We are pleased to announce the following Keynote Speakers;
Peter Haigh, Deputy CTO, NCSC
Peter is Deputy CTO at the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the UK’s National Technical Authority for Cyber Security. He focuses on ensuring the organisation is technically prepared for the future. Peter oversees the NCSC’s relationships with external research communities, including academia and the UK Telecoms Lab (UKTL). His technical background spans mathematics, cryptography, telecommunications, and AI.
Lorenzo Cavallaro, Professor of Computer Science
Lorenzo Cavallaro grew up on pizza, spaghetti, and Phrack, and soon developed a passion for underground and academic research. He is a Full Professor of Computer Science at University College London (UCL), where he leads the Systems Security Research Lab — https://s2lab.cs.ucl.ac.uk.
Lorenzo’s research vision is to enhance the effectiveness of machine learning for systems security in adversarial settings. To this end, he and his team investigate the interplay among program analysis abstractions, engineered and learned representations, and grounded models, and their crucial role in creating Trustworthy AI for Systems Security.
Lorenzo publishes at and sits on the Program Committee of leading conferences in computer security and ML, received the Distinguished Paper Award at USENIX Security 2022, ICML 2024 Spotlight Paper, and DLSP 2025 Best Paper Award (co-located with IEEE S&P). He is also Associate Editor of ACM TOPS and IEEE TDSC.
Lorenzo is co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer of BynarIO — https://bynar.io, a startup that’s pioneering AI to autonomously identify and repair vulnerabilities in software, restoring trust and control over what you run. In addition to his love for food, Lorenzo finds his Flow in science, music, and family.
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