John has spent his entire career working within the Intelligence Services arena. With that in mind, details of his achievements are classified. However, the last 10 years saw John in the IA (Information Assurance) field delivering Threat Briefings to UK Government, Military, Police and The Royal Household. His lectures have been well received by over a ¼ of a million people and he is very much considered to be a ‘Subject Matter Expert’ lecturing alongside such noted luminaries as Lieutenant General Sir John Kiszely KCB MC (Director of the Defence Academy, Shrivenham) and Professor Richard Holmes CBE TD JP (Professor of Security Studies at Cranfield University). More recently, John has moved into the commercial world delivering Threat Briefings and Security Advice to the likes of BSkyB, Rolls Royce, BP, RWE npower, Ernst&Young, London First, CSARN and AWE while continuing to support the Police, Military, Special Forces and Clarence House. View Synopsis

Dai is a Technology Lawyer.  He read Physics at Keble College, Oxford and took a Masters Degree in Computing Science at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne before qualifying as a Solicitor.  He is a qualified Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.  Dai has consistently been recommended in the Legal 500 and in Chambers Guides to the Legal Profession.  Having been national head of Intellectual Property Law and later national head of Information Technology law at Eversheds for a number of years, Dai is now the principal in his own law practice, Percy Crow Davis & Co Ltd.  He is based primarily in Leeds and London. 
Dai advises clients from large financial institutions to specialist IT companies as well as start-up businesses on intellectual property, computer and technology law including such topical matters as E-Commerce, IT Security and Cloud Computing issues.  He is primarily a non-contentious lawyer, specialising in advising on commercial agreements relating to software and technology products, including outsourcing agreements and web-related contracts. View Synopsis

Andrew Erving spent 38 years in intelligence at GCHQ. He led key organisations including the Russia Group and was latterly Head of Counter-Terrorism Intelligence. A founder member of the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC) in MI5, he was its first Deputy Head.
Andrew began his career as a Russian Linguist, later spending three years at a UK-US enterprise in Yorkshire and similarly at British Embassy Washington. He was awarded OBE after an operation in 1996. In JTAC he managed foreign relations and worked with numerous foreign intelligence agencies, as well as with MI5 and MI6. He was the GCHQ senior at CT Cabinet Committee meetings and attended hostage and CT-related COBRs, frequently at ministerial level. He was recognised by GCHQ for his work at COBR in the aftermath of the 7/7 bombings.  He has delivered CT presentations at home and abroad, including at the EU. View Synopsis

Duncan now has a portfolio career and is a Fellow at Warwick University, advises a number of companies and organisations on how to make the most of innovation and is involved in the security industry in various ways. 

He took up the role of CEO of the UK cyber Security Challenge in January 2012. He has worked in both the public and private sector and floated two companies on the stock market both concentrated on security, innovation and technology. View Synopsis 

Mike spent 30 years as a police officer.  The latter 5 years of his career he was a  senior officer seconded to the Police IT Organisation (PITO), now the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA), where he was directly involved in the development, roll out and security of the Police National Network, a UK wide IP network providing secure communications and application access for Law Enforcement and other Criminal Justice Organisations. Since 2007 he has been working for the Serious Organised Crime Agency as Head of Information Assurance and Accreditation. He is a full member of the Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP) and sits on the IISP membership accreditation committee. He has presented at a number of National and International conferences including the Information Security Forum’s Congress’ in Washington and Barcelona and was a keynote panel member at Infosec. Amongst events in 2011 he presented at a Chief Information Security Officers conference in Lisbon and the European Commission’s workshop on enhancing Law Enforcement’s Cyber Security and Cyber Crime capabilities in third world countries.  He holds an MSc in IT Security; his dissertation was based on the monitoring, alerting and response requirements to protect critical infrastructures. He is a qualified ISO27001 auditor, an elected member of the Information Advisory Council’s (IAAC) management committee and is a Govt Liaison Panel representative on the IAAC Board. Mike is currently working on a part time PhD at Cranfield University – Defence Academy Shrivenham, where he is researching the barriers to effective information security incident reporting and sharing across organisations.