Event round-up: Cyber Innovation Den 2024

This year's opening keynote was delivered by Saba Ahmed, Managing Director, Cyber Resilience at Accenture UKI.

Saba spoke about Generative-AI and how it is reshaping the landscape of cyber defence and cyber security.

Saba touched on the shift in how we think about cyber security and ever evolving threats. Saba noted that in the Gen-AI era cyber resilience must be ready for unpredictable scenarios due to the unprecedented number of attacks which continue to threaten the cyber security of the UK.

You can watch Saba's keynote here. 

The second keynote was delivered by Aurorah Cheney Smith, Commercial and Go to Market Specialist. 

Aurorah provided a succinct overview of the importance of creating a cyber security go to market strategy and the importance differentiating your business to support growth and investment.

Noting how cyber security is a complex discipline, Aurorah noted the importance of ensuring that marketing and sales teams are deeply intrenched in a businesses solution to ensure they can build strategies which speak to the companies values and showcase the solution clearly to the market.

You can watch Aurorah's keynote here. 

The third keynote was delivered by Joshua Walter, Partner, Osney Capital. 

Josh provided an overview of the cyber investment landscape. Building on his keynote address at last year's event, Josh outlined the key themes on the UK ecosystem and why it's an attractive space to invest into.

While the UK has been seen behind the US and Israeli markets, the tide is changing and the UK has started to challenge this view. Josh noted that the UK is now better at competing on the world stage, due to it's academic infrastructure and the growing maturity of the ecosystem. The challenges are often due to the disconnect between the highly distributed ecosystem as structurally generalist capital can struggle to access the market.

You can watch Josh's keynote here. 

The final keynote speech was delivered by Andrew Elliot, Deputy Director, Cyber Security, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).

Andrew provided attendees with an update on teh work that government/DSIT is undertaking around nuturing the cyber ecosystem - touching on upcoming changes and updates in the sector. Andrew also spoke about the upcoming Cyber Security & Resilience Bill, the importance of celebrating the great work that goes on in the sector and working together to bridge the skills gap. 

You can watch Andrew's keynote here. 

Stuart McKean, Chair of the Cyber Security SME Forum and Founder & CEO of Nine23 sat down with Jill Broom, Head of Cyber Resiliene at techUK for a fireside chat.

Stuart spoke about the importance of innovation in cyber security and his work as Chair of the Cyber Security SME Forum. Stuart also provided an overview of how he scaled-up his organisation and shared useful advice what founders should be aware of when entering the cyber market. 

You can watch the fireside chat here. 

• OrbiSky offers a brain-inspired, energy-efficient AI solution for autonomous aerospace systems, delivering real-time, secure decision-making directly on aerospace platforms. Watch Orbisky's pitch here.
• Cyber Tzar  Risk Management Platform leverages AI-driven vulnerability management and empirical data analysis to provide real-time. Watch Cyber Tzar's pitch here.
• SecureAI leverages em-tech to protect the UK’s critical national infrastructure from modern threats, such as deepfakes. Watch SecureAI's pitch here.
• Cyber Analytics leverage experience and playbooks from global players to accelerate SME’s cybersecurity journey, making UK more secure as a whole. Watch Cyber Analytic's pitch here.
• Lasting Asset has developed a solution that allows anyone to confirm that a counterparty on a voice/video call is genuine. Watch Lasting Asset's pitch here.
• Naq is the first automated healthcare compliance platform, offering digital health innovators a faster, easier way to strengthen their security and compliance posture. Watch Naq's pitch here.
• Recyber embodies a novel approach to managing socio-behavioural risk by analysing and dealing with human risk dynamically. Watch Recyber's pitch here.
• Ask Silver differentiates itself through its unique focus on the “communication-layer” of fraud prevention. Watch Ask Silver's pitch here.
• ESProfiler helps organisations optimise their security investments by providing a comprehensive view of their security tools, vendors, and threats, enabling them to identify gaps, overlaps, and opportunities for cost savings. Watch ESProfiler's pitch here. 
• Cursor Insight monitors how users type and move their cursor in real-time, creating unique biometric profiles based on these behaviours. Watch Cursor Insight's pitch here.