Security Conference

2026
24-25 November 2026
Manchester Central and online
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Building a stronger sector through collaboration and strategic defence.
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Resilience and response

Security Conference will explore how institutions can proactively prevent, detect and be ready for any incident - and how they should respond to the high sophistication attacks that continue to impact research organisations, universities and colleges. Empowering institutions to anticipate, withstand and recover from complex cyber threats.

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Secure foundations

We'll explore how you can build secure, scalable infrastructure and governance frameworks to support hybrid teaching, cloud adoption, and advanced research environments. Creating future-ready, cost-effective security frameworks that support teaching, research and innovation.

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Collaborative people and processes

We're building processes for sector-wide security, cross‑institutional collaboration, and shared sector learning to raise overall maturity. Strengthening human capability and collaboration to create a culture of continually improving security posture across the whole sector.

Security Conference 2025 in numbers

500+attendees
60+sessions
30+exhibitors