Agenda
The CRANE All-Hands Meeting is the centrepiece of our annual calendar, bringing together the entire network community to foster interdisciplinary collaboration, ignite new ideas, and strengthen connections across research areas.
The two day event will include:
- Plenary update on CRANE’s progress and next phase.
- Keynote sessions spanning academic, industry and policy perspectives.
- Announcement of CRANE’s first funding call.
- Technical presentation track.
- Poster exhibition.
- Parallel Special Interest Group (SIG) sessions.
- Learned Society Working Group (WG) session.
- Structured networking opportunities across both days.
Event Programme
| Time | Session | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Arrival, Registration & Lunch | Foyer |
| 13:00 – 13:45 | Opening Keynote Speaker: Peter Haigh, Deputy CTO, National Cyber Security Centre | Main Hall |
| 13:45 – 14:30 | CRANE Introduction and Funding Call Launch Professor Andrew Martin (University of Oxford) | Main Hall |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Refreshments & Networking | Foyer |
| 14:45 – 15:45 | Parallel Sessions | Meeting rooms |
| 14:45 – 15:45 | CRANE Horizon Scanning Initiative Professor Adam Joinson (University of Bath) Professor Mark Ryan (University of Birmingham) | Main Hall |
| 14:45 – 15:45 | SANE SIG Dr Vadim Safronov (University of Oxford) | EB0.5 |
| 14:45 – 15:45 | Economics of Cyber SIG Topic 1: Decision Support with CRQ Indicators and Metrics by Eireann Leverett (30 mins) Topic 2: Economy-Security Interdependence and the Geopolitics of Technology Regulation: Digital Sovereignty and the Implications of Strategic Autonomy for EU-UK cooperation by Ben Farrand (30 mins) Chair: Professor Siraj Shaikh (Swansea University) | EB0.11 |
| 14:45 – 15:45 | Tech Talks: Critical Infrastructure, Hardware and Operational Talk 1: Security Assurance of Semiconductor Manufacturing (SASM) Talk 2: Emanations Protection | EB0.15 |
| 15.45 – 16:00 | Refreshments & Networking | Foyer |
| 16.00 – 17:30 | CyBOK Presentation: CyBOK in Action: Supporting Cyber Security Research, Ethics, and Collaboration Panel Discussion: Exploring the benefits of a common framework for research and ethics, and its role in mapping cyber security capabilities across universities. | Main Hall |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | Drinks Reception – Kindly sponsored by CyBOK | Pavilion Café |
| 18:30 – 20:30 | Buffet Dinner | Pavilion Café |
| Time | Session | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 – 10:15 | Keynote 2 Speaker: Lorenzo Cavallaro, Professor of Computer Science, University College London Topic: Trustworthy AI for Systems Security | Main Hall |
| 10:15 – 11:00 | Keynote 3 Speaker: Edith MacArthur, IT Principal Security Architect, Evernorth Health Services | Main Hall |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Refreshments & Networking | Foyer |
| 11:15 – 12:15 | Parallel Sessions | Various |
| 11:15 – 12:15 | Learned Society Formation WG Professor Shujun Li (University of Kent) | Main Hall |
| 11:15 – 12:15 | Inclusive Careers Professor Lynne Coventry (Abertay University) | EB0.5 |
| 11:15 – 12:15 | Tech Talks: AI Security and Trustworthy Intelligent Systems Talk 1: Fine-Grained Authorisation for AI Agents: Enabling Continuous Trust Verification Talk 2: Immune‑Inspired Proactive Cyber Security: A Novel AI‑Driven Defence Paradigm Talk 3: Secure Local AI: Benchmarking LLM Inference on Edge Hardware for Defence and Operational Technology | EB0.11 |
| 11:15 – 12:15 | Tech Talks: Formal Methods Verification and Detection Talk 1: One Proof, Many Implementations of Certified $\Sigma$-Protocols Talk 2: How Claude Code writes Proverif code Talk 3: SABRE: An uncertainty-aware modular semantic–behavioural triage framework for adaptive ransomware detection | EB0.15 |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | Lunch | Foyer |
| 13:15 – 14:15 | Parallel Sessions | Various |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | ACE-CSR (closed meeting) | Main Hall |
| 13:15 – 14:15 | Tech Talks: Human-Centred Security and Cyber Resilience Talk 1: EVERESTS: A Human‑Centred, AI‑Driven Cyber Safety Companion for Older Adults Talk 2: Research insights from investigating and supporting cyber security in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Talk 3: Enhancing Impact Evaluation in Cyber Security Capacity Building | EB0.5 |
| 13:15 – 14:15 | Safe & Secure Robotics SIG Title: Open questions and Interactions on safe and secure robotics Professor John Clark (University of Sheffield) Dr Jims Marchang (Sheffield Hallam University) | EB0.11 |
| 13:15 – 14:15 | Tech Talks: Cyber Risk, Governance and Strategic Response Talk 1: Cyber risk quantification: Markets, incentives and failures Talk 2: The emerging AI ecosystem: Towards an interdisciplinary understanding of misuse and mitigation Talk 3: Disinformation Resilience among Cyber Security, AI and Information Warfare Experts: Findings and Call to Action | EB0.15 |
| 14:15 – 14:45 | Refreshments & Networking | Foyer |
| 14:45 – 15:45 | Parallel Sessions | Various |
| 14:45 – 15:45 | AI-Cyber SIG Panel Discussion Topic: The importance of research and community development at the intersection of AI and Cyber Security Chair: Associate Professor Biju Issac (Northumbria University) | Main Hall |
| 14:45 – 15:45 | Research Practices SIG Professor Steven Murdoch (University College London) | EB0.5 |
| 14:45 – 15:45 | Tech Talks: Privacy, Media Integrity and Online Harms Talk 1: Privacy of Synthetic Data Generation via Voice Cloning Talk 2: Combating fake media files with edit-tolerant signatures Talk 3: Characterizing Cross-Border Scam-Driven Human Trafficking and Online Community Responses | EB0.11 |
| 14:45 – 15:45 | Tech Talks: Zero Trust, Robotics and Autonomous Systems Talk 1: Zero Trust Architecture in Cloud‑Native Robotics: Fragmentation, Gaps, and Opportunities Talk 2: Behind the Wheel: Trust, Risk and Vulnerabilities in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles | EB0.15 |
| 16:00 – 16:45 | Closing Keynote Speaker: Simon Moore, Professor of Computer Engineering, University of Cambridge | Main Hall |
| 16:45 – 17:15 | CRANE Closing Remarks Professor Andrew Martin | Main Hall |
| 17:15 | Event closes |
Keynote Speakers
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