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Thursday, September 28th, 2023

08:30 - 09:00

registration

Tea, coffee and breakfast rolls

09:00 - 09:25

Welcome

Karen Meechan, CEO, ScotlandIS

09:25 - 10:25

Jon Skeet, Staff Software Engineer, Google

10:25 - 10:50

Tea, coffee and biscuits

11:00 - 11:45

Anna Sarnek, Head of Strategic Alliances, Valence Security

Cyber risk is not just a security issue, it's a business issue, yet organizations continue to treat it as a siloed risk. Those that fail to implement good governance on cybersecurity, using appropriate tools and metrics, will be less resilient and less sustainable. This, in turn, has an impact on the other organizations they rely on, and ultimately on the stability of companies, communities, and governments. Alignment of security leaders and top business stakeholders maximizes resources and sets expectations for how an effective security posture can enable business growth by building trust and defending against costly cyberattacks.

11:00 - 11:45

Michelle Williams, Senior Clinical Lecturer and Doctor, University of Edinburgh

Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform healthcare, and medical imaging in particular. Imaging tests such as x-rays and scans provide a window into the body, but only a tiny proportion of the information available is currently used in clinical practice. AI and ML have the potential to dramatically improve the speed and accuracy of image analysis, and also reveal new types of disease. However, in order to realise the potential of artificial intelligence to improve patient care issues such as bias, accuracy, privacy and transparency must be considered at a local, national and global level.

11:00 - 11:45

Adam Pettman, 2i Testing

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11:55 - 12:40

Katie Rowan, Cloud Security Consultant, IBM

Security is often an after thought, we use Penetration tests and code scanning, but what about our designs? Have we thought about the faults in business logic and any possible attack paths that we might accidentally be building in? All putting our organisation at risk? Let’s find them early. This session will help you understand the theory and best practices behind Threat Modelling and see how they can save your organisation time and money.

11:55 - 12:40

Mark Lamb and Cristian Correa, Highground.io

11:55 - 12:40

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15:10 - 15:55

Walter Schulze, Software Engineer

Mathematics matters both more and less than you think. Yes, you can ignore mathematics and be a highly paid-professional programmer. On the other hand, I will explain that Mathematics is the tool used to solve specialised problems and more surprisingly that programming is doing mathematics. If you get hungry, don't worry, the proof is the pudding.

15:10 - 15:55

Professor Andrew Martin, Professor of Systems Security, Department of Compter Science, University of Oxford

While IoT presents many novel threats and vulnerabilities, many are best considered as network-centric issues, and this perspective also offers the best prospect of defence. Attacks against public-facing interfaces, particularly on routers and gateways, are potentially hyper-scaling events with devastating consequences. In this talk we explain some experimental approaches we are taking to mitigate and prevent such attacks through hardware-based approaches to memory safety.

15:10 - 15:55

Alex Woerndle, Managing Director, MyEmpire Group

Distribute.IT was a leading Australian web services provider, boasting almost a 10% market share of domain names in Australia, and tens of thousands of web hosting clients. Over a 9-year period the founders built their start up to an enviable market position with operations in Australia and Indonesia. Within a 30-minute period, a malicious hack on the company's data centres started a waterfall effect that ultimately wiped the company out in under 2 weeks. Alex Woerndle, one of the founders, has lived and breathed a major cyber security incident, and come out the other side with invaluable experience for everyone to learn from. In the time since this event, he has worked with dozens of companies – large and small – to improve resilience, prepare for, and respond to, cyber-attacks. In this presentation – focussed on people and process, not technology - Alex will share his insights of the effects of the Distribute.IT incident, along with some other major incident responses he has supported in recent years.

15:10 - 15:55

David Jones, CEO, Battlepass Labs Ltd.

The talk will focus on current trends in gaming, and how they will (or will not) help drive and define the 'Metaverse'. It will also look at issues around centralisation/decentralisation in these contexts, leading into web3....

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16:05 - 16:35

16:45 - 17:30

Jordan Schroeder, Barrier Networks

16:45 - 17:30

Kurtis Toy

16:45 - 17:30

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