Agenda
8:30 AM
Arrival & Registration
9:15 AM
Welcome
Max Smeets
Co-Director, Virtual Routes
Managing Editor, Binding Hook
9:30 AM
Keynote | What's Next for Chinese Cyber Strategy?
Adam Segal, Ira A. Lipman chair, Emerging Technologies and National Security; Director, Digital and Cyberspace Policy program, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
9:55 AM
Keynote | Redefining Cybernetics for the Age of Commoditized Evaluative Power
Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Executive Director for Intelligence and Security Research, SentinelOne
10:20 AM
Conversation | Inside the Spyware and Exploit Economy
Sophie in ‘t Veld, Former Member of European Parliament, Rapporteur for the PEGA inquiry
Katie Moussouris, Founder and CEO, Luta Security
Ian Beer, Tech Lead, Google XOR
Moderated by James Shires, Co-Director, Virtual Routes
11:00 AM
Break
11:30 AM
Conversation | Cybercrime, Ransomware, and the Response Challenge
James Babbage, Director General for Threats, National Crime Agency
Moderated by Ciaran Martin, Professor of Practice, University of Oxford, Former CEO of UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
12:15 PM
Lunch
1:15 PM
Lightning Talks
Born to Hack, Trained to Attack: How China Scaled Its Offensive Cyber Capabilities
Eugenio Benincasa, Senior Cyberdefense Researcher, ETH Zurich
The Private Sector’s Role in the Rise of China’s Public Attribution
Benjamin Read, Director of Strategic Threat Intelligence, Wiz.io
AI Compute: Chips Aren’t Enough
Melissa K. Griffith, Lecturer in Technology and National Security, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Why States Can’t Have their Commercial Spyware Cake and Eat It Too
Lena Riecke, PhD candidate, Leiden University
Who Gave You Permission? Navigating the Ethics of Unsolicited Cybersecurity Assistance
Max van der Horst, Operations Lead, Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD)
Yes, Disruption Works: Taking Out Loaders Impacts Ransomware
Selena Larson, Staff Threat Researcher, Proofpoint
Full Spectrum Barrage Jamming
Costin Raiu, Founder, Art of Noh
2:50 PM
Break
3:20 PM
Keynote | Redacted
3:40 PM
Keynote | Building a Cyber Force
Michael Sulmeyer, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy, Principal Cyber Advisor to the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense
4:00 PM
Keynote | Incentives and Alignment: A Systematic Response to Cyber Insecurity
Ollie Whitehouse, Chief Technology Officer, UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
4:20 PM
Closing
James Shires
Co-Director, Virtual Routes
Managing Editor, Binding Hook
5:00 PM
Drinks & Bites
At a different location – details shared with participants