Agenda
Presentations already confirmed include:
►Collaborating Securely: Addressing Cyber Risks in Chambers Partnerships
Eleanor Ludlam, Partner - Cyber, Privacy and Technology Litigation, Pinsent Masons (Moderator)
Adam Speker KC, Barrister, 5RB
- Supply chain risks when engaging barristers
- Technical challenges of securing chambers
- Navigating breach of confidence during a cyber incident
- Injunctive relief as a legal remedy
►Quantum leap – Preparing for a quantum-safe future
Steve Davies, Head of Cyber Security, DLA Piper
- What is quantum computing and what does it mean for the enterprise?
- What are the risks and how serious is the threat from quantum computing?
- How can you prepare for the post-quantum future, today?
- What does post-quantum readiness look like across technology service providers?
►Fireside Chat: Mitigating Concentration Risks in an Interconnected Business Landscape
Simon Brady, Event Chairman, AKJ Associates (moderator)
Ethan Duffell, Head of Information Security, Clifford Chance LLP
- Identifying and assessing concentration risk across vendors and technology ecosystems
- Balancing operational efficiency with diversification and risk reduction
- Communicating the importance of concentration risk to boards and stakeholders
- Embedding resilience planning to address concentration risks in today’s threat environment
- Lessons from recent incidents such as Microsoft 365/Azure outages (2024), the 2024 CrowdStrike disruption, and the June 2025 Google Cloud outage
►Internal Audit – Bridging the Gap Between Aspirations and Reality
Mark Penlington, Head of Risk, Resilience and Internal Audit, Irwin Mitchell LLP
- Why Internal Audit Is Important: Learn why Internal Audit is essential to providing the assurance and confidence senior executives need to understand how teams actually operate in practice
- What Internal Audit Is: Understand the role of Internal Audit as an objective, constructive process that strengthens governance and accountability
- How It Enhances Risk Management and Governance: Discover how Internal Audit bridges the gap between stated controls and actual practice by validating control effectiveness, uncovering hidden risks, and driving better decision-making
- How to Embed Internal Audit in a Practical Way: Learn practical approaches to implement and integrate Internal Audit to deliver meaningful insight, drive activity and provide lasting value