Cyber Summit

HOST, Salford’s Home of Skills & Technology is an innovation hub at the heart of MediaCity with a unique environment that helps you to learn, grow and succeed.

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Join us as part of the Digital City Festival for our Cyber Summit!

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Innovation hub HOST, the Home of Skills &amp; Technology at MediaCity, has been announced as the lead sponsor of Skills and Technology at Digital City Festival 2022, where it will be hosting three flagship events.This is the second consecutive year HOST has sponsored the festival, which is taking place as a week-long celebration from 7th-11th March to showcase Greater Manchester as a world-class destination for the digital community.A diverse range of events will be taking place at the festival, with HOST focusing on the three key themes of skills, technology and innovation - brought together by the Cyber Summit, the India Pavilion as part of the Digital City Expo and its Esports Festival.HOST will be opening the festival with the first Cyber Summit in the North West on Monday 7th March at HOST Social, a stunning seventh floor venue that overlooks the digital hub of MediaCity. The Cyber Summit will feature a series of inspiring panel discussions, networking, Q&amp;As, expos and conclude with a drinks reception from4pm until 6pm.In collaboration with key partners, including the Greater Manchester Cyber Security Advisory Group, it will be a celebration of Greater Manchester’s outstanding cyber security capabilities and the inclusive economic growth that this brings to the digital-city region.

Cyber Summit Agenda
10:20 - 10:30am - Welcome to the Cyber Summit

10:30 - 11:30am - Jobs and Future Skills, sponsored by Roke
Looking to the future, the panel will address how the keys to a thriving future ecosystem are in the embracing of diversity and further investment in skills and education.

Panel Chair - Mo Isap, CEO of IN4 Group
Mick Gallagher, Senior Account Manager at Roke
Neil Jones, Managing Director of North West Cyber Resilience Centre
Emma Bateson, graduate from Skills City’s Cyber Bootcamp

12:00 - 1:00pm - The North West Cyber Corridor Vision, sponsored by BAE Systems
This panel will discuss how collaboration is key to unlocking the full potential, and target outcomes of the North West corridor, and what this opportunity means for the future of the geo-region.

Panel Chair – Victoria Knight, Strategic Campaigns Director at BAE Systems
Andrew Elliot, Deputy Director, Cyber Security, Department for Digital, Culture, Media &amp; Sport (DCMS)
Sarah Kemp, Chief Executive of Lancashire Enterprise Partnership
StJohn Crean, Pro Vice-Chancellor research and enterprise at UCLan
Phil Swan, Digital Director at Greater Manchester Combined Authority
Andrew Roughan, Managing Director at Plexal

1:00 - 2:00pm - Networking lunch, sponsored by WardWiz

2:00 - 4:00pm - Greater Manchester Cyber Showcase 
This panel will showcase exciting initiatives like the AI and Cyber Foundries, and accelerator programmes, as well as the innovations of the reigons SMEs. Following this, an SME and Skills Expo will be taking place with booths and presentations from North-West based SMEs and Skills City bootcamps, providing participants with the opportunity to engage directly with the ecosystem.

Panel Chair - Keith Miller, Academic Director of the GM Cyber Foundry and GM AI Foundry
Prof Danny Dresner, Cyber Security at University of Manchester
Roxana Lawton, Enterprise Fellow, Manchester Metropolitan University
Andy Beaden, Chairman of IN4 Group
Seònaid Lafferty, GM Cyber Foundry Project Manager at University of Manchester

Expo exhibitors: Skills City, HOST Cyber, WardWiz, Praeferre, In-House Health, DustID, CodeYourFuture

4:00 - 6:00pm - VIP Drinks Reception, sponsored by Plexal

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