GCSCC 10th Anniversary Conference - Agenda | Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre

Our Annual Conference returns to the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, on Tuesday, 30 April, 2024, marking the GCSCC’s 10th anniversary!

Cyber-threats continue to rapidly evolve, particularly amid geopolitical instability, enhanced digital attack capabilities, and growing inter-dependencies and vulnerability throughout supply-chains and our critical infrastructures. Pre-positioning of malware and insider threats must be assumed. At the same time, we are witnessing massive progress towards AI-futures. Associated digital technologies and the Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming pervasive, with quantum and space innovations expected to follow in quick succession. The cyber capacity community needs to deliver responses to enhance cyber-resilience in the face of continued capacity deficits in the global workforce. What should be the community’s priorities in cybersecurity capacity building? What are the principle risks moving forward?

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9:30 Registration, coffee and tea

10:00 Welcome and Introduction
Sadie Creese, Professor of Cybersecurity and Director of the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre (GCSCC), University of Oxford

10:15 Keynote: “The need to change the Cybersecurity Capacity Building narrative”.
Heli Tirmaa-Klaar, Director, Digital Society Institute at European School of Management and Technology (ESMT)

10:45 Panel Opening, Discussion I: Emerging risks and challenges for cybersecurity.
How is digital technology evolving and what are the cyber-risk scenarios that must be prioritised for future cyber-resilience? What are the opportunity costs of inaction, and the harm consequences at all scales from global networks to regions, nations, individuals and businesses? Are we responding to the evolving mission to protect people, deliver safety, support human rights and the ability for self-determination and sovereignty?

Chair: Sadie Creese, Professor of Cybersecurity and Director of the GCSCC

Speakers:

John Mallery, Research Scientist, MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Stephen Roberts, Professor of Machine Learning, University of Oxford
Heli Tirmaa-Klaar, Director, Digital Society Institute at European School of Management and Technology (ESMT)
Paul Trueman, Executive Vice President, Cyber & Intelligence, Mastercard

11:45 Coffee and tea

12:00 Panel Discussion II: Cybersecurity regulation and governance through a regional and international lens: Will one size fit all?
Do we risk cyber inequities and security divides? What are the specific needs for developing economies? Can a multi-stakeholder approach facilitate a more globally equal response? What are the barriers that we face and how should we work together to address them more effectively?

Chair: David Wall, Chair in Criminology, University of Leeds, Oxford Martin School Fellow and Technical Board Member of the GCSCC

Speakers:

Violanda Botet, Deputy Executive Secretary for the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE) at the Organization of American States (OAS)
Barbara Grewe, Senior Principal International Policy and Strategy at The MITRE Corporation
Szilvia Toth, Cyber Security Officer, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
Monica Whitty, Head of Department of Software Systems and Cybersecurity and Professor of Human Factors in Cyber Security, Monash University/Melbourne

13:00 Lunch

14.15 Panel Discussion III: Improving the evidence-base for capacity investments.
Countries across the world invest significant sums in cybersecurity capacity building (CCB) but it remains a challenge to directly evidence the strategic impact of these interventions on measures of societal, economic or national security benefit (such as the Sustainable Development Goals). A lot of work has been done to analyse the linkages between cybersecurity and these higher-level national impacts, but more is required. How can we improve our ability to demonstrate the strategic impact of cybersecurity capacity building? What are the challenges in doing so?

Chair: Jamie Saunders, Oxford Martin School Fellow and Technical Board Member of the GCSCC

Speakers:

Nick Beecroft, International Cybersecurity Lead, BAE Systems Digital Intelligence
Anat Lewin, Senior Digital Development Specialist, World Bank
Nick Moore, Senior Expert, Integrity
Caroline Troein, Cross Thematic Programme Officer, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

15:15 Coffee and tea

15:30 Panel Discussion IV: Evolving meaningful and sustainable partnerships for cybersecurity.
What examples of effective partnerships have we observed, what works well and when are there critical capability gaps? Which public and public-private partnerships are needed and is new policy required to ensure they succeed?

Chair: Ciaran Martin, Professor of Practice in the Management of Public Organisations Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

Speakers:

Viv Danks, Director, Solutions Architect, Palo Alto
Gigi Flores Bustamante, Future of Digital Security Analyst, Institute for Security and Technology (IST)
Tal Goldstein, Head of Strategy, Centre for Cybersecurity, World Economic Forum
Tereza Horejsova, Outreach Manager, Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE)
Carsten Rudolph, Deputy Dean at the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University/Melbourne, and Director for Research, Oceania Cyber Security Centre (OCSC)

16:30 A vision for policy: What are the options we should be exploring? How can they be made more effective, and what is the cooperation and collaboration agenda we should be following?

Chair: Sadie Creese, Professor of Cybersecurity and Director of the GCSCC

17:00 Informal Drinks

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The conference is by invitation only. If you are interested in participating or collaborating for this conference, please reach out to carolin.weisser@cs.ox.ac.uk or louise.williams@cs.ox.ac.uk.