Roundtable
Information Security
Women In Cyber - Leadership, Resilience & Impact
Join us for an inspiring afternoon celebrating the women shaping the future of cybersecurity. Bringing together senior leaders, innovators, and industry experts, this exclusive event offers an opportunity to hear powerful personal stories, explore the challenges and opportunities facing the sector, and build meaningful connections with peers.
August 19, 2026
UK & Ireland
Discussion Points
The Future e of Cyber Threat Intelligence in the Age of AI
- How AI is reshaping cyber defence
- Why inclusive innovation is essential to secure, scalable systems
- Emerging trends in threat intelligence for 2027 and beyond
Pathways for Women in Cyber & AI Leadership
- Breaking barriers and building opportunities
- Creating safe, inclusive organisations
- Leadership skills for AI-driven transformation
Women In Cyber - Leadership, Resilience & Impact
Hosted in the elegant surroundings of The Glade at Sketch, Mayfair, the event will feature an engaging panel discussion, individual leadership stories from influential women across the cybersecurity industry, and dedicated networking over champagne and canapés.
Whether you're an established leader, an aspiring professional, or an advocate for greater diversity in technology, this event provides a welcoming space to exchange ideas, gain practical insights, and celebrate the resilience, leadership, and impact of women driving change in cyber.
Expect thought-provoking conversations, valuable networking opportunities, and an afternoon designed to inspire collaboration and empower the next generation of cybersecurity leaders.
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About The Hosts
DXC Technology is a global technology services provider, delivering IT, cloud, engineering and cybersecurity solutions to organisations across a wide range of industries. With a focus on helping businesses adapt, innovate and grow, DXC works alongside clients to support their digital transformation journeys. As a co-host of Women in Cyber, DXC is proud to bring together industry professionals to share knowledge, celebrate leadership and encourage meaningful conversations that strengthen the cybersecurity community.
Check Point Software Technologies is a global cybersecurity company dedicated to helping organisations protect their digital environments through innovative security solutions. Serving businesses of all sizes around the world, Check Point is recognised for its commitment to advancing cybersecurity and supporting collaboration across the industry.
Why Attend?
Exclusive Networking
Connect with senior industry professionals in an intimate setting. Build valuable relationships that can lead to future business opportunities and collaborations.
Insightful Discussions
Engage in deep, meaningful conversations on key industry topics. Gain fresh perspectives and actionable insights from thought leaders and peers.
Tailored Content
Participate in discussions specifically designed to address your business needs and challenges. Benefit from content that is relevant and immediately applicable to your organisation.
Strategic Takeaways
Leave with practical strategies and ideas to implement in your business. Enhance your approach and drive growth with insights gained from the roundtable discussions.
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Michelle Kearns
Head of IT - Boots Ireland
“I think the product demos are really good, and I’ve enjoyed that. It educates me on what's happening in technology. Also I like to know what's happening behind people's day jobs in a similar role to mine. And so hearing some of the presenters speak about what they're facing as their challenges, they resonate with me.”
Mike Samra
CTO, The AA
“The value to Devoteam of sponsoring this event has been an opportunity to present to the delegates, but also to have a number of really high quality 1 on 1 meetings with, with business and tech leaders from the UK. Some really inspirational people delivering some fantastic transformations. So it's been really good to talk to them.”
Richard Andrews
Managing Director UK&I, DevoTeam
“As an attendee, the value I've got from attending this is actually speaking and meeting with like minded people. I think it's really interesting, having conversations about what you do in your day job and being able to compare it with others. And from that, you end up solutionising over a conversation or over food and drinks.”
Goher Mohammed
Group Head of IT Security, L&Q
“I've had some great conversations today, talking to suppliers. 1 of them has made me think about some of the security aspects that I have within my own organisation. We have a good comprehensive security program going on, where we are at the moment. But there's been a few moments where it's made me think, have I got these things covered?”
Vicky Higgin
CDIO, Cityfibre
“You know, for me, coming to an event like this has a huge impact, not only on my ability to build my personal brand a little bit, which is always really, nice thing for me to be able to do, but also in just taking away these really, really insightful moments from other people who are in the trenches as well and being able to implement them in my team.”
Heather Hurd
Senior Director, Content Marketing, FIS Global
“It's great to get the condensed meetings together. So it's actually quite useful from a time perspective for us to be able to do that. And actually, we've had an opportunity to appear out of one of the meetings. So it's great that that could potentially fund the entire event for us. And, now, that propels us to want to do more of these events with you.”
Robin Wright
Senior Account Executive, Fortra
“It's helping us to meet with key CISO target audiences that we would typically only dream of trying to meet in a typical financial year. So having 10 guaranteed meetings as part of the conference agenda has really, really helped us boost the pipeline and start those conversations.”
Chris Whelan
UK Regional Marketing Lead, NCC Group
“The opportunity to speak to people both from a kind of one to one networking standpoint, over a coffee, face to face is really useful, really powerful to be able to swap those sort of war stories around how we're encountering challenges and how we're kind of overcoming them.”
Ben Trethowan
CISO, BRIT Insurance
“The people who have been attending on the buyer side have definitely been the type of stakeholders that we would like to engage with as vendors. These are decision makers. These are influencers. These are high level ROI conversations. It’s been amazing.”
Yoav Lebens
UK Country Manager, OX Security
“I think there's been some really good presentations particularly around you know, everyone's talking about AI, but what does that really mean? There have been some good conversations around how we mesh AI with human interaction to make sure we're getting the best of both worlds.”
Andy Piper
CISO - Investment Bank, Barclays
“The network that we've established and built today, always goes a long way into having better conversations, getting better insights with the people we work with, and ultimately just delivering better all around service. So it's been a really great day and I highly recommend it to anybody as well.”
Marco Oliver
Co-founder & CEO at Configur
“This is the 3rd event we’ve done with Inspire Business Media. And what I'm starting to see is that whilst we may pick up opportunities that can benefit our business in the short term. I'm starting to see real long term benefits and building relationships as I'm walking through the room. It's not just about meeting somebody and doing a meeting and generating a new project or a new opportunity. It's really meeting people that can amplify our message. And I think that's gonna drive a lot of value for our business long term.”
Andy Mullings
Global Director, Bluprintx
“I think for me personally, for an organisation that is quite legacy, it's great to take forward some of the best practice that we've seen from other, speakers and and sessions today, really going away to look at how we can sort of drive the AI journey within our own business and how we can use data better to leverage, really insightful decision making.”
Neil Shah
IT & Digital Director, Arriva UK Trains
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