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3 December 2025 | 87 Barts Close
3 December 2025
87 Barts Close
Join UK & Ireland's top CISOs for an intimate networking dinner and facilitated discussion on key business challenges. Enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks with your peers to share best practices, make new connections and build professional relationships.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CISOs today:
Aligning cybersecurity with business goals to encourage strategic growth
Expanding CISO roles to drive organizational impact and security innovation
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the discussion topics and agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CISOs, For CISOs®.
Mary Haigh
BAE Systems
CISO
Sarah Lawson
University College London
CISO & Deputy CIO
Ewa Pilat
FNZ Group
Group CISO
Helen Rabe
BBC
CISO
16:30 - 17:30 Executive Networking Reception
17:30 - 18:30 Discussion Topics
Hosted by Elastic
The rapid evolution of cyber threats and technological advancements over the past year has introduced both unprecedented challenges and opportunities for organisations worldwide. Now more than ever, cybersecurity leaders must drive organisational success by integrating security initiatives with business objectives.
Gartner predicts that by 2027, nearly half of CISOs will expand their remit beyond cybersecurity, due to increasing regulatory pressure and attack surface expansion. To meet this moment, security leaders must adopt strategic leadership approaches that leverage collaboration and innovation to optimise cybersecurity investments, enhance resilience, and drive organisational growth -- all while navigating and defending against increasingly more sophisticated and high-frequency attacks.
Join this peer-led roundtable to discuss:
What emerging threat vectors and trends are you watching that have presented challenges for your organisation?
What new opportunities have you seen arise with the changing landscape?
What strategies, tools, and technology have you found helpful in enhancing team performance, increasing agility via responsive strategies, and improving cyber resiliency?
How are you working to evolve your role beyond technical oversight to encompass more of a business leadership position that influences the entire organisation?
How are you building relationships with strategic internal partners to help you optimise security investments, minimise cyber risk, and stay on top of changing regulatory requirements?
What key message can you, as a leader, bring back to your team to inspire them, considering the dynamic world of evolving threats that present both challenges and opportunities?
18:30 - 19:00 Networking Break
19:00 - 20:00 Summary Discussion & Dinner
20:00 - 21:00 Social Hour
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Our selective approach maintains the high quality of the network and ensures top-level discussions with peers from the world’s leading organizations.
Each application will be reviewed, and once your participation is confirmed, you will have access to year-round community programs.
For inquiries related to this community, please reach out to your dedicated contact.
Luis Arango Abello
Senior Community Programme Manager
+44 (0)1784 267 880
luis.arangoabello@gartner.com