The Future of Cybersecurity

Join us to debate the priorities and challenges for the UK Cybersecurity sector and hear more about the national Cybersecurity strategy.

We will also have speakers from the European Commission to speak about the new contractual Public-Private Partnership (PPP) on Cybersecurity, aiming to stimulate the European Cybersecurity industry.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Agenda

13.00 Networking Lunch

13.45 Welcome from the Digital Catapult

14.00 Welcome and Introductions - Dora Meredith, Innovate UK Brief description of the aims for the afternoon and introduction to participants.

14.10 Overview of European Cybersecurity R&I - Aristotelis Tzafalias, European Commission Description of the current EU calls in the cyber security area and an overview of the cPPP.

14.40 Overview of ECSO and Priorities - Luigi Rebuffi, ECSO Overview of the current European industry priorities and cPPP developments.

15.00 Overview of UK Cybersecurity for growth and innovation - Stephen Rhodes, DCMS Description of the work of DCMS on growth and innovation in this area, including a short update on government plans.

15.30 What are the priorities for the UK Cybersecurity sector? Breakout into group to discuss priorities for the UK sector. This will be fed into the UK cybersecurity roadmap and will also be fed into European cPPP discussions.

16.20 Feedback

16.45 Summary and next steps

17.00 End