Security conference 2021 speakers

Keynote speakers

David Corke

David Corke has 18 years of experience in FE senior management in and is responsible for education and skills policy at the Association of Colleges.

As well as working in and leading curriculum and business support areas at a number of FE colleges, David has led commercial and professional services departments at the Peter Jones Foundation and in the IT industry. He's also a qualified teacher who has taught learners from entry level through to Masters level. His research interests focus on FE policy and the marketisation of education.

Paul Maddinson

Paul is the director of national resilience and strategy at the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – a part of GCHQ.

Paul became director of national resilience and strategy in April 2021, leading the NCSC’s work on strategy and delivery, with a particular focus on increasing cyber resilience across government, critical national infrastructure, and wider economy and society.

He has worked in a variety of roles across government in national security and international relations, with postings abroad in the US, Europe and Africa. Paul has previously been NCSC deputy director for operations and was involved in establishing the cross-government Incident Management function for the NCSC’s launch in 2016.

Daniel Wake

Daniel is a policy manager at Universities UK, and leads on research policy.

Universities UK is the collective voice of 140 universities in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Daniel has previously worked for the British Universities Finance Directors Group (BUFDG) and as a senior researcher for the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA). Daniel studied politics at Loughborough University and at Lund University (Sweden) as part of the Erasmus programme.

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Professor Liz Barnes CBE DL

Liz is vice chancellor and chief executive of Staffordshire University

Liz’s career has been built around leading learning and teaching, with a focus on the student experience and a passion for creative and innovative approaches to enhance the student journey and achievements. Previously, Liz has been deputy vice chancellor at Sheffield Hallam University and Derby University, following a long career at Teesside University.

With a commitment to universities playing their role in the community and supporting opportunities and initiatives to improve the life chances of our young people, Liz has served on a number of charitable trust boards. Whilst in Derby she was chair of Safe and Sound, a charity that supported children, and their families, that suffered sexual exploitation and worked to eradicate the grooming of young people.

Sadie Creese

Sadie is professor of cyber security in the department of computer science at the University of Oxford.

She teaches operational aspects of cyber security including threat detection, risk assessment and security architectures. Elsewhere in Oxford, she is a member of the faculty of the Blavatnik School executive public leaders programme, teaching cyber security topics relevant to senior leaders in public policy from around the world, and is a regular contributor to the leadership programmes and MBA teaching of the Said Business School.

Her current research portfolio includes: threat modelling and detection with particular interest in the insider threat and threat from AI, visual analytics for cybersecurity, risk propagation logics and communication, resilience strategies for business, privacy requirements, vulnerability of distributed ledgers and block-chains, understanding cyber-harm and how it emerges for single organisations, nations and the potential for systemic cyber-risk.

Clive Star

Clive Star is the head of cyber strategy and specialist security services at NHS Digital, the national information and technology partner for the health and care system. 

Offering cyber security support, advice and guidance as well as a number of centrally provided capabilities NHS Digital helps the NHS remain focused on day to day priorities for effective and efficient patient care. Before taking responsibility for cyber strategy, Clive led on designing and building NHS-wide infrastructure services such as the NHSmail service used by over 1.4 million staff and the Health and Social Care Network.

Clive has been deeply embedded with cyber security over his career and is passionate about building in not bolting on security.