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 included:
- Plenary update on CRANE’s progress and next phase.
- Keynote sessions spanning academic, industry and policy perspectives.
- Update on 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 | CRANE and Learned Society Introduction Professor Andrew Martin (University of Oxford) & Professor Shujun Li (University of Kent) | Main Hall |
| 13:45 – 14:30 | Opening Keynote Speaker: Fabio Pierazzi, Associate Professor, University College London (UCL) | Main Hall |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Refreshments & Networking | Foyer |
| 14:45 – 15:45 | Parallel Sessions | Meeting rooms |
| 14:45 – 15:45 | Inclusive Careers Professor Lynne Coventry (Abertay University) | Main Hall |
| 14:45 – 15:45 | Tech Talks: Session One: Cyber Resilience: Organisations, Incidents and Capacity Talk 1: Research insights from investigating and supporting cyber security in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Talk 2: Zero Trust After the Breach: Lessons from Real-World Incident Response Talk 3: Enhancing Impact Evaluation in Cyber Security Capacity Building | 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 |
| 15.45 – 16:15 | Refreshments & Networking | Foyer |
| 16:15 – 17:30 | Parallel Sessions | Various |
| 16.15 – 17:15 | Learned Society Formation WG Professor Shujun Li (University of Kent) | Main Hall |
| 16.15 – 17:35 | Tech Talks: Session Two: AI-Automation and Trustworthy Cyber Defence: Talk 1: Fine-Grained Authorisation for AI Agents: Enabling Continuous Trust Verification Talk 2: SABRE: An uncertainty-aware modular semantic–behavioural triage framework for adaptive ransomware detection Talk 3: Agentic coding assistants: risks and mitigations | EB0.5 |
| 16.15 – 17:30 | Tech Talks: Session Three: Cryptography, Privacy and Digital Authenticity Talk 1: One Proof, Many Implementations of Certified $\Sigma$-Protocols Talk 2: Privacy of Synthetic Data Generation via Voice Cloning Talk 3: Combating fake media files with edit-tolerant signatures | EB0.11 |
| 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: Edith MacArthur, IT Principal Security Architect, Evernorth Health Services | Main Hall |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Refreshments & Networking | Foyer |
| 10:30 – 12:00 | Parallel Sessions | Various |
| 10:30 – 12:00 | ACE-CSR (closed meeting) | Main Hall |
| 10:45 – 11:45 | SANE SIG Title: Towards Inference-Aware Cyber-Physical Infrastructures: Challenges in Security, Privacy and Accountability (Interactive session) Dr Vadim Safronov (University of Oxford), Yaman Rawas Kalaji (University of Cambridge) | EB0.5 |
| 10:45 – 12:00 | Tech Talks: Session Four: Securing Connected Critical Systems Talk 1: Security Assurance of Semiconductor Manufacturing (SASM) Talk 2: Emanations Protection Talk 3: Zero Trust Architecture in Cloud‑Native Robotics: Fragmentation, Gaps, and Opportunities Talk 4: Behind the Wheel: Trust, Risk and Vulnerabilities in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles | EB0.11 |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch | Foyer |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Sponsor Showcase CyBOK in Action: Making Cyber Security More Accessible (Chair: Dr Yulia Cherdantseva, Cardiff University) 13:00-13:05 Welcome and Introduction (Dr Yulia Cherdantseva) 13:05-13:20 CyBOK Updates and Community Interest Company (CIC) Future Plans (Professor Steve Schneider, University of Surrey) 13:20-13:35 Open-Source CyBOK Practical Challenges and Learning Resources (Dr Cliffe Schreuders, Leeds Beckett University) 13:35-13:50 A National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) Use Case (NCSC representative) 13:50-14:00 CyBOK International Collaborations (Dr Yulia Cherdantseva) 14:00-14:30 Panel Discussion: Making Cyber Security More Accessible Professor Steve Schneider (Chair), Dr Cliffe Schreuders, Clare Johnson (Women in Cyber), Professor Steve Furnell, NCSC representative | Main Hall |
| 14:15 – 14:45 | Refreshments & Networking | Foyer |
| 14:45 – 15:45 | Parallel Sessions | Various |
| 14:45 – 15:45 | Research Practices SIG Professor Steven Murdoch (University College London) | Main Hall |
| 14:45 – 15:45 | Tech Talks: Session Five: Cyber Risk, Deception and Societal Resilience Talk 1: Cyber risk quantification: Markets, incentives and failures Talk 2: Disinformation Resilience among Cyber Security, AI and Information Warfare Experts: Findings and Call to Action Talk 3: Characterizing Cross-Border Scam-Driven Human Trafficking and Online Community Responses | EB0.5 |
| 14:45 – 15:45 | 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 |
| 16:00 – 16:45 | Closing Keynote Speaker: Peter Haigh, Deputy CTO, National Cyber Security Centre | Main Hall |
| 16:45 – 17:15 | CRANE Closing Remarks Professor Andrew Martin | Main Hall |
| 17:15 | Event closes |
Presentations Abstracts
Download abstracts for all the presentations, technical talks and technical posters here.
Keynote Speakers
For details about each Keynote Speaker, please see here
Links
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