Keynote Speakers

We are pleased to announce the following Keynote Speakers;

Peter Haigh, Deputy CTO, NCSC

Peter is Deputy CTO at the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the UK’s National Technical Authority for Cyber Security. He focuses on ensuring the organisation is technically prepared for the future. Peter oversees the NCSC’s relationships with external research communities, including academia and the UK Telecoms Lab (UKTL). His technical background spans mathematics, cryptography, telecommunications, and AI.

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Lorenzo Cavallaro, Professor of Computer Science

Lorenzo Cavallaro grew up on pizza, spaghetti, and Phrack, and soon developed a passion for underground and academic research. He is a Full Professor of Computer Science at University College London (UCL), where he leads the Systems Security Research Lab — https://s2lab.cs.ucl.ac.uk.

Lorenzo’s research vision is to enhance the effectiveness of machine learning for systems security in adversarial settings. To this end, he and his team investigate the interplay among program analysis abstractions, engineered and learned representations, and grounded models, and their crucial role in creating Trustworthy AI for Systems Security.

Lorenzo publishes at and sits on the Program Committee of leading conferences in computer security and ML, received the Distinguished Paper Award at USENIX Security 2022, ICML 2024 Spotlight Paper, and DLSP 2025 Best Paper Award (co-located with IEEE S&P). He is also Associate Editor of ACM TOPS and IEEE TDSC.

Lorenzo is co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer of BynarIO — https://bynar.io, a startup that’s pioneering AI to autonomously identify and repair vulnerabilities in software, restoring trust and control over what you run. In addition to his love for food, Lorenzo finds his Flow in science, music, and family.

Edith MacArthur, IT Principal Security Architect

Edith MacArthur is an IT Principal Security Architect at a multi-national healthcare insurance company, with over two decades of experience spanning enterprise security architecture, cloud platforms, and information governance across highly regulated sectors. She works closely with architecture, engineering, and product teams to embed security into the full technology lifecycle, from early design through deployment, with a particular focus on AI enabled and data intensive systems.

Edith is a recognised practitioner in secure by design architecture, with deep expertise in AI and machine learning security, cloud security, DevSecOps, and regulatory aligned risk management. Her work focuses on translating business strategy and innovation into practical, scalable security architectures that address confidentiality, integrity, availability, and privacy risks.

Previously, she led security architecture for global CRM platforms and held senior information protection and governance roles across both public and private sectors.

Simon Moore, Professor of Computer Engineering

Simon Moore is a Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Cambridge, Department of Computer Science and Technology (previously the Computer Laboratory) in England, where he conducts research and teaching in the general area of computer architecture with a particular interest in secure and rigorously engineered processors and subsystems. He has lead the hardware component of the CHERI secure computer system project since 2010.


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