Thursday 9 July 2026, 9am – 4pm

London

Join us as we bring CISOs and senior security leaders together to explore how organisations can build resilience, trust, and capability amid rapid technological change, geopolitical uncertainty, and accelerating AI adoption.

Deep technical expertise, long seen as the priority for a CISO, is no longer enough to influence organisations to invest in cybersecurity. The board-savvy CISO needs to persuade peers and senior leaders, whose priorities are business delivery-focused, of the need to embed cybersecurity practices through everything they do.

This needs mature people leaders who can speak to the strategic imperative as a business ally. Incidents bring CISO roles into sharp focus, and as much as protecting the business, there is a need to protect the people who work within cybersecurity. Maintaining a functioning team, from a mental health and well-being perspective, through a 24/7 fight to evict threat actors from systems, requires a leader who has the trust of their team, has considered a contingency plan, and can maintain a mature leadership posture throughout.

Throughout the day, we will be addressing the shifting role of the CISO – from technical authority to strategic leader – with a strong emphasis on influence, people, and organisational culture.

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