Tom Cheesewright - Lancaster University

Watch Again: Understanding the Potential of a Cyber Secure Business

In this first of a series of seminars the keynote is delivered by Applied Futurist Tom Cheesewright. Tom is one of the UK's leading futurist speakers, commentators and consultants on technology tomorrow. Tom is also the author of “High Frequency Change” and “Future-Proof Your Business”. Panel - Dr Daniel Prince, Sarah Carter, Brian Higgins.

Beyond Cyber Security - How to thrive at the forefront of the next digital revolution. Join us through a series of thought-provoking webinars, designed to help you and your business navigate through the future of cyber security, digitalisation, and innovation.

Cyber security can help boost profits for any business, say experts from Lancaster University, who are hosting a series of free talks to show companies the benefits of proper web practice.

Britain’s top computing experts are set to de-mystify cyber security by inviting businesses from across the country to attend a series of free talks to learn how they can boost profits through cyber security.

Beyond Cyber Security - understanding the potential of a cyber-secure business, is a ground-breaking series of five unique webinars put together by experts at Lancaster University as part of their pioneering Cyber Works project.

Cyber Works, Lancaster University-based knowledge exchange initiative, headed up by Dr Daniel Prince, aims to promote secure digitalisation across the region, by helping businesses embrace next-generation digital strategies.

The first keynote is being delivered by noted Applied Futurist Tom Cheesewright, one of the UK's leading futurist speakers, commentators and consultants on technology tomorrow and author of “High Frequency Change” and “Future-Proof Your Business”.

This business engagement initiative draws on the expertise, capacity and capability of Lancaster University’s highly acclaimed Cyber Security Research Centre (CSRC) and is a gateway to growth for businesses, who may be able to take advantage of up to £50,000 worth of grant funded research and development resource.

Main Speaker - Tom Chesewright

Futurist speaker Tom Cheesewright is one of the UK’s leading commentators on technology and tomorrow.

Tom has worked with a huge range of organisations across a variety of markets, to help them to see a clear vision of tomorrow, share that vision and respond with agility.

Tom draws on his experience to create original, compelling talks that are keyed to the experience of the audience but which surprise and shock with unexpected facts and examples.

Tom helps audiences understand the forces that are shaping the future right now and he points them to clues that they can use to help them see their own futures, personally and for their organisations.

Panelists

Sarah Clarke

Sarah is a security and data protection governance specialist on a tireless mission to cut through the murk of new buzzwords to make all of our lives a bit easier. After a business degree at Edinburgh University, she toyed with customer relations, then stumbled into IT. In the intervening 20 years, including nearly a decade working in the financial services sector she gained some really valuable insight into cybersecurity and data protection challenges.

Translating lessons learned into better ways to tackle governance and risk in depth and at both start-up and corporate scale. She is also an award-winning blog writer, frequent contributor to trade publications, speaker, and a guest lecturer for the Manchester University IT Governance masters course.

Her overarching aim is to make it simpler to do things in a secure and privacy-respecting way. Born from the conviction that no-one should be accountable for something they can't influence, or don't understand.

When not doing, speaking, or writing about GRC, she fights for better treatment for pancreatic cancer, mainly through Pancreatic Cancer UK. It is a deadly and ignored disease and deserves all the publicity and political attention we can muster.

Brian Higgins

Brian worked in international casino roles for eighteen years, until 2008 when he changed careers. He enrolled at Birmingham City University reading Criminal Justice and Criminology and went on to serve as an Officer of the Serious Organised Crime Agency until March 2013.

His postings at SOCA included two years working in Financial Investigations and Anti-Money Laundering and twelve months as a Home Office Communications Data Investigator before completing his time in law enforcement in what is now the National Cyber Crime Unit.

He was subsequently employed as Project Manager for Cyber Security Challenge UK; a Cabinet Office funded Company established to foster and encourage talent in the field of cyber security and was Business Development Manager EMEA for (ISC)2, a global membership organization and accreditation body for cyber security professionals until April 2018.

He was Project Manager for the Greater Manchester Cyber Foundry programme at the University of Manchester 2019-20 and is currently the UK security spokesman for Comparitech.com and Director of ARCO Cyber Security Ltd.

Session Chair - Daniel Prince

Dr Daniel Prince is a Senior Lecturer in Security and Protection Science within the School of Computing and Communications.

He specialises in Cyber Risk Management and Network Security in complex socio-technical systems, particular cyber physical systems and the financial services sector.

He also works closely with organisations to help them understand the economic growth potential of cyber security.