CyberFest 2024
CyberFest 2024: The North East’s Biggest Cyber Security Festival
This year’s CyberFest has now finished. We’re working on 2025 so watch this space…
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Yes, it’s back! Now in its seventh year, CyberFest, the North East’s biggest cyber security festival, will be taking place throughout October, across the North East.
CyberFest invites the cyber business community to come together, to connect, to debate, to explore contemporary issues affecting businesses, to discover new perspectives and to listen and learn.
The aim of CyberFest is to raise awareness of cyber security activities across the region as part of our mission ‘To make the North East the place for cyber security.’
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The festival brings together businesses, academics, universities, students, thought leaders, innovators, artists and cyber enthusiasts. Each year the programme features speaker events, panel debates, networking opportunities and practical workshops. The festival shines a light on the opportunities in the sector, highlights the breadth of cyber security talent across the region and is a space to share new ways of thinking and sector learning throughout the month of October and beyond!
This year’s theme for the CyberFest Community Conference is Looking Up, Looking Out. We’ll be looking beyond the region’s borders and inviting speakers and attendees from around the UK and the globe to connect, collaborate and learn from the cyber security scene in the North East.
Tickets can be bought for the community conference and the awards night combined or separately. As always an array of fantastic fringe events will be happening throughout the month and all across the region. These will be free to attend.
Get involved! Join us! Come celebrate!
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COMMUNITY CONFERENCE
Date Wednesday 16 October 2024
Time 09.30 – 16.15
Location The Common Room, Newcastle Upon Tyne
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Track |
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08.45 – 9.20 |
Registration and Networking Breakfast |
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9.30 – 11.00 |
Morning Plenary |
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Welcome CyberNorth Chair: Annabel Berry |
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Opportunities for the Region Labour MP for Newcastle Central & West: Chi Onwurah |
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Keynote: Tales of Life as a Social Engineer Tom Johnson (Gateshead College) |
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11.00 – 11.30 |
Refreshments Break and Networking |
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11.30 – 12.15 |
Morning Workshops |
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Ecosystem |
Collaboration close to home – reflections on how regional businesses are collaborating and supporting their customers |
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Innovation |
Innovating within your business – how can we create a culture of innovation and what support is there |
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Skills |
What skills do our cyber leaders of tomorrow need? |
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12.15 – 13.15 |
Lunch Break and Networking |
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13.15 – 14.10 |
Afternoon Workshops |
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Ecosystem |
How to create active allyship in your business to help get more women in cyber to achieve success? |
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Innovation |
What does Net Zero mean to the cyber community? How can we get to grips with this? |
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Skills |
How can we solve the ‘experience gap’ in cyber security? |
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14.15 – 15.00 |
Afternoon Panel |
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What opportunities exist for NE businesses across the world? British Saudi Chamber of Commerce; Kevan Reid, Department of Business and Trade; Ian Gemski, Tekgem and Tommy McCarthy, OSP |
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15.00 – 15.15 |
Refreshments Break and Networking |
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15.15 – 16.15 |
Afternoon Plenary |
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What’s the latest thinking in cyber? Lightning Talks Jon Haren (recording), Martin Wilson, Dr Meera Sarma and Dr Thomas Thu Yein |
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Final remarks & Close CyberNorth Chair: Annabel Berry |
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16.15 – 17.30 |
Networking and Drinks |
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CYBERNORTH AWARDS
Date Wednesday 23 October 2024
Time 18.00 – 23.30
Location Tyne Bank Brewery, Newcastle Upon Tyne
We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the inaugural CyberNorth Awards! These awards showcase and celebrate the achievements of individuals and organisations across the cyber security sector in the North East of England.
Thank you to everyone who applied. You made it incredibly difficult to chose from, which is testament to the huge amount of talent and fantastic work that is happening across the region.
Congratulations to all those who made the Shortlist:
🌟 Innovation Award 🌟
FAT32
Hicomply
Punk Security Limited
Waterstons
Esc – The Cyber Escape Room Co.
🌟 Business or Team of the Year 🌟
CyberWhite Ltd
Tekgem
Waterstons
Accenture
Hicomply
🌟 Rising Star 🌟
Parisa Akaber (Siemens)
Blessing Folorunso (Accenture)
Simon Gurney (Punk Security)
Sarah Hibbert (ITPS)
Michael Ramshaw (Atom Bank)
Dean Wright (Aspire)
🌟 Community Champion 🌟
Graham Jordan (North Eastern ICT Partnership)
Debra Cairns (Net-Defence)
Tom Johnson (Gateshead College)
Jon Holden (Atom Bank)
Wendy Pattison (Framwellgate School Durham)
Nominations have been shortlisted by the CyberNorth Awards Committee.
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The outline programme for this year’s CyberFest is now available. Over the coming weeks, each event will go live on our events page, with full info and registration details. All dates are provisional at present, other than the Community Conference (16 October) and the CyberNorth Awards (23 October), and are subject to change.
This year, October is CyberFest…
Wednesday 2 October Schools’ debate
Saturday 5 October BSides – Newcastle
Tuesday 8 October StemFest Sunderland day 1
Wednesday 9 October StemFest Sunderland day 2
Wednesday 9 October Cyber Pathways – Discover your Future in Cyber Security with ScotlandIS
Thursday 10 October NewDiSH Proposal Roundtable
Thursday 10 October StemFest Sunderland day 3
Friday 11 October Careers in cyber security with HTG, Sage and Tech Talent Engine
Monday 14 October Collaborating with the public and private sectors
Tuesday 15 October Women in Tech hosted by BJSS
Wednesday 16 October CyberFest community conference
Friday 18 October OWASP – Newcastle Chapter
Friday 18 October Attackers vs Defenders Seminar hosted by Precursor
Monday 21 October Cross-Cluster Collaboration
Wednesday 23 October Smarter Cities, Safer Places
Wednesday 23 October CyberFest community awards
Thursday 24 October UKC3 pan cluster meeting
Thursday 24 October Pizza and networking with Net-Defence
Thursday 24 October Silicon Mingle
#CyberFest Over the Years
#CyberFest, the North East’s largest cyber security festival has been running every year since 2018. Check out our #CyberFest archive below to find out about past events. Head over to the Youtube page for videos of events from 2020, 2021 and 2022.
