journey with AI. With the AI explosion associated with ChatGPT, this also means engaging in a much more informed debate, balancing out the hype and catastrophisers with a pragmatic view of this new technology. War stories gathered over nearly 20 years in cyber security allow Toby to provide an accessible introduction to the intersections of technology, geopolitics and cybersecurity, as well as deeper expertise on topics such as the application of artificial intelligence in cyber security and what really happens when hackers get access to your network.