Surrey Cyber Security Cluster | Red Team Event

John Davies received an MBE in the 2022 New Year’s Honours List for “Services to the UK Cyber Ecosystem”. In addition to working in information security for 35 years, those services included being the co-founder and chair of one of the first cyber security clusters in the UK in 2014, cofounder and chair of ‘Cyber Wales’ from 2016, a not-for-profit umbrella organisation that supports the 12 cyber security clusters that now run in Wales. He was also co-founder of GlobalEPIC in 2017, a global ecosystem of cyber ecosystems, he became the UK representative of ECSO in 2019, the European Cyber Security Organisation, and co-founder of UKC3 in 2021, a not-for-profit organisation that supports the 20+ cyber security clusters that now run across the UK, with funding by the UK Government.

Dr Luca Arnaboldi

Luca Arnaboldi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Birmingham, within the Centre for Security and Privacy. His research focus is cybersecurity, AI and formal verification. He has published several papers, both in the domain of AI solutions for security and security of AI systems. He was awarded his PhD at Newcastle University on the topic of improving explainability and adaptability of attack detection systems. His most recent work as a PDRA at the University of Edinburgh was on the topic of explainability and formal verification of security in AI; where he contributed with partner institutions on the topic of autonomous vehicle security, formal verification of neural networks, AI ethics, security compliance, and Natural Language Processing.