Tuesday 2 June 2026, 11am-12noon (BST)

Thirty years in cyber teaches you one uncomfortable truth: We keep missing the basics, and the people who exploit that gap are not the ones our hiring pipelines are built to find.

Academic research points to a missing generation, gamer hackers raised in bedrooms rather than degree programmes, invisible to employers but visible, and valuable, to criminals. They learn through peer validation and community clout, not credentials. They treat system limits as a creative substrate, something to bend rather than break.

In this remarkable session, we’ll hear directly from a former member of ‘The Com’, once a cybercriminal, now a black teamer turning that same instinct on the defenders who couldn’t catch him. Pair the grey-haired practitioner who has spent a career watching the basics fail with the young operator who learned the tradecraft the industry refused to recognise, and you have something neither generation could build alone, and something the perpetrators have not had to face before. Join us to get inside the mind of the adversary.

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Guest chaired by

Sharon Penfold (info) Director of Technology Transformation, De Montfort University

Presented by

John Madelin (info) Chief Product Officer, The Hacking Games

Conor Freeman (info) Offensive Security Lead, The Hacking Games

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